Wheelie bin hangs from power lines after floods
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Something you don't see every day http://www.abc.net.au/news/photos/2011/01/18/3115275.htm[^]
Peter "Until the invention of the computer, the machine gun was the device that enabled humans to make the most mistakes in the smallest amount of time."
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Something you don't see every day http://www.abc.net.au/news/photos/2011/01/18/3115275.htm[^]
Peter "Until the invention of the computer, the machine gun was the device that enabled humans to make the most mistakes in the smallest amount of time."
Holy crap! :omg: It looks like the bin crossed two phases - that's gotta kill the power in the area until it's removed, or the substation feeding that line is defective. It's hard to tell from the photo, but the phase spacing looks like 69kV or 138kV transmission; the light show when the bin made contact should have been spectacular! Sorry I missed that one. :-D
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Holy crap! :omg: It looks like the bin crossed two phases - that's gotta kill the power in the area until it's removed, or the substation feeding that line is defective. It's hard to tell from the photo, but the phase spacing looks like 69kV or 138kV transmission; the light show when the bin made contact should have been spectacular! Sorry I missed that one. :-D
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I think the water that put the bin up there would have already killed the power.
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It should, but weird things happen... As soon as the water receded, crews should have been out patrolling the lines, fixing faults, and resetting the substation reclosers to test the lines. It's a shame that no one caught that on a video phone - it might have been a fantastic firework!
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Holy crap! :omg: It looks like the bin crossed two phases - that's gotta kill the power in the area until it's removed, or the substation feeding that line is defective. It's hard to tell from the photo, but the phase spacing looks like 69kV or 138kV transmission; the light show when the bin made contact should have been spectacular! Sorry I missed that one. :-D
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Sorry to disappoint you, Roger, but there was probably no lightshow. It looks to me like a 3.3kV line (which powers a few blocks via pole-mount transformers)*, so being "local distribution", it would have been shut down before the water got anywhere up there. * look at the insulators on the top cross-arms further down the street. Cheers, Peter ps if you want a REAL lightshow, watch a 132kV or 330kV or similar line with a bushfire (wildfire to you) underneath it. Spectacular isn't in it.
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It should, but weird things happen... As soon as the water receded, crews should have been out patrolling the lines, fixing faults, and resetting the substation reclosers to test the lines. It's a shame that no one caught that on a video phone - it might have been a fantastic firework!
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Roger Wright wrote:
It's a shame that no one caught that on a video phone
I saw video footage of the removal of it on the news - the power to the whole area was off at the time.
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It should, but weird things happen... As soon as the water receded, crews should have been out patrolling the lines, fixing faults, and resetting the substation reclosers to test the lines. It's a shame that no one caught that on a video phone - it might have been a fantastic firework!
Will Rogers never met me.
More than 17,000 homes and businesses are still without power after last week's flood. Energex says about 10,000 of those will not be connected for several weeks.[^] There are people out checking and reconnecting it's just a bloody big area.
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More than 17,000 homes and businesses are still without power after last week's flood. Energex says about 10,000 of those will not be connected for several weeks.[^] There are people out checking and reconnecting it's just a bloody big area.
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People take electric power for granted, but it can be a very tenuous connection. It takes a lot of manhours to restore power after a major event, and I feel sorry for those affected. This is a major catastrophe, and it's going to take a lot of time and effort to restore normal conditions. Every single line will have to be visually checked for damage before the crews energize them, because closing a circuit into a faulted line can cause irreparable damage to the devices which control the power lines, and it can take 6 to 12 months to replace those parts. The line crews have to be very careful, lest they cause a greater problem than the storm. With such a huge area to fix, this could take weeks, but the alternative of just tossing switches could lead to delays of months. Patience is called for, more than ever in recent times....
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Sorry to disappoint you, Roger, but there was probably no lightshow. It looks to me like a 3.3kV line (which powers a few blocks via pole-mount transformers)*, so being "local distribution", it would have been shut down before the water got anywhere up there. * look at the insulators on the top cross-arms further down the street. Cheers, Peter ps if you want a REAL lightshow, watch a 132kV or 330kV or similar line with a bushfire (wildfire to you) underneath it. Spectacular isn't in it.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
I see a delta transmission line with a Wye underbuild for distribution sharing the same poles; the photo doesn't really show which line has the fault. But speaking of lightshows, have you seen the classic 500kV substation arc video on YouTube? It's delightful, and I'd be happy to share the link, if I can still find it. :-D
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I see a delta transmission line with a Wye underbuild for distribution sharing the same poles; the photo doesn't really show which line has the fault. But speaking of lightshows, have you seen the classic 500kV substation arc video on YouTube? It's delightful, and I'd be happy to share the link, if I can still find it. :-D
Will Rogers never met me.
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Something you don't see every day http://www.abc.net.au/news/photos/2011/01/18/3115275.htm[^]
Peter "Until the invention of the computer, the machine gun was the device that enabled humans to make the most mistakes in the smallest amount of time."
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Something you don't see every day http://www.abc.net.au/news/photos/2011/01/18/3115275.htm[^]
Peter "Until the invention of the computer, the machine gun was the device that enabled humans to make the most mistakes in the smallest amount of time."
That's really quite something - a reminder not to take nature for granted if ever I saw one. :wtf:
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