hillbilly1
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- North Georgia mountains
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- Owner/electrical contractor
Sawmill
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zbang
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- Roughly 5346 miles from Earls Court
That'll be a project, take some pictures for us along the way.
hillbilly1
Senior Member
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- North Georgia mountains
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- Owner/electrical contractor
It is. I will probably do fuse blocks, and a distribution block.
hillbilly1
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- North Georgia mountains
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- Owner/electrical contractor
I’ve got to go to Ohio and disconnect all of it, don’t know what the rest of it looks like, but the customer wants to save as much of the conduit and wire as I can. All of it is ran by a 260 kva generator.
LarryFine
Master Electrician Electric Contractor Richmond VA
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- Henrico County, VA
- Occupation
- Electrical Contractor
Take me with you.
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- Tennessee NEC:2017
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- Semi-Retired Electrician
1st glance? I can't believe you saw the cabinet!
hillbilly1
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- North Georgia mountains
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- Owner/electrical contractor
It’s about 45 minutes from my favorite Ohio state park, Hocking Hills.
LarryFine
Master Electrician Electric Contractor Richmond VA
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- Henrico County, VA
- Occupation
- Electrical Contractor
We stay in cabins at Lake Hope State Park Wednesday through Sunday the first weekend of June when my motorcycle forum group ST-Owners has one of their events.
The other one I regularly attend, also Wednesday through Sunday, is at Backwater Falls State Park, WV the first weekend of October. Great fall colors in the mountains!
We usually ends up with around 50 to 60 people, many couples and some singles, around 40 bikes, mostly Honda ST1100s and ST1300s, a few Goldwings, BMWs, etc.
PaulMmn
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- Union, KY, USA
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- EIT - Engineer in Training, Lafayette College
How many motors get fired up at once?
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA
- Occupation
- Electrical Engineer
Not at all unusual in older sawmills. I was told by the old gaffers the idea was that if any one motor goes down, everything needed to shut down anyway. The lack of short circuit protection for the smaller motors (usually oilers or feed motors) was generally tolerated in the mill environment, where production is king.
Nowadays I would just slap on some of those IEC style Motor Protection Switches ahead of the existing starters. Fuses and fuse holders are cheaper, but they suck when it comes to keeping things running or getting them back on line in a hurry. I would open panels with fuse blocks in them like that and there would be boxes of fuses in the bottom, almost always too big so that they wouldn't blow. What's the point of that?
Nowadays I would just slap on some of those IEC style Motor Protection Switches ahead of the existing starters. Fuses and fuse holders are cheaper, but they suck when it comes to keeping things running or getting them back on line in a hurry. I would open panels with fuse blocks in them like that and there would be boxes of fuses in the bottom, almost always too big so that they wouldn't blow. What's the point of that?
Recommend that you get a shoe horn out ( after neatening up rats nest of wires ) to squeeze in fuse blocks to feed each motor starter. Use the short fuse blocks that are rated for use up to 600 volts.If they are worried about if one motor trips out and other motors continue to run you can wire in all of the overload contacts in series.
hillbilly1
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- North Georgia mountains
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- Owner/electrical contractor
Yeah, wouldn’t be hard to interlock everything. Once I get up there to disconnect everything, I will have a better plan of attack.
ptonsparky
Tom
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- EC - retired
Looks similar to what ended up being my first PLC project at a small cattle feedlot.
Enjoy.
hillbilly1
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- North Georgia mountains
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- Owner/electrical contractor
I had a project many years ago that I wanted to go that route, but plc’s were still pricey then. It was for a Home Depot Expo store. They had an actual shower display with working shower heads and body sprays in an enclosed room with full height glass viewing windows. The engineers were concerned with too many showers being activated, and overflowing the drain system. I designed and built a controller that would not allow more than one shower display at a time to be activated. It would also limit the amount of time the heads ran. I wish I still had pictures of that. All mechanical relay logic.