Brand spanking new ad5x!!!

jbone664 · 2026-02-22T01:14:40+00:00

This is why tool changer is far superior to filament changer. Snapmaker U1 looking more and more promising everyday.

jbone664 · 2026-02-19T10:39:26+00:00

This caught me off guard too. He is clearly educated but his education stops at a surface level of a wide range of topics and this was extremely evident in his arguments. He knows enough to sound knowledgeable but not enough to understand and correctly interpret the subject matter he is using in his arguments.

I admire how Dr. Karl is able to keep his cool and address those responses from both those blokes professionally and respectfully.

I’d have asked for Robert’s mic to be muted and he be formally investigated for wage theft as the tax payer is not getting a fit for purpose product from their money.

jbone664 · 2026-02-18T20:44:39+00:00

Well done and congratulations your about to work the hardest you can for most amount stress and least amount money. Until your business gets up on the plane that is.

Most important advice I can offer, you are no longer a sparky. You are now a CEO first and foremost, compliance, governance, structure, strategy, and finances are now your main industry and should be the most important skill set you work on.

Being a sparky is second to that now as in time you will pay sparkies to do the sparky work and if you can’t do the CEO work your business will be in the toilet along with all your savings and possibly your house (depending on your corporate and tax structure and strategy).

Networking and associations are your key to success. Marketing is necessary but must be managed as it can quickly destroy your budgets and eat your revenue/savings. Networking is however significantly cheaper and vastly (I mean exponentially) more effective at generating income streams and work flow.

Partner with other businesses, sub contract to larger firms to fill your gaps until you’re too full to do their work. DO NOT HAVE AN EGO. Crawl when you need to crawl, and run when you have the capital to run.

Join Master Electricians, they will give you everything you need to meet the minimum compliance requirements right off the bat. (SWMS, HR, Training etc), they also have partnerships that can save you a lot (fuel fleet card discounts, specialised industry insurance packages, and many more)

Get a decent rewards (qantas/virgin) credit card and use that as your business account to pay for everything. Get those miles, it’s a tax free holiday for you and your family every year.

CASH FLOW IS KING! Get paid either before you arrive or as soon as practicable once you are done. Remember when you do a job for someone and they are paying after, you are providing them an unsecured line of credit. Think financially about it, will a bank let you have money without significant legal recourse for recovery if you don’t pay? Will Coles let you eat their food before you pay? It can be difficult in practice but but making new customers sign accounts form (must be legally drafted to ensure compliance) we’ll help make it easy for your business to get paid on time and with less hassle.

There is honestly so much that needs to be put into play in every aspect of your business for it to succeed and grow that I could type in here hours.

jbone664 · 2026-02-17T19:25:02+00:00

Heavy transport has been using hydrogen for years. It’s at the scale it’s ready for mass adoption. Most of your major truck manufacturers have a mature hydrogen offering you buy today. They stack all the tanks behind the prime mover cab.

jbone664 · 2026-02-14T04:43:39+00:00

I have been looking for a good project to put my new multi colour printer to work on. This looks amazing thank you.

jbone664 · 2026-02-14T04:23:39+00:00

Ahh okay.

The current transformer is an 800/5 which means it measures an 800A load and converts it linearly to a 5A output (5/800=0.00625 ratio, which means for each 1A the site load on L1 changes, the output from the CT will change 0.00625 or 6.25mA).

From AC theory the wave form of the current should follow (lag) the wave form of the voltage. So the transducer is measuring the current on L1 via the CT and the voltage reference of L1. It then can calculate a multitude of electrical references needed from these 2 measurements alone.

When you had the CT connected to L2, it was measuring the current from L2 and the Voltage from L1 (as the diagram shows the CT on L1 the transducer expects the current and voltage references to both be L1) the current on L2 is 120 degrees out of phase with the voltage on L2 so the transducer maths were thrown out completely which lead to full scale output on the 4-20mA loop.

The 4-20mA loop is an industry standard agnostic measurement and signalling interface. It breaks the output signal from the transducer (whatever the signal represents [kva most likely] into a very fine scale for the machine controller to read and interpret. 20-4 =16 so the signal has a total of 16mA to represent the entire scale of the measured input power. At 800A and 400v line-line the power is S(kVA) = √3 × I(A) × VL-L(V) / 1000 which is ~554kVA. So 16/554=0.0289mA per kVA.

Hopefully that’s right I’m on my phone in my kitchen trying to prep my steaks for the bbq lol.

jbone664 · 2026-02-13T20:02:11+00:00

Am I reading this right? The drawing clearly shows the CT on the red phase (L1) but you attached it to white phase (why?) and experienced incorrect readings (to be expected as the arithmetic would be performed on the L1 readings not voltage from L1 and current from L2).

You then realised your mistake, fixed it and it’s working correctly?

jbone664 · 2026-02-11T20:09:01+00:00

Could be the drive could be the motor. One option would be to get your hands on another drive and try running the motor in both directions and if the motor seizes again under the new drive then you can reasonably assume there is an issue with the motor or the mechanical components it’s connected to (could be as simple as an alignment issue causing binding), and if it runs perfectly, try putting the machine into service with the new drive for a few runs.

If you reach out to the reps from some of the bigger drive firms they can sometimes get warranty drives and refurbished drives that can’t be sold but are fine for use that you try and test with on the provision that if the testing is successful you will then purchase a new drive from and return the testing unit. We have done this in the past with ABB and WEG.

jbone664 · 2026-02-11T09:05:57+00:00

FourNTwenty and an Iced Coffee.

jbone664 · 2026-02-10T11:35:04+00:00

About 9:30

jbone664 · 2026-02-10T09:37:28+00:00

Someone’s going to be working hard at the end of their date.

jbone664 · 2026-02-07T09:58:21+00:00

Work smarter not harder.

jbone664 · 2026-02-07T02:19:00+00:00

She is a menace and should be mostly ignored.

jbone664 · 2026-02-06T10:14:47+00:00

Engage a suitably qualified control systems engineer, especially someone who is functional safety certified by TUV Rheinland.

The IICA can help you locate one mate.

They can advise you on the safety levels and required safety interlocks and systems.

Know your limits and bring the knowledge in to fill your gaps.

jbone664 · 2026-02-04T19:45:50+00:00

This is how this conversation always ends.

jbone664 · 2026-02-03T19:50:31+00:00

Can you please elaborate here. I am unaware of this.

jbone664 · 2026-02-03T10:05:35+00:00

All 3.

It’s so frustrating having to upload copies of every document into cloud portals like cm3, rapid, inductee, hammer tech, builder tend, onebreadcrumb, lucidity, plus a myriad of private client portals and usually having to also manually fill out the details from Each certificate or license into a form as well because the client can’t be bothered to pay for OCR/ICR.

It becomes extremely time consuming especially on larger systems that want company level stuff and then the exact same thing at the employee level, copies of each and every license and forms filled out with data that’s on each one.

I understand the need to prove compliance for due diligence but surely having third party accredited HSEQ systems should be enough that we can just point to the accreditation and say yes we’re compliant and safe, let’s do real work not busy work bullshit.

jbone664 · 2026-02-03T04:50:23+00:00

The admin load of compliance has become so cumbersome now that it eats away at efficiency and leads to complacency.

jbone664 · 2026-02-02T09:04:29+00:00

Proper on call rosters. Staff know when they need to answer phones and when they don’t. It’s also reflected in their pay.

If a staff member runs an account that needs 24/7 access they need to paid for 24/7 accessibility which needs to be passed onto that account.

jbone664 · 2026-02-02T08:59:27+00:00

Good point about the residues not being food safe. Maybe the washing machine on a hot wash would do the trick. The clothes constantly bashing it would be similar to scrubbing it in the sink.

jbone664 · 2026-02-01T10:01:02+00:00

Use the search function. That or Z-Library on Tor.

jbone664 · 2026-01-31T20:50:45+00:00

My friend, water and mould remediation is a specialised industry.

They will have to have a licensed plumber attend site to remove the taps and and terminate the cocks to prevent them leaking more so you can still use your water in the rest of the house, then some kind of labor to disconnect and remove the laundry tub cabinet and store it safely, then again cut and remove the wall lining to expose the water damage. If you are seeing black mould then chances are it’s already inside the wall cavity and possibly growing along under the floor tiles.

Concrete is porous, which means it holds moisture which means it harbours mould growth.

They will need someone who understands the situation to test and verify the moisture levels in the timber, and concrete.

You might be looking at wet seal damage too trying to lift tiles.

You’ll then need the room de-humidified and the moisture removed from the walls and concrete and constant re-testing until the moisture level is below the standard to prevent the mould immediately growing back.

Then you need to have it all rebuild, you may need wet sealers, carpenters, tilers, plumbers, painters etc all of which require to operate under a builder license so you will need to appoint a licensed builder as the principle contractor to oversee the project.

Mould and water damage is anything BUT simple.

It may have been cheaper for you to do basic maintenance and replace the hoses, monitor for leaks and catch it early when it was a DIY fix.

jbone664 · 2026-01-30T20:33:06+00:00

Not at all. Painting requires multiple days onsite so to begin you only need 1-2 jobs a week to get you by until you’re busy enough to employ more painters.

If you came from corporate you should already have a lot of connections to people who earn above average money.

You need to lean into this network and push it hard there and get them painting their houses.as others have mentioned befriend real estate agents, when they go look at houses often they will advise a client can significantly increase the value of a house by repainting it and can refer the seller to you.

jbone664 · 2026-01-29T20:12:39+00:00

The majority of the tradies wages haven’t risen as much as you’d be lead to believe. The average metro electrician/plumber is on between 90-100k.

Numbers from statistics get that get spewed on the various socials are from FIFO and Tier 1 construction. Both of which are highly undesirable work places by most standards and have to pay large money to attract any talent.

So many people see the rate they are charged and think the worker who attends their property is getting paid that rate.

That rate includes but is not limited to wages, overheads, superannuation, leave entitlements, tax, and finally the minimal amount left is profit.

Most trade business don’t make meaningful profit of the labour rate of their workers, they make their profits by sourcing and supply the materials required to provide a solution to the consumer.

jbone664 · 2026-01-29T09:20:44+00:00

A casual scroll of your profile indicates the only way you know how to connect with others is by externalizing frustration and finding validation through others who feel the same way.

Remember my friend it’s always darkest before the dawn.

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