Over 50 videos and articles of high voltage, high power equipment that is taken apart and shown what is inside and how it works! X-RAY, UPS etc
I found a old and discarded smoke cannon at a scrap yard! It looked in rough shape, but still had some oil in its container. With a bit experimentation and at last forcefully feeding it oil, it gave off its smoke! As a bonus, I got most of my workshop lubricated from half-burned oil smoke […]
Smoke Screen Machine Protect 950 XP – Teardown of a Smoke Cannon! Read More »
A teardown of a 19″ 1U server UPS, the APC Smart UPS 450 model SC450RMI1U. I give a quick run down of the current paths in the system and evaluation of the overall design. For many more UPS teardown articles and videos, I hope you will find these articles worth your time! Specifications for APC
APC Smart UPS 450 VA, for Server 19″ Rack 1U, Teardown Read More »
Teardown of a ABB DCS401.0900 DC motor drive. It can output an insane 900A at variable voltages, for a maximum output power of 522 kW! A very modular design by ABB, that makes almost no difference on the 2- or 4-quadrant versions of this drive. You love motor drives, inverters, variable frequency drives and all
ABB DCS400 – 900A / 522kW DC Motor Drive Teardown Read More »
I found a complete Philips Medio 50 CP-H system consisting of 2 meter tall 19″ rack with computer, driver, inverter and high voltage tank. Dual X-ray tube head rated for 150 kV and a control desk. It was only possibly for me to take the control desk with me. No effort was done for the
Philips Medio 50 kW CP-H X-ray Control Desk Teardown Read More »
The Fujifilm PMT26A photomultiplier tube module came from a teardown. The teardown of a Philips / Fujifilm PCR Eleva S / CR-IR 357 X-ray image scanner for computed radiography, became the basis for this reverse engineering project. You can see the teardown of the entire Fujifilm PCR Eleva S machine here. Teardown of the polygon
Fujifilm PMT26A Photomultiplier Tube Reverse Engineering Read More »
Reverse engineering of laser scanner module from a Philips / Fujifilm PCR Eleva S x-ray image scanner / digitizer. Also known as Computerized Radiography (CR), it fulfills the job of scanning a x-ray exposed image plate with a laser beam and extract each pixel illumination with a photomultiplier tube setup. Part 1 pictures and long
X-ray Image Laser Scanner Reverse Engineering. Read More »
This is a complete teardown of a Philips / Fujifilm PCR Eleva S x-ray image scanner system. Full of stepper motors, laser stuff and photomultiplier tube! If you are specifically interested in x-ray equipment and x-ray image scanners, you are in luck. I have done numerous teardowns and reverse-engineering videos on this kind of equipment.
Philips PCR Eleva S, X-ray Image Scanner Teardown Read More »
Teardown of Cisco Cable TV EGC GAN node and drop amplifier. Electronic Gain Control (EGC) technology and GaN (Gallium Nitride) monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs}. These are modern versions running on fiber networks. These small amplifiers are used in houses where it is not practical to use a receiving antenna to get the signal from
Cisco Cable TV EGC GaN Segmentable Node A90201, RF Amplifier Teardown Read More »