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It's Time for some 'Electrical Engineering'

dubbie

I'll come clean, despite studying Electrical & Electronic Engineering (I don't think you could do just Electronic Engineering in those days) I never liked the Electrical bit. I'm not happy messing about with invisible stuff that can kill you. One mistake and puff - you're gone. I know from experience - I've made one mistake - and puff, I was the other side of the room and all the lights had gone out. Luckily still around to learn to be more careful.

 

Still, there comes a time when you just have to grasp the nettle and today my new electric cooker came and now it is time to put away the robots and wire it in. Hopefully nothing will blow up and I'll be able to make the fish, chips and peas scheduled for tonight's dinner.

 

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Dubbie

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  • Well since you two are going multi-skilled, you can come and help me with some leaking transformer bushings, that's electrical and plumbing both together! 11,000V, 3000A, 15 feet up in the air on top of a transformer.

     

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    Sound good?

  • in reply to three-phase

    Gene,

     

    As far as I am concerned anything involving any of the following words:

     

    11000V

    3000A

    15 ft in the air

    Transformers

     

    and I'm not going there. Nowadays anything higher than 3 ft from the ground it getting too high. I refelted my shed roof last summer and my main thought while do it was 'That's the last time I'm going to do that!' Next time I'm paying someone else.

     

    Plus, I didn't even know transformers had bushings!

     

    Dubbie

     

    PS I'm glad that people like you exist otherwise I'd be using oil lamps

  • in reply to dubbie

    Dubbie,

     

    Good point.  Those four words all sound a little dangerous.

     

    Although, I have worked at level close to, or above some of these in the past:

    1. 11000V - not even close, at best I think I have worked around ~1000V (except for some playing around with Tesla coils)
    2. 3000A - I once worked on a Power Quality System, that could temporarily stand in for the Grid in support of a factory.  This system would turn 1500A of 750V (DC) energy into 440V, 3 Phase Power, adding ~1MW of energy to the customer.
    3. 15 ft in the air - When I was in High School (~16 years old), I climbed a 125 foot mast and installed antenna elements (8 total plus some 200 feet of high power cabling).  When we were done, a buddy and I, climbed to the very top of the mask and wrote our names on the top plate (just for fun).
    4. Transformers - I have worked with some pretty massive transformers, like the one in the Power Quality System above, that was mounted on a large trailer (the business part of an 18-wheeler).

     

    Youth allows us to work well outside of our common sense.  Now of days, my wife has her cellphone in hand, ready to call 911 whenever I climb my 12 foot ladder.

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  • in reply to dubbie

    Dubbie,

     

    Good point.  Those four words all sound a little dangerous.

     

    Although, I have worked at level close to, or above some of these in the past:

    1. 11000V - not even close, at best I think I have worked around ~1000V (except for some playing around with Tesla coils)
    2. 3000A - I once worked on a Power Quality System, that could temporarily stand in for the Grid in support of a factory.  This system would turn 1500A of 750V (DC) energy into 440V, 3 Phase Power, adding ~1MW of energy to the customer.
    3. 15 ft in the air - When I was in High School (~16 years old), I climbed a 125 foot mast and installed antenna elements (8 total plus some 200 feet of high power cabling).  When we were done, a buddy and I, climbed to the very top of the mask and wrote our names on the top plate (just for fun).
    4. Transformers - I have worked with some pretty massive transformers, like the one in the Power Quality System above, that was mounted on a large trailer (the business part of an 18-wheeler).

     

    Youth allows us to work well outside of our common sense.  Now of days, my wife has her cellphone in hand, ready to call 911 whenever I climb my 12 foot ladder.

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