Engineering
What is the most defective industrial product in modern times?
by admin on Apr.18, 2010, under Engineering
A) Building, Bridges, Levees, Automobile and Vehicle Frames
B) Combustion Engines
C) Bicycles
D) Computers
E) Telephones
F) Televisions
G) Power Tools
H) Farming Equipment
I) Sewing Machines
J) Movie Cameras
K) Furniture
L) Video Games
M) Music Ipods, Stereos, etc.
This question is about product durability, not about who makes it or uses it. It is about how well does the product perform, how well does it hold up under heavy usage or harsh conditions.
I would have placed this question in the category of ‘Inventions’, if it was included in Answers. I am a historian on inventions, as a pasttime, and like to discuss which ones are better, still in use, creating additional technologies, and so on. Hope this helps in how to answer the question. the eggster.
Alan, good answer, but not exactly what I’m looking for. I agree with you about furniture getting cheaper and watered down with quick-assembly designs.
I’m more interested in structure frames posing as shelters in our lives. I grant you that when hurricane Katrina wiped out all those homes and commercial buildings in 2005, that there was more numbers of furniture pieces that were destroyed, too!
As a new way to protect building frames has been developed and is in an awareness campaign, currently, I’m trying to get a feel for who and how many people consider having wind-proof homes and collision-proof cars is a good thing. This means that we all have to recognize that there is a problem with current building and car frames, and that we want a better product from the manufacturerers.
In this way, when the product developer of these new systems says that his developed by-product has an element of improvement, readers of the product literature has more meaning.
Edit last word (meaning) in previous added detail to: understanding.
Ron
I am doing BS Biomedical Engineering.Am i able to do MS in any other field of Electronics other than Medical?
by admin on Jun.29, 2009, under Engineering
After completing my BS Biomedical Engineering , can I do MS in Electroics Engineering of Analatycal or Industrial Lab Equipments ?????????
Constance
flux core welding questions?
by admin on Apr.19, 2009, under Engineering
Okay so I personally have no idea what this is LOL. My husband is a welder and he has a weld test tomorrow for a possible new job doing flux core welding. He has never done it before, but he says he has an idea on how to do it and has done similar welds. For his test he will be shown what to do and then he is supposed to do 2 parts and they will be x-rayed. My question isn’t really a question per-say… I’d really just like some tips from people who have done this type of weld and what they think would help someone doing it for the first time. He has been a welder for 3 1/2 years now (all of his adult life LOL) and was told by another guy to basically forget all he knows about welding when he does it because it’s useless. The company makes ses, coolant tanks, counterweights, C-frames, gearboxes, bases and windmill housings, chemical processing equipment, industrial valves, machining fixtures, and a bunch of other stuff. This job pays great and he’d really like it! THANKS!
Corey
Making Power using a Car Alternator?
by admin on Feb.04, 2009, under Engineering
I would like to step up power from a normal car alternator to about 50KW 3 phase. The only problem is most alternators produce little power i.e. most are 70A producing 12V which calculates to 840W using the formula P=VI. And from the little knowledge i have about transformers Power in = Power out.
The thing i would like to find out is
1. is possible to connect the alternators in parallel in order to increase power.
2. does running the alternator at high speeds increase the power.
I am planning to use 1200cc(about 120HP) nissan-datsun engine to be running the alternator(s). I plan to install a multiple cam on the crankshift to be running all the alternators if i will be using multiple. I would like to use the power on a property with some big industrial equipment. It is off grid. Generators are to expensive an option.
If there is anyone with a better configuration or a cheaper mode of generating such large power lets say up $5000=00, pliz help.
Chester



