The current was about 100 amps!
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CJ
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Looks And sounds like my frirst DIY project! :grin:
What was that guy saying?
What was that guy saying?
bcarso
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Things like this remind me how poor an insulator air can be.
BTW the SF6 mentioned is sulfur hexafluoride.
BTW the SF6 mentioned is sulfur hexafluoride.
CJ
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SF6, I remember that stuff. We used to flood the tank of the hi-pot xfmr with that stuff so it wouldn't arc out. Had some pellets in a clear canister on the outside to absorb the gasses given off. The start out blue and turn red as they are used up.
Talk about noisy lam rattle, I heard that you can't hear yourself talk if standing next to those Boulder xtmr's and chokes.
Talk about noisy lam rattle, I heard that you can't hear yourself talk if standing next to those Boulder xtmr's and chokes.
SSLtech
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My first job was at a studio near a major grid switching station that fed the supergrid in the UK (750kV, or three-quarters of a million volts... :shock: )
They used massive shots of compressed air to "snuff" the inevitable switching arcs... when they broke connections, you knew about it!
All that though, was nothing next to the day that they demolished a load of old tennement blocks nearby in the early 1980's... and got it completely wrong!!! They used a local group of cowboy demolition guys at a cut price, who had seen how the Americans did it on TV and reckoned that they could do the same thing for a lot less money. -The staggered timing never happened and it all went up simultaneously. At the time we were doing a vocal, and in record.
The building we were in was part of the Royal Ordnance Facility build in 1942, with three courses of kiln-hardened brick and a blast-containment wall all round the building. The F*#ing foor shook when this bunch of ******s hit the big red switch, and the vocalist did a quick "duck & cover" crying "WTF!!!"
The demolition site was about 1 mile away across farmland and open fields... but the blast was so big that we felt it... -We kept that take for historical reasons!
Keith
They used massive shots of compressed air to "snuff" the inevitable switching arcs... when they broke connections, you knew about it!
All that though, was nothing next to the day that they demolished a load of old tennement blocks nearby in the early 1980's... and got it completely wrong!!! They used a local group of cowboy demolition guys at a cut price, who had seen how the Americans did it on TV and reckoned that they could do the same thing for a lot less money. -The staggered timing never happened and it all went up simultaneously. At the time we were doing a vocal, and in record.
The building we were in was part of the Royal Ordnance Facility build in 1942, with three courses of kiln-hardened brick and a blast-containment wall all round the building. The F*#ing foor shook when this bunch of ******s hit the big red switch, and the vocalist did a quick "duck & cover" crying "WTF!!!"
The demolition site was about 1 mile away across farmland and open fields... but the blast was so big that we felt it... -We kept that take for historical reasons!
Keith
pucho812
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sounds like my first gig out here in california where right after a take every meter on the console started flipping out all the mics started picking up inaudiable noise only to have it increase and be the center of an 4.0 earthquake. the studio shook it was nuts. My first earthquake too. went quickly but seemed to last forever.
bcarso
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"They used a local group of cowboy demolition guys at a cut price, who had seen how the Americans did it on TV and reckoned that they could do the same thing for a lot less money."
In this connection:
"A client queried the fees charged by Red Adair, the late Texan oil firefighter, for his services. Adair replied: If you think a professional is expensive, try hiring an amateur."
In this connection:
"A client queried the fees charged by Red Adair, the late Texan oil firefighter, for his services. Adair replied: If you think a professional is expensive, try hiring an amateur."
