Confessions from the fuckwits

link1896

Mr Greenfield
I think that we touched on star/delta starters during the trade course and only briefly studied PID loops and the like in the diploma course but VFDs were only just starting to become common place back then, all my knowledge on VFDs came from working a side job with a local contractor who was the distributor for Control Techniques drives back then. The majority of the course material was all PLC logic and basic HMI programming.
Fun stuff. Even more fun when the mechanical interlock on reversing contractors fails and the PLC you’ve configured can bring in both contactors at once and you directly short two phases. You only ever make that mistake once.
 

ozzybmx

taking a shit with my boobs out
Looks like I’m saying goodbye to free time then! I don’t want to go home after work anyway.
K'oath :oops:

That Training & Assessment course I did in 2020-21 was very time consuming, it knocked my fitness back a fair bit and a decent weight increase, also lost the riding mojo.

Sitting at home on a computer, doing assignments, staring outside at beautiful 20°C spring days passing me by.

Still got none of them back to where they were.
 

DMan

shawly the least hangeriest guy on rotorburn
Would a seat like this be comfortable as a van drivers seat?
 

cokeonspecialtwodollars

Fartes of Portingale
Fun stuff. Even more fun when the mechanical interlock on reversing contractors fails and the PLC you’ve configured can bring in both contactors at once and you directly short two phases. You only ever make that mistake once.
That would have woken you up pretty quick, hopefully the contactors were in an enclosure and nobody got hurt.
 

dancaseyimages

Mountain bike pornographer
Would a seat like this be comfortable as a van drivers seat?
Yes but check out the sides, some of them are quite stiff and can be hard to get into(lifting leg high) if you've injured your back/or getting old.

For reference, I drove for Fastway in Canberra for a franchise area owner for just short of two years, I had a van supplied, Mitsubishi column shift with a WRX drivers seat (second hand they can be pretty cheap) and they were much comfier than the passenger bench and a half.

Ive also had the Bride bucket seats in a Forester, and in a few Geminis and I couldn't get in my forester when I hurt my back as the side was so stiff.
 

Ultra Lord

Hurts. Requires Money. And is nerdy.
Have a chat with some of the younger sparkies or even third and fourth apprentices if you know any, they should be able to give you a pretty good idea on what's currently being taught.
My work mostly does HMI stuff.
PLC’s, VSD’s (whats a VFD?) for some reasonably basic systems. All 415v with the occasional 240v sump pump control panel.

All the current sparkies are quietly shitting themselves because they remember how they acted when they were apprentices and spent the day with me on a mechanical job, and I’ve made it clear I’ll be returning the favour with interest ahaha.
Honestly most of what you guys have posted is all Greek to me so I’m pretty keen to get my head around it.
 

Ultra Lord

Hurts. Requires Money. And is nerdy.
K'oath :oops:

That Training & Assessment course I did in 2020-21 was very time consuming, it knocked my fitness back a fair bit and a decent weight increase, also lost the riding mojo.

Sitting at home on a computer, doing assignments, staring outside at beautiful 20°C spring days passing me by.

Still got none of them back to where they were.
Yeah I’ve never recovered from the last two years of my fitting apprenticeship, 3 nights a week at tafe, one full day doing normal trade tafe and still managing 45hrs at work. That’s 7 years ago now? Roughly? The ship has long since sailed haha!

I’m in a good spot to knock it out now. 29, single, house is leased so bugger all mortgage stress and living expenses.
Time to switch the hammer out for some linesman's pliers I think.
 

Dales Cannon

lightbrain about 4pm
Staff member
Would a seat like this be comfortable as a van drivers seat?
Sit in it and see. I will guess no. We inherited two racing buckets and used them for a season until I lashed out and bought a Cobra. So much better than the cheapies.
 

cokeonspecialtwodollars

Fartes of Portingale
My work mostly does HMI stuff.
PLC’s, VSD’s (whats a VFD?) for some reasonably basic systems. All 415v with the occasional 240v sump pump control panel.

All the current sparkies are quietly shitting themselves because they remember how they acted when they were apprentices and spent the day with me on a mechanical job, and I’ve made it clear I’ll be returning the favour with interest ahaha.
Honestly most of what you guys have posted is all Greek to me so I’m pretty keen to get my head around it.
If that's the case it might be worth chatting with your RTO to see if the trade course will meet your outcomes, I suspect that you'll need to consider a separate programming course or perhaps this is offered as an elective.

Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) and Variable Speed Drive (VSD) are interchangeable terms, the first one is how the little magic box achieves the second one.
 

DMan

shawly the least hangeriest guy on rotorburn
Yes but check out the sides, some of them are quite stiff and can be hard to get into(lifting leg high) if you've injured your back/or getting old.

For reference, I drove for Fastway in Canberra for a franchise area owner for just short of two years, I had a van supplied, Mitsubishi column shift with a WRX drivers seat (second hand they can be pretty cheap) and they were much comfier than the passenger bench and a half.

Ive also had the Bride bucket seats in a Forester, and in a few Geminis and I couldn't get in my forester when I hurt my back as the side was so stiff.
I might be better to find a seat then and then talk to the fabricator we use at work to get it to fit. Older, maybe new vans are better now, OEM van seats suck.
 

dancaseyimages

Mountain bike pornographer
I might be better to find a seat then and then talk to the fabricator we use at work to get it to fit. Older, maybe new vans are better now, OEM van seats suck.
Yeah its usually just rails, and maybe a plug for your airbag/seatbelt bell harness in the current seat.
 

Dales Cannon

lightbrain about 4pm
Staff member
Marvel is the gear !

Bought #1 the pliers, longnose and side cutters.

In #2's hunt for tools he went to #1's tool bag (electrician) and found 5/6 parts of two three piece knipex pliers, channel locks and snips sets. The remaining pliers were in #2's toolbox. #1 won't buy knipex, says it is overpriced shit however it seems OK to use if you didn't do the buying. Same goes for my Cabac multimeter, suspiciously missing for the period #1 was working an hour or so from poodletown.
 

Ultra Lord

Hurts. Requires Money. And is nerdy.
Marvel is the gear !

Bought #1 the pliers, longnose and side cutters.

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But blue hides the grime better than yellow.

Knipex for all the mechanical pliers and whatnot.
Ordered some of these though. But not from amazon, fuck Bezos.

Knipex is life. But the insulated stuff I use gets dropped into pits too much for the good stuff.
 

ozzybmx

taking a shit with my boobs out
Also @ozzybmx, pliers are one thing, but whats he gonna put em in?
I made up a board with back boxes on it and cables through it, he's wiring PowerPoint's, lights, light switches, single and 2 way switching, fan sockets ect... it's about getting his hand tool skills up.

I have stripped the board twice now, his stripping and twisting skills are through the roof.

Can't post a picture as I am on my phone away from home and its a 6mb photo.

The pliers I use are the ones with shears on them, not good for a learner.

Cutting the copper cores clean off :)

 
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