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    Plastic injection mold temp control

    Pud, Thank you but we have decided to use oil and water is not an option. I agree with you, we struggle with the lower temperatures too with our oil heaters. We have many of these. In fact, these were originally intended to be used as hot water machines but we converted them for use with...
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    Plastic injection mold temp control

    We are trying to control the temperature of our plastic injection mold. We have struggled with contamination and corrosion using water. We have decided to use a thermal oil. The problem is that there seem to be no companies that offer mold temp control units capable of running oil. When I say...
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    Thread Detection

    We use Eddy Current sensors extensively, with substantial accuracy. It is not cheap but it is the most consistent, predictable way of doing it. We are currently using it, among other things, to probe a hole that is approximately .150" diameter. Not only can we tell whether or not there...
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    Utility penalizing customers for excessive reactance?

    Thank you. These were all extremely helpful and lucid replies. This helps clear it up. Sincerely, thank you.
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    Utility penalizing customers for excessive reactance?

    My company has been forced to pay a penalty because our reactive load on the utility is too high. I'm not sure what exactly this all means. I understand what reactance is but I don't understand where it is coming from. The rep from the utility said it was coming from our inductive motors...
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    Servo drives and programming software

    Thanks for the feedback. I checked out your website. I'm going to add it my favorites list.
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    Servo motor brake

    Thanks, That is what I wanted to know "working hardest to hold 0 position." The drive sets and resets the brake when the drive is enabled and disabled respectively. There is no programming option that allows you to set or reset the brake independent of what the drive is doing...
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    Servo drives and programming software

    Has anyone used a servo drive programming software package that they really liked or was especially easy to use? I experienced PacSci's 800Tools for a PC833 drive. Hated it!! Perhaps it is a drive that is too basic to easily do what we want it to do. We used the drive in "Predfined...
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    Power Quality

    Thanks. I didn't realize that my question was as general as it was. I called the local utility and they started asking questions that I didn't have answers to. It was then that I realized I had bitten off more than I can chew. (Please excuse the cliche) They try to look for patterns, how...
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    Power Quality

    What is it? I know I can monitor it, but what can I do about it? What do you hear about power quality in your area? I am in the Northeast and all I hear is negative. We're having a funny glitch thing happening with our PLCs. The boss told me to investigate a UPS for each of the PLCs. With...
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    Servo motor brake

    Hello to all. This is my first post. I am building a machine tool for a production line we have here in our plant. It is a saw that plunges to cut a slot in a shaft. The saw is mounted vertically on a ballscrew slide and is controlled by a servo motor. The motor has an optional...
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