Here ya go wolf a pic or two to make ya feel even betterer about power ,
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this was a stainless steel box ,
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Now it has a Small hole in it

Plasma, the fourth state of matter.

Nobody puts Plasma in the corner. NOBODY!

Plasma eats honeybadgers for breakfast.

Oh so true V , oh so true

Oh and just so you know this is what a rail switch looks like when it is MASSSSSIVELY locked out
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Oh and Sump pumps are wounderfull things ,
Customer " You Meen we have to keep that rail scale pumped out ????"
Me " That would be a Good idea "

This scale is approx 12-14' wide , 70 or so feet long and about 5 feet deep
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Call me in a Couple of days once its pumped out

34,000 gallons is a pretty good pool.:rolleyes:

re lockout tags.

I guess I don't really know how that works... I thought I did, in concept, but that picture blows my mind. Do you really need the whole United Nations to operate that switch? What's going on there?

oops.

It might be that the lockout tags correspond to the number of crew working on that line.

Each one tags on, and each one removes only their own tag as they come out.

I've known a similar system for maintenance crew working inside giant printing/folding machines in presses.


The sump thing is simple. A manager figured to save money by not getting it pumped, and since there wasn't a problem straight away, they figured it was okay. Time passed ...

When working on something like that a person or crew puts a lockout tag on it so that the switch CANNOT be turned on. For example, think an electrical breaker. You need to work on the wiring withOUT any electricity. So you turn it off and put a lockout tag on it so you are assured no one will turn it on and electrocute you while you are working.

In the picture above it would seem that there are many people working on different things associated with that switch.

Makes sense, thank you. I'd figured it was something like that, but I was thinking more along the lines of what it would take to get that switch changed; *ALL* those tags have to come off, meaning all the downstream workers need to get finished and come collect their tag. I reckon each one has some kind of contact id on it so that the tag can be traced to a given worker.

Thanks. :)

this one is interesting, and touches on lock out/tag out procedures

so i'm looking into lightning protection for work. this may or may not be the only vid i post on it. this is an inspection of an existing system off the coast of Nigeria. Nothing happens to anyone here. all i can say is OH HELLLLLL NO! My ass isn't climbing up there!! I'm terrified of heights!

p.s. - flying a plane is different. it's like driving a car down the highway...only with one more axis.

interesting:

lightning explained



lightning rods part 1:



lighting rods part 2:

I could swear I've seen "Klaus" on TV somewhere.

somewhere?

my guess is on the screen.

*******

plt, those were very interesting, thanks. I can see now why that dude was fiddle-fucking around with eleventeen of those little tiny wires eight miles high. Why? o why? because each one is contributing to the positive streaming.