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
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 […]
2 kVA Solar Inverter Teardown, the Mastervolt XS2000 Read More »
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
3 kVA Delta Solar Inverter Teardown, the Solivia 3.0 TR Read More »
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
22 kW Solar Inverter Teardown, the Ever Solar TLC 17 Read More »
The Danaher DMC2 30151P servo drive is rated for 3.5 A at 3 phased 240 VAC, 0 – 400 Hz. The DMC2 series drives seems to have been sold as OEM products with different names like Kollmorgen, InMotion or Thomson Industries. These drives are available on surplus market for medical devices in radiology, so presumably
Danaher DMC2 30151P Servo Drive Teardown Read More »
Teardown of Cisco / Atlanta Scientific Cable TV combining amplifier. These small amplifiers are used in receiver stations with combining amplifiers to send out the different channels on a single cable. In houses a splitter is used to receive this signal and distribute to more households. Historically CATV is short for Community Antenna TV. A
Scientific Atlanta (Cisco) 1 GHz Combiner and PSU Teardown Read More »
A teardown of a desktop “PRO” UPS, the APC Back-UPS PRO 1500, a run down of the controller and power electronics of the system. I also compare it to the APC Smart-UPS 1500 VA, that I did a teardown of, some months ago. APC Smart-UPS 1500 vs. APC Back-UPS PRO 1500 A comparison is not
APC Back-UPS Pro 1500 VA Teardown Read More »
A teardown of a 3kVA rated 19″ 2U form factor UPS for server racks, the APC Smart-UPS X SMX3000, a run down of the controller and power electronics of the system. You can find pictures and circuit description below the video. If you want to see more teardown videos of UPS systems, you have come
Teardown of a 3kVA APC Smart-UPS X SMX3000 Read More »
A teardown of a huge (2 full size 19″ racks) UPS system, the APC SmartUPS VT 40 kVA, a run down of the controller and power electronics of the system. If you like real big UPS systems, you are in luck! I have also done teardowns of the following systems. Teardown of a Eaton PowerWare
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