Tag: repair

  • Bad day at work? – How I destroyed a £2300 piece of equipment

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    It’s been longer than I care to admit since my last post, but sit comfortably because this is a tale worth telling. It is about all the planning and thought in the world can be let down with one careless oversight. We use a fairly inexpensive HiPot tester (Clare H101) at work to check that some…

  • Obscene Monitor for FREE!!!

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    A few months ago my place of employment and enjoyment suffered a catestrophic electrical failure. We recently installed some power factor correction equipment on our three phase mains setup – presumably to save money when powering running some of our more inductive loads. For those that dont know, power factor is the ratio of real…