The boys are pullin' the plug......

[Papa Bear]

...on the electric substation right behind our store...

I'm going to miss that 60 cycle hum that almost puts me to sleep on a slow day. They are moving it to another location.

That man on the right of the pair working there is my friend Doug....
he was switching 16KV lines a couple of years back and had a wardrobe malfuntion. Not like Janet Jackson....Doug lost his right arm below the elbow and 4 toes to burns !!!

He's recouperated well and "back at 'er" ..
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. Doug said those 3 transformers are about 16,000 lbs each..

 

[Gary Allan]

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I'm going to miss that 60 cycle hum that almost puts me to sleep on a slow day.

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That was the only time you noticed the insidious effects. You really should have worn your tinfoil hat for all that time.

 

[CBDFrontier06]

I remember the time a cat wandered into one of these a few blocks from my house. I'm sure he wasn't the first stray cat to nose around in there, but he marked his visit by leaving via a plastic bag. You could see the blue flash over the rooftops and we were without power for half the day. Poor kitty.

 

[Camu Mahubah]

I bet he didn't feel a thing...

 

[Shannow]

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I'm going to miss that 60 cycle hum that almost puts me to sleep on a slow day.

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Due to the magnetostrictive effect, the hum is double line frequency, i.e 120Hz over there and 100Hz here.

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Doug lost his right arm below the elbow and 4 toes to burns !!!

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Pretty lucky not to lose other appendages. Accordin gto our training, the HV AC travels close to the skin, and can blow off "dangly bits"

 

[GMGuy]

Those transformers are really shrinking in size. An old behemoth (installed in the early 70's) at one of the buildings I work at, with nice 3' long insulators got replaced with underground service and a tiny little 6x4x6 xfmr box.

Alex.

 

[Lonnie]

I worked in Africa where they had 25 cycle current and it was really distracting until you got used to it. At night you could here the 'twang when a big bird would hit the line and a few seconds later the thud when it hot the roof.

 

[MrCritical]

Growing up, my grandmother had a train track less than 100 feet from her back door. I remember the noise and vibration almost shaking me out of the bed the first few times I spent the night there. After a while, I never heard or felt it anymore.

Reminds me of the scene in the "Blues Brothers" where Elwood is shaken out of the bed when the train passes.

 

[Pablo]

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I'm going to miss that 60 cycle hum that almost puts me to sleep on a slow day.

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Due to the magnetostrictive effect, the hum is double line frequency, i.e 120Hz over there and 100Hz here.

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As I said in the other thread - it's just the words we use on this side of the pond...... don't matter if it's 59Hz or 132Hz - it's called a 60 cycle hum....expression of speech.

Glad to know AC can blow my nuutz off, though!

 

[oilyriser]

He never said Hz, just 60 cycle... maybe it's 60 cycles/0.5s

 

[alreadygone]

Had Keystone wheels and tires, Holley carb. stolen off of A1+ '69 Mach1 in the late '80's. By pure dumb luck (another story) cops recovered. Kinda kept up with the dirtbag who stole for a while. Found it hilarious when power company pulled fuse at transformer at house where he was living (he'd managed to hook up himself because house was supposed to be unocupied). Before utility truck was out of site he was up pole to rehook,,,,,not so lucky the second time! It did take off hand where it went in and ALL reproductives where it blew out!!!

 

[Dad2leia]

I somehow think that no additive will replenish those parts...

 

[Camu Mahubah]

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I worked in Africa where they had 25 cycle current and it was really distracting until you got used to it. At night you could here the 'twang when a big bird would hit the line and a few seconds later the thud when it hot the roof.

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So if a buzzard landed to look for carrion...he would soon be Carry-Out?...