Has anyone here worked with high voltage?

[Humanoid 3.0]

Lineman, military, tea kettle, or whatever. Not me. :waiting:


https://youtu.be/Nnjh-zp6pP4?si=kfYbABp-0t7129NG

[The_Dude]

Aerovette is a master electrician

[Torqaholic]

Worked with some big mixers and mills for a couple years making silicone products. When cleaning the equipment between batches I had to jerk some huge fuses and put a master lock on the switch.

[VatorMan]

I dabble in 13.8KV and below where I work. Of course, that's medium voltage in the utility world.

[Anjdog2003]

I was married to a Latina that was High Voltage with a terrible temper. When i got married i was 6 ft11, nine and a half years later i left the marriage at 6 ft 3.

[The_Dude]

I was married to a Latina that was High Voltage with a terrible temper. When i got married i was 6 ft11, nine and a half years later i left the marriage at 6 ft 3.

Solid input

[Bill]

I replaced the capacitor in my home a/c. Still alive.

[mrvette]

Shirley I have told about my background in the OLD Color TV trade from the 60's on up and then into5 years in the Walk Through metal detector trade, airports/prisons, nukey plants, etc.....
And Then into home remodeling....mainly kitchens/baths/additions/sheds, etc....

[Torqaholic]

I looked up one of the mixers, it had 45kw motor. We had a couple large rooms full of big machines. Can't imagine how much voltage was being supplied to those fuse cabinets. One wrong move and you're toast :rofl:

[Unsuspicious]

Volts will scare you but the amps will kill you

[Onebadcad]

I know a few rednecks, good doods but not family, up in Northern Florida that are high-voltage specialists, not their first jobs.

They will routinely move and relocate live wires from the street on their properties when needed to add another section to their existing manufactured homes.

They may be willing to take on your job request for less-than-market pricing, let me know.

[Anjdog2003]

Does that mean if my wife takes pills for head aches is that a drug addict?





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[Vince Clortho]

I did get blasted by the oven cord in an old Victorian house with knob and tube wiring. I'm still leery of touching oven or dryer plugs.

[DJ_Critterus]

Lineman, military, tea kettle, or whatever. Not me. :waiting:


https://youtu.be/Nnjh-zp6pP4?si=kfYbABp-0t7129NG
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[DJ_Critterus]

I did get blasted by the oven cord in an old Victorian house with knob and tube wiring. I'm still leery of touching oven or dryer plugs.

You could always flip the breaker to the off position or you could be the next Porter :yesnod:

[KenHorse]

I've worked with 5 KV before. And at substantial current - 1 amp or more

(Your average static discharge on a doorknob is much higher voltage but minuscule current, which is why it doesn't kill you)

[Bill]

I've worked with 5 KV before. And at substantial current - 1 amp or more

(Your average static discharge on a doorknob is much higher voltage but minuscule current, which is why it doesn't kill you)

Ha! Jokes on you. I died from net neutrality, and then again from the tax cuts.

[Frankie the Fink]

Its not voltage that kills you, its amperage. And yes I worked around Navy aircraft "yellow gear" like 'huffers'. I was working one shit when a man got electrocuted and died being careless around a piece of yellow gear.

[Yadkin]

Early 90's I was tasked with design/ build for a processing plant, located as part of a large municipal site.

Hired my father, then a retired EE, to do the electrical layout for me. We had to branch off the main overhead power line to the plant and the step down to 480V for our processes.

The municipality made us put in not just one, but two sets of ground-mounted switchgear. I forget why, but I had budgeted only needed one. Damn that shit is expensive. Ate into my costs, but I made it up elsewhere.

[Mick]

I dabble in 13.8KV and below where I work. Of course, that's medium voltage in the utility world.

When I used to work in chemical plants, the big machinery would sometimes be attached to 13.8 KV, smaller stuff was usually 480V. Most of the plants were union, so non-union pukes like me weren't even allowed to touch anything electrical without at least a union electrician present. As such, I would normally let them do the touching. :yesnod:

[Tikiman]

I replaced the capacitor in my home a/c. Still alive.

I test nine-volt batteries with my tongue.

[KenHorse]

I test nine-volt batteries with my tongue.

You should try the same with Bill's capacitor (after it was charged)!

[Louie Detroit]

We had 440v machines in our plant that caused problems with nearby data collecting stands.

[Vince Clortho]

You could always flip the breaker to the off position or you could be the next Porter :yesnod:

I definitely do that at my house but I've been roped into working on relative's houses at times. I try to find their breakers whenever possible or ask a younger person to plug it in!

[Frankie the Fink]

I test nine-volt batteries with my tongue.

Meh when I used to fix TVs as a sideline I would see if I could get some yokel to put their fingers over the high tension lead to the old CRT-style picture tube; the tube was one big capacitor that could light off "crap-your-pants" level voltage.

I know....I'm going to hell....

[MadInNc]

Meh when I used to fix TVs as a sideline I would see if I could get some yokel to put their fingers over the high tension lead to the old CRT-style picture tube; the tube was one big capacitor that could light off "crap-your-pants" level voltage.

I know....I'm going to hell....

wow, your really old!

Actually 1st year EE school had labs w TV's and tubes. Never worked on one outside of testing tubes in hardware store w old machine

[Vandelay Industries]

wow, your really old!

Actually 1st year EE school had labs w TV's and tubes. Never worked on one outside of testing tubes in hardware store w old machine

My dad had a tube tester and a couple cases of replacement tubes. I bet that's all still in my mom's basement.

[Frankie the Fink]

I was the 'tube tester' guy in the family drugstore where me and my future wife both worked on a machine just like that....in 1966 and the damn drugstore is STILL THERE:

[Stevedore]

When I was a "boy scientist" about 60+ years ago, I built a Van De Graaf generator that would generate sparks about 3" long. You could let the sparks jump to your hand & it felt like a mild pinprick.

My big mistake was using it to charge up a large Leyden jar (also homemade), and letting the spark from that jump to my hand. Much smaller spark, but I felt like I was going to die. A good lesson in voltage vs current.

I still have the generator, but it needs a new rubber belt. I should really fix it up.

[Aerovette]

Aerovette is a master electrician

I got there by outliving my assistants and coworkers. They all met their fate trying to put their own spin on my work. I told them not to go near my stuff. :D

[Big bob]

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[09CTSV]

Smaller voltage was 15KV the other voltage was 138KV. The equipment ran at 700 VDC and 36,000 Amps, ungrounded rooms as well. You walk right up and touch the bus work flowing all that juice. Don't touch the Bus and the building column or you become a crispy critter.
Watched a few crane cables touch the pots and arc out, pretty impressive seeing the cables instantly welded. Lot of respect for that much power flowing around you. The magnetic field was wild. It would take the steering out of a F-150 or Toyota, you couldn't drive them over the trenches in the pot rooms.

And as an added thought, each pot line drew 97 MW of power and we had three of them running. Total plant pull was 360 MW for the smelter and 55 MW for the rolling side.

[Frankie the Fink]

I got there by outliving my assistants and coworkers. They all met their fate trying to put their own spin on my work. I told them not to go near my stuff. :D

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ADsEuqWoRn0

[Tikiman]

You should try the same with Bill's capacitor (after it was charged)!

Oh, I'm familiar with capacitors. I build and repair old tube guitar amps for fun. The one in the foreground is a 1955 Fender Bandmaster (35 watts) that I built from scratch. The blue cans that you see in the middle are quite capable of lighting you up - even with the amp unplugged. I'm pretty careful about discharging them before putting my fingers in there.

[Frankie the Fink]

Doesn't have to be old tube gear, get your meat across an HVAC start up capacitor and your eyes will pinball for a while:)

[Budman]

The plants I ran had 4160V and 13.8 KV power. Up to 7000 HP motors.

I was racking in a 460V breaker once and had a cable short out. Flash suit saved my life. Still have ringing in my ears.

[Onebadcad]

I was the 'tube tester' guy in the family drugstore where me and my future wife both worked on a machine just like that....in 1966 and the damn drugstore is STILL THERE:

As is the motor oil from parked cars 50+ years ago,,,

[KenHorse]

Oh, I'm familiar with capacitors. I build and repair old tube guitar amps for fun. The one in the foreground is a 1955 Fender Bandmaster (35 watts) that I built from scratch. The blue cans that you see in the middle are quite capable of lighting you up - even with the amp unplugged. I'm pretty careful about discharging them before putting my fingers in there.

Yea, it's a good idea to replace all those old paper caps with new electrolytics.

Don't forget to check power resistor values....

[Frankie the Fink]

Yea, it's a good idea to replace all those old paper caps with new electrolytics.

Don't forget to check power resistor values....

The old style caps start oozing wax and almost always breakdown over the years... A lot of classic car radio restorers do just enough to get the sound working and don't 're-cap' everything and the set will fail again quickly.

[Yadkin]

My civil engineering curriculum had a required course in electrical engineering. The professor was a hoot with the stories that he would tell, people doing stupid things with electricity, FAFO. :Jeff '79:

[Hardluck]

You could always flip the breaker to the off position or you could be the next Porter :yesnod:

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[GTOguy]

I test nine-volt batteries with my tongue.

I've been doing this since I was 5 years old with my first Japanese transistor radio. I started using a brick to smash entire rolls of caps on the sidewalk that year, too. Much better than one at a time in a stupid die cast pistol.

[MadInNc]

I've been doing this since I was 5 years old with my first Japanese transistor radio. I started using a brick to smash entire rolls of caps on the sidewalk that year, too. Much better than one at a time in a stupid die cast pistol.

Same, and it didn’t affect us at all as we aged :leaving:

[MadInNc]

Check this video out. What to do in an emergency at a hydro plant

[Unsuspicious]

He's great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVaYzlQg550

https://youtube.com/shorts/j2F1vH99A-U