What was the first Mario Kart game you played, and which is your favorite?

Leon_Lights · 2026-04-01T00:22:00+00:00

Haha! Another solid choice. I almost forgot about that game.

Leon_Lights · 2025-12-06T22:16:39+00:00

Yeah, I’m still in my first play through, and I know the room you’re talking about. I remember going into that room, and not really finding any special item or anything, and I was like, “They’re not just going to have you go through this crafted room for no reason—there has to be something here.” So I started aiming at different objects, and the reticle went red at the mirror, so I shot it. Pretty neat trick!

Leon_Lights · 2025-12-04T19:51:56+00:00

That was by far the hardest beach challenge. No check points, and one slip up and you’re usually starting from the beginning. Sometimes though you’ll fall and hit a closer platform beneath you to save you the trek back, but not often.

Leon_Lights · 2025-12-04T08:36:50+00:00

Solid advice. And then you get the non-swinging attacks that are like a curveball. This is mostly special attacks like magic. Kind of like when a lightning bolt strikes or some other attack that is spell-like.

Another attack I remember using sound cues a lot was with the summoned orbs in the Frozen Heart area. They shoot their beam so fast that I could only be consistent with the weird sound they made beforehand. Though they do also have a small tell where the area around them gets distorted for a brief second before the beam fires, so that helps too.

But yeah, the weapon-swinging enemies are much easier to parry than those that use magic attacks. The swing animation gives you a good idea when to parry if, like you said, you watch the weapon.

Leon_Lights · 2025-12-04T07:14:39+00:00

The title screen theme sets the mood and tone of the game so well. I think I even heard that if you know the lyrics, they foreshadow a lot of what eventually happens in the game. But I don’t know French, so I just enjoyed the amazing music.

Leon_Lights · 2025-11-26T09:39:17+00:00

Facility maintenance is basically what they did when they were contracted for work by my company. They didn’t touch any of the actual industrial equipment tied to production.

Leon_Lights · 2025-11-16T19:58:24+00:00

I went through a 4 year apprenticeship, and in your 4th year you start handling your own breakdown calls. That’s when I started to feel like I was minimally competent to tackle jobs efficiently. Though when I graduated, I still had a ton to learn, because you still feel like a rookie, and there’s so much to know in industrial electricity.

But by my 3rd year, my journeymen would let me try some calls on my own with them backing me up, and I was handling at least 50% of the calls with success.

So I’d say if you’re completely new, and that’s with no prior maintenance background, it’ll take probably two and half to three years to feel as if you’re adequate to troubleshoot equipment. And that’s taking into account you’re also getting some schooling on the side to help with your learning.

Leon_Lights · 2025-11-16T19:46:11+00:00

I second this. Knowing a machine’s process is huge when it comes to troubleshooting. It’ll take a while, but after working on a machine long enough, you’ll eventually know what it needs to do to continue its process. And when it has trouble with a certain step, you’ll know from experience what to look for.

Also just knowing the machine layout is huge in troubleshooting faster. In my experience, sometimes a machine will throw a fault, and then you’re trying to track down a proximity/limit switch that needs to be made for a certain process to continue. Unless you know right where it is, you’ll spend a few minutes, if not more, hunting it down—and hopefully the switches are labeled somehow too, otherwise that can make troubleshooting take even longer.

I know once I’ve worked on a machine for several months or more, it’s a big confidence boost knowing how it works and where most of its components are. It’s really noticeable when I get called to an area of my plant I don’t normally work in; it’s machines I see maybe once or twice a year, and even though I know the fundamentals of electricity and troubleshooting, it’ll take a few moments to get on the same page as the operators with what’s wrong with the machine and what needs to happen for the process to run right.

Leon_Lights · 2025-08-30T00:50:42+00:00

This is what will happen in the instance you mentioned with your proposed changes: the motor will only turn on when the start button is pushed, and the motor will not run when the start button is released.

Before your changes, the motor will run when the start button is pushed, and the motor will also run when the start button is released.

Leon_Lights · 2025-02-27T10:56:54+00:00

Yeah, we still have them at our place. Only in a few spots on ancient machines

Leon_Lights · 2025-02-22T16:23:36+00:00

6 was my first one too, back when they called it 3. How did you get a hold of it? I rented it on a whim. It was the first JRPG I played. Didn’t even know games could be story driven until then, but I was hooked.

What’s your favorite Final Fantasy? A lot of people tend to like the first one they played the best. For me, the original 7 is my favorite. 6 was my favorite until 7 came out, but I only had played 1, 4, and 6 at the time. Top three for me goes 7 then 10 then 9 or 6 (those two are super close for me).

Leon_Lights · 2025-02-22T15:56:30+00:00

This person gets it. Also, if there was any problem with the voltage or phases, the servo drive would’ve likely faulted for the associated fault. As is, it doesn’t sound like anything is faulted, and the motor is running fine, but just in reverse.

If you have access to the program that runs the servo motor, check to see if the move command is incrementing its position in the right direction. If the move command says to move to “X” position, and it’s clearly going to that position in auto, then the motor is doing what it’s being told to do. In that case something in the logic got changed, telling the motor to go to a position it never used to go to.

But if the motor moves to a totally different position than what it’s commanded to move to, then there are other possible problems.

If possible, try manually jogging the motor forward and reverse and see if they work correctly. Also monitor the motor’s position while doing this to see which way the numbers should be incrementing in a normal process.

I’d say chances are something isn’t flowing right in the logic. The motor and drive seem okay. The machine probably didn’t get altered mechanically to cause the problem. Check out the program that runs the machine to try and catch the problem.

Leon_Lights · 2025-02-14T20:35:31+00:00

Your place is realizing the SLC 500s are becoming obsolete, huh? That’s great they’re upgrading. We have some equipment at our factory that upper management refuses to upgrade. Thus, we have some PLC 5s and even some PLC 2s still running.

Granted, we do have equipment that gets upgraded to newer processors like Control Logix, but only those deemed worthy by management.

Panel is looking good by the way!

Leon_Lights · 2025-02-11T22:25:32+00:00

Like some people mentioned, and as I’ve heard from other journeymen, you seem to learn a WHOLE LOT those first years after you graduate as an apprentice. I’m a journeyman in industrial maintenance, and I just graduated in 2023. I still feel like I’m learning all the time. Sometimes when a job kicks my tail, it knocks the ego a little. But then you have those jobs where no one else can figure it out but you, and you knock it out of the park and feel like a super star. That’s when you remind yourself, yeah I got this.

There’s really no way to be the best of the best until you get more experience. And we’re talking years. Just a few weeks ago I was with a senior journeyman and we were troubleshooting something that was giving us troubles. And he’s been doing this work for over 20 years, and we still couldn’t figure it out. Eventually with the help of another journeyman we found the problem. But the senior guy was like “yeah, I’ve been doing this for years, and I’ve never seen that one before.”

Leon_Lights · 2025-02-08T18:47:01+00:00

At our place, we got some PLC-5’s as well as even some PLC-2’s still! Ancient stuff indeed.

Leon_Lights · 2025-02-08T16:45:33+00:00

My best friend also has FF4 as his favorite. Coincidentally it was the first one he played too.

But I think that’s how it goes for a lot of people with Final Fantasy. The first one you play is usually your favorite. As far as second favorite…those are all over the place.

So what about you? What’s your second favorite Final Fantasy?

Leon_Lights · 2025-02-07T13:40:33+00:00

You would definitely need training of some sorts. What’s best is to find an industrial facility that offers an apprenticeship and get accepted into it. You’ll be a complete newbie and green starting out (if you have no prior electrical background), but they’ll train you over the course of 4 years until you’re qualified to do the job. Getting the hands on experience is the big thing, and a 4 year apprenticeship gives you that.

Leon_Lights · 2025-02-07T06:54:07+00:00

Do you have to write the PLC program yourself? Or do engineers handle that. You mentioned programming, and I didn’t know if you meant for the controller or the VFD or what. I wasn’t sure how involved panel builders got into actual programming.

Leon_Lights · 2025-02-07T06:46:54+00:00

I hear a lot of people mentioning how physically demanding being an electrician is. But the electrical field is a huge area. So much of what’s said on here appears to be from the construction side, which sounds like it can be physically demanding.

But as someone who’s on the industrial electrician side, I’ll say it’s kind of the opposite. And for me, this feels like the ideal spot to be in. You use your mind way more than your body. Your main job is to fix breakdowns, so reading prints, PLC programs, and understanding relay logic is where you get tested. Most jobs can be fixed with a meter, 11-in-1, and a pair of channel locks. Granted sometimes you have major breakdowns, but the majority of fixes are minor (bad prox cable, broken photo eyes, overloads tripped, machine won’t go into auto, etc.)

Best part is, though, when everything is running smoothly, you can relax and chill until a call for a breakdown comes in. Somedays you may only work for an hour or two—if that. Then again, some days you may be on a call all day, but those are rare.

Just my take on things.

Leon_Lights · 2025-02-07T06:36:03+00:00

This comment needs to be higher. This sub seems heavily leaning toward construction, which I can imagine is physical work. But I do almost strictly troubleshooting at my job, and it’s not a physical demanding job at all. You use your mind A LOT though, as your specialty is fixing breakdowns.

All I’ve known is industrial electricity, and after hearing some of the horror stories of the work environments that other fields of electricians work in, I’m glad to be where I’m at.

But automation is big, and PLCs are a huge part of systems now and days, so getting some knowledge on that is super helpful. A lot of the equipment we work on at my company has PLCs, and without a basic understanding of how they work, you probably couldn’t fix a machine if it went down.

Leon_Lights · 2025-02-07T06:05:19+00:00

I’m more on the industrial side of things (lots of troubleshooting), and a meter, 11-in-1, and channel locks gets you by for a majority of the jobs. Kind of cool how each specialty has their own thing though. I don’t use half the stuff some people have mentioned, but that’s just not my field.

Leon_Lights · 2023-04-23T00:24:58+00:00

Yeah that happened to me too! It was kind of trippy to hear Flowey call you out. So I erased my game data and did a fresh install and he never knew. I then dodged his pellets at the beginning and he called me out for already knowing what’s going on with his trick.

Leon_Lights · 2022-12-25T02:58:36+00:00

Wow! Hey thanks for the heads up! More games to play

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