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480v live? We can do better at ECN!
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Alan

[This message has been edited by Alan Belson (edited 03-16-2006).]

ps Scott, it's beavers. not badgers.

[This message has been edited by Alan Belson (edited 03-16-2006).]

Scott you forgot to mention the badger was 'LIVE'

Trumpy,
Steve here. Just wanted to reply to the I work live with 480. As a third year apprentice my supervisor always says kill it and shunt it. Unless your a lineworker always shut off the power. Unless it is absoluteley neccessary. Sorry you got a e-mail like that. SAFTEY FIRST ALWAYS. tHIS GUY IS NOT A MAN JUST A STATISTIC WAITING TO HAPPEN!

Yep, we had a joker like that that used to work at the company I do... Thought he was going to " show off" by working inside a 400A 600V splitter live, even though the boss had made arrangements to shut it all down..
To make a long story short ( no pun or anything intended) He DID short out one phase to ground, welded his ratchet to the splitter itself and then tried to disguise the big flare mark... The bugger is lucky the fuses opened quick and the arc didn't burn him... Needless to say he isn't an employee where I work anymore!

In the words of an old Frankie Laine song:

"I'm gonna live, 'til I die."

I don't doubt we've all worked on live circuits of various types at one time or another. It doesn't make one a man to do so or a wimp not to do so, because so much depends upon the situation and the care one takes.

I can't help feeling that bragging about it in that way rather suggests a somewhat cavalier, complacent attitude to live work. And complacency leads to accidents.

bump



[This message has been edited by PEdoubleNIZZLE (edited 05-15-2006).]

Guys,
You just can't save some people from themselves.
Even here, 230V across the ribs is enough to either wake you up or it will shut your eyes for you (permanently, in some cases).
I don't need clowns like this guy sending me e-mails, I get enough rubbish as it is from people trying to sell me Viagra or telling me which stocks they think are "hot!".
All of which are filed appropriately in the Trash box of Mozilla T-Bird.

[This message has been edited by Trumpy (edited 06-04-2006).]

A man? How 'bout a dead man walking?

Ian A.

Im a man I work live !!??

Why do some people think there is still a need for caveman bravado....

People have fought for years to get in safe working practices, to make the work place as safe as possible and limit the risks to a level where they are covered and the risks are virtually non existant. To go and try to defeat this and give in and work live is to dump all these years of working for a better and safer working place.

There is no need to work live - No need at all - power supplies to 95% of the population can go off without any real loss other than inconvenience. Would I put my life on the line and work live just so some place never went into darkness ? Would I as hell.... Sorry mate there will be a loss of power here till i do this work and then you will be back to normal. Cant be helped its just going to go that way for now.

The most dangerous part of our job should be the drive in to work - not the actual work itself. Why take those risks ?

Rugged

For my safety, I always shut down breakers when I work on anything (I only bother with resi). if I'm in a box I killed but feel a bite, I kill everything around that box (surrounding rooms' circuits). My theory is that, at least where you can, it's better to turn off more than you need than not enough. To a point, there is no such thing as too much safety.