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@ 15:07 Note: The guardrail. Looks like they learned a lesson from the disaster that happened a couple of months ago. When someone drove through a fenced area, and hitting the valves and pipes. The accident was near Houston Texas back in September.
Thanks Brad! Substation expansion project: @ 14:28 New transformer has been slid over onto the pad. @ 14:37 Can anyone read what it says? Existing Megapack site: @ 13:23 A lot of vehicles in there today. Possible new Megapack site: @ 13:50 Ongoing work to lower the grade on the east side, and raise the grade on the west side of the site. @ 14:02 Large T shaped trench. Where the dirt has been compacted on the bottom. @ 14:08 (Upper right) Power poles that supply power to the temporary concrete batch plant may be going away. Rooftop cable trays: @ 12:40 It appears that cable pull along the top is now complete. Crew now pulling cable along the lower level tray. South end: @ 2:11 and 1:57 Forms and rebar placed for fire escape walkway. @ 3:05 Precast wall panels being placed.
Thanks Brad. *Sort by Newest First or Top Comments if only the first few lines are visible* Great wide ranging flight today. 0:37. GA, loading platform. Steel beams on the trailer. Westside triangular storage yard almost depleted of beams. See 4:52. 1:10. Southend, west. Apron. Grease trap. Drainage works incomplete. 1:13. Southend, west. Glazing. Temporary timber framed and plywood infill. 2:05. Southend, south. Fire escape passages. Adding another capping piece. More layers than Shrek. Footpath/sidewalk edgeboards placed for paving. Rebar placed at 2:15. Looks hefty enough for road traffic. 3:07. Southend, east. Wall panels. Fast disappearing view inside. 4:22. River Road, west. Yard-dog with one of the silver wrapped items on the trailer. Looks like production line equipment. 4:37. Westside, triangular storage yard. Prolec transformers count now 85 as noted by @Gig0Surf. 4:59. Westside, storage. Top left. Large collector hood structure on the trailer. 8:27 also. 7:54. Westside, Tunnel Project. Behind the retaining wall, another pier footing in a form-tube. 3 footings per side seem to be spaced evenly. Structure over the tunnel possibly. 9:40. Far north east. Top left. Extracting from the stockpile of earth. 10:34. Crash Test Track. Along the west (right) fence. Line of battery packs. 12:01. Casting, east. Apron. Bottom left. Speculative die transport trailer covered with a blue tarp. Might be a die loaded. Baghouse. Apron. Pair of large grid like items on the trailer. Going up onto the heat-exchanger and flue structure. 14:04. Temporary switchyard site south extension. The MegaTrench. This is no ordinary trench. Wide, and lots of effort going into compacting the base. Speculating expecting heavy loads in the trench, or on top of whatever is in the trench. 14:31. Switchyard/substation. New transformer. Seems to be identical to the existing installed.
Yes, this was a great video from Brad. So many things happening. I have no idea what is taking so long to install that southend, west, grease trap! Almost longer than to drill the tunnel or build the cooling plant or to install Cortex, I think/exaggerate. The new transformer is definitely progress, but yes, at this point, the purpose of the "MegaTrench" is most interesting. And, as David noted, the rooftop cabling is over-halfway done already.
This video also shows the extent of work thus far repairing/upgrading the gas line along the east side of the factory. Whatever, this is/has been no small repair. After all, the entire extension of the new west side gas line (from power plant vicinity, under expressway, under river, under tunnel, and north to the gas substation location) seems to have taken less time than this work.
@@WarrenLacefield East gas line. I guess the reason for that is because it was done live. The Sand Hill project was new standalone project. Not having much luck finding anything out about the works south of the switchyard/substation. I did find behind a firewall this article title, 'ERCOT clears 480MW of BESS for operations in August, including Tesla-owned unit at factory' Not clear what it is in reference to. May refer to the existing BESS. The lack of publicly available documentation is a mystery to me.
@@WarrenLacefield Cabling along the roof..... More like 85 - 95% complete. What I should have said in my comment is that the north section is over halfway done. The length of the rooftop cable trays as measured by Google Earth is about 4,200 feet. Not counting the distance the cables go down into the building. That was apparently too long of a span for one pull. So it was done in 3 sections... North, middle, and south, with 2 splice points on the roof. * The cable pull on the middle and south sections are 100% percent complete. * The cable pull on the north section is over 50% complete. * All cable splicing still needs to be done on the north section. Some cable splicing on the south section. * Cable pulls through the roof down into the building still need to be done, north and south.
@@WarrenLacefield The grease trap is a mystery. This is the second attempt. It was almost installed 2 months ago. I will wildly speculate that there was some internal feature of the grease trap that was incorrect, and couldn't be repaired/modified in-ground. It's buried quite deeply. I'd guess it's 5' 1.5m below paving elevation/grade.
That equipment wrapped in the metallic foil looks like battery production equipment by its size and shape. Look at the new video CATL just released to see a lot of it.
It looks like that missing window pane is gong to be missing for a while. My guess is that they found a defect in the pane when they tried to install it (whether it came with one or they broke it, same result). Now they're patching up the hole, which suggests the replacement will take a long time to come it; it's obviously a custom order, so it may take months.
@@MJ-zo5gb That's certainly possible, too. I'm pretty sure we saw them installing that window pane, but it was quickly removed, though I could be remembering wrong.
14:36. New transformer. More than likely this is the transformer you spotted in the Airwave Dynamics 12 October video at 0.03 and 4.48 etc. Looks the same, extra heavy duty low-loader the same. Good spot.
Over a year to still not have the tunnel ready for use. Disgusting and shows the old fashioned way of doing things is much better, blast the tunnel or dig it out and it would be finished in half the time. Or the boring company is still learning the very basics. But I believe they were reporting that there machine was faster than any other method, this like almost every announcment by musk is wrong. Same with the cybertruck and it's inferior cheap stainless steel. Damn my sink is going through the ultimate punishment, no patina, or rust as normal people call it, sad that my sink, the cheapest on the market has better quality materials than the cybertruck. People need to stop buying stuff just to buy it and shun inferior products. We did it with China who now have upped there game and quality of there products have improved a lot.
Giga Berlin is already decorating for Christmas! Is Giga Texas going to be a "Grinch Factory" again this year?? BTW: GIGA Berlin's employee parking lot is much better landscaped than GIGA Texas. Please, ELON spend some of our Shareholder's money on improving your " Junk-Yard Dog" look!!!!!
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@ 15:07 Note: The guardrail. Looks like they learned a lesson from the disaster that happened a couple of months ago. When someone drove through a fenced area, and hitting the valves and pipes. The accident was near Houston Texas back in September.
It's hard to tell with the lighting, but it looks to me like they've finished paving in the tunnel.
Friggin huge transformer!
Thanks Brad
Paneling that section of wall was a surprise.
some monumental changes in this update!
nice scoop brad.
Thanks you Brad, for video FANTASTIC, from Spain.
Thanks Brad!
Substation expansion project:
@ 14:28 New transformer has been slid over onto the pad.
@ 14:37 Can anyone read what it says?
Existing Megapack site:
@ 13:23 A lot of vehicles in there today.
Possible new Megapack site:
@ 13:50 Ongoing work to lower the grade on the east side, and raise the grade on the west side of the site.
@ 14:02 Large T shaped trench. Where the dirt has been compacted on the bottom.
@ 14:08 (Upper right) Power poles that supply power to the temporary concrete batch plant may be going away.
Rooftop cable trays:
@ 12:40 It appears that cable pull along the top is now complete. Crew now pulling cable along the lower level tray.
South end:
@ 2:11 and 1:57 Forms and rebar placed for fire escape walkway.
@ 3:05 Precast wall panels being placed.
Thanks Brad.
*Sort by Newest First or Top Comments if only the first few lines are visible*
Great wide ranging flight today.
0:37. GA, loading platform. Steel beams on the trailer. Westside triangular storage yard almost depleted of beams. See 4:52.
1:10. Southend, west. Apron. Grease trap. Drainage works incomplete.
1:13. Southend, west. Glazing. Temporary timber framed and plywood infill.
2:05. Southend, south. Fire escape passages. Adding another capping piece. More layers than Shrek.
Footpath/sidewalk edgeboards placed for paving. Rebar placed at 2:15. Looks hefty enough for road traffic.
3:07. Southend, east. Wall panels. Fast disappearing view inside.
4:22. River Road, west. Yard-dog with one of the silver wrapped items on the trailer. Looks like production line equipment.
4:37. Westside, triangular storage yard. Prolec transformers count now 85 as noted by @Gig0Surf.
4:59. Westside, storage. Top left. Large collector hood structure on the trailer. 8:27 also.
7:54. Westside, Tunnel Project. Behind the retaining wall, another pier footing in a form-tube. 3 footings per side seem to be spaced evenly. Structure over the tunnel possibly.
9:40. Far north east. Top left. Extracting from the stockpile of earth.
10:34. Crash Test Track. Along the west (right) fence. Line of battery packs.
12:01. Casting, east. Apron. Bottom left. Speculative die transport trailer covered with a blue tarp. Might be a die loaded.
Baghouse. Apron. Pair of large grid like items on the trailer. Going up onto the heat-exchanger and flue structure.
14:04. Temporary switchyard site south extension. The MegaTrench. This is no ordinary trench. Wide, and lots of effort going into compacting the base. Speculating expecting heavy loads in the trench, or on top of whatever is in the trench.
14:31. Switchyard/substation. New transformer. Seems to be identical to the existing installed.
Yes, this was a great video from Brad. So many things happening. I have no idea what is taking so long to install that southend, west, grease trap! Almost longer than to drill the tunnel or build the cooling plant or to install Cortex, I think/exaggerate. The new transformer is definitely progress, but yes, at this point, the purpose of the "MegaTrench" is most interesting. And, as David noted, the rooftop cabling is over-halfway done already.
This video also shows the extent of work thus far repairing/upgrading the gas line along the east side of the factory. Whatever, this is/has been no small repair. After all, the entire extension of the new west side gas line (from power plant vicinity, under expressway, under river, under tunnel, and north to the gas substation location) seems to have taken less time than this work.
@@WarrenLacefield East gas line. I guess the reason for that is because it was done live.
The Sand Hill project was new standalone project.
Not having much luck finding anything out about the works south of the switchyard/substation. I did find behind a firewall this article title, 'ERCOT clears 480MW of BESS for operations in August, including Tesla-owned unit at factory'
Not clear what it is in reference to. May refer to the existing BESS.
The lack of publicly available documentation is a mystery to me.
@@WarrenLacefield Cabling along the roof.....
More like 85 - 95% complete. What I should have said in my comment is that the north section is over halfway done.
The length of the rooftop cable trays as measured by Google Earth is about 4,200 feet. Not counting the distance the cables go down into the building.
That was apparently too long of a span for one pull. So it was done in 3 sections... North, middle, and south, with 2 splice points on the roof.
* The cable pull on the middle and south sections are 100% percent complete.
* The cable pull on the north section is over 50% complete.
* All cable splicing still needs to be done on the north section. Some cable splicing on the south section.
* Cable pulls through the roof down into the building still need to be done, north and south.
@@WarrenLacefield The grease trap is a mystery. This is the second attempt. It was almost installed 2 months ago.
I will wildly speculate that there was some internal feature of the grease trap that was incorrect, and couldn't be repaired/modified in-ground.
It's buried quite deeply. I'd guess it's 5' 1.5m below paving elevation/grade.
Awesome day for flight.... so many milestones to see and in progress
Merci👍👍👍
0:01 Ande o no ande, trapo grande. Como me recuerda a nuestro carnicero de las Azores. Por si quedaba alguna duda de la deriva del Personaje.
That equipment wrapped in the metallic foil looks like battery production equipment by its size and shape. Look at the new video CATL just released to see a lot of it.
It looks like that missing window pane is gong to be missing for a while. My guess is that they found a defect in the pane when they tried to install it (whether it came with one or they broke it, same result). Now they're patching up the hole, which suggests the replacement will take a long time to come it; it's obviously a custom order, so it may take months.
Probably. I thought maybe they are leaving it partially open for fans for temporary ventilation. I don’t know…
@@MJ-zo5gb That's certainly possible, too. I'm pretty sure we saw them installing that window pane, but it was quickly removed, though I could be remembering wrong.
What is going on @10:18 with the row of black cars up against the cathode building?
What's a price estimate on that transformer?
14:36. New transformer. More than likely this is the transformer you spotted in the Airwave Dynamics 12 October video at 0.03 and 4.48 etc.
Looks the same, extra heavy duty low-loader the same. Good spot.
😉
At the tunnel west. Placing foundation pads for some kind of a canopy. I thought they would want to keep storm water out of the tunnel.
Over a year to still not have the tunnel ready for use. Disgusting and shows the old fashioned way of doing things is much better, blast the tunnel or dig it out and it would be finished in half the time. Or the boring company is still learning the very basics. But I believe they were reporting that there machine was faster than any other method, this like almost every announcment by musk is wrong. Same with the cybertruck and it's inferior cheap stainless steel. Damn my sink is going through the ultimate punishment, no patina, or rust as normal people call it, sad that my sink, the cheapest on the market has better quality materials than the cybertruck. People need to stop buying stuff just to buy it and shun inferior products. We did it with China who now have upped there game and quality of there products have improved a lot.
🤗THANKS BRAD,FOR THE UPDATE 😎⚡️⚡️⚡️
Giga Berlin is already decorating for Christmas! Is Giga Texas going to be a "Grinch Factory" again this year?? BTW: GIGA Berlin's employee parking lot is much better landscaped than GIGA Texas. Please, ELON spend some of our Shareholder's money on improving your " Junk-Yard Dog" look!!!!!
I agree completely 100 percent!