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What have you made lately?

Very nice. Did you buy that "curly pepperoni"? Been seeing that at the grocery store, and its a staple at a local pizza place.
 
Abacinator said:
I hate to say it, but it's Hormel pepperoni :laughing
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Mostly a mess, but I managed to rip out the built it fridge and it's surrounding cabinet, then make a wider enclosure to accommodate the larger, not built in fridge so that it'll look like it was the plan all along.... The inspector seemed grumpy, but it passed code.

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Yo! Mee just reminded me about my first project designing and 3D printing a fixture to test/program PCBs for a new product my company is working on. I used Solid Edge to design it and sent it to our printers in Chicago. It worked, the guy I made it for is using it. Weeee!!

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byke said:
Prime candidate for a little toggle clamp!
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Funny you mention that, the mechanical engineer who also made a similar fixture used those. off the shelf, good solution.
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I am not a mechanical engineer. I chose the retainers I made because I wanted to have more than one part that I made used in the fixture. I saw the other design before I even started mine so I wanted it to be different anyway. I did import parts for my design from McMaster-Carr, which is AWESOME, no need to "draw" a screw/nut when a perfect design already exists.
 
byke said:
What's the board do anyways? It's giving me servo controller vibes. You do robotic stuffs?
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It's called the device manager. It's how we communicate (Download logs, push new firmware) with the device it is connected to. The engineer will use the fixture to debug his DM boards. The device itself is a third gen version of a "Smart fuse." The idea is that rather than blowing a fuse, the device can determine if there is an actual fault or not. We sell them all of the country/world, including to PG&E.
 
Bubba_s said:
It's called the device manager. It's how we communicate (Download logs, push new firmware) with the device it is connected to. The engineer will use the fixture to debug his DM boards. The device itself is a third gen version of a "Smart fuse." The idea is that rather than blowing a fuse, the device can determine if there is an actual fault or not. We sell them all of the country/world, including to PG&E.
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This is the exact kind of nerd expertise I show up for. Thanks for sharing Shaun :thumbup
 
byke said:
Neat! I assume the fuse is still mechanical and works independently of the smart fuse, so how does the smart fuse do everything it needs to before the hard fuse does its thing?
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It replaces the fuse. If it senses a fault, it will test the line up to three times (I think) then it will drop out (Swing down) if there is an actual fault. When the fault is repaired it can be put back in operation. The main point is to not blow fuses and cut the power for a momentary fault (Like wind blowing a line against something). This is my non-expert description so I may have a couple things wrong.

Byke, are you the BARFer who works for PG&E?
 
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