ChristianCMcKay
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This isn't really much of a question type thread. It's just something I thought I would share with you guys. So my dad has a friend who runs this bar. Their lighting system is out, and now I have it. There are quite a few downsides about this project like the fact that it runs on 240 AC and I don't have a 240 plug in my house that matches it. Also, I have no real starting point. All I know is that it doesn't work. It could be the power unit or the controller. They work together. As far as I know, NOTHING works though. I'm going to do some reading on it. Anyway. I opened it today just to see if I could see anything that was obviously bad with it. Minus being full of spider webs and some components in need of some new heat sink grease, no. Nothing too obvious.
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This is what it looks like. As far as aesthetics go, this is what everything I get looks like, actually. But the case was definitely built tough.
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This is the inside of it. It's fairly basic. No surface mounting which is great. Things will be much easier to test here. Couple of spider webs that the camera doesn't really show. It also smells like stale smoke.
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This was just something I wanted to include as a side note. My last few repairs, I've managed to take something apart and put it back together with absolutely no left over hardware, and this is how. I'm sure this isn't new to some of you, but I always put every screw or bolt back where it went This way it's impossible to overlook some screw holes. It's helped me a lot to keep from losing hardware which was a major problem that I had before. I wish I had thought of this when I took the dashboard out of my car :|
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This is the fan. The flash blanked out the specs on it, but it's a pretty decent size fan. It's a 120 volt fan, so I'll plug it up to a wall socket and make sure it's working before I close everything up.
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Just kind of a reminder of where the fan plugged in.
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A 12 volt regulator. It's supposed to put out 2.2 amps. We'll see...
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Two of these. TRIACS. I just finished a two year electronics program and have no idea how to test a TRIAC.
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I haven't checked to see what the difference between this and the two above it are. I'll read on that after this post.
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Last one.
So that's all I have for now. I'll post some more when I open the controller.
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This is what it looks like. As far as aesthetics go, this is what everything I get looks like, actually. But the case was definitely built tough.
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This is the inside of it. It's fairly basic. No surface mounting which is great. Things will be much easier to test here. Couple of spider webs that the camera doesn't really show. It also smells like stale smoke.
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This was just something I wanted to include as a side note. My last few repairs, I've managed to take something apart and put it back together with absolutely no left over hardware, and this is how. I'm sure this isn't new to some of you, but I always put every screw or bolt back where it went This way it's impossible to overlook some screw holes. It's helped me a lot to keep from losing hardware which was a major problem that I had before. I wish I had thought of this when I took the dashboard out of my car :|
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This is the fan. The flash blanked out the specs on it, but it's a pretty decent size fan. It's a 120 volt fan, so I'll plug it up to a wall socket and make sure it's working before I close everything up.
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Just kind of a reminder of where the fan plugged in.
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A 12 volt regulator. It's supposed to put out 2.2 amps. We'll see...
**broken link removed**
Two of these. TRIACS. I just finished a two year electronics program and have no idea how to test a TRIAC.
**broken link removed**
I haven't checked to see what the difference between this and the two above it are. I'll read on that after this post.
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Last one.
So that's all I have for now. I'll post some more when I open the controller.