A Day With a Lineman #21 Not Again!!!
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6 years ago in #doinwork by jlsplatts (68)
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Heh, when you see solid conductors like that busbar, you know its high-voltage city. Even a n00b like me realizes that. Of course, the hum from the big power transformers is a clue too - and the signs.
Great writeup, like the pics of the damage - impressive how much damage high-volt/amp circuits can do.
Like this sucker here:
Birds and squirrels man. Can't even try to protect them without them doing something to take themselves out, and part of a substation with them. And people's power.
At least you got to install the safeguards.
So, we're not far from the Columbia River ourselves. It's something like an hour, hour and half drive from where we're at to where you can see it from I-84 heading east. I love that whole stretch of road. Once you get out of the area it's not quite as nice. Guess that's what a huge river will do for the surrounding area. :)
I’m right close to where the Snake River flows into the Columbia. About 45 min east Walla Walla the place so nice they named it twice 😜
Well, alright! When you were talking about Marionberries on the other post, I figured you had to be in the neighborhood, relatively speaking. I've heard good things about Walla Walla. I can't remember if we've actually been through there or not. We've trekked all over the place so it's kind of a blur. Love the Walla Walla onion rings we can get at the Burgerville when they're in season, too.
Little warm during the summer and a little cool in the winter, with some snow, right? :)
Oh ya, 110F during the summer and 0 F during the winter. Get a good quality 4 seasons.
I really enjoyed the "inside" look at the substation. Thanks for the detailed photos and the time it took to put the story together. That HV stuff can be a real mess when current goes somewhere it was not intended to be!
You are very welcome 👍🏻 Many underestimate the true “power” of electrical current. 1/1000 of an amp of current can put a persons heart into defibrillation or death. A typical vacuum draws 5 amps 😳😳
When in high school a group of students visited Clemson University orientation and they showed us a big Tesla coil and demonstrated it with a suspended florescent tube. Impressive noise and discharge spark, too! They asked for a volunteer to hold the three foot tube and I did, based on my past interest in Tesla and the coil. It was a memorable moment to have ten megavolts creating a halo around me and having volunteered increased my creds considerably with my buds in the group. Fortunately, the current was about a microvolt and it stayed on the surface. 14KV at 60 cps? TOAST! I have a lot of respect for you guys who work with the real stuff.
I’ve been wanting really bad to start making a small Tesla coil but I just have never gotten around to it.
A fluorescent lightbulb will also light up when you get about 20 feet away from a 230,000 volt power line. One of our instructors at the lineman college showed us. Crazy!!
BTW, current was a microamp, not volt. Duhh. I was stationed at an Air Force station in Alaska where we had long range search radar inside a geodesic radome. The rotating antennas put out 12 megawatt pulsed at 10 microseconds. During Christmas, we put fluorescent tubes in the inside of the radome in the form of a giant cross and every time the sweep passed the lights they glowed VERY brightly and could be seen from the airstrip bout 8 miles away. It was a good reminder that the energy would do the same thing to your brain if you forgot the safety regs! The HV stuff is not a toy to play with, for certain.