Opening a Capacitor bank
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- Hey Everyone!
Just a little Cap bank POV for yas 🤣. 7200/12470 volts
I actually had a line out not far, and was waiting for back up. I noticed the center phases open on this cap bank on the way out, so I figured I get a work order on the go to get things fixed up while I was waiting.
Checking for amperage isn't a necessary step when opening a cap bank, but I figured I show yas how an amp check works off a stick. 👊
As always...
My videos are to be used as guidelines only. Always adhere to your companies work methods and procedures.
My computer is acting up real bad, so I'm having trouble getting some content out as of late. I've got a brand new one in the box and a ToN of files to transfer before it crashes completely.
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#Bobsdecline #Lineman #Hotstick
I have no idea why you popped up on my feed, but this is interesting.
Same
Same here
same here man😂
Same here 😁
COVID algorithm
Back in the late '70's, I was a Navy electrician on a line crew on a small island in the middle of Bravo Foxtrot Echo. It was a 24/7 construction site during my whole assignment. Service interuptions and cut cables were the norm. I was learning safety and work practices from other Sailors who learned it 15 minutes before me. After watching you work and the use of your PPE with hot sticks, I marvel at how I did not come home in a body bag! I dig your video from the safety of retirement!
Times have changed for sure, Even in the last 10 years! Sounds like quite an adventure 🌏! Thanks for taking the time to drop a comment 👊👊
Thats a clever way to say BFE lol
Best times happen on those small islands too. I miss the pacific. Hard to believe that not long ago the pacific was one of the worst places a service member could be sent. Glad we settled our differences cause I experienced the best times of my life. If I knew how I’d show some of the views I got, especially in the bucket.
@@6181green yeah..it's a Seabee thing! lol!
My dad told me he enjoyed being out in the middle of nowhere on those islands in the mid 70's. He worked with the US naval oceanographic department. said he green uniform was the same as the seabee's
One sound piece of advice I got as an apprentice was being told that opening an xxx KVAR cap bank under load is the same as an equivalent xxx KVA transformer as far as load dropping, we have a lot of 1200+ KVAR fixed cap banks, and if anyone has ever opened a large step down without load busting it they know what kind of an arc you can draw.
@@gregclemen8999 Too slow is bad for contacts
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I've received a ton of questions about this- During the actual opening of the device I look away incase of equipment failure. I do have some other videos which take a much closer look at the actual switch if your interested
Hope everyone is well! I apologize for the wind noise in this one :( Its been windy here for the past 3 months! I don't normally check amperage when operating capacitors, but wanted to show how easy it is the rig up an amp meter on a hot stick 👊👊
Cheers all! 🍻
Bob sometimes instead of waiting we shunt out capacitors in place, put a jumper on neutral and hit the top side with the other end on shotgun stick.
Oh boy is this a dangerous job! I salute everybody that does it! They can't pay me enough to do it!
So, you acknowledge noise... Perhaps put the app reading in the description or as a title on that part of the video since we can't hear. P.s. your whole point was to show the breaking of the connection. You looking away might be necessary for safety, but remember your go pro looked away too. Kinda pointless of a video if two goals didn't get passed along to us. :(
Patrick T , nobody’s perfect. He’s creating content which is interesting to linemen. You’re griping over free content. Have a banana 🍌
@@pmheart6 Thanks for the feedback man 🍻 I try and capture what I can, to share online... It can be difficult at times. To show the exact operation of the device would likely be in a controlled environment.
People like me worship you power workers like another form of faith, where the hell would we be without reliable electricity. Heroes by another name, always putting their lives in danger to keep the lights on. Love this channel, was always wanting to see more of this on YT and for whatever reason the algo only NOW decided to show you, despite me always being interested in electricity distribution. Mad respect.
I watch your videos because I have an interest in the power system, how it works, and primarily what Lineman do and how they do it. I could just watch you for hours fix a simple outage and enjoy every minute of it, though by no means am I a lineman myself... I just enjoy watching people like you do your job for some reason..
Cant wait till your next upload! 🤜🤛 West Virginia, United States Of America
That's awesome! I love hearing from guys/girls that are watching and aren't in the trade. I try my best to upload content that helps explain our trade from different points of view for that reason 😃
Thanks for the comment! 👊👊
Damn, from euthanizing bees to grid capacitors, the algorithm is going nuts lately... Cool video BTW
Lol I followed the exact same path!
@@stargazer7644 Ditto. I randomly found bee death by soapy water and now this.
Between AVE and a Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog, and the Jet City jet engine rebuild guy, I think it knows I like Canadians, and this guy sounds Canadian, and it knows I like technical stuff and power line stuff, so it makes sense!
And I had to scroll past the bee euthanization video to get to this one, it keeps trying to get me to watch it lol
Rofl same here! I don't mind though, both were interesting to watch :)
Same path
where i used to live in Los Angeles.. Korea town actually.. my spanish speaking neighbors said they had trouble sleeping at night.. the power poles scared them at night.. they said that almost every night at 11 PM.. the pole would throw fire.. so i sat out on my porch that night.. all of a sudden a massive arc flash. that continued for probably 10 or 12 seconds.. lit up the entire street. i dashed out to the sidewalk and i could see a massive column of smoke trailing away from the capacitor bank on the pole down at the secondary level. i called LADWP.. ask them to have a line crew come by and call me when they get there. they looked up at the capacitors with some binoculars.. said they look ok from here.. i described what i had seen the night before.. thats not possible.. these people standing here tell me it happens almost every night just minutes after 11PM.. since the pole is only about 12 feet from their apartment windows.. it really scares them.. they said its like a volcano.. the crowd or residents nodded.. when they went up.. the terminals on the caps and half the insulators had been burned away... probably that everybody turned off their TV and lights at 11 pm and went to bed.. everybody in that building worked. so it was either the power rising up from the loss of load or dew settling on top of the caps. i thought you might get a kick out of that..
i did call in a damaged power pole one time.. the LADWP operator said.. describe the issue..i said the first 12 feet of your pole is missing.. she said so the wires are down.. no.. just the first 12 feet of the pole... its kinda floating there suspending by the wires running in 2 directions..
lastly.. on the road to the city of 29 palms.. a drunk driver had left the road.. broke the power pole off.. but the wires were tightly strung and very strong as that was the main power into that entire area.. the drunk had hit the pole so hard that the pole went over the top twice.. twisting the primary wires together.. i don't know how they unwound them. they did not want to cut the mass of pole away and have it unwind like a rubber band airplane propeller..
Man these stories were a ride from hell thanks for sharing!! 😂😂
Craziness! Thanks for sharing!
My dad said he was watching TV one day, saw a flash and heard a boom and the power went out. He looked out the front window and saw a squirrel tail draped over the edge of the transformer on the pole. Mr. Squirrel had shorted it out! Called the power company and the lineman who fixed things told him that happens on a regular basis. The squirrel was unavailable for comment.
@@B-and-O-Operator-Fairmont my brother lived up in Noon Washington. north east of bellingham. not even one signal. the power went out during a heavy snow storm. it was out for days which was unusual when the storm let up. when the crews found the downed wire.. there was a bear attached to it.. did the wire fall on the bear.. did the bear see the arc's and investigate.. was the bear up the pole and climbed on the wire and brought it down .. nobody knows.
decades earlier . i was on a test drive with my cousins husband not to far from there. he hit a pot hole where a water crew had dug up the pavement to install a water meter.. it rattled the car.. he grumbled under his breath.. i said its just a pot hole.. they are all over.. he replied .. its not bad enough to hit a pot hole.. i'm the guy who dug it 2 hours ago and the asphalt crew missed filling it.
I had a rubber band plane as a kid , next time I will consider using poles
I don't know a damn thing about electricity, but i find these videos very interesting. We learn something new everyday. Be safe!
I’m a tradesman and I like watching other guys do their trade. Upstate NY
I worked in upstate NY for a little over a year. We were building the Marble River Wind Farm. Beautiful area the farms northern boarder was the Canadian border. I used to fly into Burlington VT and cross the champlain on a ferry boat to get there. Great experience!
Same! Kinda lol I do welding for the company I work for which specializes in coastal drilling. Big money people don't see!
That load buster didn't bust my load, I demand a refund!
I’m an apprentice electrician and I wish my youth would last long enough to let me try all the trades
Really cool to see the load buster tool in action. As an electrical engineer for a power company, I’ve seen a load buster tool before but I didn’t fully understand how it was actually used until seeing this. Capacitive current is no joke either cause of its I=C dv/dt relationship. Keep making these great videos!
I don't even work in this field and I enjoyed this. Always interesting to see this kind of stuff at work. Thanks.
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One of the most important people you will ever meet, these guys, they do a job that benefits everyone. If you have any doubt then wait til your power goes out and you'll find out just how much we depend on them. Great video and I just joined. Going to watch more right now.
Retired mechanic, Vancouver Island, Canada.
I used to work in a Hydro Electric plant years ago. Kept the bucket trucks and equipment going. Also worked with the line crew when they were doing maintenance on the line.
It's been about 30 years since I last had anything to do with it.
Had a truck go down in the switch yard one day, lineman literally held onto my collar all the time I was working on the truck, making sure I was in the safe zone.
Great guys and much respect for what you do.
PS, no idea why UA-cam decided to put you into my feed but good stuff.
I'm a water treatment plant operator in SE Virginia. WTP's are large consumers of electricity and we are directly affected by what you do. We love you guys when we get knocked offline, you are there day or night to get us back up and running.. Really fascinating videos.
1 of the most dangerous jobs out there. 1 mistake can kill an entire crew!
These guys have balls of granite and nerves of steel!!
Everything is fine until somebody makes the wrong slip. It isn't often discussed, but "primary" voltage - from about 7000 volts and up - is explosive when people make contact across conductors with their bodies. The effect on hands is not much different than a half stick of dynamite. Being a lineman is a life filled with calm but very serious attention.
About a year before I retired a pair of our linemen were working on underground conductors, one at each end of the segment they were working on. The guy on the "cold" end stood on top of the steel cover plate and radioed the guy on the hot end to close it in. There was an enormous BOOM from a fault right under the plate which blew him off his feet. No injury, but no fun either. If he had been standing beside the plate it could have been very bad - a flying steel plate weighing a couple hundred pounds and an arc flash as hot as the surface of the sun (10,000F - twice as hot as a light bulb filament.) Another day in the life.
Retired general contractor from NYC, watching from Fredericksburg, VA. I spent a lot of time in my younger days teaching IBEW Local 3 guys over in the JIB about computer wiring and power conditioning, and spent some time as a NY Tel installer and lineman. Mad respect for you crazy bastards at the top of the pole.
Mad respect for linemen.
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@@Bobsdecline Yeah, you almost make this line of work look _fun!_ Almost. 😁
Cheers from Poland! I'm an electrician too, though not a lineman. I love my job, and it's great that there are other people like me in the world :-)
When this popped up in my feed, I thought it was Bigclive so I clicked it. It wasn't Bigclive but I sat here fastinated, watched it all the way through and subscribed!
Thanks for keepin the lights on! Mad RESPECT as a fellow tradesman...Civilians don't have a clue how often you guys flirt with death...
Everything is a technicality until something goes wrong.
Weird, this showed up in my recommended videos and it was fascinating. You guys are unsung heroes man!
North Carolina... I'm a service electrician down south here and don't miss the weather you get to play in... God bless you sir
My dad was a senior engineer at PSE&G of NJ as well as head of ANSI. Many's the day I went with him during hurricane's, years ago, as a child. Now I'm 79 (on July 4th, 2020) and glad to see you doing what linesmen do... and doing it well! Good luck, sir! de KQ2E
I worked for electric and gas utilities for over 40 years but never had an opportunity to see this done. Thanks for showing this - very interesting!
It’s sad how people seem to forget the time and effort needed to keep things running smoothly thank you for your hard work and stay safe out there
stumbled across your page. i went to line school a 10 years ago with intentions of getting an apprenticeship with the local utility. multiple offers from the contractor side but just didnt want to live out of a suitcase. So i switched and get a inside Industrial electrican apprenticeship. lots of respect for the lineman out there
I worked 32 years as a technician at a medium sized utility. We didn't interact with linemen very much (our dept installed hv breakers and xfmrs) but we sometimes jokingly referred to them as size 13 boots and size 5 hard hat. Not to their faces because they tended to have tougher guys than we did. It was all in good fun. Respect.
Mad respect for y'all. I've worked with some "dangerous" cap banks (DC) in lab work that went up to 50kV. Pulsed power work and stuff like that. But here's the thing: I wouldn't go near your job for love nor money - it's a completely different level of total power / fault current / arc flash capability with power lines. NOPE! I mean, the biggest pulse cap bank I worked with might have taken off a finger... but I've seen what real arc flash can do. Yikes. And then here's you guys, out in the rain during storms working on that shit hot... NNOOPPEE. ^_^ I'm so glad there's people with the know-how, equipment, and testicular fortitude to get this s__t done for the rest of us!
Commercial journeyman electrician from Kentucky, so glad I found your channel! Love seeing fellow sparkies
Linemen, plumbers, and garbage men keep the modern world civil. Just found you, I'm subscribed. The work you do is more valuable than any CEO.
Bless you linemen, we'd all be in the stone age without you guys maintaining our electric grid. Used to work at a power company, driving to substations and assessing damage. 👊 from Maryland, US.
Thanks! 👊👊
Tampa Bay Area Florida- just always liked watching and learning how things work and how they are repaired.
Awesome! I'm an electrical technician from Brazil and I work with eletric distribution. Really enjoyed seeing you showing your day to day. 👏
Thanks Gabriel! Cheers 👊🤝
From Central Arkansas- thanks for what you do. Utility workers don’t get the recognition they deserve. Stay Safe
I've always had respect for people that work on power lines. I know there is much training and knowledge involved but there is always an element of risk. Great video.
That's nice having a spring loaded tool to unseat the fuses without having to jerk each one and potentially fall out of the bucket.
Ahhh thanks for this comment, it just clicked for me and now i fully understand whats going on.
That is not what that tool does:
It is a load buster, and it has load break contacts inside it. It diverts the the arc to inside it.
It is a SHORT when contracted. You attach it both the top (hot) hook, and the cutout pull ring.
When you pull the cutout open (no flash), the current diverts through the load break, then the load buster trips open upon continued extension, breaking the load there, and dissipating the arc inside.
There is a youtube video from a manufacture that details theirs...
@@mcanderson0 Actually that is not the purpose of this tool. See my other comment here to Dave's Stuff or Google it. There is detailed youtube by a manufacturer on how they work.
Excellent video
When I used to spray substations for vegetation control I always gave Cap Banks lots of respect. They were the one piece of equipment that always made me a bit nervous lol
That's a good thing 👌 . Not being nervous is when people get hurt
Someone once said touching the wrong contact would be technically interesting but not much fun.
Little field cap banks are not that big of a deal. Nothing to be nervous about any more than anything else HV.
But, there are much larger banks, usually in substations. You don't want to be _that_ squirrel. BOOOM!
I think UA-cam finally fixed their algorithm for the better. I'm getting a lot more independent, educational, and positive videos like yours lately. Thanks for being awesome. Subscribed.
UK based High Voltage distribution Engineer, I work in the 33kV 3 phase 50Hz distribution and the 750V DC traction power switchgear which feeds the conductor rail for the trains ( we use a lot of 3 and 4 MW rectifiers) I have also worked on the 25kV single phase distribution switchgear which feeds the overhead contact wire. Been working for the UK railways in heavy current and high voltage for 45 years 👍👍
👍 from a 38 year retired lineman/troubleshooter from Louisiana, USA!
That's a long time on the lines! Congrats on your retirement! Have fun, enjoy it!
Thank you sir! Keep up the good work showing the public the hazards of the trade & fellow brothers & sisters some tricks to make the job easier & safer. Stay Safe Brother. I've watched you for a while & will continue.
Thanks so much for the kind words!
I work at a steel mill in maintenance.. always wondered what our line gang did when stuff like this happens. Glad I got to see it up close and it was cool to see another person's trade. Thanks for the cool video! Watching from Farrell, PA
This is great stuff. I work in utility automation and I don't always get a lot of exposure to everything linemen are out there doing. Learning this kind of stuff gives me a better feel for the systems I work on as a whole.
This is fantastic. Thanks very much for showing us this process. Messaging you from Taiwan.
You linemen have a much more dangerous job than cops but don’t seem to wear it on your sleeve like they do. My respects to all of you for the work you do. I live in Fort Worth and we loose power almost every summer when it’s over 100 out. And you guys get our power back on as quick as possible.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I dunno about that. The police don't always know what they're dealing with... the linemen do.
I got nothing but respect and appreciation
From Dallas,Tx
Houston, TX here!!! This is my first video of yours and I’m definitely subscribing!! My dad was a lineman for 32+ years, with another 8+ in the 3-phase meter lab. I myself have been workin for 12 years now at the same company in the Substation department.
To go along with your advice on capacitors, we’ve had it where that internal bleed-down resistor opens and a residual charge stays stored, so we also will temporarily ground across the cap bushings to let that ground fully discharge the cap. Glad I found your channel!! Stay safe, brother!!! 👊🏻
It's good to see up close raw vids you're teaching us all about your job. Good job nice videos
I’ve always had a great deal of respect for those who work on the high voltage lines. 👍😎
UA-cam just sent me here. Inside wireman from Omaha, Nebraska! I love all things electrical same finding your channel is awesome!
Matthew Schafer are sure you’re a lineman or did you just listen to Glen Campbell and have a daydream about being one ? Ride the lightning !
@@derekhall1934 not a lineman, inside wireman. Local 22
@@derekhall1934 if u want an electrician, I'd probably, end up,and forgive me for saying this, an electrical engineer. Sorry for bringing those guys into this
I am an electrician and love learning from your videos. I am meeting some lineman today to shut power off to an underground pedastal. I am in St Pete FL, USA.
Greetings from Hainesport, NJ!
I’ve always been fascinated by the nuts and bolts of the electrical system. Thanks for this.
A friend was working on a burglar alarm panel at a substation, part way through he realised he didn't have all the parts required, so he headed off to get them.
When he came back there were emergency services everywhere, and on closer inspection, the wall where he had been working on the alarm panel was no more.
On the opposite side of that brick wall was a bank of capacitors, one had let go and trashed the place.
Boy was he glad he didn't have all the parts and had to leave....
Presumably it didn't involve drilling any wall anchors.... 😜
Love the videos, I'm an electrician working in the maintenance department at my local university, we have about 30 buildings to maintain and we are 3 electricians..👊, from sudbury, Ontario, Canada
I bet that can get quite busy at times! 👊👊
At times yes, and considering the incoming power and most of our main switchgear , transformers, and MCC's were installed in early 1960, scary at times. But it keeps us on our toes...Keep up the great work Sir...👍👍
I VERY SELDOM like videos (because I watch on my TV). But yours I like every one. You’re smart, know the rules, and follow them to the letter. Keep up the great videos please.
When you work on components like those capacitors, perhaps a sentence or two of what their function is. I'll bet many of your viewers are like me. They might suspect the intended function. But, are not certain. My guess, is that these capacitors bypass away high frequency noise and sharp voltage spikes that 20 mile long antenna is sure to pick up.
I'm on it! Lol ... I totally didn't think this particular video would get many views from non Lineman. Stupid move on my part 😔 . I'll be uploading a follow up showing the actual load buster up close while away from energized wires.
Thanks for the feedback 👊! And you got that right on the antenna thing 😆
power factor correction as close to 1 bad power factor draws more current needing bigger wires
@@stevepatrick5058 Exactly so! When lines are engineered some margin is built in (larger conductors are expensive and increase risk of wind snapping a series of poles) but hte load inevitably catches up. Cap banks bring the current back in phase sp the most actual power is transferred for the current.
These capacitor banks came in when air conditioning got popular. The motors in the air conditioners produce a lot of inductive reactance. The capacitors: capacitive reactance. These two out of balance produce several problems.
I would also imagine those capacitors would also help redirect unwanted current, as if when lightening rides the wires...
greeting from Panama city FL **Callaway FL** , alot of us have a lot of respect for linemen since hurricane Michael hit TY for all ur work !
Houston Texas.
A close friend worked for HL&P which is now center point. He worked on the underground stuff here in Downtown.
Anyways I enjoy your videos, so when me and my buddy are riding around I can explain stuff to him and sound like I know what I'm talkin about LoL!!
Stay safe! 👊
I am about to go to lineman school this is great help for us guys in the upcoming generations
Kaboom! Great video! Learned a lot that's helping me with stuff I'm doing back at the head shed.
Watching from Mansfield PA, was power lineman in the Air Force from 1973 - 2002
Awesome vid bro. I've been a Lineman in New Zealand 🇳🇿 for 25 years and always good to see a vid from someone who knows there stuff. Be safe bro👍
Thanks man! 👊👊
Hi Im watching from New Zealand. Very very good. Keep safe and all your loving work.!! Cheers Dave.
First experience with lineman work. It was a great training video. I learned something today. Thanks
Never saw this work up close before. Respect and thanks for keeping the 💡s on 👊 Ontario
Shoutout from Southern NH. Lots of love from the Granite State for all our friends up north in Canada who have come to help us out during severe weather. If you see a Lineman, buy them some Dunks!
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Hey Aaron, what’s up? I’ve been watching your videos lately because they are very entertaining and I’ve learned a ton of things that I was unaware of. I’m watching your videos from Mexico.🇲🇽 keep up the good work and thanks a lot for teaching us how electrical equipment is used the right way and the correct procedures to finish the job the safest way. Most of these guys here on UA-cam probably charge us some cash to teach us but you do everything for free and you expose yourself to dangers everyday like a champ. Like a real linemen. I was kind of thrown off when I saw your last video of you working on a pad-mounted transformer on a roundabout while it was raining. Sheesh, I know that you take the highest safety measures and precautions but just be careful man. I sent you my compliments and a 🤜🤛 all the way from León Guanajuato, México. Congratulations!😊
Hey Mario! I appreciate very much that you took the time to write that!
It's a trade that doesn't get a lot of real life public exposure.
Cheers man! 👊🤝
Fascinating video mate. Watching in Newport, Shropshire near Birmingham in England. When I was 16 I did my first work experience at the MANWEB training centre in a place called Hoylake, Wirral near Liverpool. It was a fabulous place they trained guys on HV, transformers overhead power transmission, switching and all the other stuff including house wiring. I wish I’d followed up on that direction I quite fancied working on HV systems and power distribution. Ended up working amongst many other fields in Electronics but I did work on radio transmission which was fascinating work keeping high power HF transmitters on air.
I'm calling it now, your channel will blow up. The algorithm has chose you
For the record: I am watching from Hanover, Germany.👊
Nice and interesting video as always. I watched all of your videos so far. There is many opportunity to learn about the ups and downs of your job. There should be much more videos from you, please keep posting!
I could never be a lineman - I am afraid of height, that seems to be not really the best starting point for a career as lineman. ;-)
2 Questions arised:
Why is the star point of the Capacitor bank connected to neutral, shouldn't it be sufficient to connect the terminals only to each other to build an virtual star point?
Do you have some of the strange "Single wire earth return"-Lines in your region and if yes, can you please show and explain these, if the chance occurs?
Mann, ich bin in Göttingen, was für ein Zufall!
It's good practice to ground anything that's not intentionally live.
Manchester, England 👊👊 stay safe dude, big respect for the work you do keeping the lights on.
Nice work. Beautiful weather. UA-cam recommendation algorithm dragged you video all the way to India.
Awesome! Thanks man! 👊
My great uncle is a retired lineman, old enough he has trouble walking. He has so much experience that, until a few years ago, he was still getting called in every time a hurricane was particularly hard on the power lines. He said that every time he said it would be the last one, but they kept offering him just enough to come back for a few weeks. Counting his "retirement," I think he has about 50 or 60 years of experience. It was his first career, and he stayed in it until he was too old to keep at it, then kept getting called back for more.
I can't even count the number of horror stories he has about people forgetting safety procedures just once.
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Bob we need a video on voltage regulators, I watched a fellow lineman burn the end of his stick off opening them, he got it between the blades, and the potential difference smoked his stick.
Watching from Brisbane, Australia. Hey-yeah!
Haha just randomly stumbled across this channel and I'm like man this guy looks familiar. Then I'm watching the intro and I see myself putting out a fire on your channel. Small world, I subbed.
Inside wireman from Denver Co., Much respect for our lineman brothers 👊
I've watched several of your videos so far. Cool stuff! I just subscribed. Watching from Davenport, IA.
why am I here? I have no idea
did I watch the whole thing? *yes*
Excellent video, Aaron! So many great comments here, too! I wish I could upvote each one!
Your channel is amazing. I had no idea all the work involved. I mean I didn't think it was easy but yea. Me and electricity don't mix. I didn't learn until after 3 times with the metal knife in the light socket when I was a toddler. I'm in Warren, Pennsylvania.
This dude is the director of safety training at his company, posing as a lineman 😂
Interesting to see hv work. I only work on 400/230 in UK but its great to be let into the world of linesmen to see how you guys keep the lights on.
Sir, I do some electrical repairs where I live and use the best safety equipment I can find like insulated gloves, shoes, multimeters with No Contact Voltage detection, safety glasses, clamp on ammeter, and a fault line dectector. A few times I managed to replace 220 breakers on the main panel. I was nervous but I do have a healthy respect for electricity and for the Work that you do.
Cheers...
Eugene
Cheers mate for the algorithm finding your channel. You'll crack open a bottle of champagne next year when you reack 100k subscribers if you keep improving your content, video editing skills, and overall quality. Love your content!
Human approved. If that's a good thing of course....... =)
Totally a good thing ✌️
Human ...Such a good channel name 🙌
I did not expect you to be here Cory, small world eh?
The long intro is the best!
I laughed at the amp-meter on the hot-stick, but I'm not sure what else I could have expected. It's so simplistic because it works.
We've used em for years! There are actual high voltage ammeters now that are specific for high voltage use
I grew up in the home of a substation operator for BPA. Went into the Navy for 6 years and completed ET school, a C school and completed by tour. When I got out of the Navy Affirmative Action was in full force. Not having the bonus points for race and gender, I went into a civilian trade instead. This open discrimination is in effect today. It is time to end all discrimination based on race and gender.
I still did OK, but instead of a pension, I have my savings and investments. I knew anytime an employer asked for race, gender, or Native American status, they were aiming at a quota and were giving preference to the protected classes.
We should be a land of equal opportunity. Look at the population of any homeless camp to the the down and out from being unsuccessful in employment.
In a word, racism and discrimination is fine as long as its against whites. Seen plenty of that in my time in industry.
Watching from Trinidad & Tobago in the Caribbean.
I notice that you look away when operating the load buster. Is this so that, in case there’s an arc, it doesn’t cause eye damage?
Yessir! That's exactly what I'm doing
@@Bobsdecline I was also thinking to avoid being blasted in the face with something unexpected -- kinda like when firing field artillery.
Paul Fisher , Paul, probably a good idea to look away when operating breakers or fuses at you property also even if the dead front or cover are closed , the idea is at least your eyes , nose, lungs throat, and face won't get as much traumatic damage if things go bad !
Would the arc flash be similar to welding levels? Would a auto darkening welding helmet be an alternative?
@@michaelwillis1832 It is similar, but hotter (10,000F rather then 6000-7000) and bigger, but not as long-lasting. I don't know if he has mentioned it in other videos, but the clothing is "FR" (fire resistant, HRC 2 rated.) The flash reaches temperatures twice the boiling point of iron. Just sayin'.
Watching from NW Missouri. Thanks for the video.
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👊 awesome information about your job. Watching from Dalhart Texas
Watching from Central Queensland, Australia. I'll have to check out some of your other videos. Pretty good fun!
I have never seen someone hotstick an amp probe on a 7200 volt phase like that. New technique and I'm impressed. Bleeder resistor in cap bank is irrelevant correct. Always assume capacitor is charged like a stick of dynamite is the way I work on even small cap banks I've seen bleeders absent or fail and capacitor hold charge for long time. You a badass sir. East TN
No idea why youTube suggested this but I'm a subscriber now. From Perth, Western Australia. Interesting that you work alone; in Australia that's a real no-no.
I'm watching from NW WA State. I was out doing storm clean up with one of my crews one day after one of our windstorms. We were out clearing a tree that had taken down the power lines. PUD had removed the tree for us since lines were involved but they still left a mess. While I was picking up branches I noticed something dangling off one of the branches as I was going to feed it through the chipper. Turns out it was one of those cut out things that you pulled open in the video. It had blown off when the power went out and PUD replaced it with a new one as they couldn't find it in the mess. I drove up the road to where the PUD crew was and asked them about it. They were grateful to get it back (I was slightly disappointed as I thought it would make a cool addition to my road find collection). Turns out they can rebuild them and reuse them. I guess they are pretty expensive new from what the PUD guy told me.
My grandpa was a lineman once.
Very interesting too see some of the stuff he might have done over the years
Watchin from Bathurst buddy. Really like your work and always found the electrical grid fascinating. Never understood what NB Power workers to when they respond to troubles, but you are clearing that up one video at a time! ✌
I work traffic control for power down in NC. Always been interested in what y'all do, neat to see it from the top of the bucket.