This is a teardown of a complete x-ray system, with control panel, x-ray head with high voltage transformer and collimator. The Philips Practix system is a mobile system, usually mounted on a trolley, with the x-ray head on a separate arm assembly. It has a large and small focus fixed anode X-ray tube, the maximum […]
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Teardown of a ABB 5.5 kW ACH550 HVAC Variable Frequency Drive. HVAC is short for Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning. In this application I will say its purely marketing, as HVAC industry is mostly based on cheap prices and drives are marketed specifically with low prices to this and maybe focus on high efficiency at
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The AVAB PDD III light dimmer system is built for 96 channels of 10A capacity per channel. A full stocked rack would be able of pulling a total of 960A at 230VAC, pulling over 200kW, just for lights in a theater! This system dates back to 1997, and even earlier with its version 2 and
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We are building an ESP8266 based Geiger counter that I was given by the crew at Science Pavillion, at Roskilde Festival 2022. Science Pavillon is a initiative between CERN and Niels Bohr Institute, with a joint effort to teach science to the young people attending the Roskilde Festival. I was hired in to do Tesla
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The largest Tesla coil show for public display in Denmark, is one of the major reveals on the re-opening of Energimuseet! After being closed to the public, for 1½ years, the museum reopened on April 12th 2025. The new dual Tesla coil system is built by Finn Hammer from @hammertone2nd , in collaboration with Kaizer
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Teardown of a 2.1 kW peak solar inverter, the Sunmaster / Mastervolt XS2000. It is based on TO-247 MOSFETs for voltage regulator and isolation. From the datasheet, it is actually only able to deliver 1500 Watt to the mains connection. Do you know about this secret place for MOSFET and IGBT lovers? Maybe you are
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Teardown of a 3.7 kW peak solar inverter, the Delta Solivia 3.0. It is based on TO-247 MOSFETs for voltage regulator and isolation. The output inverter design uses IGBTs. A secret place for MOSFET and IGBT lovers. If you are looking for other solar inverter types, check out the long list of teardown videos. Firstly
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Teardown of a 22+ kW peak solar inverter, from a company that at some time was called Ever Solar. Now it seems to have been Eversol or Zeversolar. A Chinese OEM product that has been sold under various names and brands. If you are looking for other solar inverter types, check out the long list
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