Comments on: Irresponsible Mayhem: The Saga Continues

by: amandalim

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:12:03 +0100

Very interesting details you have noted ongeek shirts and girls in bathing suits, thank you for putting cute headbands up. "Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve." by Jules Verne.

by: theasugimoto

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:34:18 +0100

Thanks for your wonderful post! I like reading it as well as reading and learning house selling tips. I have learned that to be able to sell your home in a higher price you should have a high value house. Like Whitby houses and Port Perry homes. They have higher house values than any of the houses for sale on the area.

by: angelakingsley

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:45:54 +0100

Those are cute names of babies you have there! Here are some of the list of names I have found to be unique and cute names. They are: Irish names, French names and muslim baby names. Try looking at them too and make the important decision of choosing a name for your son or your daughter.

by: jerichobaldosano

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:04:08 +0100

In order to avoid Scams, one should be very careful in all their transactions. Every requirements should be put into consideration, should be cleared and verified. Most especially if you are trying to get short term loans, you should first study all the terms used in the said transaction before venturing on it.

by: gillianmyers

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:39:22 +0000

Are you in search of a high-quality furnitures and appliances? They are great for homes because it is much good to have things that lasts long like matress and king size bed. It is much better to buy a much high cost but with good quality than buying cheaper ones but does not have good quality. Another area which requires a good quality is your basement windows, it is for your own safety.

by: Cezille

Sat, 15 May 2010 17:40:29 +0100

nice blog

by: ferdjones

Tue, 11 May 2010 12:12:19 +0100

I worked in the battery locker (lead acid) when I was in the Navy. I don't remember much about those anymore, other than I did a lot of 24 Ah batteries (and, after 8 months in there, I could pour 75% sulfuric acid on my palms and not feel it. Anywhere else, it burned... I could only BARELY feel anything when I put my hands in the baking soda catches... I was pretty stupid back then heh). In the Ni-Cad locker, we had either a 72 or 92 Ah battery (actually 2 in series to reach that). We'd have to take in the battery off the plane, charge it, discharge it for an hour, and then recharge it again. I know that sometimes I'd go in the ni-cad side and see one of those batteries completely taken apart, with big-honkin (technical term) resisters glowing an evil red draining the cells completely (one per cell). It got quite hot in there.

Still, that doesn't compare to the genny's from a P-3. 90 kVa, approximately 90 pounds, making the 2.5 ton test bench jump, and blowing 2 (of 3) 400 amp fuses. It got to the point where we were using soldier instead of the fuses while troubleshooting. Then there were the 200 amp inverters. We didn't have any double aught cable for that, so we used aught cable. You could feel the heat from about 6 inches away. Oh yeah, and the 1 million candle power landing lights... I forgot to wipe off the bulb once when I changed it out... that explosion was a WEE bit scary.

Good times :P

by: Mohonri

Mon, 10 May 2010 12:21:34 +0100

I spent some time in Africa a few years back, working for an oil company. The old-timers had a lot of terrific war stories. The locals are all quite poor, and theft is a big problem. That includes copper power lines, whether energized(!) or not.

Of course, if you cut a 3-phase 480V power cable with a machete, it tends to short out the three phases. The short must have been spectacular--when the maintenance personnel got out to the site in the morning, the machete had a 3" hole blown clean through it, but there were no human bodies. At least this time (yes, there were such incidents...).

Funny thing, though--the power generators didn't even notice it, since they are producing a rather larger amount of power than the 3-phase-short represented. The maintenance people went out only because the breaker at the site had eventually tripped and the well went off-line.

by: Piloter

Sat, 08 May 2010 16:30:26 +0100

While working on the pilot for a UPS battery replacement project (12 12-volt lead-acid batteries in series, 144 volts and about 90 amp-hours) a cow-orker and I had a bit of a mishap. He was connecting the just-opened fresh batteries in the fiddly finicky fashion that was called for, I was writing the process documentation, and at some point in the process he managed to short the entire chain together to one of the PCBs serving as an electrical outlet. The arc blew a hole through the PCB about an inch in diameter and sprayed enough molten metal and plastic in the air to create a (fortunately) brief cross between welding spark explosions and a fair-sized sparkler. The best part is that there really wasn't another good way to get the entire assemblies back in that wouldn't have involved the exact same thing. The voltage wasn't too terrible but the amount of amps involved...I'm pretty sure we could have welded the entire case to the rolling grill it was perched on had said coworker not jumped about six feet straight backwards swearing like a stevedore.

The call we made back to our project manager involved a decent bit of profanity, the documentation acquired an interesting set of warnings about firey/shocky death and doom, and we never did wind up taking the contract.

Still, it was AWESOME.

by: atarisan

Fri, 07 May 2010 08:18:54 +0100

I too recall many good times had with a roughly meter long stack of discarded wireless microphone batteries held together with packing tape. When we returned to play with it again the next day the shock stick as we dubbed it seemed to be dead until I in my infinite wisdom flicked the seemingly damaged battery from the end and brushed my fingers across opposite terminals. The resulting near 600v across my arms and chest sent the batteries flying and put me in a state of mild shock for the next few hours. The feeling of electric grip upon the inside of my chest and the craters on my index fingers were enough of a warning to my fellow stagehands not to repeat this trick again.