High Power Job

[Bender10]

One of the guys at work said there was a 1 hour show on PBS about this subject. This clip is from that show, he thinks....

[drezha]

A man named Faraday? Only one of the most important men in history ;) Definitely one of the greatest physicists ever.

[BlackAdder]

Hi All,I used to build substations for Dominion Virginia Power, I was a controls foreman and my men and I hooked up all the control wiring from the control house to everything in the yard. As already said these guys are inspecting and or working on the high voltage transmission lines. They actually hook themselves up to the wire so their bodies are at the same "potential" as the wires. These looked like they were around 500,000 volts by the length of the insulators. This is a normal thing that is done and it is safe if the steps you take to hook yourself up ( and unhook yourself ) is done in the proper order.
However their is not enough money anywhere to get me up there and do that...I got as close as 10 feet from 500,000 volts terminating a new circuit breaker head (6 six of them ) and the static was out of this world....I'll stay on the ground thank you !!!

[Ototero]

The closest I got was my nose 1cm from a 415 volt busbar while my hands were behind it working.