A good week ago my friend @robertandrew started a new tag #HappyPlace , in this tag you can share
The place where you love to do a Combo of things including but no limited to ,relaxing, pondering, eating and drinking ,meditating, and yes even working on Steemit.
You can read his full Happy Place Post and it is a wonderful tag to share a post about where you find most relaxing.
My own #HappyPlace - it's a bit unusual of course, because for me it is...
At work, with my coffee roasting machines. Roasting coffee is a very isolated task, you have to watch the machines all the time they run and distractions are to be avoided. Today I had to work both machines because while I had bulk orders to fulfill with the big roaster, someone had come to see the smaller one working. Talking, roasting on two machines and trying not to over roast the coffee is hard. But there was a bigger problem, after I had just started to cool my first roast on the big 5kg roaster the power went out in the whole roasting room!
This is quite a major problem, the roasters heat drums from below and when the drums stop turning you risk the heat being in one place causing the drum to warp. The situation was of course made worse because I was demonstrating the machines to a potential customer and obviously did not want them to worry - not easy when you are in full on PANIC!
But after checking the RCD for the consumer unit in the roasting room, because I wired all the electrics myself the next stop was the fuse box I ran the power from in the first place. Now this fuse box is circa 1990's technology, old school porcelain fuses with a fuse wire.
The gap is the fuse I pulled out that is supposed to be powering my roasters, and it quickly became evident what the problem was.
Burnt out fuse wire, running both roasters at the same time plus the extraction fan and router in the room had exceeded the power capacity of this fuse wire. Short term fix borrow one of the other fuses from the board because three of them run a 3 phase grinder I was not using at that time - it's super fun pushing a porcelain fuse into place on an old board like this when everything in the room is turned on - sparks galore and yes this fuse box is 12ft up a wall so I had to climb a ladder to access it. Wobbling on a ladder while you push in a sparking fuse - that is not my #HappyPlace but still all in days work for me.
Total power outage time was 4 minutes , it's not good at all for the roasters to have the heated up drums they use sit still at temperature it can warm them, and the person I was demonstrating the machines to was a bit flustered - but I was soon back running the machines and he got to take home some lovely roasted coffee to try.
Once all the roasting had been done and my visitor had left, resolving why I had this problem came about. I dug around in my tool boxes and found a fuse wire set. It had 5amp fuse wire which was super thin, then 15amp fuse wire which was the exact diameter in my blown fuse. This was the problem, the small red 1kg roaster is 5.5kw so pretty much the whole power rating for that wire, except on top of that I had the motors from the bigger roaster needing power, extraction fan etc.
So I replaced the thin 15amp wire with thicker 30amp fuse wire - that will keep my roasters going a long time and without the worry of the power shutting off suddenly again.
I have many different coffee origins to roast tomorrow, so hopefully a coffee of the world post will show up soon. Thank you all for taking the time to read my posts, it's always really appreciated and I hope you all get something new out of them.
Some of my previous posts you might have missed
Driving to Darlington
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The C0ff33 Vlog 4th May 2018 |
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