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norcal

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Who was the Einstein who left the Aluminum stepladder in there & did someone try to get warranty service? (n)(n)(n)
 

brantmacga

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Me .... zooms in at the bottom. “Boy that back board sure is warped.”

Zooms back out. “What in the ....


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GoldDigger

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Everybody knows your supposed to only store wood ladders in a drive cabinet! LOL!
That is quite wrong. I see no reason not to store fiberglass ladders too. With both wood and fiberglass ladders there will be occasional metal parts. Probably more metal in a wood ladder than in a fiberglass ladder. :)
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jusme123

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Wow, and they really couldn’t spare a little extra space between those main phase lugs? SMH 🤦‍♂️
 

Jraef

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I can’t get a decent answer from anyone as to why the ladder was there. I doubt it was an electrician with an aluminum ladder though. The drive is 500HP 18 pulse, but it’s toast now. The load lug arrangement is apparently a bush fix by the guy that installed it 10 years ago who didn’t like the original factory placement at the bottom. Now that I have bad knees, I can sympathize.
 

cpickett

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I'm guessing list price for a replacement is $50,000-$100,000 depending on how it's configured, what's the lead time on a 500HP 18-pulse drive? With downtime and installation that is one expensive ladder!
 

cpickett

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Although those AB drives are tough, here's one that was showing 'ground fault', customer thought it was bad. Motor had a ground fault, new motor and it started right up!
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Jraef

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I'm guessing list price for a replacement is $50,000-$100,000 depending on how it's configured, what's the lead time on a 500HP 18-pulse drive? With downtime and installation that is one expensive ladder!
They can’t wait for a new one, my team is going to rebuild it in the field by replacing just the inverter portion with a new one. We will not reinstall the ladder though.
 
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