How'd it go today?

[Rborist1]

He must be making up for something tiny.

 

[NeTree]

Sometimes I wonder, Jay.

Ger, these are wire drawing lines with an integral winder. The existing electronics comprise a panel full of knobs and switches, and the cabinets are full of large control relays to carry out the logic. Each machine draws about 30 amps of 115vac just to power all the controls; the new electronics will use 2 amps to do the same thing. With machines that run 24/7, that's a lot of saved kW hours. Environmental win.

 

[Rborist1]

Yup, small dick syndrom!

 

[NeTree]

I don't type my posts with my fingers, Craig.

 

[Underwor]

Speaking of COBOL, I took a FORTRAN-4 class in 69. big piles of punch cards and one little error could take forever to find. Boy are computers nicer now and smaller than the IBM 1040.

 

[Rborist1]

Ahhhhhh, too much info.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I learned on a Prime 450 if that dates me at all

 

[Dave Shepard]

I know a little bit about what Erik is working with. Mine friend with the stone cutting equipment uses PLCs all the time. To run one of his stone saws, you would either need one of these cabinets full of relays and related widgets, or a PLC the size of a grilled cheese sandwich. Not much in them now, just some wires, a transformer, and a VFD or two.

 

[stehansen]

Is this motor windings Erik?

 

[NeTree]

Truly, Dave; I could replace that whole panel full of switches with one little touch-screen a little bigger than a pack of smokes.

 

[NeTree]

Is this motor windings Erik?

What do you mean, Steve? What kind of wire the machines are making?

 

[Dave Shepard]

Yeah, but I think he got those cabinets for scrap price, what's a touch screen, an easy grand? Just getting rid of all the relays and being able to program the limits is a major improvement. I've got a short video of it, but haven't been able to get it up on YouTube. My new phone pops them right up though, so I'll have to get another of it running.

 

[NeTree]

Nope; The IDEC in my pic is just $300.

The Siemens stuff will set you back a bit; the TP177A, about 4" x 5" monochrome, is $1400. And it works of course only with a Siemens PLC. The IDEC touch-screens work with just about anybody's PLC.

 

[Dave Shepard]

That's pretty reasonable.

Insomnia sucks. Seems like I've been awake all week.

Swype is awesome. Ha!

 

[NeTree]

I hear ya; I'm on a roll with the programming, and hate to stop while I'm making great headway.

 

[Dave Shepard]

Well, at least you are working, I'm just watching Star Wars episode II, again.

 

[NeTree]

Not anymore... the missus just came in and advised it's past my bedtime.

Time to go snuggle.

Nite!

 

[stehansen]

What do you mean, Steve? What kind of wire the machines are making?

Yes.

 

[NeTree]

Carbon steel wire for tire beading.

 

[SkwerI]

I washed the car today, first time in a month. Heck, I even washed the pickup since I still had soapy water in the bucket.

 

[Rborist1]

Good looking wheels for a skwerl.

 

[NeTree]

Are those "acorn" style lug nuts?

 

[Porkbrick]

found my first chanterelle of the season this afternoon. ill have to check all my spots from last year. seems early. nice wheels btw sqwerl.

 

[gf beranek]

Nice ride, Brian!

 

[rangerdanger]

Sexy car man, very sexy.

First real day off in a long time. Competition went well yesterday, had a blast!!! Had my best Aerial Rescue yet, work climb had some cool swings in it. Missed some locks in the Footlock event, so not my best time, but I'm getting there! Overall, a great time, met some great people and met up with some old friends also.