Well between the repiping of the house and the bandsaw things here just keep getting better and better. I did get all the blade guide bearings replaced and a new blade on it so I’m ready for power. Due to a major glitch in the repiping there is no way I will get to running the power for the saw for a few weeks so I am waiting on a price to have it done. As long as it’s not completely out of line that will probably be the way we go. The shop and house are just chaos with stuff everywhere. I had to move machinery and take just about everything off the shop walls and stack it in the middle of the room. The plan was to have the drywall guy here immediately after the plumbing inspection on Fri and then hopefully we can get things back together again. Oh the best laid plans. Their drywall guy is seriously behind schedule and won’t be able to get here for about three weeks. That means I won’t have a shop for another month or so and the inside of the house looks like Swiss cheese. The boss is very unhappy. I am going to tape and mud the shop myself because most of it will have 3/4” plywood put back over it so I don’t care how it looks. That way I can get it operational early next week. The house will have to wait. I can’t find anyone who can do it sooner so we wait for their guy to get here. 
Paul

 It looks just a tad bit cluttered

38 minutes ago, DuckSoup said:

looks just a tad bit cluttered

Neater than my buddy’s garage shop!

IDK Paul, shop looks pretty organized to me. I can see some open flat spaces to pile things. Once that's done,  you then move outdoors use the truck tailgate, a couple workmates, inverted five gallon buckets and the picnic table. Of course, when it's snowing or raining it can be a bit of a challenge. Upside, you don't need a dust collection system..

41 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said:

IDK Paul, shop looks pretty organized to me. I can see some open flat spaces to pile things. Once that's done,  you then move outdoors use the truck tailgate, a couple workmates, inverted five gallon buckets and the picnic table. Of course, when it's snowing or raining it can be a bit of a challenge. Upside, you don't need a dust collection system..

Things are slowly getting back to normal with house and the wife was away for the day so I decided to tackle getting the VFD wired to the panel. I took the panel cover off a couple of weeks ago to see what I was up against. It’s a 200 amp sub panel and was obviously wired by someone on serious drugs. Total rats nest. The neural buss bar was double tapped X 6 times. So today was disassemble the entire panel, install a second buss bar and then rewire it. It took most of the day but is done and now I can hook up the VFD and fire up the saw. 
Paul

Man sorry to hear about the craziness you have been going through, I have been dealing with other life stuff and haven’t had a chance to catch up for a minute.  Glad to hear that things are moving forward though!

 

 

On 4/19/2022 at 11:34 PM, Masonsailor said:

So today was disassemble the entire panel, install a second buss bar and then rewire it. It took most of the day but is done and now I can hook up the VFD and fire up the saw. 

The great thing about electrical work. You take the time to do it right, and it's D.O.N.E.  There is no "wear and tear"; it just works.

 

I rewired most of my home 20 years ago, and may rewire the kitchen again if I ever flip it to another wall.  But compared to plumbing, electrical is a clean trade. The best electrician I knew quit the trade to become a state game warden ... And a master plumber who sponsored me many moons ago lost his wife to an electrician ... something to think about, hey? 

Well the saga on this house will continue on May 1st or thereabouts when they replace the roof. That should be the end of it for quite a while as far as major things. The interior remodel will continue for probably the rest of my years which is good. The bandsaw however has become a challenge. Friday I completed the wiring from the VFD to the saw, turned it on and nothing. No power out. Tomorrow I am going to return it to factory specs and then attempt a reprogramming of it. Once you establish all the protocols the programming is pretty simple and only takes about 5 minutes. There are only about 12 standard setup protocols to deal with but beyond that there are hundreds of sub protocols and any one of them could be the issue if someone has changed one. The return to factory specs should cure that. Friday I bypassed all of the bandsaw’s internal wiring and wired the VFD directly to the motor so there are no potential issues there. The volt meter shows correct input to the VFD but no output to the saw. Sigh. Nothing comes easy. 
Paul

11 hours ago, Woodman said:

The great thing about electrical work. You take the time to do it right, and it's D.O.N.E.  There is no "wear and tear"; it just works.

 

I rewired most of my home 20 years ago, and may rewire the kitchen again if I ever flip it to another wall.  But compared to plumbing, electrical is a clean trade. The best electrician I knew quit the trade to become a state game warden ... And a master plumber who sponsored me many moons ago lost his wife to an electrician ... something to think about, hey? 

I’ffn I had to do it all over agin, I’d be a plumber.

Success is so sweet !! After 11 phone calls to Fuji tech support all is well. The saw runs and cuts wood. All that matters. VFD’s are complicated. Too many parameters. The old school rotary converters were so much simpler.of course it was hard to mount a two hundred pound motor on the wall. LOL. 
Paul

Happy to hear you got it up & running Paul. Sounds like things may finally be returning to a degree of normalcy for you.

Thats great that it is up and running!!!