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Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
As I said before, I spent half my life as an Electrician but never got into power generation save to say that the thing ran. Last night I watched a video on Micro Hydro Electric Generation. This one could do about 2000 watts from a little wheel in a Colorado creek. I was surprised that this Generator could be wired to do anything from 120 Volts to 480 V. Three Phase. The biggest surprise to me was that excitation frequency was handled in a little controller. I'd expected some sort of mechanical governor.

I think that where I live, none of this would be permitted by the Government.

A further, pleasant surprise is that in many third world areas, they use Micro Generation, village to village, because many people are understanding the environmental devastation that large dams wreak.
I'm going to test you to see if you really were an electrician.
How do you pronounce the word, "wire".
Spell your pronunciation phonetically.
 

Audie

Veteran Member
I needed some high pressure hydraulic fittings (Around 10,000 psi).
I searched the internet with little success.
So I went to McMaster Carr.
They had what I wanted at reasonable prices.
Their catalog is a great info resource....complete & concise summaries.
They explained differences & compatibility of NPT & NPTF threads.
I ordered the items late yesterday.
They arrived today.

Louis V on the Champs E
is the store for me.
 

Brickjectivity

Turned to Stone. Now I stretch daily.
Staff member
Premium Member
I needed some high pressure hydraulic fittings (Around 10,000 psi).
I searched the internet with little success.
So I went to McMaster Carr.
They had what I wanted at reasonable prices.
Their catalog is a great info resource....complete & concise summaries.
They explained differences & compatibility of NPT & NPTF threads.
I ordered the items late yesterday.
They arrived today.
Sears is having to close hundreds of stores and currently has some sales online. They're selling their Sidewinder tape measure for 12.99.

Sadly they have stopped selling some hand clamps that I want more of. I have two of them. I would have bought more if they had just been maybe 40% less expensive. Now they are unavailable. They are ratcheting clamps shaped like pliers that have a release like vice grips. They're quite handy. There are some decent prices on some of their other clamps.

Sears has gradually been closing out hardware products since its merger with K-Mart. The whole thing is rumored to be a venture capital scheme to make money off of the slow bleeding of these two businesses. They've been skillfully mismanaged over the last ten or so years. Now comes the visible selling off of the hull left over once its core has been sucked out by worms. Great store though with interesting tools, always priced just out of reach.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Sears is having to close hundreds of stores and currently has some sales online. They're selling their Sidewinder tape measure for 12.99.

Sadly they have stopped selling some hand clamps that I want more of. I have two of them. I would have bought more if they had just been maybe 40% less expensive. Now they are unavailable. They are ratcheting clamps shaped like pliers that have a release like vice grips. They're quite handy. There are some decent prices on some of their other clamps.

Sears has gradually been closing out hardware products since its merger with K-Mart. The whole thing is rumored to be a venture capital scheme to make money off of the slow bleeding of these two businesses. They've been skillfully mismanaged over the last ten or so years. Now comes the visible selling off of the hull left over once its core has been sucked out by worms. Great store though with interesting tools, always priced just out of reach.
You should go to Menards.
Those clamps are sometimes on sale for sinfully low prices.
They even carry spendy German tools by Knipex & Wiha.
 

Ellen Brown

Well-Known Member
Your pronunciation is uncharacteristically normal for an electrician.
Perhaps it improved after you retired, eh.
That's gotta be it!

I got involved with the Electrical thing because the pay was good, and I had babies. The work was actually boring one minute and terrifying the next. A good Electrician is a large part Attorney, because you memorize the Code and adhere to it, and try to keep morons from getting you killed. Toward the end, I was a Licensed Electrical Inspector, but found that contending with idiot bullies was not for me.

I'm from the NW of Oregon, so don't have that Okie accent like my rels.

Had I lived a more privileged life, I should have enjoyed Archeology, Anthropology, and perhaps a bit of Theology, but I would not have allowed the leaders to badger and bully.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
I got involved with the Electrical thing because the pay was good, and I had babies. The work was actually boring one minute and terrifying the next. A good Electrician is a large part Attorney, because you memorize the Code and adhere to it, and try to keep morons from getting you killed. Toward the end, I was a Licensed Electrical Inspector, but found that contending with idiot bullies was not for me.

I'm from the NW of Oregon, so don't have that Okie accent like my rels.

Had I lived a more privileged life, I should have enjoyed Archeology, Anthropology, and perhaps a bit of Theology, but I would not have allowed the leaders to badger and bully.
I know some electricians who work on power lines.
They do say that some people are really bent on dying.
 

Ellen Brown

Well-Known Member
I know some electricians who work on power lines.
They do say that some people are really bent on dying.

I didn't work on anything over 480 V hot. Here in Oregon, the Utility folk have a lot of that sewn up and they can have it. Oh, we did have some motors that were around 7,000 volts (can't remember exactly). The way the starter was built, it was impossible to do anything live. And they had self diagnostics that identified the issue easily.

There is a procedure we called "Meggering", where the motor was not running and one would check the resistance between the windings to check for developing shorts, and other things. The motor and leads could take quite a charge, so you had to ground that stuff to get rid of the charge. One time I got quite a jolt off the charged lines.
 

Flame

Beware
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The Rushmore Taffy Store in Keystone. :D I always make sure to buy a few lbs of taffy when I'm in the Hills.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
I didn't work on anything over 480 V hot. Here in Oregon, the Utility folk have a lot of that sewn up and they can have it. Oh, we did have some motors that were around 7,000 volts (can't remember exactly). The way the starter was built, it was impossible to do anything live. And they had self diagnostics that identified the issue easily.

There is a procedure we called "Meggering", where the motor was not running and one would check the resistance between the windings to check for developing shorts, and other things. The motor and leads could take quite a charge, so you had to ground that stuff to get rid of the charge. One time I got quite a jolt off the charged lines.
The most I'll touch is 120VAC.
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I wasted my life.

Oogie Games.

Retro gamers paradise!!!!

Plus they fixed my PlayStation. :O]
 
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