Hereyou'll find anything to do with hardware. To me this is mainly mechanical engineering, and although electronics is often described as hardware, I cover anything I do in relation to electronics under the firmware banner.
As a business I don't really aim to be a mechanical engineer proper, merely a hobbyist. Nevertheless it is my opinion that mechanical engineering is a forgotten tenet of postmodernist progress and so it has it's own important place here on this site.
Knowing that I wanted to put a section devoted to the development of a model steam locomotive on this site, some months ago I chose Gladstone as a suitable target. The choice of this locomotive was easy. There are essentially four reasons;
As a result of researching Gladstone, I have become more interested William Stroudley, it's 19th century designer. In particular I was interested in his position in time relative to the well known greats of the industrial revolution. I suppose this stems from a desire to understand what they did and didn't know. Certainly we have things much easier today. As my research developed I also began to think about how and when the industrial revolution must have had it's impact on my local area.
The reason I think mechanical engineering is important, is that it underpins transport. In particular the railways drew the industrial revolution along, powered by fossil fuel. The railways had a massive impact on society. In particular, they created an implicit expectation of availability for materials and information, and we still harbour this expectation today.
Back in the industrial revolution, they didn't know the problems of dependence on fossil fuels we face today would be so great. At the time, all they wanted was to develop successful businesses. I don't think they knew just how successful they would be.
Even if they did know what would happen, they would have been right to think that a new technology would come along and save the day. At the dawn of the industrial revolution, the potential of nuclear energy was yet to be revealed. Nevertheless, the impact of people like Watt and Brunel on the world then, now affects us more than it did them. If there are problems, it's not because of what they did. The problems, if they truly exist, have been caused by our use of their bequest.
In the main we depend on transport, not on fossil fuels. The link is indirect. Until we find a way not to depend on transport, fossil fuel dependence will continue, unless we can decouple transport from fossil fuel. For the railway, this has largely already been done. The problem is that our demand has now exceeded the capacity of the railway to deliver. None of the systems we depend on now, like cars and aeroplanes, is easily decoupled from fossil fuels. Whatever we do, we will still need transport systems for food and waste. Fundamentally, the population has grown larger and we cannot function without transport.
I believe society must do all it can to understand those greats from history, and in particular what it was that caused them to be successful on our behalf. Without that understanding, society will be unable to make the leap it needs now for the society of the future.
Industrialised transport will be central to our survival in future, and without innovative mechanical devices that perhaps can work without oil, there will be no transport on the scale we need. Without that transport we all have a big problem. We need modern equivalents of those past greats that we now take for granted. We need people like them to solve these big new problems.
Dont worry. The fluid is not conductive but still I will advice that you clean it of the board. Rubing alcohol or a contact cleaner and a brush will help, nothing fancy even a toothbrush will get the job done. Just gently brush that thing away and let it dry naturaly or use a hairdrier to speed up the process. Dont worry about the electronics, they are soldered pretty good and a brush wont do any harm to it.
Correction fluid is a solvent and titanium oxide which is a good insulator. If the PC is working it is highly likely that it will continue to do so. If you want and think you can do it you can take the board out and scrape gently scrape away the white stuff. Personally, I would not bother.
I got a RM650x from Newegg.ca on Mar '19 (refurbished). In Mar of 2021 it died by leaking transformer fluid out the bottom. It has served me well since then in a gaming Rig with a single graphics card (asus RX580 dual) and I considered the psu good quality - 80plus gold, fully modular, etc.
However, I didn't expect any power unit to fail by leaking transformer fluid so I wanted to bring this to your attention. Attached is a photo of my gaming computer and the fluid leaking out of the unit. There was more fluid on the floor below the case as well, and it started to crackle a bit when plugged in and smelled like electrical things were burning.
It gave me a black screen but looked like the system was on so I assumed it was the graphics card. Swapped the graphics card and in the process realized that the black screen was likely the psu failing instead.
At first there was a teaspoon of clear oil without much of a smell to it under the PSU and no evidence of it anywhere else. When I pulled the PSU there was more in the PSU housing so I turned it on it's side to drain it and to get a picture.
The only "fluid" in a PSU is the electrolytic in the capacitors, but it's a very small amount. Essentially, they comprise of a "electrolyte soaked paper" in between two layers of aluminum foil. But when they leak, you're left with a chalky substance. Not a viscous fluid.
Refurbished PSUs aren't actually refurbished. They're usually "buyer remorse" returns or "user error" returns. They're tested, cleaned and repackaged. They're never opened up to have components replaced. Because the actual failure rate of your average Corsair PSU is I have repaired a few motor inverters with bank caps the size of what you find on PSUs primary side. the aftermath of the failure was an oily leak exactly like what he had. that's why i wouldn't be too quick on conclusions ^^' (and too quick on powering up that PSU without looking inside)
Maybe it leaked from the coldplate seal, only dripping on the PCIE socket and down to the PSU. hard to spot at fist sight, but, crackle crackle.. bubbles in the radiator and water shorting out stuff...
The hardware required for PIV and DIC is almost the same.
A stereo PIV system with two cameras can be used for DIC as well, possibly with a different light source.
For simultaneous PIV and DIC, you need at least one camera for the PIV and two cameras for the DIC. The illumination for PIV is typically a laser, whereas the DIC light source is an LED. All cameras and light sources can be controlled from the same Synchronizer.
PIV and DIC data can be separated either by a slight time difference between the acquisition of the images, or by different wavelengths of the light sources, and corresponding filters on the cameras.
My question is related to the solenoid hardware.
Can I hold a NC solenoid open for hours at a time, maybe up to 8 or 12 h at a stretch? I've witnessed them getting VERY hot before.
Here's an example:
Buy Beduan Brass Electric Solenoid Valve, 1/2" 12V Air Valve Normally Colsed for Water Air Gas Fuel Oil at Amazon. Customer reviews and photos may be available to help you make the right purchase decision!
We don't need to vary the flow rate at all. It'll operate as a pure binary operation. Either the tank is actively being cooled (IE: Liquid is flowing), or it's not being cooled. (IE. Liquid is not flowing).
Thats a great suggestion. I didn't even consider that the temp of the liquid going through the solenoid is going to be around 4 to 10 degrees F, they should stay plenty operationally cool under load voltage.
Sierra Space collaborated with an industry-leading vendor to design and provide the fluid accumulator to complement our fluid control product line. These accumulators are designed to maintain pressure when subjected to volumetric changes. Built under precision cleanliness controls, the approach is easily scaled to meet a variety of size and pressure requirements. One example specification is provided below.
Sierra Space collaborated with an industry-leading vendor to design and flight-qualify the in-line fluid filter to complement our fluid control product line. These filters are designed to limit resistance in high flow and low-pressure applications while also having high capacity to protect the system from contamination. The construction is designed for simplicity and compatibility using common materials.
Sierra Space designed and flight-qualified the Liquid-to-Liquid Heat Exchanger (LLHX4) to complement our thermal management products. The heat exchanger is designed to be integrated into a coolant loop via weld tube-stubs. This unit is designed with two inputs and two outputs, one for each fluid.
Sierra Space has designed and flight-qualified the Thermal Cold Plate (CP3) to complement our thermal management products. The cold plates are designed to be integrated into a coolant loop via weld tube-stubs and integrated to the thermal generating device via a flat surface. This unit is designed with two parallel coolant loops but can be modified for a single coolant loop operation.
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