by Staff | Jan 11, 2010 | Control Systems, CSI, Furnaces and Ovens
THE MYSTERY An aircraft company purchased a large used oven and had it moved to their location. They set up the oven and lit it, but it would not stay lit. The customer removed duct work and replaced the burner, but the oven still refused to stay lit. THE CLUES...
by Staff | Dec 7, 2009 | Control Systems, CSI, Furnaces and Ovens
THE MYSTERY A local company had a power failure during the night. They have a large salt bath with two burners. One burner relit automatically but the second would not relight — and upon manual relighting would not stay lit.
by Staff | Nov 12, 2009 | Control Systems, CSI, Furnaces and Ovens
THE MYSTERY A paint bake oven for a plating company would quit burning at random. The sensor in the flame rod was reporting no contact with fire
by Staff | Oct 26, 2009 | Control Systems, CSI, Motion Control
THE MYSTERY A quarry providing limestone for construction and landscaping called ACES because their rock saw wasn’t cutting stone to the proper width. The saw operator had to subtract 1?8” from each cut to arrive at the proper stone width. THE CLUES The operator said...
by Staff | Oct 21, 2009 | Control Systems, CSI, Motion Control, Wiring and Electricity
THE MYSTERY A local chip maker called because their tortilla press would run fine for awhile, but then during the middle of a cycle the press would come down and not return to the up position. Cycling power to the machine it would resume operation sometimes for hours...
