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Engineer. Historian. Beer-Drinker. Publican's Friend. Hi-Fi Anorak. Technocrat. Patriot. Improving Husband. Feminist. “The Attenborough of the Relay Room”
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Yes. Originally. Energised July 1953. But these days it is the main interconnected system operating at 275kV and above, much of it 400kV, but plenty of 275 left in service and even being extended in places 👍🏻
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Blue Hour: A pint in the Pev yesterday.
#Manchester
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Most circuits would be in service. If not required at certain times of day, we DO switch them out- mostly cables for voltage control. Some circuits run on open standby- energised but not loaded. This is rare and might be due to other outages and fault level issues 👍🏻 Essentially, YES. Possible 💁🏻♂️
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Too kind ❤️
Have a very cute 132,000 volt single phase voltage transformer complete with conservator, Buchholz protector and explosion vent, by way of thank you 🙏🏻
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The far reach of the supergrid by 1960 😍
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Sure. Where’s that?
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I've got one from one software engineer to another that will never leave me: "The fact that it's fast is entirely countermandered by the fact that it's wrong."
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Unbelievable! 🤬
Saw this by ‘The Londoner’ earlier: have a look on the comments about The Myddleton Arms… like something from Victorian Times…
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Yes. It’s efficient. Transformer overall differential is very sensitive. For unloaded tertiaries it makes total sense to cover tertiary Earth faults via the overall protection 👍🏻
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This 👇🏻
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Quality 👏🏻👏🏻
I’m putting a large flexi pipe between the rooms with co-ax and HDMI interconnects ran in. Will terminate in wall plates hidden in cupboards and behind new 50mm cavities I’m building behind said cupboards. Also running 4 x wall mounted speaker connections in, back to a patch plate
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I put in extra holes and draw wires in when I did ours. Last week, five years later, I needed to run extra cables in for the new TV, the draw wires paid for themselves, no surface mounted cables in this house😎