RF Cafe began life in 1996 as "RF Tools" in an AOL screen name web space totaling
2 MB. Its primary purpose was to provide me with ready access to commonly needed
formulas and reference material while performing my work as an RF system and circuit
design engineer. The World Wide Web (Internet) was largely an unknown entity at
the time and bandwidth was a scarce commodity. Dial-up modems blazed along at 14.4 kbps
while typing up your telephone line, and a nice lady's voice announced "You've Got
Mail" when a new message arrived...
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Even though I have spent decades in
the electronics and microelectronics fields, there is something about
rolling up my sleeves and delving into a 1/3 HP motor that takes
me back to my roots as an electrician and controls guy. Just like you
can actually buy a bottle of men's cologne (somewhat of an oxymoronic
term) with the scent of
bourbon,
glue,
saw dust, or
cut grass (not the 5-bladed variety), I might place a bottle of
Eau de Overheated Stator Winding Enamel on my medicine cabinet shelf
next to the Old Spice if it was available. The aroma would make a nice
addition to Yankee Candle's collection of
man-candles
as well... although maybe not.
Why
am I bringing this up just to announce the addition of the Repair Zone
(aka York Repair) website to my
Motors, Solenoids,
Fans & Cooling Manufacturers & Services webpage? Well,
while perusing their site I ran across some
videos of technicians in their facility performing tasks like replacing
the field windings in an industrial servo motor, connecting AC supply
lines to 3-phase, 230/460 volt motors, and using an ohmmeter to
identify the winding leads on motors where the labels are missing. It
took me back to my days in high school vocational classes (circa mid-1970s)
where we studied and practiced such skills and that I later for a few
years, prior to entering the U.S. Air Force as an electronics technician,
applied those skills professionally. Although I wired a lot of houses
and small businesses, my favorite work was doing wiring and troubleshooting
on motors, welders, automation controls, etc. I remember once making
an emergency visit to the local Coca Cola bottling operation in Annapolis,
Maryland, and being rewarded by the manager with a half dozen cases
of soda for my quick resolution of a problem that was keeping his bottle
washing machine offline. The most awful service call I remember was
to a concrete block manufacturing plant where I had to endure ear-splitting,
bone rattling machines that pounded wet concrete into the familiar 8x8x16-in
cinder blocks. It felt like being in a war zone (not that I know what
being in a war zone is like).
Aside from actually offering repair
and replacement services for servo motors and industrial electronics,
the Repair Zone website offers the aforementioned
videos as well as some
articles,
case studies, and
tech notes.
Repair Zone Website Sample Video: Servo Motor Rewind
- A Time Lapse
Although it's kind of off-topic at this point, while searching
for the manly aromas info, I ran across a great website that has some
great content:
The Art of
Manliness. You're welcome.
Posted August 14, 2013
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