1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Yep.. I usually find EGR tubes all rusted and clogged up with carbon. Usually need to soak them in Chemtool or equivalent to melt away most of the carbon.

After that, I soak them in a bucket of 1:3 part solution of Muriatic Acid and water to finish the job. They come out looking out like new. This only works on all metal/steel parts though. Don't dare do this with aluminum.

 

Hold up, each of those GFCIs on that room is individually wired back to the breaker panel but on the same circuit breaker? So if the breaker pops they'll all lose juice, but if individual GFCI trips the other GFCIs on that circuit still have juice. Am I seeing that right? First time I've heard of something like that.

 

How its setup its like if non of them were gfci. The fact that they are gfci is just because thats what i had. Only difference it will make is that it will trip that 1 outlet if something shorts

 

Muriatic acid is some strong stuff

 

Its a correct, yet bass-ackwards way of doing it.

 

No they all wire to a single j box that has 1 wire come from the breaker panel

 

Did I describe that right? I'm just making sure I understand it, that's all

 

Me too! I wire control panels for a UL508A shop.. the difference in industrial and residential electrical is impressive

@Sperrunner I'm not trying to split hairs but a GFCI is more sophisticated than "tripping if something shorts to ground" they actual sense the amperage difference from one side of the line to the other (or hot to neutral in the case of 110-120) and most ones nowadays will trip with as little a difference as 5mA. Interference from radio signals (even your phone "pinging") can cause a spike in a system bad enough I've seen sparks fly out of GFCIs installed in a panel


Extremely rare, but still can happen

 

Okay okay I gotcha, I gotcha.

 

So it looks like this

 

Your shop isnt in NC by chance?




Funny that I can look at a control schematic with dozens of relays and contractors, a PLC, solenoids etc and understand it relatively easily.

Yet residential stuff perplexes me.

 

Ive only ever know of them tripping at like .0001 of amp to ground. Never knew of it sensing line to load.



all the wiring i do at work is just simply breaker of fuse protected and its alm basically just 3 phase motors. I never mess with gfcis at work

 

Holy shit. I take that back, pardon the ignorance

 

Regretfully I'm located in WA but we've built VFD panels for boat yards in lousiana so I'm sure we can ship to NC as well

I hear yea on the schematic thing... thankfully my eldest brother was a residential/commercial electrician for most of his life and he taught me how to read those drawings... whole DIFFERENT ball game compared to industrial plans lol

 

Most my work looks like this
(These are all from actual jobs ive done)

 

It's all good, I usually welcome the rain like you do. Just shitty and short tempered as of late

 

I checked on prices. I’m looking for an actual hose kit. I didn’t get around to replacing any hoses. Gonna live with it for now. When I find an actual hose kit and all I’ll prolly cop it and replace them first.

 

I do industrial maintenance so mostly troubleshooting on machines for now. Hope to one day get into the engineering side of it. But with me only having a 2 year degree in mechatronics those panel shops/industrial automation firms want me to get at least 5 years experience under my belt first.

Very similar to what I deal with. Atleast yours is in English. I see a lot of French and various Asian languages on the schematics that we do have.

Some machines theres no paperwork at all. Just you and an ohmmeter writing stuff down as you figure it out.

 

Just this one in Phoenix. - https://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/cto/d/gilbert-1986-toyota-mr2-rare-condition/7146247087.html