Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone could help me with this problem. I'm actually thinking on making my own wood lathe with this motor that was in a washing machine; problem is that I have 3 cables going out of the motor, red, black and blue. I am guessing that 2 of them are for the live wiring a
Monthly Archives: July 2010
Energy Meter MF Calculation
how to calculate multipling factor for energy meter
my meter ct ratio is -/5 and field ct ratio is 200/5 so how to calculate mf for tham.
Wabimax
can you use stainless steel rods to weld mild steel together
Square Root Extraction
What pressure results for a flow transmitter of range 0- 180t/h in the dcs and 0-301mbar in the field using square root extraction. Kindly also suggest formulae for the percentages 0,25,50,75,100?
Dance of the Oil Well Caps
The lower estimates of the leak so far.
Radio show host Thom Hartmann spoke with John Wathen last week about the Gulf Oil leak. John Wathen is a photographer, activist, and videographer from Waterkeeper.org.
What is going on in the Gulf? On Saturday, BP removed the cap from the gushing oil well in order to get ready for the installation of a new, better cap (so they say). The old cap will be swapped with a new cap that might even capture all the oil — if we lived in a perfect universe. According to BP, this one should fit better and things are expected to go well because the weather in the Gulf is finally cooperating. There is now real hope that they can install this better cap and stop the leak within the next 2-3 weeks. According to the Washington Post:
For a day or two, the damaged wellhead will gush anew — with the estimated 15,000 barrels of oil a day that had been captured by the old cap now flowing freely. But if all goes well, said BP senior vice president Kent Wells, additional ships and a sturdier cap with a tighter seal will be in place in four to seven days.
“Things going well” is not what has happened so far. Maybe things are about to change? Meanwhile, BP continues to spew dispersants into the Gulf of Mexico, causing incredible health risks to every one who lives down there. More on that below.
John Wathen has been making videos showing the devastation from the oil leak. His video of whales and dolphins dying was broadcast on cable news channels two weeks ago. In his interivew with Hartmann, Wathen stated that the oil leak is a “disaster of epic proportions.” He said it’s something that you can’t describe in words or video, no matter how dramatic those videos are. He said they flew for several hours and never flew over clean water.
Hartmann complained about the media not covering this topic enough, but I disagree with that. CNN has been parked in the Gulf for several weeks and so have other media, even mainstream media. The media has done a decent job reporting this so far, which surprises me, but I could feel their interest waning a bit in the last few days.
Wathen said the oil spill, what we are seeing now, is mild in comparison with what’s coming. He said all that we are really seeing is the light sheen around the outer edges of the main slick. There are 100 miles of oil still coming out there if they stop it today. They are not going to stop it period, he said. When asked why, he said “This thing has way too much pressure on it. I don’t think that there is technology available that can actually put a plug in this thing and make it stay.”
When BP filed for the original permit for this oil field, the Macondo, they estimated that the [...]
Waste Liquid Collection System
i need your inputs or help for resources in designing an effective 'waste liquid collection system'
AHU Cooling Coil
What is the Maximum and Minimum pressure/Temperature diiffrence in AHU cooling coil across Inlet and Outlet?
Electrical Component – Defy Washing Machine
I have a Defy Automaid washing machine that has decided all by itself to trip the earth leakage. What was (is) confusing to me is that it does this when plugged in, but not switched on or running.
On plugging it in, all motors etc function correctly. After about 10 minutes it trips the eart
PWM Signal
In VVVF drive how PWM acts and give me the working principle.
Stop Motion Sugar Skull
A mesmerizing stop-motion video of fine artist, illustrator, and pattern designer, Paul Alexander Thornton, drawing a skull over 2 days using only black and red pen. Turn your speakers on for this one since the music adds to the mysterious and mesmerizing quality of the work.
[spotted by Tim]
off-track backpacking
In 2005, while backpacking through Europe, Tanya and Nara met. In the “blink of a cosmic eye”, they became instant friends and now both contribute to off-track backpacking. Their site is a journal of their travels, both together and separately. The entries and two distinctively different writing styles definitely make this blog worthwhile.
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Greyhound day 2
We boarded our new buses at 1am and headed north to Idaho arriving in Boise about 730. Luckily while in the terminal I found a normal person who was just as weirded out as I was and we had decided to sit together. He was a 19 yr old guy moving from the Jersey Shore to Portland. It was easy to tell he came from a good family and didn't have any major social problems.We didn't talk much durin
Miami DAY 3
Today started off decent. We all had breakfast together hung out untill afternoonish...After that it got a bit crazy. I went to the hair salon with my cousin who was hosting her 20th birthday today and she wanted to get her hair done. It took about forever Meanwhile I decided to cut my hair short and cutemessywide AKA easy to deal with. Sadly it did not turn into any of what I just mentione
English 101
Good Morning Class Believe it or not this ldquotriprdquo has been 99 work. Irsquom a teacher at least for another 3 more classes. Irsquove been teaching for over a year now and Irsquove learned a lot. Irsquod like to think I wasnrsquot a bad teacher at least this can be said the kids loved my classes. Although I think Irsquove left most of my TArsquos with clumps of hair mis
Greyhound a comedic gold mine
Boarding my first Greyhound bus at 1 pm was an eye opening experience for me. I should have but didn't expect that it would be full of all kinds of weirdos and well... losers. I hate to be so judgmental but it really was a thorough collection of the US's trashiest kinds of people.During my bus ride I observed a lot of oddities and just plain gross behavior and I started to compile some roug
Day 24 Belgian Quickie
May 23 2010Belgium wasn't actually part of the trip but the bus going to Amsterdam had three stops in the country one in a town near the French border one in Brussels and one in Antwerp. I figured it wouldn't hurt to take a few pictures and say I've been to Belgium because technically I HAVE been to Belgium. Besides who knows when this trip will happen again if it DOES happen again So bec
One of the Happiest Places Day 61
As usual I went over to the train station a day before my departure date just to make sure I could get the train I wanted down to Berlin. It's also a good idea to do this since it can take about 30 minutes waiting in line to get the ticket so now I don't need to rush tomorrow. I should mention that my means of travel todays is Anders' second bike. It is rusty rickey and has a seat much too hi
China Update 11
So at great risk of repeating the same weekend I had last week I decided to start the weekend the same by going to Peggy's house on Friday. She sistercousin was there she is in middle school and around fourteen. She doesn't speak that much english and I had to really drag the english out of her but it was fun. They are nice good people. Peggy's mom cooked lunch again and I'm afraid that I may
My time in Ft. Collins
Ok quick recap of my time with C.Lowe Nate Dog and Lora from the 4th of July to the 7th.Watched a lot of TV on their huuuuge 47 flat screen played with Nate Dog had some great oneonone time with both C.Lowe and Lora took short bike rides through out the neighborhood found some nice trails and snacked my face off.We went to Kat and Dave's house for a 4th of July cookout. Dave cooked up
Fighting Gravity
Last night we headed out of our hotel an headed out tosome villa or garden or something of the sort that where we were meant to be performing our joint concert with a group called Tempus Floridum. Things seemed to be going ok... Until we got to the address. Certainly didn't look like someplace we should have been giving a concert. Wrong address No. Absolutely the right address. Just turns