Our gv503 has been down for 2 weeks now. We had a problem with the power and it tripped up a power supply that was providing juice to some rechargeable batteries that maintained certain system parameters. So a brownout bricked a 20,000 lb machining center. And that machining center, which is sharpening the fat bastards and cutting the blanks for the choppers, is feeding the other machines in the shop so we are literally down.
Because of a battery charger
The old machines, when the battery gets low it says "hey my batteries are low change my batteries". And you do it with the power on and it doesn't lose parameters. They're just D cell batteries.
This one had to get all fancy and have a integrated charger and lithium-ion batteries. That cannot be replaced. It's probably some part of some green initiative. Saving the planet, four D cell Energizer batteries at a time.
So I just spent $1,100 for a little battery box module and have to have a Mori tech come out and work on the machine for 2 days. I looked at his bill, it's 7 hours of labor at $220 an hour and 6 hours of travel time, at $180 an hour. There's also hotel and meals.
Because some design engineer wanted to get cute with the batteries.
I paid $200 to have the replacement unit next day aired from Texas and then it just sat here for days until the tech could come in and put it in. He was unavailable cuz he was doing training.
We've been down for 2 weeks
Because of a bunch of cute bullshit, and now the air compressor isn't working. I'm so mad.
None of this would have happened if the big double conversion power conditioning UPS would have been working. The ups that I installed weeks ago. That isn't working. I got it to help fix our power problems. But get this, it doesn't like the quality of our power and so it's not willing to use it. Isn't that cute? There's nothing actually wrong with the unit. It's just unhappy and doesn't want to work.
