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#122549 - 11/24/05 09:15 AM
Toast-a-Buss
Forwarded from Joe Tedesco:
One night the whole 2nd floor lost power. So I started working backwards , it seems some had connencted a 600amp buss downline on a 250amp feed, as you can see the 250 amp is toast..... Joe, I work in an industrial mill , and I take pictures of it all
#122550 - 11/24/05 11:07 PM
Re: Toast-a-Buss
#122551 - 11/25/05 06:58 AM
Re: Toast-a-Buss
One thing's for certain, at one point it was glowing.
I often....."acquire" old buss bars for radio grounding, I'm not sure I want these.
#122552 - 11/27/05 04:31 PM
Re: Toast-a-Buss
Glowing indeed! Notice that the failure point appears to be where the busbars were joined?
Stupid should be painful.
#122553 - 11/27/05 06:36 PM
Re: Toast-a-Buss
I have never worked with busses like, how are those bars joined? could a bad/loose connection have aggravated the problem?
#122554 - 11/29/05 02:19 PM
Re: Toast-a-Buss
Wow, I wonder if an infrared camera would have picked up the problem, before it got to that stage? We do infrared 2x year.
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