A three phase, 415V, 30kVA UPS, for $1. Most of the batteries are removed, but it will be an interesting teardown when I get my hands on it.
This is a side effect of going down to Albury, for inspection of that huge machinery auction. Still not sure if I'll win a CNC lathe, but we'll see. I'm much less enthusiastic about that since discovering while talking with people there, that the machines on offer are less versatile than I'd thought. The factory bought machines only for specific manufacturing tasks, so they are very minimally optioned and tooled up. It was an interesting day though.
I took lots of photos, but not one of them comes anywhere near capturing the vastness of that place. I walked around in it all day, and still was alternately getting lost and finding things I'd not seen before.
The one inside view below is just a tiny corner, as marked on the building map.
Also, I think the past management were strange. There's a grid of isles throughout the factory, and on them the floor is painted with a glass-smooth paint. With oil everywhere, from the machines, and water (many roof leaks) it's literally the most slippery workspace walking surface I've ever encountered. Greased ball bearings on glass, in many places.
Also amazingly there is NO marking of any grid system. At first I thought I must be just not seeing it somehow, but no. Even the people that used to work there thought it was nuts. Not on the isle floor, or the columns, or the ceiling. Nothing.
During inspection the auction company handed out an A4-sized map of the building. Which made the details very tiny. They'd hand written their own grid refs along the diagram sides. But in several months of preparation for the auction and inspection, no one thought to write those numbers on the floor of the isles (near-white smooth paint) in felt pen or something. Result - the minute you walk a few modules away from an outer wall, then turn around a few times, you are lost again.
Which just made it more fun.
Turns out the place was shut down almost four years ago. All the machines have been sitting dead since then.