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| SwarfnStuff:
WAY better fix than disassembling then looking for a fault that didn't exist. :Doh: New day fresh (well, shall we say refreshed :zap:) brain to think with, good for you. John B |
| velocette:
Hi superc mill working fine great. Heater the culprit so the answer seems to be is the heater worth fixing? Eric |
| Stilldrillin:
Sounds like a good result, to me! :thumbup: If only, all problems could be so simply solved........ David D |
| lordedmond:
Has that heater got a spark ignitghter on it to fire up the paraffin ? If it has then that very well could be the source of the trouble the HT hi frequency causing the mill to fault .the clunk would be the quill banging the same as when you reverse the mill Stuart |
| superc:
Yes it does have an auto igniter. I had a similar thought. Watching on the amp/watt meter every 20 seconds or so there is a current spike of about 0.2 amps. Without taking the heater apart I couldn't decide if it was the fuel pump, the electric eye sensor, or as u suggest the igniter. Since both machines work just fine when on different circuits the obvious, and simplest 'fix all' is to not use them both at the same time on the same circuit. It has to be a sub or secondary frequency causing the problem as the duty cycle of the house current remains unchanged. I lack the apparatus to tell if one device is generating a square wave while the other one uses/expects a sine wave or a triangular wave or a sawtooth wave or vice versa. Crest factors, form factors, RMS, all that gobbledygook. I know in theory while my meter is measuring the waves it expects to see, there could be when both devices are in play be two or more waves running through at the same time, but the meter will only notice the one, even if there is a wave of lesser height delivering a greater RMS value. In any case all that is pushing the limits of my understanding of things electric. Suffice to say the torpedo heater and the Mill's circuit board are not friends. So clearly keeping the devices on different circuits is the best solution. I have in the past had printed circuit boards become suddenly inoperative (i.e., dead forever) when expecting one type of wave an old generator of mine sent out some of the other types of wave. LoL, can we say; running, running, pfffft! |
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