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Calls Show Pre-Blackout Utility Confusion
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| 9/3/03
| JOSEF HEBERT
Posted on 09/03/2003 4:10:50 PM PDT by Pro-Bush
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To: meyer
...It seems that the reason that Eastlake unit 5 tripped off was instability in the exciter. The unit was having trouble regulating voltage due to the system voltage sagging. The exciter overheated and tripped the unit off. Sounds like a job for Viagra.
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09/04/2003 12:20:23 PM PDT
by
SGCOS
To: meyer
It was not designed with the operation of a grid in mind. The problem was that the in-house IT department dictated what the users got instead of the users dictating what the IT department should give them. This was the major problem in 1964 when we first began having customized programs prepared for engineering design.
The programmers were briefed by beancounters or other company overhead as to the requirements, and only when the programs were substantially done were the actual users allowed to provide input.
Programmers and beancounters are not engineers.
User-hostile programs were the result.
Guess what kind of meeting I just got out of, 40 years later?
Right. Nothing ever changes much.
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posted on
09/04/2003 12:22:01 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
(californians are as dumb as a sack of rocks.)
To: Fellow Traveler
Both of those names sound very familiar, but it was a long time ago. I was a contractor working for APS, and Bechtel was the prime contractor. I think the boiler controls were Leeds & Northrup, IIRC.
The man I worked for was Aubrey Parsons of APS. It was a fun job, mostly.
They had a problem with their drum level instrumentation, which I analyzed and solved.
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posted on
09/04/2003 12:45:25 PM PDT
by
snopercod
(And if it is a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.)
To: chimera
Re: the ET foam. Probably more important was the change in the solvent to prep the tank for foaming. That has received zero mention anywhere but FR. See bone's thread for the details I posted.
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09/04/2003 12:49:14 PM PDT
by
snopercod
(And if it is a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.)
To: meyer
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I read the whole thread...Very informing.
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09/04/2003 12:56:16 PM PDT
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Pro-Bush
(Awareness is what you know before you know anything else.)
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