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
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 […]
Philips Practix 100 kV X-ray System Teardown Read More »
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
AVAB PDD III 14kW Light Dimmer Teardown Read More »
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
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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 »