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Post by Alight on May 29, 2008 20:54:28 GMT
On the One show 2 days ago Flash Wilson was featured. This really meant something to me as I have seen her site and I think it is actually really good and also includes London Underground abandoned stations for those interested. Many of you may not get the buzz, but as a child I used to admire these metal giants. True I really am not an enthusiast in as far depth as her, in fact would merely call myself an enthusiast, but I do think they can be really interesting such as the ones viewed at the Dartford Crossing A282 - really tall. I also have seen photos on websites such as the national grid, of people actually climbing them - I could never do that! I feel uncomfortable just standing next to them! |
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2008 21:00:43 GMT
I quite like it, when you are near them, and you get that weird buzzing noise, especially so in the light rain!
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Post by signalfailure on May 29, 2008 22:16:09 GMT
And if your underneith one when its lightning and thundering. The crackle temporarily stops then starts again.  |
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Post by metman on May 29, 2008 23:00:17 GMT
As I small child I used to find pylons really cool! I always wished I lived next to one [not that I would now]. There are loads of different types and sizes and there were/are always different ones at the end of the run or near sub-stations!
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Post by mrfs42 on May 29, 2008 23:18:43 GMT
Of course, with the right tuned circuit you can get a fluorescent tube to strike with the inductance from an HT line.
I have heard of successful prosecutions with people using a tuned coil and a local radio aerial to produce electricity.
Having said that one of the very few TV programmes I've enjoyed (or even watched in the past 2 decades for that matter) was one on pylon painters.
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Post by pakenhamtrain on May 30, 2008 12:28:48 GMT
About 500m from here there are 4 High voltage ones which come from the Latrobe Valley and head up through Roville and towards the city. I remember a few years ago I was outside and saw one of the workers were up extreme ontop on the the biggest ones working on the wires that are above the ones that carry the power.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2008 15:09:56 GMT
theres one around the corner, driving past you don't get to see the scale of the size but one night when i walked down the lane i was awed at its size
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Post by Alight on May 30, 2008 18:32:22 GMT
Having said that one of the very few TV programmes I've enjoyed (or even watched in the past 2 decades for that matter) was one on pylon painters. What was interesting about it? Was it the fact that people were like litterally dangling down on wires trying to paint? Its always really interesting to see pictures of people working on pylongs - everything looks on such a large scale up close! There was also a famous pylon with its own site (now dismantled) called the pink pylon, as hence it's name, it was pink! |
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Post by mrfs42 on May 30, 2008 19:16:35 GMT
What made it intersting was that they all knew their job and also knew the layout of the standard pylon so well that they could just swing around it with reckless abandon. From memory only one out of the four was actually dangling, the others just had arrestor harnesses - and then of course you've gotta be wary of the induced current as the o/h swings in and out of the geomagnetism.  |
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Post by Tomcakes on May 30, 2008 20:38:05 GMT
Plenty down the way in TCHome land, and indeed up here, large substation in Currie.
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Post by angelislington on Jun 2, 2008 18:40:13 GMT
As I small child I used to find pylons really cool! I always wished I lived next to one [not that I would now]. My mum grew up thinking it was perfectly normal to have pylons in your back garden and was really surprised to find out it's quite rare! (Not that she had one in hers - but there are a lot round where she grew up. The housing estate was built specifically to supply workers for the local trading estate, and the leccy was generated purely by said trading estate and goes directly to the housing estate - no-one on the estate can change their leccy supplier as a result! It's not a part of the National Grid at all.) |
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