[Red Tag] Rong Fu Mill Offline - 2025-03-29

The Rong Fu Mill has no power until it is reconfigured. This is an expected consequence of the move and should be resolved in a day or so.

The Rong Fu has a three-phase motor, and we have three-phase power, but it has long been wired up as single phase with a VFD providing three phases to the motor. The VFD was inefficient, had problems with switches, and confused people, so we are taking the move as an opportunity to switch the Rong Fu back to three-phase power. But that wasn’t a high priority during the move, so we will get to it shortly.

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Thanks to @atwatsoniii rewiring it, the Rong Fu mill is functional again. I gave the machine a cleaning and oiling a couple days ago and finished leveling it today. Either the floor is really out of level in that spot or there’s some extremely localized space time effect making it all wobbly. In either case, the solution was some aluminum boosters for the leveling feet.



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@Kenneth The machine looks great! I’ve never seen it look that good :slight_smile:

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