Originally Posted by lightman
I wonder what they were thinking.In Every substation that I have been in you could hear the 60cycle hum.And you can feel it in the air on humid days.Like we don't turn it off at night,man! Lightman


I have a friend who works for an electricity company over here and the stories tells about this sort of thing is unreal.

For instance, in our sub stations, the high power supply has a remotely resetable "trip"..If a fault is detected, it trips the power off, but once a technician remotely tests the line and everything tests ok, they can reset the trip and restore the power...This can happen three times, and on the third time it trips, they have to leave it off and senda technician to site and to inspect the lines themselves. So the theiving scumbag Pikies who specialise in this, deliberately trip the power three times and then they know its safe to cut the cable..
Personally, I'm all for restoring the power about 20 minutes after the 3rd outage and seeing what we could catch!



Last edited by Pete E; 01/20/10.

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