kwired
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So in a pinch do you substitue Greenlee blue stuff for the motion lotion
Why isn't Greenlee stuff "green"?
ohm's law sucks.
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So in a pinch do you substitue Greenlee blue stuff for the motion lotion
Why isn't Greenlee stuff "green"?
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- Licensed Electrician
No, I don't think Greenlee has any FDA listing. True story by the way.So in a pinch do you substitue Greenlee blue stuff for the motion lotion
Why isn't Greenlee stuff "green"?
Stevareno
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This sounds interesting. More detail please.
Tugger is at one end, pedal at the other end. How does the signal from the pedal reach the tugger?
mjf
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Maxxis did a presentation at my EC associations annual "Knowshow" in April looked like great products. Some of the EC's nearing retirement were making comments like "I wish I had these products for the last 40 years".
Fulthrotl
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http://www.maxis-tools.com/product/triggers/
two footpedals, one the tugger plugs into, with a pull gauge,
the other one with rechargeable batteries, for the feed end.
you both have to step down for the pull to happen.
nobody steps, you get a red pilot light....
one person steps, it goes yellow...
two people, it goes green, and powers up the tugger.
range in the open is 1.5 miles.
in buildings, between floors, i've never seen where it
wouldn't connect. they are coded and encrypted, so
no misfires from other equipment.
they were $1,600 when i bought mine... they are worth it.
i can wind some turns on the mule tape, put a c clamp to hold
down the tugger footpedal, go to the other end, use the foot
pedal to get the pull started, go back to the tugger, and use
a dropcam with a wifi connecton to stream an image of the
reels to my iphone, so i can watch the reels while pulling.
when you are a one man band, you get creative....
these pulls however, i'm gonna have a soap queen on
the feeding end....
kwired
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- NE Nebraska
Fulthrotl
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Now that you let that safety bypass info out they will have to redesign them
no... i was talking with one of the guys at maxxis, and described this... and he started going LALALALALALALALA.......
they really don't want to know.... and i don't blame them.
i found out today what is up with this conduit...... i'm guessing they didn't etch the conduit well enough before galvanizing
it, and the zinc is splintering where you bend a 90....... :rant: and it catches on the flat weave of the mule tape. looks ok
on the outside, but i bent a 90 and cut it in half, and there are these little jaggy things.... dragging 5 yards of silk thru a
briar patch sums it up.
it doesn't take much to bring the whole thing to a screeching halt... soap and pull in the morning, then megger at 1 KV.
not doing the robo-tugger tomorrow, have a buddy helping, in case this doesn't go well... but i think it'll be fine.
Fulthrotl
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well, that was interesting..... showed up, set up, tugged the first one, meggered it, all good.
set up for the second one, went to turn on the maxis triggers, and.... zip.
the master unit was impersonating a brick. worked perfectly for first pull, and ... nothing.
they are three years or so old, i think, and haven't been used huge amounts, always with love and respect.
so, i'm on the phone to maxis, in mesa, az..... talking to a repair tech, then one thing led to another, 'cause
i still have two pulls to get in and done by friday afternoon..... ended up talking to brad, the customer service guy....
he was gonna see if walters would exchange it, so i could get on with my work..... and as i was dead in the water
without them, he was making calls.... and i said... i'm at the intersection of I-10 and I-15, i can top tanks and BE
in mesa in about 5 hours..... so he knew i had a pressing need.... he made a bunch of phone calls, and got me a
loaner in santa fe springs at a manufacturers rep..... i picked it up on the way home, and all is well.....
i've said it before here, and i'm saying it again.... the customer care from maxis is second to NONE.
their stuff works, and it works well, and they stand behind it in a way that is uncommon.
Cow
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- Eastern Oregon
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- Electrician
I hope it's under warranty. Or they give you one hell of a deal on repairs....
Shelling out $1600 every three years for new triggers is BS!
texie
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- Fort Collins, Colorado
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- Electrician, Contractor, Inspector
Being an older guy, it had to be greenlee as a rule. But I have to also say that I also have had great service from Maxis when I had an issue with a product failure. They really do have the ol' can do attitude.
Fulthrotl
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here's the deal.... those things are expected to last in the field for four
years or so, being abused by crews, and whatnot. they are very durably
made, but we both have seen what wire pulling crews look like.
the demo units i got for a loaner, look to be about 20 years old.
they are a year old. they looked like they were drug by a rope across
a cornfield in kansas.
they were $1,600 when i bought them... i think they are $1,750 now.
here is how i see it. nothing lasts forever. things break. so, you buy
the best you can, and part of that is support for after you bought it.
this guy pulled one out of his hat, and i'm not a repeat customer.
i needed a solution for tomorrow morning. i have one. i'm sure they
will fix it, and charge appropriately for what they have to do. geez...
the manufacturers rep called and offered to have them deliver it to
the jobsite.... nobody wanted a credit card to secure anything. nobody
is making any money off this.
by comparison, my old laptop, costing $2,400 when i bought it from HP
two and a half years ago, at two months out of warranty, 26 months,
the battery exploded, and the thing got so hot that without the battery,
the keyboard was 130 degrees measured, when i was copying off the data
to dump the laptop.
warranty? what warranty. the thing was a piece of junk.
i'll never buy another HP product.
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kwired
Electron manager
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Next time use an external drive case or adapter cables and just connect the drive from old computer directly to the new one to copy items.
If old computer did not work at all this is what you would need to do anyway as long as the drive still works. (HP like other computers use drives made by another party so don't bash the drive just because it is in an HP)
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