Teardown

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

ABB DCS400 – 900A / 522kW DC Motor Drive Teardown

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 …

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Fujifilm PMT26A Photomultiplier Tube Reverse Engineering

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 …

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X-ray Image Laser Scanner Reverse Engineering.

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 …

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Philips PCR Eleva S, X-ray Image Scanner Teardown

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. …

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Cisco Cable TV EGC GaN Segmentable Node A90201, RF Amplifier Teardown

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 …

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10 kW Sirio 10000P Solar Inverter Teardown

Teardown of a Sirio 10000P solar inverter designed in Italy and made in Taiwan. A extremely heavy and well built power house. Full of TO-264 sized IGBTs and a giant single PCB layout for the inverters. To watch more teardown videos with articles full of high resolution pictures, check out the complete list of equipment …

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Washing Machine Motor Burnout and Controller Teardown

I lost my washing machine to the flooding of the basement. I wanted to indulge in the famous Photonicinduction experiment of throwing a large rock into a running washing machine and let it dance for the internet to enjoy. It did not exactly go like that. The motor controller and driver is a Bitron Electrolux …

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