16 years down the line.

[Evans Electric]

16 years ago we replaced a load of old manky 3036 fuseboards when our customer decided to install much larger printing presses. Mains was upgraded from 100A TP to 300A .

They are still our customer and I took this the other week , the wall has never been painted where old fuseboards were, the lock has been broken on the panelboard and a thousand attempts by them to sticky paper it shut have failed. :C

I remember we did that on a weekend , all the existing cable and conduits are imperial and not one of them was long enough. Customer gave us a key and left us to it .

All looking a bit knocked about now .

 

[Evans Electric]

If they asked I'd sort it .

You may be getting me an MCB for that 401 board , I've heard nothing yet. :Salute

 

[Evans Electric]

Just as a matter of interest , these presses replaced the original German ones ,which were high maintenance. They ran at around 415V x 60A /phase, without the driers , which can go up to 80A but never do.

These Japanese presses run on 110V TP but at full speed , printing all four colours , I clocked only 35A/phase on the primary side.

 

[batty]

Deke my Dell printer is only on a 5 amp fuse if they shopped around they could get them figures down a lot. My old dad was an apprentice printer worked at a local carton manufacturer for years although he had a lot of different jobs in his lifetime. Nice pics though.

 

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

Thats a coincidence your printer is also called Deke

 

[Evans Electric]

Ah !!! Leave a comma out and you could be declaring war on someone.

 

[paul b b]

Deke, were you there for work or just reminisceing due to lack of work?

 

[Evans Electric]

Ha ! No, there for work , a melted choke took out the print room lights and measured up for a possible new machine supply.