What did she want you to be?? And what did you become???

It would have been better than working where I did. I worked in a hot engine room of a Diesel powered pump station. It not only was hot and humid, it was loud. Ear protection was mandatory when operating as it was 108db in that room. We had both automatic or manual operations for our two generators so I was watching the dial/lights on theirs saying when they should hit the breaker. :-) Old habits die hard.

Lmao.

soooo....what's the rest of the story?

I work in a combined cycle power plant. The phrase "hot, old power plant" is 100% accurate. In the summer time, the upper floors of the plant reach temps upward of 150 degF. In the winter, it's about 110.

That may be the nicest thing any commentor has said to me. Thank you :)

Exactly! A little less bumblefuckery, and much more ear splitting audio, but it fills that niche somewhere in between. SUBSCRIBED

Just from the disclaimer regarding children, I figured that'd be the case. Then I saw this comment...

(With schematic)

@@MrFrakey93 No schematics yet. He's still waiting on his AvE-CAD license to come in the mail.

Yea, aint no stack of pennies around to fix thatn shut..

Just wrap it in aluminum foil. On a more serious note, one day at work we found a whole bag of small brass rods that had been machined down only in the center leaving two larger "contacts" at the ends. These were the exact same dimensions as the shorter cylindrical glass body fuses (1/4" round, 7/8" long). To a group of electrical engineers the sight of an entire bag filled with pieces of brass specifically machined to defeat the protection offered by a fuse was so absurd it was hilarious. We laughed about that for days.

@@Fix_It_Again_Tony "Machined down in the center" sounds like they were (cough) designed (cough) to blow if the current got to some high level. Of course, letting it splatter molten brass around the area was probably not the brightest of ideas.

@@jpdemer5 or not extinguising the spark with sand.

28mm combo wrench

I bet anyone working near him felt the same way haha probably not a great sound to hear in a power plant lol

He must be a huge fan of George Michael

Time stamp?

@@fotisstergiou2610 4:52

4:12, 4:52

Personnaly reminds of USS Enterprise. Even on a spacecraft, procedures were pretty much the same :-)

Brought me back to my apprenticeship days for the Electricity Board in the UK!

Gotta pay attention - I wonder if that's how somebody blew the fuse.

Heard a story of someone that worked at a plant and guess he had a brain fart and forgot what sequence meant it was synchronized (light on or off) and he turned it on when it was exactly 180 degrees out of sync. Broke a 1 foot diameter turbine shaft and required a change of underwear. Probably a day off too. lol. I imagine now days the sync process is fully automated.

@@redsquirrelftw A power plant in Georgia did that sort of thing. Sent the parts of the generator into the roof. But there they were talking about mega-Watt size equipment. Someone wired the panel wrong during an overhaul so when they went to put it online, it blew the generator apart. The ones we had were only 125kW units.

I see why they need to sync them now...

jeez

Ouch! 😳

I assure you that when installing that (from the end of a very long hot stick), you couldn't have gotten a pin up my ass with a jackhammer.

@@Physicsduck Great "analogy" XD Best description of being up tight/tense I have herd. Will use this, in casual conversation. Thanks.

​@@PhysicsduckThis is something most of us wouldn't want to touch with a 10 foot barge pole, fiberglass or otherwise. An interesting video of taming n interesting beast.

Saw The Same

Great description.

thank you for this awesome response, sir!

isn't the problem more on the left side? looks like the coupler is vibrating, when he pans over to the right site you see no vibration at all in the bearing itself.

It's possible it's designed to do that could be some sort of harmonizer coupler designed to have some give.

I saw that too but I assume them some good ol' boys in there that'll be in it

@@benargee Yeah, the coupler saves the bearing across a long span like that because of the worms propensity for wanting to ride upwards. Swapping a coupler is easier than swapping a bearing, like a lovejoy allows for shock and slight misalignment.

why did it short though and isnt the door supposed to be strong enough to block anyone who may or may not stand infront of it from a blown fuse?

@@TantalumPolytopeThat’s the FCC unit. It takes a LOT of power by itself on a normal day

We had an electric medium pressure boiler at work. Pulled about 500 amps at full tilt. A contactor shorted out and blew the door open in a fantastic blue orb of light, knocking the power out to half the building by tripping the main disconnect to that part of the building. Let's just say we switched to a gas steam generator after that.

Not hard if there has been an overhaul and someone wired it wrong. That has happened before.

He was probably union and got a raise with two extra weeks paid vacation.

​@@travelinman70Promote him to management, problem solved.

Not just the water - when autumn leaves start coming through, you know it's time to rebuild that thing. (Ahh, the signs of the passing seasons...)

I mean massive industrial machinery is not exactly standardized, since the volume of production is very, very low(the general rule of thumb is the bigger, the more components are gonna be unique). So every project is pretty much hand crafted piece that is at best used some other one as a reference. The only saving grace for professionals in the field are standardized components and protocols that are usually used as building blocks. I mean the sole fact that interchangeable component like a fuse(even though heavy-duty one is more complex than normal one, but it is still not very sophisticated in both production and construction) costs a few grand speaks volumes about production volumes of these things.

@@Shonicheck I used to work in an old building that had escalators, it was an old department store. And the parts were hand machined when needed because they had to be.

@@Shonicheck A hydroelectric power plant near me has a machine shop for manufacturing replacement parts as needed. The plant is over 100 years old and any replacement parts that used to exist have been unavailable for a long time!

Oh that's good to know! Thank you! :)

Cool to hear about the VOA's transmitters. So many Shortwave stations have called it quits. I knew a Broadcast Engineer for a(once upon a time) Clear Channel 50kw AM station that called the high voltage stick the "Jesus Stick."

@@b3j8 Jesus sticks are an insulated stick with a contact on the other end connected with a heavy wire to a good Earth ground. Usually there is a hook. Before getting into the innards of a transmitter or anything with High Voltage, you doublecheck that the power is disconnected (and locked and tagged out), then touch everything and I mean everything in the cabinet at least once (especially capacitors) with the stick. then hang the stick on the high voltage bus and leave it there until you are done. We actually had a contact with a light bulb connected to a hot main, you touched the stick to the other contact which would ground the bulb and show the stick was actually conducting. No light, no open the cabinet. So named because if you don't use it properly, you might meet Jesus very shortly.

Thank you for watching! And I appreciate the comment :) The worm gear is kinda scary but it's been like that for the past 40 years.

Who’s to say Egon didn’t use the same high voltage equipment?

And nowadays, the S&C Electric IntelliRupter are used in the distribution network as are SC TripSaver reclosers on troublesome lateral distribution circuits in lieu of those !ka-bang! expulsion fuses ...

I don't get why that was a big deal. PP was shut down, right?

@@robertthomas5906 NERC/CIP regs. Bureaucratic paper pushers are often paranoid about the wrong things when it comes to preventing grid equipment sabotage. Those fuses are installed in a similar manner to overhead cutout fuses, except you aren't standing under it when it closes.

Thank you :) There's a LOT more coming. I'm sitting here right now 7 pages deep in writing a script for one of the Season 4 videos. :)

cost

Because it is all fake.

Man he goes hard on that wham.

I read that at the same time he said if. You are a wizard

I came here in the comments looking for this

40's, if not earlier. 60's gear was actually quite advanced by then ...

when fuses blow every day, something is wrong

Dry clanking sound of gears makes me want to squeeze some grease to it!

Thank you sir! I'm glad you're enjoying it! :)

Antique? They appear to be Allis Chalmers, which are far better then any unit built today

Have a look at this vid for an walk through: " How to Run Synchronous Generators in Parallel ㅣMarine Electrician " on the channel " Mark Roy Mangrobang "

Glad you like them! Thank you for watching. There's more coming soon. :)

I'm genuinely impressed you bothered to read that, lol.

Hah, yeah I read that as well. I thought it was a serious disclaimer at first, but it just kept getting better as it went on.

@@rtdlaboratories Reminds me of a George Carlin bit.

thank you - i barely lost fate in gamer community :D

Thank you! :) If we do our job well most people forget we're doing it. I appreciate you :)

grid synchronization and contact closing

At least we got 3 minutes of watching a worm gear. No idea what it controls tho. 👌

9:18 Starting from the bottom: The flashing lights and spinning Fast / Slow dial are used to show if the generator needs to speed up or slow down ( frequency ) in reference to the utility grid ( all the other generators out there making power ) and if the AC sine wave is in sync with the grid. The lights are cross connected to 2 of the 3 phase lines. If the lights are on solid , it shows that the generator is at the correct frequency but out of sync with the grid If the lights are flashing, it shows that the generator is out of frequency and out of sync with the grid. The fast / slow meter is used for fine tuning of generator frequency / speed. Meter 5 is a frequency meter that is used for a rough measurement of generator frequency / speed Look for a vid on how AC power works. If a generator is randomly connected to an existing AC power source and the generator is going positive as the grid is going negative, really bad stuff can happen like mechanical and electrical damage. This is sort of like running a car into a wall or having a slack chain then applying a rapid load. The top left meter shows the voltage the generator is making, the top right is what the grid is at.

Also, have a look at this vid for an walk through: " How to Run Synchronous Generators in Parallel ㅣMarine Electrician " on the channel " Mark Roy Mangrobang "

Me too. It depends on a lot of external things though. Mainly finding people that will grant me access to shoot cool stuff like this and Patreon support (these are expensive videos to produce).

I'm honoured! Thank you! :) I'm sincerely glad you're here. There's a hell of a lot of videos on here, and new live streams every evening.

Sounds like an electric motor operating. Maybe closing or opening water flow to the turbine.

Belt slipping, chirping, on an auxiliary motor ...

Make a deal with some local technical person to be the caretaker. Pay them on an as needed basis.

Thank you sir :) I'm honoured! I'm glad you're enjoying the videos! YOU are the most important part of all of this, the viewer, and I appreciate you more than you can imagine.

Thank you for watching! In the shot you saw it was actually closing it back down, but it's used for both. They had to open the gates a bit to maintain levels when we shut the plant down for an hour to change the fuse.

@@Physicsduck Interesting to watch all the same, that is what we need here is more Dams, Australia is very dry as you know. Next week I see 43.C, it has been mild so far.

That worm gear shaft needs to have its Babbitt bearing replaced. Keith Fenner could do it.