I was a cable splicer in a prior life. Got hired on at a university and paired
up with one of their telecom guys. First job was in an underground pipe chase
to splice a 25 pair. The guy kept repeatedly asking me what color a wire was.
Finally he admitted he was color blind and begged me to keep it under my hat.
I did. He had a reputation as being a lousy splicer and making many mistakes.
From: Adair Winter
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 9:56 AM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] First time
We had a guy we used to work with. He was semi color blind, he used to tell
people he could feel the colors on the 25/50pr.. ha
On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 10:16 AM, Sean Heskett <af...@zirkel.us> wrote:
As a colorblind person that cable sounds AWESOME!!!
I’ll never forget when my boss at Lockheed wanted me to punch down a 50pair
🤦🏼♂️
-Sean
On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 3:31 AM Forrest Christian (List Account)
<li...@packetflux.com> wrote:
I had an occasion this weekend to add a PLC as a controller for the shared
resources in the manufacturing facility - i.e. compressor, exhaust system, etc.
Everything is set up so that when a machine gets turned on, all of the
resources that that machine needs is turned on. Some safety stuff has been
added as well, such as there is now a pressure sensor on the air compressor
which should trip if the compressor 'sticks on' as it tends to do when the
pressure switch fails, causing all sorts of excitement.
It definitely made me long for the automation/controller stuff I did in a
previous life - a lot similar to the stuff you're doing. It also made me long
for a few sticks of panduit raceway/duct since things are not nearly as pretty
as I would have liked. Well, that and all of the supplies/tools you need to
really make something like this look professional. As it is, it's more
functional than pretty.
I did have a surprise though, I bought some multiconductor control cable to
run from the PLC to a control/status panel. Every time I've ever used this in
the past, the conductors are all different colors. This cable was all black
wires with the wire numbers written on the wire itself. Never had seen this
style. After I got over my 'This isn't what I expected' grumpiness, I decided
it was probably ok, although it did take a bit of time to find the first few
wires. I'm just glad my close-up vision hasn't failed me yet.
On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Jaime Solorza <losguyswirel...@gmail.com>
wrote:
First time wiring up a Schneider VFD...the terminal block was easy to
work with and took about an hour on each of two I did this morning.
Jaime Solorza
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