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[smoothomega]

Bet you would get a buzz from that job  

[Tony H]

Try anything once.........looks like an interesting job, plenty travel

We used to travel all over the country, with a good bunch of lads, and the pay including danger money was brilliant

[Golfbuddy]

Try anything once.........looks like an interesting job, plenty travel

We used to travel all over the country, with a good bunch of lads, and the pay including danger money was brilliant

There was a programme on TV the other day about the training for guys who do recabling work. Apparently, they are changing all the overhead power lines in the UK. They are getting £1000 per week.

Not sure it's enough.  :-/

[omegalord]

Definitely not enough for a dangerous job like that. Can earn £1000 a week workingin  an office or similar very easily.

Matt

[Tony H]

Try anything once.........looks like an interesting job, plenty travel

We used to travel all over the country, with a good bunch of lads, and the pay including danger money was brilliant

There was a programme on TV the other day about the training for guys who do recabling work. Apparently, they are changing all the overhead power lines in the UK. They are getting £1000 per week.

Not sure it's enough.  :-/

Yeh saw that, the trollys that are suspended between the pylons are fun, especially when its windy. Its not bad leaving a pylon cos your going downhill its when you have to pull yourself on the uphill run that it gets hard work, good for upper body strength though.

[Marks DTM Calib]

I can remember many moons ago working for Alstom on commisioning of a static Var compensator in islington. The site was next to a canal and was slightly behind schedule.

The national grid guys insisted on taking possesion for one weekend due to a know Var rise in that area due to maintenance work despite the setup not being finished.

We warned them that they would have to visualy inspect all ground contacts (these are used to ground certain parts of the secondaries to allow safe working) to make sure they were off as the status displays and interlocks had not been completed.

They threw the main breaker without doing this whilst the secondary side of the transformer was grounded by the ground contacts.......there was one hell of a bang and the heat boiled the transformer oil and shot it out the vent into the canal.....it wiped out a large section of London.

We were well rewarded for the extra work though....

Interestingly, I ahev measurede 30+V's between supposidly earthed transformer casings before......but earths are a funny things.

The earth for the 2GW cross channel DC link is about 7 milesaway from the site due to the poor soil!

[Kevin Wood]

They threw the main breaker without doing this whilst the secondary side of the transformer was grounded by the ground contacts.......there was one hell of a bang and the heat boiled the transformer oil and shot it out the vent into the canal.....it wiped out a large section of London.

Umm.   Makes you think. I've let the smoke out of little components before now. Had a reversed electrolytic explode in my face but this is on a slightly different scale  

Kevin

[Martin_1962]

The earth for the 2GW cross channel DC link is about 7 milesaway from the site due to the poor soil!

DC?

what voltage?

[Jimbob]

Try anything once.........looks like an interesting job, plenty travel

We used to travel all over the country, with a good bunch of lads, and the pay including danger money was brilliant

There was a programme on TV the other day about the training for guys who do recabling work. Apparently, they are changing all the overhead power lines in the UK. They are getting £1000 per week.

Not sure it's enough.  :-/

That program was filmed 2 mins from my house, at one point they even drove past the garage we bought the CDX from!

[Marks DTM Calib]

The earth for the 2GW cross channel DC link is about 7 milesaway from the site due to the poor soil!

DC?

what voltage?

A Bipole setup with + and - 400Kv at 2500 amps down each leg (two cables).....It uses a set of 12 pulse thyristor banks (using a star-start and star delta transformer arrangement to creat a 6 phase supply)

[Martin_1962]

The earth for the 2GW cross channel DC link is about 7 milesaway from the site due to the poor soil!

DC?

what voltage?

A Bipole setup with + and - 400Kv at 2500 amps down each leg (two cables).....It uses a set of 12 pulse thyristor banks (using a star-start and star delta transformer arrangement to creat a 6 phase supply)

That is weird - didn't realise you could convert from DC to AC at such high loads.

[Marks DTM Calib]

Yes you can.....but, you need AC to be present on the output (i.e. from a local generator set) in order to get it to work.

[Jay w]

The earth for the 2GW cross channel DC link is about 7 milesaway from the site due to the poor soil!

DC?

what voltage?

A Bipole setup with + and - 400Kv at 2500 amps down each leg (two cables).....It uses a set of 12 pulse thyristor banks (using a star-start and star delta transformer arrangement to creat a 6 phase supply)

 

Translations anyone...........

Chav speak i have mastered, this is a different ballgame

[Martin_1962]

1GW

[Marks DTM Calib]

1GW

Close, but no cigar....+ and -400Kv i.e. a PD of 800Kv at 2500 amps....2GW!