I found a old Floppiclene 3.5″ floppy drive cleaning kit and tried it out on a defective computer/floppy drive/floppy that I had. It would constantly ruin “new” disks and leave them with few kb of useful space. If you like computer teardowns, check out some of the other videos. It also failed horribly!
Floppiclene! A Electronics Cleaning Relic of the Past. Read More »
Teardown of the Siemens Polyphos 30 X-ray inverter systems control panel including computer, safety functions, HMI and high voltage inverter circuit. Be sure to check out part 1 about the X-ray head and part 2 about the collimator and image plate. Discussion of teardown and more pictures: https://highvoltageforum.net/index.php?topic=523.0
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Teardown of the Siemens Polyphos 30 X-RAY collimator and image plate. Collimator had an interesting moving blinds design with a lot of gears, pulleys and strings. Image plate has a lead grid and some kind of sensor. Discussion of teardown and pictures: https://highvoltageforum.net/index.php?topic=523.0
Siemens Polyphos 30 X-RAY Collimator and Image Plate Teardown (Part 2 of 3) Read More »
Teardown of the Siemens Polyphos 30 X-ray head which contains step-up transformers, voltage multipliers and a rotating plate x-ray tube and a lot of oil! Be sure to check out part 2 about the collimator and image plate and part 3 X-ray inverter system. Discussion of teardown and additional pictures: https://highvoltageforum.net/index.php?topic=523.0
Siemens Polyphos 30 X-RAY Head 125kV Teardown (Part 1 of 3) Read More »
In part 3 I test the setup with all 3 panels connected and look at the performance over the last 8 days. In part 1 you can see all the parts I pieced together and in part 2 there is the inital tests of the solar charger setup. It all consists of:
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A teardown of a ESAB Caddy 1500i TIG welder, a run down of the current paths in the system and I show which parts I kept. I also have a teardown video of a ESAB LTR 200 welder. Datasheet on the unit: https://www.esab.dk/dk/da/products/arc-welding-equipment/tig-equipment-cc/industrial-equipment/caddy-tig-1500i-2200i-ta34.cfm
TIG welder teardown. ESAB TIG Caddy 1500i Read More »
In part 2 I test the setup with all 3 solar panels connected. A full production test in direct sunlight is conducted. If you missed the introduction to this project, check out 750 Watt Solar Project – Test Setup – Part 1. If you want to jump on to the further progress, check out 750W
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In part 1 I give a walk-through of my solar panel test setup, battery charging controller and the Victron app to control the charger over blue-tooth. Be sure to check out the rest of the project in 750W Victron Solar Project – All 3 panels test – Part 2, 750W Victron Solar Project – Power
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