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PhenixRising
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Posted: 11:18am 29 May 2025

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I was asked to look at the project but it was horrible and so I quoted REALLY high....but they agreed

There is some local "industrial electrician", Abdul, whom I've never met but I seem to keep coming across his "work". He "re-controlled" a machine, nearby and I've seen nothing like it. I'll grab some pics but Mick will be warned to sit down before viewing.

I first saw it many months ago, it involves forward/reverse control of a three phase motor.

Abdul's electrical enclosure was a six-pint plastic milk container with the top chopped off. The three-phase (blue wiring which is supposed to be for DC) contactors were just dropped in the container

I protested and they brought him back in and now they are at least DIN rail mounted but the wiring is horrid.
There's some interlocking logic required (more than just forward/reverse) that is just not achievable with two contactors.

Yup, it's getting a PicoMite

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