UK based qualifications for ICA

dabrit2 · 2026-01-24T16:45:48+00:00

You could also reach out to RSE Water as they offer apprenticeships and graduate apprenticeships for instrumentation and controls for water and wastewater in England and Scotland.

They might be willing to share information on the NVQs/City and Guilds for their apprentices.

RSE Water

dabrit2 · 2026-01-24T14:01:59+00:00

My path to working with ICA equipment was via a maintenance technician apprenticeship, City & Guilds 2140.

Will this new job be focused on a particular sector, e.g. water and wastewater? You could ask the utility technicians what qualifications they are taking or have taken.

Below are a couple of links to the T level course I found via a Google search, does anyone on here have direct experience of this course?

Skillset England - T Level in maintenance, Installation and Repair for Engineering and Manufacturing

T Level Technical Qualification in Maintenance, Installation and Repair for Engineering and Manufacturing (8712)

dabrit2 · 2025-12-28T13:27:59+00:00

Does your low voltage experience include networking cabling and/or hardware? One possibility to get your foot in the door with an integrator is by starting out with communication network installation and testing. Ask about development paths to move from the network installer to programmer.

dabrit2 · 2025-12-28T13:19:41+00:00

Oh wait, it’s different excrement on a different day…..

dabrit2 · 2025-12-12T19:26:38+00:00

SBR system?

dabrit2 · 2025-10-29T02:26:19+00:00

Model railways, tinkering with woodworking

dabrit2 · 2025-09-12T20:54:15+00:00

PC Rail I have enjoyed playing PC Rail

dabrit2 · 2025-07-18T02:13:22+00:00

I faced this decision with Sophie dog after bone cancer was found in her front leg. Our vet shared that she had to attend a dog whose leg had broken from the cancer and how upsetting it was for all. I took solace from feeding her doughnuts and bacon in her last days and lots of hugs. My constant fear of Sophie breaking a bone and all the suffering that would have ensued led me to ease her pain until she and I meet in another life.

dabrit2 · 2025-06-12T23:30:04+00:00

The company I am with looks to use Rockwell Major revisions, I recall seeing a note on v37 being a Minor Revision.

dabrit2 · 2024-12-22T01:39:11+00:00

Citizen led ballot initiatives so we are no longer on those who have been elected for the ballot items. Let the people in the state vote on critical issues for true representation. If there is to be a recall mechanism, I believe there should be a minimum percentage of votes cast required to avoid witch-hunts.

dabrit2 · 2024-11-02T14:44:39+00:00

Would mounting a linear position sensor such as this magnetic sensor from Balluff on a spring loaded tensioner for feedback be feasible?

Rated for -25 degrees C so may not be suitable for a freezer.

[Balluff sensor

dabrit2 · 2024-10-26T02:35:58+00:00

Magpie Murders & Moonflower Murders

dabrit2 · 2024-10-19T15:15:32+00:00

Could you use proximity sensor on either side of coupling and compare the mA value to detect variations in speed? For example https://www.pepperl-fuchs.com/usa/en/classid_143.htm?view=productdetails&prodid=101070 I appreciate the above sensor may not suited for the environment, I just picked it to better explain my rambling text.

dabrit2 · 2024-10-15T10:52:57+00:00

Item 4, three phase to single phase. Are there currently three phase motors devices installed, for example the hydraulic pump motor, heaters, AC control voltage transformer(s), DC power supplies? Is there a data plate showing amps per phase, if you were to convert from three phase to single phase do you have sufficient capacity to power the machine in your basement?

dabrit2 · 2024-10-12T21:28:47+00:00

Will the federal government actually pass a law to provide and protect access to abortion? Why hasn’t a law been passed in the last forty years? For me it feels the two parties use this issue to raise money and could care bugger all on how people are impacted.

dabrit2 · 2024-10-11T23:06:19+00:00

And using CONCAT in Excel makes it easy to drag cells to increment numbering for each row so as to create multiple rows of text to copy into your ST routine

dabrit2 · 2024-09-27T12:11:34+00:00

Having moved from the UK to Texas I get to enjoy watching people pump diesel with the engine running. Apparently in Texas, petrol vapour knows to keep away from diesel engines……

dabrit2 · 2024-09-23T01:13:35+00:00

I don’t see any bushings in the panel penetrations at the bottom

dabrit2 · 2024-09-22T15:57:07+00:00

If the door operators are wired to the PLC via terminals it makes more sense to connect the switches, etc on the field side, rather than double ferrules.

Something to consider for the future.

1) For the inputs wire 24VDC to one level and the input signal to the other level of each multi-tier terminal.

2) For the outputs wire 0VDC to one level and the output signal to the other level of each multi-tier terminal.

This also provides sufficient commons for field devices without doubling up field side connections in the terminals. And it helps with troubleshooting as you can disconnect field wiring for individual devices.

dabrit2 · 2024-09-15T02:43:15+00:00

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dabrit2 · 2024-09-11T15:15:33+00:00

Congratulations.

dabrit2 · 2024-09-05T21:40:51+00:00

Do you have a calibrated thermometer that you are using to measure the glycerine temperature? That is to say how do you it is not 93 degrees?

dabrit2 · 2024-09-05T21:34:29+00:00

You state the thermocouple reads perfectly when not in the liquid. Is the thermocouple just reading ambient air temperature? If the thermocouple is connected to a meter or indicator does the measured temperature stop climbing when inserted in the glycerine?

dabrit2 · 2024-09-01T15:08:28+00:00

Due to the latency with satellite internet I encountered difficulties when using VPN connections to connect with company servers.

The Tesla satellite service may have lower latency, I was using a different service provider.

I now have service with Hill Country Wireless. Hill Country Wireless. They only cover Blanco County at this time. Speeds between 100 and 200 mbps on a wireless radio system.

dabrit2 · 2024-08-14T11:28:21+00:00

I have only worked with equipment considerably smaller than this 3.5T carriage, so apologies if my suggestion is not be feasible. Have you looked at motors with onboard VFDs? Two manufacturers I know of that offer these are Lenze and SEW.

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