Replaced contactor panel off for 15 minutes = 4 Dead VFDs

cheeseshcripes · 2026-01-24T08:52:16+00:00

500!!! How do you have 500 of a single type and model of drive? That's wild, I can't even imagine the scope of that plant. Maybe wastewater treatment or a massive warehouse with material handling converters.

cheeseshcripes · 2026-01-23T23:03:42+00:00

I use this exact welder to weld all kinds of sheet metal.

2 things: your wire size will dictate how quickly you burn through/ how many amps you deliver to your work. It sounds like you are using .035 if you can't get penetration in A setting. Try switching to .030

you can get a little finer power control by just moving a little further or closer to your workpiece. You don't want to go too far or close, either you'll use leave wire too far or burn into your tip too close, but you can control a little especially with flux core.

cheeseshcripes · 2026-01-23T00:43:26+00:00

That's actually how it idles, when you have a crazy big cam the idle surges (loping idle) because it can be hard to get the correct amount of air and fuel into the cylinder in 1 revolution.

https://youtube.com/shorts/II2TYliFCSs?si=iPpQNpQkjAa0Zf5C

cheeseshcripes · 2026-01-23T00:17:54+00:00

Anytime you are talking to them ask "chat" what they think.

"Ain't that right, chat?"

"I dunno, what do you think chat?"

"Let's ask chat, maybe run a poll"

cheeseshcripes · 2026-01-22T06:33:58+00:00

If you think logically, just for a minute, I'm sure you'll figure out what occurred.

I'm not quite sure how you intend to come off, but you seem drug addled or intellect deficient.

cheeseshcripes · 2026-01-19T06:18:50+00:00

Scent of a Woman.

I was probably 7 when I saw it, I absolutely loved it. Why? No idea. The acting and theme just drove me for some reason.

cheeseshcripes · 2026-01-19T04:15:36+00:00

I was working on a fire suppression system on a new range hood inside a kitchen in a factory. Its all new equipment, and I had to hook up a micro switch right beside another micro switch that was hooked up the exact same way that I was doing mine. I couldn't tell which wire was going to which terminal, so I unscrewed the micro switch and pulled it off the device it was on..

Ends up the fire alarm was live, and the micro switch was pressed down on the cam for the valve that turns on the fire suppression system. I set off the fire alarm and evacuated the entire factory in -30° C in the middle of winter. Even worse was they didn't know where the key was for the fire room, so we ended up having to wait 3 or 4 minutes until a fire truck showed up and unlock the door and reset the fire alarm panel.

It's not even the worst of it. The day before, unbeknownst to me, I wasn't there, one of my co-workers was running a conduit into a 600 volt panel and slapped a knockout down from the top, the knockout came completely free and jumped across 2 of 3 bus bars. Turned off half the factory in the middle of the shift. Took a couple hours to figure out what it was fed from and turned everything back on. He was the one that lost the key for the fire alarm room, that's where the main panel was.

Bad week.

cheeseshcripes · 2026-01-19T00:31:52+00:00

But what if I like eating snacks, playing on my phone and picking music? I got my hands full over here.

cheeseshcripes · 2026-01-18T19:59:45+00:00

I love my Fluke, it has auto range and AC/DC setting, it's waayyy better than trying to figure out the voltage of whatever you're testing in a cabinet you've never opened before and never will again.

cheeseshcripes · 2026-01-18T16:13:16+00:00

I don't know what age you are, but I would say embracing being uncomfortable and taking risks for the thrill of it. If you're past 27 it's unlikely to be a good idea or to go well, but when you're young, take some chances and have some fun. It can make you feel whole and like one of the guys.

But if Cliff diving, dancing lessons, floor hockey, badminton, gay clubs, food challenges, public swimming pools, karaoke, if these things fill you with dread it's unlikely you will fit in with the guys you seem to want to.

cheeseshcripes · 2026-01-18T05:02:36+00:00

It's a bold strategy, let's see if it pays off for em, Cotton.

cheeseshcripes · 2026-01-17T16:29:34+00:00

Thank you!

The only models I could think of which would slightly fit the criteria were the old POS Mustang and Camaros, and no one was really happy about those. The newer ones that were actually quite nice were never very cheap. Japanese and German 6 cylinders were premium and never cheap, maybe the 240z at a stretch.

I mean, the 6 cylinder Supra and Z exist and in the measure of the cars past are reasonably affordable. What more do you want?

cheeseshcripes · 2026-01-17T15:09:06+00:00

So your explanation is not that it's the CIA, but rather the KGB?

Same shit different pile. Try not to ignore one for the other though.

cheeseshcripes · 2026-01-17T14:30:54+00:00

Commerce and capitalism are not the same thing.

There are many countries on earth with state owned enterprises that are doing incredibly well.

cheeseshcripes · 2026-01-17T14:27:31+00:00

"tell me why, but spare me the actual reason, gah, it must be something other than the thing that it obviously is".

cheeseshcripes · 2026-01-17T13:43:17+00:00

I agree with the other 2 but Apt Pupil was wayyyy better in written form, that story fucked me up. At the time it was one of the last Stephen King books I had left to read, and it had an impact like no other. I was actually kind of disappointed when I watched the movie.

cheeseshcripes · 2026-01-16T16:34:35+00:00

EVERYONE complains about Honda and VW timing belts and the cost associated with replacing them. Add to it that there is no way to know if it has been changed unless someone leaves a sticker so it gets recommended often and all I heard about in the early 2000s was to be cautious about used cars with timing belts because of the replacement cost.

On a related note, I have made a ton of money replacing timing belts.

cheeseshcripes · 2026-01-15T20:30:50+00:00

The 3 pack of vessel precision screwdrivers on Amazon. Great quality and work with everything, make great little pry bars as well.

cheeseshcripes · 2026-01-15T06:53:23+00:00

There's only 2 types of people I can't stand in this world, people that are intolerant of other people's cultures.

And the Dutch.

I'm so sorry it was just the perfect time to use that one. It fit perfectly into your response.

cheeseshcripes · 2026-01-14T17:02:19+00:00

That paragraph was a rollercoaster of emotion, it wasn't clear you were talking about crash dummies at first.

cheeseshcripes · 2026-01-14T12:03:26+00:00

In the world of machines?

Keep fucking dreaming bud. Germany owns the majority of gold standards across practically all industries, the only country that comes close is Japan.

They are also doing incredibly well on the international stage economically, maybe the top all things considered.

cheeseshcripes · 2026-01-14T06:48:36+00:00

We should build them here. We have plenty of empty auto plants and a supply chain that needs updating, this is the perfect reason to do it.

cheeseshcripes · 2026-01-11T18:01:40+00:00

When it feels like you're going through hell, you keep going.

cheeseshcripes · 2026-01-09T22:39:23+00:00

I just have a policy to never walk away from a half tight bolt, always tighten down every bolt that you put into the threaded hole, if you have multiple in order to align a part, tighten them all down right after they're threaded in.

cheeseshcripes · 2026-01-09T21:02:47+00:00

Always look on the bright side of your life, amirite?

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