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
A teardown of a Migatronic Pilot 1800, a combined TIG & stick welder. TIG is short for Tungsten Inert Gas and refers to the tip of the welding handle, which is made out of tungsten. A inert gas comes from the handle, to surround the tip and ensure no air is near the welding bath. […]
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Test, teardown and comparison of two DLP projectors. The Vivitek WD755 is from around 2013 and the older InFocus is from around 1998. They are both based on the Texas Instruments DLP chipsets and the technology and space it takes up, shows that there is little difference in the physical size, but the higher resolutions
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This is a short teardown of the smallest UPS I have yet found thrown out. The Belkin Regulator PRO Silver UPS 650VA (model F6C650-SER-SB) uses the battery type CSB HC1221W which has been discontinued. If not obvious, my daughter helped me make this video 🙂 Belkin UPS specifications UPS / surge protector 4 power outlets
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This is a complete teardown of a Hitachi L7450 HPLC Diode-Array-Detector. HPLC is short for High Performance Liquid Chromatography. The DAD uses UV light to detect a color spectrum through a liquid flow cell into a linear detector. This liquid analysis method requires a wide range of apparatuses, starting with mixing, pumps, injection, temperature oven
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This is the complete destruction and teardown of the Masterpact M circuit breaker. It is normally used to protect and control low voltage distribution systems. Some of the M series primary features are: nominal current: 800 to 6300A AC. Breaking capacity from 40 to 150 kA rms. Voltage rating: up to 690 V. My previous
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Teardown and on-the-fly analysis of the circuits found inside a Kappa CF15 CCD camera. I got the camera with my Nikon SMZ-2T stereo microscope, that I use for electronics repairs and component identification. The camera was defective and taking it apart really made for a pleasant surprise of complexity and a stuffed enclosure! You might
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Circuit analysis, reverse-engineering and hacking of a Nokia Siemens Networks Flexi Multiradio base station FRGL amplifier. The user Da_Stier from highvoltageforum.net made a deep circuit analysis of the power amplifier, reverse-engineered how it works, built new printed circuit boards to make it run standalone and built a new enclosure for it. Shifting its output frequency
Nokia Siemens 3G Flexi 2.1GHz to 2.4GHz 50W Amplifier Reverse Engineering (Part 3 of 3) Read More »
Introduction I have here a circuit analysis of a 2100 MHz cellular amplifier from a UMTS basestation setup. The initial teardown video can be found in Nokia Siemens 3G Flexi 2100MHz 50W Amplifier Teardown (Part 1 of 3). Video Cellular Basestation Overview The Nokia Siemens Networks FRGL module consists of two 50 Watt amplifier modules.
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