1.21 gigawatts????

[telectrix]

jeez. watched 30 seconds of that. have to go and lie down. i feel faint.

 

[Andy78]

Even though I have seen that plenty of times, I think I just sweated half a pint out my palms watching it again.

 

[Guest111]

I love that film , remember watching that film as a young in and thinking i cant wait till 2013... Flying cars the works..]

How disappointed...

They do, you're just not taking the right drugs.lol

 

[44ALLAN]

I'll never complain again when one of our yard floodlights goes out lol

 

[Guest111]

I don't mind heights and swinging about at them but that is something else! that takes balls of steel!

I knew a lad who was an aerial rigger for the home office totally mad 150 foot up in wind,rain,snow or ice and never wore a harness,anyway they made him start wearing one and one day it got snagged on something and he fell,fortunately the harness saved him.His response was typical of him "see I told you them things weren't safe"

 

[Rockingit]

I've just looked in the BGB purely to find something in the cables tables to be flippant about, but in doing so..... 1200mm2 aluminium?? Er, that would be about a Reliant Robin size solid block, then. Anyone? How, where, why??!!!

(Yes, I do know that it would only roughly be 300mm dia, but still.....)

 

[Knobhead]

Going back to my days of running a photographic repair service. I was authorised to repair Bowens studio flash units. (They had a habit of killing people). Anyway back to the subject. I calculated the discharge current of one of my 1.25Kj units as 450A @660V, the discharge time was somewhere between 1/125[SUP]th[/SUP] & 1/250[SUP]th[/SUP] of a second. Couldn’t be more accurate with the time with the gear I’d got. 450A was carried via a 4mm flex from the capacitors to the discharge tube.

 

[Elmer BeFuddled]

I had a nasty belt off a camera mounted Sunpak flash a few years back when trying to add highlights to a piccy outside in the rain. It bloody hurt!!

 

[D Skelton]

Haha, I remember as a kid making tazers out of old disposable cameras! I've still got the burn scars on my left arm where I tested my first one!

Digressing slightly but still in line with the topic of massive currents, the LHC at CERN uses at peak time roughly 200MW! That's over twice what the whole of Geneva is using at peak time! Obviously voltage is stepped up to ensure cables have suitable ccc however what is interesting is that they also use six phases.

I'd love to meet the designer/s (electrically speaking) at CERN!

 

[Guest55]

I think O is thinking of this excellent number...
Tower Climbers working - YouTube

spark gets to the top ,
"hey Jeff , you did pick up the spare lamp right ?"
:-D

 

[bigbaddave]

spark gets to the top ,
"hey Jeff , you did pick up the spare lamp right ?"
:-D

Ha Ha..