Midnight Marauder
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Beautiful little machines. You can make them do anything, TO anything. I have retrofitted dozens of different machines with them, expanding the safety, versatility, reliability and capabilities of the machines exponentially. Then charging the ever living PISS out of the owners for the service.Actually it's refreshing to have a rational discussion on here. The techie stuff seems to bore the usual gang of mindless dolts who populate USMB.Great discussion guys... call me weird, but I love the electrical shit...
Shall we go into PLCs? I think they're the greatest thing since sliced bread. I made my retirement retrofitting old machinery with these babies. My home HVAC is all electric, and one of the first things I did after buying the house was putting a PLC on that! This little "brick" replaced a 5 gallon bucket full of old electrical junk and made the whole system easily programmable, on the fly, from my PC!
Ah yes, a Programmable Logic Controller. One of the machine shops I worked Maintenance in was filled with CNC machining centers, Computer Numerically Controlled. Similar but not quite.
Yes I do notice that the sassy trolls conveniently stay away from the tech talk. Too much logic and not enough emotion going on.
In all cases however, they saved thousands over buying a new piece of equipment.
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