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Micron Updates

We hit another milestone this week! Our service drop has been installed, permitted, and inspected! This means we can finally schedule the connection to the grid. I am waiting for a call to confirm, but I'm hoping for 5 weeks out!

Now for the fun stuff. We need water lines run, air lines run, internet and computers set up, inspection stations, tooling setups for the mills, and so much more. I need to take a broad view of everything and see, step by step, what we need for each process in order to be up and running.

If anyone is bored and wants a weekend project in Lebanon pa, we've got plenty of them LOL.

Also for any of you electrically minded, why would one of our LED high bay lights lose half of the diodes, and when we replace it, the same thing happens but all the diodes go dim, then we replace it again, half of those ones go out?! They are just in a 120v outlet which tests fine for voltage. We swapped known good ones into that location and a week later they go bad
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SharpBits said:
Sorry, If I were closer I could help with the IT work. :confused:
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I appreciate the sentiment!
SwissHeritageCo said:
I'm always surprised how loud roaches can be. I sprayed one the other night and it ran off to the corner of my shop room by some boxes... sounded like a damn rat was trying to climb through the wall.
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This is the first encounter I've had with roaches. They are shockingly loud, shockingly strong, and absolutely my biggest enemy. Spraying them is entertaining
 
MicronKnives said:
Also for any of you electrically minded, why would one of our LED high bay lights lose half of the diodes, and when we replace it, the same thing happens but all the diodes go dim, then we replace it again, half of those ones go out?! They are just in a 120v outlet which tests fine for voltage. We swapped known good ones into that location and a week later they go bad
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Is the entire high bay fixture being replaced, or just the LED diodes?
 
MicronKnives said:
The entire fixture
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Ahh, I see. That's what I was afraid of. This isn't good.

The problem is that the circuit is haunted. You'll need to go to that big electrical box on the wall and dump a bucket of holy water all over it to exorcise the demons out of the wiring. If it starts sparking and smoking that's good, it's the demons getting evicted. If you wait too long then they'll spread into more circuits so you better hurry up.
 
Mecha said:
Ahh, I see. That's what I was afraid of. This isn't good.

The problem is that the circuit is haunted. You'll need to go to that big electrical box on the wall and dump a bucket of holy water all over it to exorcise the demons out of the wiring. If it starts sparking and smoking that's good, it's the demons getting evicted. If you wait too long then they'll spread into more circuits so you better hurry up.
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That's horrible news. This is the fourth time I've had to perform an exorcism on this shit.

First it was the mop bucket
Then the dog
Then the roaches
Now the wiring

The curse won't die. It just, survives

*For legal purposes this is a bit*
 
MicronKnives said:
That's horrible news. This is the fourth time I've had to perform an exorcism on this shit.

First it was the mop bucket
Then the dog
Then the roaches
Now the wiring

The curse won't die. It just, survives

*For legal purposes this is a bit*
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All right all right, everyone just calm down.

When it comes to haunted electrical circuits, there's one thing that can usually fix mysterious issues the source of which evades detection. This one weird trick works in cars and machines and all kinds of stuff. And that is: to redo the ground or grounding wires. For some reason it just works.
 
Mecha said:
All right all right, everyone just calm down.

When it comes to haunted electrical circuits, there's one thing that can usually fix mysterious issues the source of which evades detection. This one weird trick works in cars and machines and all kinds of stuff. And that is: to redo the ground or grounding wires. For some reason it just works.
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Heard you loud and clear.

480v to every circuit. On it!
 
Mecha said:
Well I just mean the one ground wire for that one circuit that goes to that light.
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Im all seriousness, we've checked everything. Even had the electricians check. It is genuinely the weirded thing.

They have a sensor on them that allows you to use a remote to set light output, motion detection, etc, but I can't see how that would make half the diodes go dim, nor how it affects the replacement assemblies.
 
MicronKnives said:
Im all seriousness, we've checked everything. Even had the electricians check. It is genuinely the weirded thing.

They have a sensor on them that allows you to use a remote to set light output, motion detection, etc, but I can't see how that would make half the diodes go dim, nor how it affects the replacement assemblies.
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Here's what I would do: For that one light, I'd just use totally different fixture, like a huge incandescent bulb or something more analog. Then just make it a special thing, maybe name it something fun, like Watty McWattface, or PowerSuck5000.
 
A long lost friend stopped by today! The vf3 has made its appearance!

Everything seems to be moving fast now, which means I haven't been able to play with our prototypes in a couple weeks. We got great news that the three phase install will occur in a couple weeks, and the panels that had a 3 month lead time showed up. We should have Internet next week which means I'll have to spend a day hooking up security cameras. The waterjet is plumbed and the computer is getting set up this week. The airlines are being delivered this weekend, so I should be able to install those next week as well. My dad has been working on getting water to everything. He wants to use copper for everything, my wallet can only handle pex.

I think that's everything...
 

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Well we took a step back today unfortunately. The waterjet will not do any cutting without issuing a new customer registration key. No big deal? Well, only ~$2,000 and a week lead time... I guess onto the blanchard grinder and the VF3 while we wait :mad::mad::mad::mad:
 
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