Re: where do people look for HV jobs?

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Original poster: DRIEBEN-at-midsouth.rr-dot-com 

Gary,

I didn't know that TVA had any 750 kV power lines although I do know
that they have plenty of 500 kV ones ;^) There are about 3 or 4 sets
of them that come into the main substaion here in the metro Memphis
area that come from either Pickwick Dam or New Johnsonville Dam, both
on the Tennessee River about 100 miles or so east of here. BTW, they
had the guys in helicopters working on the 500 kV lines here a few
years ago and had a picture of them  in the front page
of the local newspaper (coool!) They'd draw about a 3 to 4 foot arc
from the line as they "bonded on" with a "wand" grounded to the heli-
copter frame. Thats just  the natural capacitance of the helicop-
ter's body that caused the sparking.

Say Gary, don't you live in Murfreesborough? I'm just outside of
Memphis in the far southwest corner of the Volunteer state ;^)

David Rieben

----- Original Message -----
From: Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date: Sunday, February 15, 2004 9:39 am
Subject: Re: where do people look for HV jobs?

 > Original poster: "Gary  Weaver" <gary350-at-earthlink-dot-net>
 >
 > You could apply with TVA they always need people to work on the
 > 750KV power
 > lines.  Those guys work on the power lines with helicopers.
 >
 > You could also check with Oak Ridge they have the worlds larges
 > Van De Graff
 > generator that produces 165 ft sparks.  Its housed in a 16 story
 > building.
 > Companies that make HV insulators need quality control people to
 > test the
 > products, engineers to design the products.
 >
 > Coal mines need electricans to work on their AC equipment which
 > all operates
 > on high voltage.  Electric AC motors operate at 6400 volts.
 >
 > Lots of HV jobs around if you know where to look.
 >
 > Gary Weaver
 >
 >
 > ----- Original Message -----
 > From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 1:07 PM
 > Subject: Re: where do people look for HV jobs?
 >
 >
 > > Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
 > >
 > > Tesla list wrote:
 > >  >
 > >  > Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
 > >  >
 > >  > ">         I'd suspect that there are guys floating around
 > the Southern
 > >  >  > California
 > >  >  >area who used to build HV power supplies and modulators
 > for TWT's and
 > >  >  >radar systems and probably have a lot of useful knowledge.
 > >  >
 > >  > And where should we advertise to find these paragons of HV
 > >  > virtue???  Unfortunately, we can't do like Raytheon (nee
 > Hughes) does
 > >  > and
 > >  > have billboard trailers pulled up and down the freeway
 > during rush
 > >  > hour."
 > >  >
 > >  >         If I knew I would have told you!
 > >  >
 > >  > Sorry,
 > >  >
 > >  > Ed
 > >
 > > I think the original came from Jim Lux, but have lost his email
 > > address.  It occurs to me that I do have a list of email
 > addresses for
 > > retired Hughes radar employees and could send the ones for a
 > couple of
 > > possible contacts who might have suggestions.
 > >
 > > Ed
 > >
 > >
 >
 >
 >