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Re: industrial power managment project and PCBWay review
« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2018, 11:09:33 pm »
Hi Adam
Welcome to the forum.
We have a very big problem here with people being paid by PCB companies to leave "reviews" on this forum.
Normally a new account doing this would get banned straight away, but we'll assume you are genuine young hobbyist in this case.
 
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Re: industrial power managment project and PCBWay review
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2018, 05:07:17 am »
Adam will unleash his creativity making collages of paid reviews
 

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Re: industrial power managment project and PCBWay review
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2018, 05:35:35 am »
Hi Adam
Welcome to the forum.
We have a very big problem here with people being paid by PCB companies to leave "reviews" on this forum.
Normally a new account doing this would get banned straight away, but we'll assume you are genuine young hobbyist in this case.

I've done my best to 'educate' one of the problem children on the folly of their way, and it seems ( touch wood ) that they have made some changes.    Whos going to take on PCBWAY.
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Re: industrial power managment project and PCBWay review
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2018, 06:01:07 am »
I have included a copy of the project report which goes into more information but please be aware the project report is not finished yet.

Hi Adam, did you post your report?
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Re: industrial power managment project and PCBWay review
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2018, 06:59:17 am »
What part of the UK are you in?

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Factory400 - the worlds smallest factory. https://www.youtube.com/c/Factory400
 

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Re: industrial power managment project and PCBWay review
« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2018, 08:22:07 am »
Hi Adam, did you post your report?

No but I did report his post ;)
it had an entire 2nd paragraph of praise of a certain PCB manufacturer.
 

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Re: industrial power managment project and PCBWay review
« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2018, 12:25:02 pm »
I've had people from PCBWAY try to add me on Facebook.. and I have no idea how they have even gotten my details. I've never used them, and after seeing their aggressive marketing tactics I don't plan to.
 

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Re: industrial power managment project and PCBWay review
« Reply #8 on: October 15, 2018, 04:45:14 pm »
I could not link in the report on here as it was too big

I have it on my website but please be aware that it is unfinished and alot of changes will need to be made before it is finished
My website is currently being set up so has missing infomation and defects  http://ohmega-electonics.000webhostapp.com/Industrial-power-mangment-and-monitoring-system/

(I know electronics is spelt wrong in my domain, I am getting this changed soon)


That will cost you a new domain and a lot of fuss medling in the backend of whatever you use.
 

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Re: industrial power managment project and PCBWay review
« Reply #9 on: October 15, 2018, 04:46:30 pm »
If you want real hosting I can offer you a good deal, I have my own VPS but it's only me and a few charity website on there at the moment.
 

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Re: industrial power managment project and PCBWay review
« Reply #10 on: October 15, 2018, 05:03:00 pm »
Yea, it's a subdomain, they cost nothing. I always wonder who actually pays for these services. I prefer full control over my domains and hosting. "free" and "unlimited" are terms that can never be used in truth unless you understand the limitations.
 

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Re: industrial power managment project and PCBWay review
« Reply #11 on: October 15, 2018, 06:10:30 pm »
It seems to work for what I intend it for so its not a problem right now.

A real domain name costs less than $10 a year. When you've got bunch of sites linking to your sub-"domain", there's not much you can do to fix this.
 

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Re: industrial power managment project and PCBWay review
« Reply #12 on: October 15, 2018, 06:31:37 pm »
It seems to work for what I intend it for so its not a problem right now.

I'm sure in the future I will invest in a proper service but don't really have the money to spend on it at the moment.


Adam 

I was there once. There were free hosters and I'm sure many remember those that put adds on your site like tripod. This all came to an end with the advent of wordpress I assume because serving up webpages is one thing but running wordpress requires more resources. I gave up with hosters both free and paid after either being ripped off or being left with a quality of service that not acceptable. I recently left heartinternet who's quality of service went down drastically when they got bought out.
 

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Re: industrial power managment project and PCBWay review
« Reply #13 on: October 15, 2018, 06:33:28 pm »
I will buy a proper domain when my website is done.

Ah, and then you are screwed, unless they allow you somehow to make it work, for nothing you get exactly nothing, these people run a service based on sucking people in who initially did not realize the contraints of what they are being offered.
 

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Re: industrial power managment project and PCBWay review
« Reply #14 on: October 15, 2018, 08:04:55 pm »
So long as you understand exactly what they are offereing and what yau will need in the future and how scalable you current solution is.
 

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Re: industrial power managment project and PCBWay review
« Reply #15 on: October 15, 2018, 08:05:17 pm »
Nice work so far on your Project;

 - Be really careful with dealing with AC power.  It is quite unforgiving.  Think about it carefully and set up some sensible precautions, like RCD's in case something goes wrong. 
 - I noted you had mentioned Microchip Pics can only be programmed in Assembly.   You might want to go back and have a look at that.   C and C++ are all supported.
 - I can only see the pics of the pcb and the partial scehmatic, but it seems you dont' have any decoupling capacictors for the uP.   You may have broken out those supply pins to the header, but really you want to have themas close as possible to the pins of the IC as you can.
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Re: industrial power managment project and PCBWay review
« Reply #16 on: October 15, 2018, 08:08:57 pm »
Nice work so far on your Project;

 - Be really careful with dealing with AC power.  It is quite unforgiving.  Think about it carefully and set up some sensible precautions, like RCD's in case something goes wrong. 
 


I think you mean high voltage which is I beleive 40V AC ond over and 60VDC and over. high voltage DC is even more dangerous I gather.

RCD's always a good idea.
 

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Re: industrial power managment project and PCBWay review
« Reply #17 on: October 15, 2018, 08:25:08 pm »
Basically if over 50V make sure it can't be accidentally touched :) and that any insulation is suitable for the voltage, work once got away with 50V rated wire on 600V ;)
 

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Re: industrial power managment project and PCBWay review
« Reply #19 on: October 16, 2018, 12:29:01 pm »
Given you, and your dad's interest, you might find parts of this other forum interesting.
https://highvoltageforum.net/
 
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