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Got what they deserved - simples.
Someone, I think on this forum, has the tagline "Stupid should hurt" . How true, and how very appropriate in this case.
Prime candidates for this years “Darwin award”.
Should we be replacing volt sticks with crow bars?
Theres a crowbar in our van ..........I wondered what it was for :C
Sharpend
"It Just Is"
The best way to test was as the site engineer did at Round Oak Steel Works !!
My crappy drawing shows the DC Sub station , with the gate opened we crawled behind the old switchgear to lug on a new cable to the bus bars . All the others remained live .
Only the engineer was allowed to isolate , he would then pick up a length of Steel Wire Armour stripping and hit the bus bars with it , announcing that they were dead.
My crappy drawing shows the DC Sub station , with the gate opened we crawled behind the old switchgear to lug on a new cable to the bus bars . All the others remained live .
Only the engineer was allowed to isolate , he would then pick up a length of Steel Wire Armour stripping and hit the bus bars with it , announcing that they were dead.
I pinched an idea from some Kramer drives I worked on for the induction furnace I redesigned. With the Kramer drives before you touched anything you closed a MCB to short the busbars to earth.
For the furnace I automated the earthing using a rather hefty contactor and a MCB in series. Previously we had used a brush stale with a welding lead an probe connected to it to manually earth each section, there were some nice fireworks.
For the furnace I automated the earthing using a rather hefty contactor and a MCB in series. Previously we had used a brush stale with a welding lead an probe connected to it to manually earth each section, there were some nice fireworks.
Ah Thank you , heres one I did earlier !!
Surely it would. Just have been a lot safer to run. A tester across it to. Test for voltage instead of throwing a crowbar without even knowing
it could be that whoever touched it are not electricians, they are simply labours following orders to rip it out after someone else has failed to isolate it correctly, in which case then it would be fair and appropriate that the company / management has been prosecuted for it
but there are plenty other cases when its those working on it have done something stupid but the employer has still been proescuted for it
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