Vesuvius Pressure Profiling Machine - General Discussion
Spid3r00 Absolutely no problem doing this and connecting directly, as the plug has a fuse in it.
I think I see one serious safety issue. Not entirely clear but it appears that the ground wire from the mains lead is trimmed shorter than the live and neutral. It also looks like it isn’t secured with a Wago and is just stuffed up the spade connector.
If that’s the case, if the lead gets pulled a little bit, the ground could come loose, but live and neutral stay connected. There is the potential for the machine to be operating with no safety ground.
When hard wiring best practice is to leave the ground wire the longest - so if the cable gets tugged it is the last to be dislodged.
Spid3r00 The ground wire is secure well, I can tell you that
It really isn’t - it’s bodged. It’s a real safety risk for anyone that comes into contact with your machine.
The risk is aggravated by your bypassing of the fuse in the power inlet and by the unavoidable proximity of water to the power fixture which means there is a likelihood, no matter how small you think that likelihood is, of that power inlet getting wet.
I already explained that as you have left it, if that power cable - also bodged through the base of the machine with no proper anchor - just a zip tie, gets pulled - the first cable to fail will be the earth cable so there is the potential for the steel case of the machine to become live.
It would take two minutes to make safe, don’t let a bruised ego stop you from doing that.
Gagaryn I really don’t trying to argue what is safe and what is not… I mean ground wire i secure hard and it doesn’t move freely, now is compared to installation ACS did originally from factory. Now I have fuse in power inlet (11A from Eve Energy) and installation in my apartment have also fuse of course. I will dough install the fuse in my machine next week.
Spid3r00 any news regarding overshooting the pressure on Vesuvius? What can we hope it will happen to solve
I have nothing, I’m out of ideas?
DavecUK difficult to be believe that is even possible 😄… does @Paolo_Cortese have any ideas how to solve this?
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Spid3r00 by the moment i haven’t news about the machine, my dear @Paolo_Cortese Have you could see the machine fail? It’s difficult to believe the machine don’t replay the problem there…i’m searching flight to Naples, days 18 or 19 of December Are there posibility to visit your factory?
Let me know when you can please!
Thanks a lots.
I’m waiting a reply overall i need to know if book the flight or not… everyway a solution must be found!!!
Hi everybody Flash trip! I arrive to Naples today, Tuesday i will visit Paolo to test the Vesuvius with him before to go back spain. Thanks to acs team for the colaboration!
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Vesuvius leak free for a week now 🫣
Second repair attempt.
First attempt I assembled as it should be
My issue has been getting the outside and inside elbow “tight” in the correct orientation.
Tried it anyway using ptfe thread locker .
Worked ok for 3 days and started weaping again.
Guess as the thread locker went hard the steam found it’s way around.this was not the stuff Dave recommended I have to say. Just a Screwfix special.
I’ve had a bee in my bonnet for a while about the choice of fittings used so have changed the elbow on the back of the steam valve to a ¼ to 8mm compression straight fitting. Can now get everything nice and tight and not have to worry about orientation. This time I got a new ptfe washer from acs (when I got the evo oak handles last month) could not get correct thickness on Amazon. Just used ptfe tape on the screw fittings font and on my new coupling.
Am in to the second week now and leak free!!
Forgot to photo the pipework prior to assembly!!
Will do the same to the other valve if I ever need to disturb it .
Ade Smith. ACS Evo Leva v2. Kafatek Flat max 2, ssw 2024. Mazzer Philos, Craig Lyn HG-1 prime., WW key mk1.
kautivo how did it go? Did you guys manage to reproduce it, and hopefully, fix it?
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kautivo - hey there, any updates on this?