Whoa! That's hilarious... and sort of scary all at the same time :) Thanks for the story, Rick.
Jimmy... N5SPE > On Feb 5, 2014, at 12:06 PM, "Richard (Rick) Karlquist" > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 2/5/2014 9:37 AM, Bill Hawkins wrote: >> >> Then there is the load side, with who knows what equipment making large >> swings. > > This reminds me of the time I visited the John Deere > foundry in Waterloo, IA. They had an arc furnace with > graphite rods the size of small utility poles. I > remember the meters indicating 50,000 amps at 208 volts. > > Anyway, they told me that they had to call the power company > and get permission before turning this thing on, or > it might stall the generator. One time they forgot > to call, and got fined $10,000 or something like that. > > Rick > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
