I got called to a horse stable today to diagnose a problem with a piece of equipment. The owner bought a unit called a "Centrifuge." This is a unit that they use for something to do with artificially inseminating horses. It spins the substance at a high rate of speed for a period of time for some reason.
Anyway, the owner plugged it in and it worked one time. He came out the next morning and it was dead. No lights, no operation. So he sent it back and bought another one (at $2600). It done the same thing.
The only thing that I could find was he was using an ungrounded recept. The book stressed highly on a grounded outlet. Regardless, I ran a new circuit, and it seems to be working.
Could this simply just have been a ground problem? This machine appears to be a very sensitive piece of equipment.
[This message has been edited by Merlin (edited 04-11-2006).]
[This message has been edited by Merlin (edited 04-26-2006).]
