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  1. deetz

    lightning strike

    That would have been Ma Bell. Most people today would not know that reference.
  2. deetz

    lightning strike

    That may have been the case waross. It's like it took out some coils, and some contacts. There really doesn't seem to be any consistancy to what it took out. Also, another question, on some of the newer machines they have power surge protectors installed. Is there a way to tell if they need to...
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    lightning strike

    We have a redundant system for our Computer Room in the other building. I suppose you are right that I should do that with this building. Thanks.
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    lightning strike

    Had a lightning strike our pole supplying our manufacturing facility. It took out alot of contactors, or so it would seem. It took out 2 fuses and a resistor, or arrestor, on the pole. So there was still some power coming in. If we would have shut off the main breakers for the facility...
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    Mutual Inductance

    On another note. The conductors for all the drives and motors are fed from one Buss plug, 480v. They go to a distribution block. When the one motor fried it took out the 70 amp fuse supplying this setup. The other motors were still working, by what I assume, from the VFDs generating the third...
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    Mutual Inductance

    Or so it would seem that everything is grounded. As I was rereading my reply I should really double check everything.
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    Mutual Inductance

    Thanks. Everything is grounded. So the only way to get rid of the voltage, when working on changing out a motor, is either shut down the other motors or rerun the line in seperate emt.
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    Mutual Inductance

    Good idea. Thanks. It's kind of wierd how I have both ends of the wires disconnected and it still has voltage. We did find out that if we shut down the other drives and motors that the voltage goes down. Half, or four, of the motors are are run in the same 1 inch emt.
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    Mutual Inductance

    So we have 8 exhaust fans in our heat treat area. They all are on their own drive systems. One of the motors fried. We turned off the drive setup and were going to unhook everything but noticed 60-103 volts from any of the lines to ground. So I started to check things out a little closer to see...
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    SCCR?

    Thanks for the input. Yeah I'm just trying to figure out, if and how, to get the supply from the building to a lower level to pass inspection. One thought was to maybe move this transformer to the supply side, before the machine disconnect. Or just get another one for that. It's hard to get any...
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    SCCR?

    This is just a generic schematic that I just modified to show what this machine that came in has. My question is; what would the SCCR be now with that transfomer in the power circuit? Or would it still be based on the lowest down stream component? I would think it would change. Hopefully you...
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    white crystalline on transformer

    I opened up a 45kva dry transformer that was not in use for a few months to put it back in use. It's hanging from the ceiling of our facility. on each mount where the coils are, and the rubber pads are, there is a white crystalline foamy looking substance that pretty much disintegrates when you...
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    Amada Saw

    We have an Amada Saw that has an error code of E-210. It is not listed in the manual, online, and even the person at Amada didn't know and was going to look into it, but now will not return a call or e-mail. I saw on Prctical Machinist site that someone brought up that issue also, and of course...
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    Older VFD rpm adjustment

    Yeah, good point. I was thinking that same thought about a seperate rpm readout. I will wait and see if there are any difficulties in the thread rolling process. I figure it won't really show up until we run the larger diameter bolts. I did write down the other readouts, like the torque and amps...
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    Older VFD rpm adjustment

    See if there are any old guys out there that are familiar with these. We have a few Roll threaders that have Allen Bradley 1336 Impact drives on them. We initially set them up with the motor rpms from the motor nameplate. We now would like to have it reflect the rpm of the spindle so the...
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