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Good morning, Upon starting the plant Monday morning we had major issues with our compressors, Both went down on a VSD error over current. Putting in a bad spot at the moment, I reset one of the machine and cleared the error displayed and attempted to restart. It errored again, on my third...

Good morning, We are trying out one of the new high frequency chargers from Eynersys for multivoltage fork truck batteries. We currently have several SCR Chargers in house and want to prove the savings and performance will justify replacing our current SCR chargers. What methods would you use...

Good morning, I will provide as much information as I can to make my situation as clear as possible; I will begin by saying thank you in advance. Our problem began on 9/29/08 when we notice our poor in place gasket was not adhering to our powder coated product. We immediately went into a mode...

Good morning, Looking for the parameter numbers to turn off the chip conveyor valid, conveyor interlock valid, and the chip conveyor alarm. We typically run a variety of material in one shift and don't want everything mixed together. thank you 2571

Good afternoon, A fellow maintenance person and myself are looking into the differences and advantages of a tubular battery opposed to a plate battery. We also have been told two different things when it come to charging. One supplier claim to not water before charging the other says water...

Good afternoon, I oversee a very small industrial wastewater process that has permitted levels to be maintained. My last two reports have shown higher than allowed Zinc levels and my attempts to correct have failed. Our system is very simple in design, we collect our water in a 7000 gallon...

Good morning, We need to purchase an AC to DC converter and need a recommended source for the following application. 200 HP compressor mild to moderate vibration. Clean environment, Secondary on main control Trans has been trended at 120 VAC +/- 5% we need to hold steady at 24 VDC. Load is...

Good morning all, First Merry Christmas, We are working on 200hp Compressor with a VSD. The Display has been logging VSD Com Faults. We had found two broken last night and corrected. The unit is manufactured by Cutler Hammer and the compressor is a Sullair. This morning we come in to the same...

Good Morning, We have a Mazak FMS system supporting three 4K lasers MKII 510's. We have encountered a problem with the sheet loader side of the Traverser, it has a drifting problem after it has loaded the sheet and had raise to allow the positioners to push the sheet in place. While the...

Hi, everyone. We are considering purchasing an AGV(automated or laser guided vehicles) to transport our finished enclosures from the weld department to the fishing department about 200 yards away. Being new at this type of equipment has anyone one out there had any experience with these unit...

New piece of equipment coming soon, total amp draw will be 100 amps. Please check my figures. 100 amp x 1.25 = 125amp x .8 derating the wire = #2 THHN, #8 ground 100 amp x 2.5(inverse timed breaker)= breaker rated 250amps using NEC 2002 430.52 for breaker calculations.

Hello, We are attempting to improve or service power factor by installing soft starters on various pieces of equipment with large squirrel cage motors. Starting at the 30hp motors down to the 7.5hp. This is my first time considering something like this and would appreciate any information you...

Just left meetings with an Industrial lighting manufacture sale rep and He quoted “there is no difference between 120v to 277v ballast.” The difference I was concerning myself with was the operating cost. I believed the 277v version was cheaper to operate because of the reduced amps and watts...

Hi, I'm looking to purchase a laser measuring tool, We would be using this to assit us in new equipment installation and estimating materials for general plant changes. Can anyone suggest a good brand to consider or stay away from. Looking to spend about 500 dollars. thanks for you time. 2571

Hi everyone, Looking at purchasing a program for my pocket pc that calculate electrical formulas, conversions, Ohms law problems, conduit sizes, fuse ratings, motor calculatins etc... Have any of you had good sucess or can you recomend a good program to try. I'm looking for a journeymens level...

Good morning, In our Tig welding process we are currently using a micro switch located on the operators handle of the torch to activate a soleniod that supplies our welding assist gas. I would like to purchase design and build a current sensor that would eliminate the need to run a pair of...

Please be patient with me, We have an older 16" Dewalt Radial arm saw we use for building pallets. On three separate occasions now, we have blown the run capacitor out of the mounts. Motor was recently taken to rewind shop and had the end bells machined because of damage form bad bearings. We...

Good Morning, We are in the process of having another warehouse built in another state and I have been asked the question of which style of lighting would we prefer. I am familiar with the Metal halides and High Pressure Sodium’s but I have found some information about Florescence high bay...

Hello, I looking for an average to mid-range gas meter that can be mounted in line on a burner control to monitor gas useage. We are attempting to make changes to our oven controls and we would like to observe maybe document (record) the before and after effects of our efforts. Our main line...

Good morning, What is the maximum distance I can run type J thermocouple wire in a enviroment with an average ceiling temp of 140 degrees? Our plan is to reroute a temp controller to a dry off oven to remote locatation to better control oven temp during times the oven is not required to be on...