ECN Forum Forums General Topics of the Trade General Discussion Area If you had your choice

I prefer the great outdoors. Working on ballfield lighting install this week. A little league field w/ 24-1500W MH. I spend most days running around Central Florida in a 55' bucket truck. I've got 42 red haired pig-tailed burger joints to keep lit, numerous shopping centers and I do all neon repairs at OIA. Being in the lightning capitol of America, I get to use my 3M locator/fault finder a lot.

Given the choice, it would be new commercial=nice & clean, very often indoors.
Unfortunately, the "pick & choose" is seldom an option for us, though.

Bjarney,


Ahhh, My most important items too! [include detailed directories and labels for equipment].

On a Non-Related side: I see from other posts that you deal with Medium to High Voltage stuff [proper EE terms!...hee hee].

Per a Q regarding Inductance with Paralleled Feeders [some other thread in the General Discussion area], I was wondering about High Voltage Feeders with Paralleled Conductors and the effects of Inductive Heating, Coupling or other related issues.
The systems I am referring to are the PoCo owned 138 KV, 220 KV and 500 KV [???] 3 Phase 3 wire systems - from Generating Plants to Distribution Yards.
These poles [towers] contain two 3-phase 3 wire circuits "side by side", and each phase has 2 conductors - separated apx. 6".
The poles for circuits >220 KV have only one 3-phase 3 wire circuit [Horizontal], with upto 3 paralleled conductors per phase.

Have noticed paralleled conductors on the "High Voltage DC" feeder, which terminates at SCE's Sylmar yard.

Any info would be great.

P.S. this might be better discussed in a new thread.

Scott S.E.T.

Some good answers here.

It shows what a varied 'Bunch' we are.


Bill

Folks,
Have you ever done any electrical work in
a slaughter-house.
I took a few years away from the Trade,
from 1994-1997, and I ended up working in
a slaughter-house, as a Butcher/Slaughter-
Man, to cut a long story short, now that I
am back in the Trade, I am now (because of
the Company I work for), the Industrial
Electrician, at the plant.
But, meat processing plants, have thier own
sets of rules, with regard to worker safety,
with respect to the use of Electrical
equipment, in pre-dominantly very wet
conditions and with most of the environment,
made of Stainless Steel.

Trumpy
SLaughter houses are usually called packing plant around here. If you are building a new one, it is a large industrial type of job. When the plant is in operation, it is a pain in the a**. Most electrical work is done when the clean up crew is spraying hot water from fire hoses, is under extreme time pressure to be done now and is done on weekends and at night. Most the plants operate 12-16 hours a day, then have a mandentory clean up time with sterilization of the equipment and food processing areas. Almost all maintence work is done at the same time because it cannot be done while the plant is operating.
If something breaks down during operation all sorts of h*** can break loose. One time the plant I worked in (several years ago) had 825 people on the line stopped becouse the motor driving the line locked up. Two hours to troubleshoot and replace the motor had management in a fit.
I'll take my commercial and new residential work over that any day. Also packing plant do NOT pay much if you are an employee. I have found that they are slow payers for contract work.

typical...yet the same management probably operates thier maintenance via crisis management 101......thus WE end up in the spotlight.....

i look at it this way.....

there's $$$$ in the ignorance of others, as well as $$$$ in what others choose not to do.

sparky — You bring up an important point. It took me a while to realize this, but whether it’s a solenoid coil, 6900-volt motor-control center, 2-amp icecube relay, or a DC hydraulic pump on the plant’s main 138kV breaker lineup — when some self-important management droid gets obnoxious, you can usually get them to blow a gasket by saying something like: “Sir, I’ll come and get you when I’m ready to restart the system. Until that time, I can work more safely and productively without distractions such as the one you are right now. I’m not sure at this point when exactly I’ll be done. Oh, and would you mind very much bringing me a liter of Evian water? Now, if you have concerns about your production reports and such, you may want to do this—start up your hot-standby [whatever it is — be the solenoid or MCC you’re trying to fix] and run it at least until I come get you.”

Blood pressure will typically rise in the process...for them anyway.

Maintenance,Maintenance, and more Maintenance...

I never loose money doing it... Past the stage of doing what I love. Just need to make a good honest living. ---Tired of getting burned--- Need to find some honest contractors

Hero or Zero Tom......no inbettween at times....

would anyone here wish to visit certain 'articles' ???

i miss haz locations , it's been a while....


where's my Evian?.....