No power!... all cutouts are closed !?
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
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The lead feeding this cutout was burnt off but resting in such a way that I couldn't see it at all! I was definitely scratchin' my head on this one... figured it was a bad current limiting fuse at first.
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I am an electrician and have done some 13.8kv highline in surface mining - but it was never my "thing". I've found it interesting and learned a lot watching an actual linemen do this kinda work. Thanks for taking the time to film and explain this. Stay safe up there!
Nice old fashion repair, with a bit of trouble shooting! BTW, ages ago I mentioned carrying binoculars on my work truck to spot things like this from the ground. It was also something we did in the fire service to maintain safe distance while gathering as much info as possible at a scene.
You are an awesome instructor, intentionally or not. Thanks for a great educational video.
That is interesting. No easy way to see that from the ground. You have a lot to remember and think about in your work. Nice rail cars in the background. I'll check on those tool holders for our shop bucket truck. Christmas is coming fast. Thanks for another interesting video. Please stay safe, and God bless.
A lovely day on Steeves Street ... (Voodoo made it too easy). Good vid - tricky finding those breaks. This was one of the best vids - working close to 7200VAC - and connecting live. Nice,
I'm a 4th yr electrician doing residential and commercial work and seeing these videos gets me interested in line work. Did you do any "low voltage " work before you became a lineman? What do the first years look like for lineman?
I like this longer video with work being performed! Good job!!
Shout out to the New Brunswick Railway Museum! 👍👍👍
Thank you for the first hand view/experience on how you fix issues in the field. Be safe and keep helping the future linemen in the world.
Had very similar here on the low voltage (240v) mains cutout fuse, on the load side. Terminal screws were loose, the 25sqmm cable was central in the terminal but not touching! Very confusing...
Doesn't matter which voltage you have, it's wasting a lot of time when you have that kind of situation.
I love all your stuff. 20 years as a Verizon cable splicer. Always respected what was overhead.
Always always always know not only your own position, but that of your truck & any conducive part of it. I’ve seen UA-cam videos where someone made an oopsie and had their truck accidentally touch high voltage lines…. 😳
As always, stay safe Aaron ( & all line workers) & thanks for a good video 😊
Very good advice!
Hi Aaron,
I couldn’t help but notice that all your hand tools are all Milwaukee? Looked like a plug for their hand tools? LOL!
I would have cut off that old lightening arrester. When energizing again there is no telling that could go off like a grenade?
I have seen the socket pocket at work. I didn’t pull the trigger on it as I only have a couple sockets I use.
Pretty snazzy secondary ground on the pot! We had one that was homemade years ago. Safety department didn’t approve it & told us to not to use it anymore. That’s a nice saddle for the primary. We only have Ampac saddles.
I guess you do stick work is because your by yourself? We can go hands on the energized primary even by ourselves because not everything can be installed with a stick.
Nice video with the troubleshooting aspect. Those kinds of calls make you scratch your head sometimes. We used to use #4 solid copper covered wire for tap wire for pots & they would fatigue over time & break causing that scenario. It hardly happens with stranded wire though.
Try to be careful out there with the stormy weather this weekend? You’re always careful-I know!
I continuously plug your channel at work because it’s soo informative! Especially to the apprentices. The way you work is professional & safe. The many different situations your in from weather to the type of work. Troubleshooting & dealing with the public. I’m constantly stressing to the apprentices that lineman hyper communicate with each other. Not everyone can see everything that is going on. Hence having another set of eyes to look out for your safety. Keep up the great content & look forward to your next video. 👍🏻👊🏻👍🏻👊🏻
Appreciate the comments John! Hope all is well with you, the wife and the crew!!
1:50 uhhhh are we not gonna talk about the random jet parked there?
Also, ever since I changed over to the heavy industry and the insulating gloves became a regular thing to me, I grew a pretty big appreciation to your hand dexterity in them, it's awesome. They can be such a pain but they are a must.
Do your rules at NB Power make it so even if you have a qualified observer you can’t go hands on? We squeeze our stirrups on with h-taps
We can go hands one pretty much anytime as long as;
-Moisture below 80% (basically not raining or heavy fog)
-second man on site
-reclosing is blocked
-tested boom
@@Bobsdecline I gotcha! So correct me if I’m understanding this wrong, you need the reclosers to be on non-reclose (one-shot) ANY time you’re hands on? The only rule we have for a non-reclose requirement is with #4-6 copper primary.
Appreciate the explanation.
Do you happen to know Ryan Carr?
Great video as always Aaron! I work for a company that makes safety devices for distribution transformers but watching your videos really bridges the connection between just products and seeing the everyday work (and dangers!) lineworkers face. Really appreciate and love the channel!
I know this is an older video but I love this stuff. Lineman is such an awesome job in my opinion.
Love these videos! I'm a young engineer doing design work for substations, and it's wonderful to get insight into how day-to-day operations look in the field.
Nice video Aaron. Interesting that you have to have a second pair of eyes/ supervisor on site when you work with high KV voltages. Loved all your new bucket tool holders. First class gear. Stay safe with all those high winds coming at you.
The wind was getting nasty a midnight last night! Figured I'd wake up to a huge mess but I died right off and just got heavy rain all day
In EE when you work on certain gear, or abovecertain levels, or if an electrician you should always have a second person with a means to safely pull you from harm. That is why.
Excellent diagnostic skills.
1:54 Anyone else want to know about the jet?
That's my getaway ride!
Or a monument... I can't remember 😬
@@Bobsdecline would guess this is some sort of museum for transportation items?
@@Bobsdecline Great for emergency calls!
Nice lesson, Aaron !! I admire your (and your company’s) safety practices. As an electrician, I’m limited to under 750 volts, so most typically work on a high of 600. I always appreciate when a co-worker reminds me I’m working on live 347 or 600, and I’ll remind even the most experienced partners they are doing same.
25 yrs as an electrician, mostly commercial, and i always liked, and still like, to watch linemen at work.
Thanks for the cool videos.
I'm from Quebec, and i noticed that this video is in N-B, by looking at the meter box seal..
The electrical instalations look pretty much the same as here in Quebec.
Just for your personal information/knowledge, this is not a 400A meter box.
It's a 320A. And Yes, those meter are not reading directly on the lines, like in a 200A. They use CTs. And here in Quebec, to prevent potential backfeed, there is a disconnect in these meter box, so that the linemen can really isolate the building load. Its in the other compartment directly under the meter.
Keep up the good work!!
And btw, are you sposored by milwaukee?
I think they are starting to take over the tool industry with their nice tools. 😎
Use the top of the blade to clean wire. There’s a little indentation near the handle. Save your edge
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Ever have a porcelain arrester blow up on you when you tap up the hotline clamp? You'll start covering it or getting rid of it completely once you do lol
FYI, I spoke to one of your co-workers last month when he came to change my meter for a solar setup and he said he does not subscribe to your channel lol
In Ontario on new install for transformer pole we got to keep 10 ft. Clearance between primary hot and neutral. You definitely don’t have that much space on that pole.
So you said "so" a 119 times. So good video.
Had to change it up from using "actually" or "alright" 119 times 🤣🤣. Sooo, I'll try n find a new word next vid! 🍻
Really nice to see how you did that. Very instructive, great video Aaron. Stay safe!
NA has crazy silly electrical connections. here its usually 3x 25A or 3x35A at 230/400V for a normal household
NA already had a large installed base of 120V carbon light bulbs when 240V tungsten bulbs were invented. So we did split phase. Europe went directly to tungsten so never had any need for 120.
At 13:20? Lol that what we call “ old school work” 😂 you can tell I am old coz back in the day many of a hole was brace an bit before hydraulic😂 an now modern rechargeables
Why does your utility put lightning arrestors on the top side of cut out? Wouldn’t a bad arrestor cause a line outage?
They're all installed on tx now... I agree much better location.
Old school method kind of. Most all companies used to use the ceramic arrestor mounted on the cutout bracket in the day
@@kg4muc A lot of companies install them on the tx but they are hooked directly to the line not via the cutout.
Gives another head scratcher if the arrestor don’t blow apart and clear the short when a line fuse or recloser is operated 😅
Nice railcars right by there! 🙂
Do you carry rubber blankets or hard cover that you can put on the primary to create a barrier when working on the cutout?
great video !!!....i appreciate the narration.
@7:48 Thanks for the peek in "your other office". You linemen do mighty work, out of a space smaller than a dog-bed, a long way away/above your main tool crib; it has to be a model of Organization. Thanks! (Yes, I also see, if you use more than a Stillson and a 2-pound hammer, you need the pocket/rack....)
It must be embarrassing to have no-power when you can SEE the substation over the Post Office. But no, I sure did not see that break, did not even know it would break there. ("Never assume!")
I worked in a few vaults with the old 4160 open buss systems .Scary rooms to be in but pretty safe when you follow the rules and take your time .Great job .Stay safe ! 🙏
What courage these linemen have! My degree is computer engineering which means I took electrical engineering courses and know a couple things about electricity. I also stupidly burned a finger in college getting it too close to an oscilloscope's flyback transformer. That was a small sample of what linemen face, all my respect to them!
My electrical experience is as an IATSE stage electrician and I do have a decent understanding of AC etc. Regardless, I could watch your videos endlessly. I commend you for your understandable erring to the side of caution and the perfection you display in your work. Kudos, thanks and keep the continuing story coming!
Sometimes we experience the same issues in our territory (coastal Rhode Island) due to conductor gallop caused by wind, as you know the stranded tap will eventually shear from all the action. Glad to see that cutout being changed out also, those particular porcelain cutouts are very dangerous. Always enjoy watching, interesting to see methods from other utilities.
Nice work, we mostly don't have overhead lines here in Germany, except for the big towers with the 445kV lines which go to a substation, gets stepped down and is then distributed underground in double-sealed piping. The last outage was ages ago, and we also have a bioreactor in our village generating on average 625 kW, in emergency scenarios we could isolate and disconnect our village from outside substations, and connect to the transformer from the bioreactor plant. There's only around 300 people living here, so 650 kW is more than enough to at least enable us to use lights and the ignition and electronic control units for our gas heating, as well as the occasional telephone call or computer and internet use. I really like that our village is prepared for emergencies, we could go all year without needing the main grid - which is very much necessary due to the green party having shut down all our nuclear plants providing the base load.
Anyway, once again, a job well done, and most importantly, safely. Kudos, and stay safe man, I wish you all the best :)
Good inspection on finding the fault cause👍🏼
ALL THE TOOLS IN MY BASEMENT ARE LIKE THAT I MAY USE THEM ABOIUT 5 TIMES. PER YEAR BUT WHEN YOU NEED THEM THEY ARE THERE
same here.
I just building new transmission line on Roblox Studio (230 kV)
I'm surprised you put a copper lead to the feed clamp and an aluminum(US version) wire from the lightning arrestor under the same clamp. Corrosion??
Lol. You buried the lead. Why was there an F-14 just chilling in that parking lot? :P
Thank you. Been interested in electrical work since I was a little kid. I enjoy your videos.
Keep them coming.
I am at the opposite corner of the Province, southwest.I guess you really have to trust your ppe working around that stuff.Good job.
Thanks for the ride Bob!-) Enjoyable
10:40 sparky, but not a lineman - that meter looks rated for 600v.. no worries about it flashing?
I don’t know jack but I’m looking into lineman school any tips before I start
Much respect making sure the genie stays in the bottle,, I worked with the big stuff on gen-set peak shaving season at 30MW site running into a 13kva sub station. Lots of ways to be killed if you were not paying attention.
Another good thing to check in these situations if your fuse and stinger looks fine is simply walking over and checking voltage in the meter base. No setting up trucks, fast and easy. I’ve seen several times where guys have went up and replaced a transformer only for the meter to still not be lit up, just a bad meter.
I don't think you should be showing this stuff too much info for the wrong people don't you make enough money as a lineman think about it just my opinion. Be safe
One awesome location after another! The company should pay you a recruitment bonus for showing how great working in Canada can be.
but that PM you got? lol
Looks like a railroad museum of some kind.
@@RussellD11 hopefully he'll be out next election lol
What is the difference between the expulsion fuse and the current limiting fuse ?
Weird watching stick work, we do very little of it..
Trains planes and utility truck. They should make a movie
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What type of non shield insulated wire is that on high voltage from the xfmr primary to the cut out? You used bare feeding, but what is insulation type on the other?
16:01 I couldn't help but notice that your camera(your head) was way too close to the primary. I got scared for a sec.
In minimum approach y’all don’t have to wear sleeves too?
1:53 Some random Jet Aircraft to someone's backyard.
That must be beast of a generators there in your country to overpower a pole transformer secondary._
I understand why you check... but how often do you see backfeed?
Jesus... that gopro lens makes it look like you're 3 inches from the primary... I had to keep telling myself "It's the lens on the gopro, you know that..." while watching this video...
Definitely looks closer on cam, but was still pretty tight!
Who pays for those tools and bucket accessories? Does your company give you a budget that you can spend on your truck or is that all out of pocket for you?
Our company pays for any tools that are approved through our tools committee (which I'm a part of).
Most tools requests nowadays have to approved on a case by case basis.
We're allowed to purchase our own tools as well (again, as long as they're approved). Things like tool aprons and hand tools are never really an issue, as long as they're from a trusted manufacturer.
It's definitely far from a free for all though... The company isn't going by 200 new pairs of pliers everytime a new brand is a approved. It's mostly on a replacement basis.
What brand are those secondary grounds? Trying to find a set online.
Who makes your jumper cables for the transformer ?
Why do you call a cut-out a cut-oat?
It's the dialect. That's the way most Canadians, especially in the Scottish provinces pronounce the word "out".
Great video. Thanks for taking us along and the Great Details. 👍🙏
Looks like the bucket doesn't have a liner, is there a reason why?
Is that a Greenlee multi meter you used? CAT 4 rated? Get a Fluke.
That was a really cool video. It's neat seeing how the line work is done
I had a new smart meter where I lived at in Mojave Desert and it was out however I still had power
Nice explanation and step by step. Was there a reason the transformer and hi side cut out was so close to the high line?
Old standard... When it gets changed, the spacing will be much different!
@@Bobsdecline ahh I get it and was wondering. It looked too close for comfort.
You really have to wake and focused or zap
I always want to see a light on or some sign the juice is flowing.
Great Video Mr Aaron. As always you are the man
le materiel est bien different en France parcontre les outils et regles de sécurité sont équivalentes
I got that bucket apron and it's nice
Current limiting fuse…… always wondered what those were. I see them on other properties. We don’t use them here. Stinger goes straight into primary bushing on our pots. Also we use csp pots so I believe they have them built into them. 75kva and above are conventional pots but we do not install current limiting fuses on them either
Widow maker eh!!!! Guess an apprentice made up that cutout
We only install them on tx's that are within a mile or so from the sub. They help limit the fault current that capable with such close proximity.
Once n a while they'll light right up upon failure but most time just turn into an insulated paper weight.
Great job, Aron. I'm just curious as to why the current limiting fuse (CLF) was used just before the XFMR bushing. Couldn't the CLF have been used to energize the transformer via the cutout?
Fighter jet in the front garden? Nice 😊
Lmao just a jet on the driveway
Was that all done with class 4 gloves😮
Love the tool apron and socket pocket!👍👊
Yeah... I know my limits and will stick to LINE voltage.
Less glamorous, less drama, and I like it that way :P
We want fire! Sparks! BURNING STUFF....
just kidding. I love to warch your videos for several reasons... First off: Its an honest channel with real life scenarios. Secondly it gives people the ability to look behind the scenes. Stuff they think is naturally. Plus the fact that you are a kind person with unparalleled care for what you do. Id like to have a beer with you! One day. Cheers man.
Jumping the neutral and hot on trans if there was back feed wouldn’t that damage their generator
It could... Or it may just trip a breaker. There are very strict regulations when using a generator... If our procedures were to damage someone's generator then it was improperly hooked up.
I'm a retired Pipefitter! 😀
Would it make a difference if you put a glob of noalox/penetrox on the tap clamp where it hooks on to the stirrup?
Seeing you that close to 7.5KV is nerve wracking to watch. Safety procedures exist for a reason!
Hey Aaron. Just want to give you a shoutout and say hello. I knew exactly where you were 30 sec. Into the video. We live in Townsend Massachusetts. Every few years we go up and stay in Alma and pass through there on the way to Moncton. Brought the kids to the museum. Beautiful area, great friendly people.
Love New Brunswick! Great job on the repair. Please stay safe out there!
I assumed either broken jumper, CSP switch, or improper overcurrent coordination downstream. I didn't know xfmr current limiting fuses were even a thing.
Do you guys call the dispatcher for fuse sizes or just put in the same size that popped?
Lol first off the cuff comment just as a reaction to your title. "Somebody didn't pay their Electric Bill!" 😂
On another not my apprentice bought line work bucket products cup holder and magnet with hooks one the inside. The magnet doesn’t work. Sucks. Also need to remove it every time you close the bucket because it’s blocks the cover from going on lol. So anyone buying it that’s my review.
hey i have some questions around meters and meter bases. my company is working on product for charging EVs, you do zoom consultations?
Not typically, but I certainly can!
DM me on IG or Facebook
Dont you mean cutooooots?
He must’ve had some great teachers of helping you through all of this of your training. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be doing what you’re doing so successful be safe. I like the new tools.