Omg it’s not a short. Keep up the longer videos. Well done.

@Thefreakyfreek

Ай бұрын

Out of all the shorts on youtube his are the best I know not a verry hich bar but stil

@TheMW2informer

Ай бұрын

@@Thefreakyfreekthe only shorts on KZread you can learn something from! The rest are almost diseducational.

@croman191

Ай бұрын

And that's pretty cool

@trevorvanbremen4718

Ай бұрын

Wanna see something cool??? A WAY long short! (And thankfully, it's not a short, it's OPEN so the angry pixies aren't dancing!)

@simonsaysdie3155

Ай бұрын

Right ugh it's so long I love it

Electricity that powers your modern appliances comes from ancient machinery. And thats pretty cool

@theradioweyr

Ай бұрын

I see what you did there.

@christianterrill3503

Ай бұрын

Went from used to mill down grains and corn, to using the spinning and gearing up the motion to make it viable for a generator

@manitoba-op4jx

24 күн бұрын

and glad of it. i wouldn't trust a brand new powerplant as far as i could throw it

@su-25frogfoot74

4 күн бұрын

@@manitoba-op4jx You're talking about the same power plants that have eons of decades learned and the most modern and redundant systems on the market installed?

I'm an electrician and was also a trout hatchery worker for 4 years. Im starting to think that maybe a power plant job would be right up my alley lol.

@-r-495

Ай бұрын

years ago I used to find the infrastructure aspects of my job to be the most important. Examples: boiler house, central refrigeration, water chiller supply, water sanitation (industrial waste). There was a small facility with one open office/ctrl room and a dozen lockers and a break room. Large aquariums lined one of the walls of it. Outlet water was tested for compliance utilising the fish. Next to the jungle surrounding the chiller heat exchangers up on a roof that was my favourite part of the plant, including the bicycle ride down there..

Fun fact, the guac/avocado thing is genetic, most people have the flavor gene to make guacamole taste good but a fair number don't. It's like cilantro. For most people, avocado tastes buttery and cilantro tastes kinda spicy/black-peppery, but if you lost the genetic lottery avocados taste like lawn clippings and cilantro tastes like dish soap.

@-r-495

Ай бұрын

Those who don’t like cilantro often have a taste for nordic treats I really can’t stand. Salty licorice for instance.

@randacnam7321

Ай бұрын

The fresh cilantro tasting like soap mutation also applies to hops.

@buillioncubes

3 күн бұрын

And then there's people who like lawn clippings and dish soap.

You know that weird phenomenon when you can smell a video? This definitely hits that!

@chazlabreck

Ай бұрын

😂 I had that green algi smell on memory

@godlugner5327

Ай бұрын

You know for some reason I thought it would smell like transformer ozone from a giant Lionel set

So happy to have another longform video

0:31 I love the "reactor SCRAM" light XD

@Iamanidiot-v6i

Ай бұрын

He should label it az-5 lol

@hifiandrew

Ай бұрын

the one above it.. even better.. radiation in containment level 8... reference from The China Syndrome 🤣🤣 brilliant

@dragonfireproductions790

Ай бұрын

there's an a3-5 check out his short​@@Iamanidiot-v6i

@chieffirefigherplays

Ай бұрын

@@Iamanidiot-v6ithere is one that is labeled like that,

@chieffirefigherplays

2 күн бұрын

9:09 is when if you paused it right see all the lights they got no clue what they do, so they labeled them funny.

People forget how much work it is to maintain a wet beaver. :) Love the new red paint on the panels, thank gods you didn't resort to the boring electrical gray!

@jfbeam

Ай бұрын

Well, a 100+ year old wet beaver. (there have been "self-cleaning" grates for many years now. I've only seen them in waste water plants, 'tho.)

as a hopeless amateur with an interest in sound engineering this place looks like a treasure trove of mineable sounds

@Thefreakyfreek

Ай бұрын

If you want i can send you sone interesting macine shop sounds or something

@olivermatich2818

Ай бұрын

you ain't hopeless, friend!

That screw mechanism to lift the gate is fascinating to watch lol 😂 could watch this stuff for hours. P.s. I BET that smells AMAZING 😂😂

@SharpBalisong

Ай бұрын

It’s called a worm drive. :)

WOW compound double worm gear drive, that is reduction right there.

@MegaFPVFlyer

Ай бұрын

I wonder if the immense reduction is to prevent "water hammering" the river (or whatever the correct term is)

@-r-495

Ай бұрын

It is sensible to keep it going slow at all times. Alloys weren’t what they are today. No CAD & CAM utilising material science for selection. But: Planned obsolescence was in the making.

That log strugling to pass through shouldnt be so entertaining

@jaymzx0

Ай бұрын

I was seriously cheering for it. "Go log go!" *floop* "Yeeea!"

@charlesdeilke8364

Ай бұрын

Flushing gates can be fun. Big trees getting exploded by diffuser blocks.

I spent 45 years as a power plant electrician, and I've never seen a square synchroscope! Now I can say I have!

Up until 2013 the only major purchaser of kale was pizza hut, who used it to decorate the salad bar.

@cherrypepsi2815

28 күн бұрын

the whole "superfood" thing was always bullshit, just eat real food and not this weight loss garbage Same thing I always tell people about food: don't overthink it; calories in, calories out, and whatever your doctor tells you to eat. A homemade hamburger with real beef, cheese, and whatever you decide to pile on is ironically better for you than the mega-processed kale chips that people buy in grocery stores. If you really want to be healthy, just stop eating junk. I keep seeing people go on these "weight loss journeys" by eating exclusively garbage like kale and other artisan greens. My god- barely even 400 calories a day! You're not being healthy, you're starving your body! You're only losing fat because your body has to burn it to stay alive. Just do some pushups, run for a while, and replace the fat with muscle. I can't stand this whole culture of "I want to lose weight but I don't want to put in the work!"

@b43xoit

17 күн бұрын

I used to eat some of the decoration.

7:24 I love how operating a hydroelectric plant is 50% mechanical, hydraulic, and electrical engineering and the other 50% is basically: “the damn dam designers didn’t give us an instrument to show us how open the bypass gates are so why don’t we cut a triangle out of a beer box, duct tape it to this here chain, and use a magic marker to write some reference marks on a column”

Amount of times I was told "you just haven't had good guacamole" "you need to try it at my favorite restaurant" no Megan I don't like avocados. Also there's 3 Mexican restaurants in this town. I'm absolutely certain I've not liked their guacamole either.

@darkwater72

Ай бұрын

Fun Fact: Guacamole means "testicle sauce." The more you know......

@Bobo-ox7fj

Ай бұрын

Guacamole is best used in dishes where it goes unnoticed, like MSG.

@3a.m.284

Ай бұрын

Guac is amazing L take

@b43xoit

17 күн бұрын

Number of times.

WOW those control panels look great! The red and yellow color combo is sharp.

I just love the way the generator sounds when it spins down and up, but I bet it's pretty loud in there when it's running

It's VERY interesting to see the workings of the hydro powerplant! Thank you for posting the videos and letting us in :)

Yes! A long form video! Thank you Chris 😊

@Physicsduck

Ай бұрын

You are sincerely welcome :) I'm glad you're enjoying them! :) Thank you for being here!

@theradioweyr

Ай бұрын

@@Physicsduck I never miss a chance to watch a grid sync. With Florida hurricanes I have synced generators with some success (when the neighbors get together to create a mini power grid) (2 vs 4 pole is difficult for little generators, for me anyway). I bought some Wilmar reverse relays as a beginning to developing something a little more safer and automatic but abandoned that after my solar/battery systems started getting finished.

As a hydro operator I love seeing how other plants are run. You guys are very manual, where the stuff I run is very automated. Also our units are vertical Francis units of much greater size…. The smallest unit I run is 60MW

Man I love old style hydro, I really want to build a gristmill in Scioto county but lord knows the epa pricks wouldn't let me because everyone knows it's less damaging on the environment to ship bakers corner flower 400 miles by semi to my local grocery store from the packaging plant + farm to the plant traveling instead of doing local processing 😡 , shout out to the nice folks who restored rockmill on the hocking river but weren't allowed to install the dam but currently have to use a pump to run the largest overshoot water wheel in ohio

The first thing I thought of when I saw the magnet was demagnetizing arc flash. It made me laugh, they might just cook onto the enclosure. I figure I could tell what was what after a few minutes wandering around. Things do break unexpectedly sometimes, like dominoes. One time an 80 ft steam vent clogged up next to a switchgear. I was setting up some very large motors for a nearby water processing facility to help with a factory next door. A steam vent had gone unnoticed as a hazard because the pressure could never exceed the structural capability of the pipe(plumbing). Maintenance thought it would be a good idea to uncouple the pipe in the adjacent room. This instantly threw a jet of water, kicking the pipe into the MCC room. There it spun the elbow and shot 800 gallons of water under high steam pressure at the steel. Nobody was hurt, except for a perfectly good switchgear. Next month there was a flood. A quarter mile away the whole city was under water. Crazy times, but it was very fun setting up the switchgear and motors for a water processing facility.

Cool that as the gate was lowered that the water had to go somewhere, so it went over the nearby weir.

So happy to see more videos of maintaining those small hydropower plants! Just awesome. GIVE US MORE

Kale as in smoothies? Blearch. But cooked? With Kasseler, Kochwurst, pork belly and a side of potatoes? Also the occasional Schnaps? Give it a try. If too bitter, blanche it first, pour away the water and then cook it. Do not overcook, or else its just so much green goo. Like spinach is.

@CranialMalfunction

Ай бұрын

Ah, I see you're a cultured connoisseur of Grünkohl as well!

When was the last time those worm gears were aligned. Holy cow!!!!

OH! A new video on hydropower! I love learning stuff from you.

Another fantastic video, don't stop making them. My boss taught the golden rule of synchronization: Never close the connection counter-clockwise from the frequency, it could blow the stator due to the difference in frequencies and the load that it suddenly puts in the opposite direction. (Protections may fail) I've seen generators blow up because of this.

My favorite labels are the ones for the abandoned instrumentation.

I absolutely LOVE videos like this!! Keep em coming Please?

THANK YOU for posting a longer video.

Cooooool! Dude, I absolutely love your shorts and these longer vidyas are pretty great too. Keep em coming, hoss!

our plant just changed condenser water sources for our chillers/District cooling heat sink. before our travelling screens would "roll joints" out of sea weed, with how much came through.

That’s a great video. Love seeing the everyday things that need to be done

Love the old stuff , thank you

Much much cleaner than it was 3 years ago! How's the other plant holding up after the huge refurb project?

so happy to se a longer video,, thank you.

finally an actual video instead of a short

I do the same intake cleaning in the UK for a 2000MW Coal Station.

All that stuff scooped up from the cleaning grates should be put in a compost pile next to the powerplant and used to feed a garden there.

You did an excellent job on the labeling & paint!

Wow, that was pretty cool. 😎👍

Love these long videos you make. Awesome

Fantastic labeling

Thank you for this long format, happy you didn’t find a floater whilst cleaning the rake. I like the new labels, I hope you didn’t take a past comment as critique but as inspiration 😊 Stringent change ctrl can be a nuisance, especially when one is upgrading a plant but can’t test the implementation before.

@-r-495

Ай бұрын

I was wondering how efficient the turbine is and if there are any feasible upgrades that could make the plant more efficient. I recall our turbine had a few different variables that influenced the geometry of the nozzle and the turbine itself. The plant had been upgraded in the 1980s and we had the task of upgrading it forty years later.

Excellent video as always Chris! Very interesting!

Loved the REACTOR SCRAM light.

Cool Video. I work in a small heating plant. Just saturated steam generation no cogeneration with superheat or turbines.

Fascinating, I always wondered how maintenance was done on a hydroelectric unit.

that worm gear gate lifting mechanism might be the most satisfying thing ive watched all month

Your paint job came out well. Nice video

Fuck yeah let's get some more long form

Love the red on the cabinets it looks decent

3:58 forbidden waterslide 😳🤌🏼

Labels look Great! Colour choice is really nice, If it were up to me though I'd go with a more we'll say "period appropriate" font type. Something antique but sexy, like the rest of the place lol

The new labels look great.

Awesome video. You need some proper permanent badging on the panel doors. Im surprised to see the operator not wearing a PFD. I love the new upgraded lock....its totally authentic. 👍🏻

Wee little baby generator 😂 I'm definitely not fond of the magnetic labels for that application. Too much chance of something stupid happening for me.

@SeanBZA

Ай бұрын

But a temporary marker, while you get a proper one made, and then rivet into position ( none of this glue rubbish, solid metal rivets last a lot longer) it is workable.

Yes, we will say "Cut over when the indicator is moving clockwise, fast" Good transfer.

Dam that's a lot of water...I see what you did there!

What a great job. I hope you look forward to going to work every day.. pretty sure I would . But I would clean the grates an hour or two after lunch…

I laughed so much at the avocado bit. You're absolutely right and it's why I can't do it either. 😂

That was awesome 😎

I love it

Ooh, something cool to see!

It sure looks like that Hydro power plant is very old. I find it interesting how fast a hydro unit can be brought up to speed and synchronized to the line. That is nothing like the steam electric generating stations I used to work in that took about 12 hours to go from a cold start to generating significant amounts of power.

OMG just noticed the Radiation in the Containment.. level 8 (perfectly normal) above the Reactor Scram. I absolutely love China Syndrome, I've watched wayyyy more times than I care to admit. Well done! Bow down to your geeky godness even more.

Wow that pretty cool!

cool video, and i love the new magnet labels, but one thing that bugged me is some of the labels spell out one and two and some use the number 1 and 2, for common understanding i think it should all be in numbers rather than spelled just in case someone who doesnt know english has to use it for some reason, i know its a fringe theroy but it would also look alot better IMHO. :) love the content, glad your back!

That was good to see. Give us more detail on the startup and sync of the machine. Cheers

@mxslick50

Ай бұрын

He already has a video detailing startup and sync on this channel.

Pffft, “REACTOR SCRAM” 😂

Really cool video.

Awesome worm gear drive

That was pretty cool!

Was waiting for a "floater" comment with the log... what a shame..

h*ll when you were talking about Kale I thought back to how it tasted, it tasted just like being tackled in football and hitting the turf with your mouth open, then you said it tasted just like a yard. Great minds think just alike LOL. Kale is on my menu planning right after I start wandering around the yard just eating whatever I find at random.

Would love to see how things go when water levels are high after a heavy rain. How do you coordinate how much to open gates and let the river bypass the hydroelectric

And here we all are

And that's pretty cool.

Reactor Scram! I love it

@hifiandrew

Ай бұрын

One above it's even better LOL

Oh man, the sound of that generator spooling up is music.

That's pretty cool.

Ahhh finally…. The content I’ve been waiting for… love the hydro videos…. Why does that generator sing so loudly?

@tsm688

Ай бұрын

cogging perhaps? it's got a lotta poles

Nice video

Oh hell yeah a new video 🤘🏻

Vinegar on canned spinach?! Fuggn sign me up!

Yellow mustard on spinach.

Yaaay! A long format video!

0:31 is that a RBWR reference????😂

@hifiandrew

Ай бұрын

China Syndrome movie references... 😅 fantastic

I guess that traveling screens wasn't in the budget when the place was built. That generator is old as the hills. That even looked like a BJ 30 voltage control unit.

Welcome back!

Agree 💯 that guacamole tastes like lawn

HELL YEAH T-BONE

So you have 2 power plants you take care of? Interesting videos, keep them coming.

Question: How many times per year... or month... or week... does this maintenance have to be done? Is it a seasonal thing, or is it by some metric seen in the control room? I really appreciate what you're doing here. You're one of the few channels I watch shorts for. Love the long videos when they happen. Thanks for showing us this!

@Physicsduck

Ай бұрын

Thank you! :) I'm glad you're enjoying the videos and I'm working to make more longforms. Given that I'm trying to make 100% scripted content, with planning and preproduction and such, things move a lot slower. Longforms take at least a month to write and produce. This one was an experiment though, just unscripted and off the cuff. If it does well and people like it, I'll try and make more of them. To answer your question, this time of year this happens once a day at every plant. In the autumn it's often twice a shift, sometimes more. We have to keep the leaves clear of the intakes, and as you've seen it's a very manual process.

Your control panel labeling looks really slick. Love seeing a well-kept facility! What year was the plant built?

Thought I could "smell the video", but my dog just farted.

Damn finally. A new video

Nice!! you have to do this everyday? that often? nothing like the noise of the genny syncing up with mains, i love that!.