Reply to post: You Can Never Be Certain - Or Frying Tonight?

Hell hath no fury like a radar engineer scorned

Richard Jones 1
WTF?

You Can Never Be Certain - Or Frying Tonight?

Many years ago I was working 'overseas' and a new power station was due to come on stream connected to the main island via a causeway with a wide double carriageway. As we also had an interest in cables the main consultants for the power station job were asked what effect the new station might have.

It took quite a long time to get an answer. However, when it came it was slightly disturbing. Under the most adverse, but fully predictable conditions our plant could expect to face a pulse of 66,000 volts. Remember that this was not something designed to transmit power via the air.

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