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A hot connection. That is a very old cable head.

Something quite hypnotic about the humming from those transformers.

Cool, the way the register dials are arranged reminds me of some of the US made ones. It has definitely seen better days though.

Hello Jack nice to see another video from you its been a while mate how are you doing?

Nice Thorn Beta 5 SOX lamp

That's a shame. Complete pieces would be cool.

Hello just wondering if you have any of the meters or radio teleswitchs available as I have wanted to get some for a while

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Lovely sox

Any idea what to do if dials get stuck? Any way to restart them without having to replace the meter?

Nice view of the pylon!

Low Pressure Sodium. Beautiful.

Nice old setup that one! Looks to be wired by someone who gave a damn!

Love the video. Believe it or not in my town in the US HPS lamps are our new tech and some of our street lamps are being switched from mercury vapor/metal halide to hps. Thats why i love it here :)

Nice old school Ferranti transformer, looks 1950s vintage, 275kv to 66kv...? Quite unusual. Nice BOCBs too. Proper quality stuff probably British made, quite cool you managed to catch the switching operation!

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Something’s crackling well at 11:00

I cant hear that Hinkley point pylon mate

Wish you all the best.

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Very nice video, Interesting vintage connections, and abandoned circuits. love the SOX lamps. That one at 7:10 had a Venner timeswitch in it. 07:47 faded Sangamo roundy TS.

I have this one. Do you think it's out of date?

Hi I have a radio tele switch and I have storage heaters, my off peak times come on in 4 stages over a 24 hour period. One day I got 8 hours off peak , next day/night I got 10 hours and next I got 13 hours. I don’t know what tariff I’m on but is this normal? My electric is far cheaper than everyone else I know who has storage heaters

Jack, do you still have one of those 1 rate GEC meters ?

Long & Crawford T3 GF4 ring main unit built 1 year before I started work there. L & C ceased production in 2003, closed down by new owners Altstom.

Very nice CL27 meters with pointer dials. Are they still in service ?

Interesting set up there, most of the time-switches were on different times. Messy wiring. Look forward to more meter video's.

Wpd meter install?

YAAAAAY, Loadwheel action out in the wild in 2021! :D This instrument was first calibrated in 1970 and this is its 51st year of loadwheel action. Smart meters..... *_BEAT THAT!!!!!!!!!_* -Wayne's Electrical. _8th October 2021, 00.51_

Great video, somehow I missed it. Those plastic meters held up pretty well to the fire. No loss there. Those meters have no character. look forward to more metering video's.

Interesting that the S200.16 has the newer S200.31 register. (166.67 revs). Gears must have been matched to make it 250 rev/kWh

Interesting splodge of yellow paint there

66kv run a factory what is price of 65kv

So low level sound... . Its like an 220kv power line in Romania, even lower. At 400kV, i v expected an higher buzz...

Where's that?

I have the 40 amp version as my main housemeter its 53 years old and still going well

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Haha..... *_FLAAAAAAMES!!_* My goodness, you've actually wired them up and have a load going on them. :D The tune you're playing with this, am I right in saying...... . . . ............. its *_"Flames-Of-The-Unexpected"_* right? :D It really is impressive that they took the heat for as long as they did. That transformer setup you had going there..... was it smoking a bit towards the end there? That might have been preventable with a bit of careful and calculated ballasting to hold back the current being given out to the meters. It also looked rather interesting with the meters only illuminated by the fire under them, as it kind-of had a disco-effect of all the pulse lights flashing at different times. Ha Ha Ha. :D These plastic-fantastic sealed boxes had no use anyway. They cannot be opened non-destructively, there's no calibration-adjusting parameters inside them or anything. Just one-shot boxes which are usually removed after ten years and then chucked in the bin. So cheap that it's more expensive to subject them to an accuracy test and write out the paperwork. Some of them even said _"ReD"_ on the displays which I think I am right in saying, cannot be reset or cleared without a special infra-red communication device which is coded to work with the meters and if the truth be known, only the manufacturer or the electric company has the kit to do that and such kit is not available to private meter owners of the public for obvious reasons.... There was only one thing left to do with these, and that was to have a little *FUNN* with them and have some _flaaaaaaaames_ licking away at their terminal screws. :D Out of all honesty though, if you still have the burnt, charred wreckages of these meters, I don't know if it would be worth hacking them open and hauling out the brass terminal blocks and the chunky copper busbar which goes between the phase terminals. The neutral block will be a solid block of brass with a central hole in the middle of it. Even the terminal screws are brass, (well, the one which I witnessed get popped at Mr. Photon's was at least.....) so even though this is a budget-economy type of meter, they were good and didn't cheap-out on putting steel screws in the terminal blocks! Thanxx for showing, -Wayne's Electrical. _15th March 2021, 22.35_

Is that what you call hot wiring!!

That music was from tales of the unexpected wasn't it?

Does Diana know she's a legend in someone's switch room

Ps there are some more of saiddevices near the brick building at the end of the video

Hi Jack hope you had a good Christmas and New year i have a question at around 4 minutes there are some bits of equipment that look like grey donuts supported on insulators with several of them stacked one on the other what are they please? Sorry if my description isn't very good I tried my best

Good shots! Love the insulators

Those wires are so low on that first tower I bet you can practically feel the voltage underneath them! Stand under there with an umbrella I'd bet you get a few thousand volts worth of induction current off them! This station was built in the 60's but most of the equipment inside has been replaced fairly recently. Notice the transformer with Hyundai branding on it.... Originally it would have been an English Electric, GEC or such like!

I can not understand why the old and analog meters are replaced by digital meters since they work just fine ?? it is a pity to withdraw such durable meters :/ :/

Those trees need trimming around those pole TX's. Good to see that you are uploading video's again.

Morning Jack thanks for posting always interesting to see this sort of thing. I think someone needs to get busy with the hedgetrimmer round that pole

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