specifically it tests circuits with relatively high voltage but low amperage somewhat like a weak taser, they sound like some fun guys to hang out with lol.
@@rpbajb no their voltage output depends on which one, the biggest I have ever heard of is 10k VDC, they are called a megger for a similar reason to your logic but a different electric measurement. The original ones used a measurement of 1 million ohms resistance to prove a circuit did not have a short to ground and if it passed that test then the circuit insulation passes the test. Most of the older ones were 500-1000 VDC which while not 10k is still no joke because DC voltage is a whole different animal than AC voltage.
Necessity is the mother of invention 😂. My dad told us of our uncle putting the leads from a crank telephone on the seat of the family outhouse. Story goes that Grandpa sat down, Uncle winds up the generator, Gpa starts cussing and yelling that there’s hornets in the outhouse 😂😂😂
Great stuff, as always, though I wish you'd have shown the interior of the former head space, as well as the engineer's office. Along those same lines, I'd love to see a longer video showing a complete tour (stem to stern) of every space on the boat.
It's not really a distribution panel, it is the battery, generator, and propulsion motor control cubicle. It is used to connect and control power from generators or batteries to motors and to connect batteries in series or parallel. Auxiliary power is distributed by panels located in other compartments. Some boats had the motor generators that produced AC in the pumproom beneath the control room and some had them in the maneuvering room where this video was filmed.
What a thrill to see a fleet boat from back in the day and the arrangement of equipment. As an electrician's mate who served on a nuc fast attack boat, I know that pic you showed of the maneuvering area watchstanders is priceless. Thanks, and keep the great videos coming. ( I'm still laughing about that poor guy getting meggered while in the head.)
Been to the COD twice.. I could walk around there easily for days on end. Live in Akron area. Hope I can make it up yet this summer and see all the improvements. Dry dock trip was very impressive. Still in awe of our technology and mechanical manufacturing capabilities during WW2. Just wish there was a way to safely make such a great museum such as this fully operable,. I know I know.. never gonna happen. I can dream can’t I? Keep ‘em coming.
Culinary Specialist Second Class Buckman in the "All Quiet" scene from Down Periscope. Poor kid almost gave away their location. I wonder if they did shoot him out of a torpedo tube. Interesting story. Thank you Navy!.
In the book Final Harbor, a similar story involving the head and electricity was told. Except it involved an officer beating his wife. Don't mess with electricians. 😂😂😂
A hilarious story--I thought of this as well! In the novel, the officer would also deliberately not clean behind himself after using the head, leaving it for the sailors. Who knows, maybe the crew of the sub Harry Homewood (the author) did pull the same stunt on their boat...
This is a case like we had at a small shop. We had 2 bathrooms. One in office and one in the shop. Well if you needed to go #1 use either. But if it was tacos last night and you were going to wreck the toliet you went out into the shop. Ive been on a couple sub tours as we have one at OMSI musuem in portland oregon and and have done the uss bowfin at pearl harbor twice. Find your little history lessons/stories much more entertaining and informative
im on the crew of the cod and a WW2 historian as my dad was in the Pacific on an APA ( troop transsport) and am ggoing to pearl in february--i booked the tour for a 9-hour day at Pearl itself. starting with the Arizona ,do they let you walk around anywhere u want to there? I ddont want to get arrested!☺🤣😂🙃
"Smitty" and the Megger: I worked on seismic boats and a Megger was available on but as far as I know it was never put to its best use. ps As I may incorrectly recall the Megger was used at a pinch to re-connect through welding, parted electrical conductors in the hydrophone "streamer" cable, whilst deployed.
Good story. Is there any thought about restoring that space to its WWII configuration, or is it just not worth the effort? It seems like a poor design to put a head there with the lack of ventilation, although it seems well-intended.
Our focus date for restoration is 1953 after the head was removed. We could get a head from a dead sub but the fact it was removed in 1951 is part of our history.
Yep, in military service there is always that one guy that hasn't yet realised he is in the military and needs to become a team player, and needs to be taught the hard way (for him). In the air force one way to help that type of guy was a medieval set of 'stocks' used in conjunction with a lot of water.
Reminds me about Danny Trejo and the 3 headed Shark Attack movie. Don't ask me how I ended up watching it. Definitely the 3 headed Cod was more entertaining to watch.
I am just a touch surprised the electrician mates didn't find a way to leak some hydrogen gas into the head and touch it off. That would have made the seaman the first submarine launched ballistic missile! The result would have been something like in the movie Mr. Roberts when Ensign Pulver set off his firecracker in the ship's laundry! I have a true civilian head story for all from the late 1960s as seen on WOOD TV-8 in Grand Rapids MI. The reporter was the late Dick Evans. A lady was spraying her hair with a brand new jumbo can of hair spray. The spray valve stuck open. Not knowing what else to do, she pointed the can into the toilet bowl and put the seat on it to hold it. She left the room. A bit later after the can had emptied, her husband when in to take a dump. While sitting on the stool, he lit a cigarette with a match and tossed the lit match into the toilet. BOOM! He is tossed across the room. The toilet bowl is shattered. Hubby's butt is torn up from shrapnel from the toilet and bleeding. Wife calls for the ambulance. The ambulance crew does first aid on the lacerated rear. The load him onto a litter. The crew wants to know what the heck happens. As they are carrying him to the ambulance she explains what happened. The ambulance crew starts laughing so hard they drop poor hubby out of the litter. In hitting the ground hubby breaks his arm! Dick Evans some how managed to tell this news story looking straight into the camera and not crack up in any way!
Well I flunked radio deejay class at school 😢 and please understand that we grab our equipment, what little is involved, and go to the spot and begin filming... so I'm often putting it together on the fly... ahhhh yes .. 😅
A Megger is a device that sends voltage through a circuit to test insulation. Just FYI for anyone curious.
specifically it tests circuits with relatively high voltage but low amperage somewhat like a weak taser, they sound like some fun guys to hang out with lol.
They turned it into a taser or as they called it 'a cattle prod ' and used it on the polywogs during the crossing ceremony!
Thanks so much for this additional intel, sirs.
Is it called a Megger because it delivers one million volts?
@@rpbajb no their voltage output depends on which one, the biggest I have ever heard of is 10k VDC, they are called a megger for a similar reason to your logic but a different electric measurement. The original ones used a measurement of 1 million ohms resistance to prove a circuit did not have a short to ground and if it passed that test then the circuit insulation passes the test. Most of the older ones were 500-1000 VDC which while not 10k is still no joke because DC voltage is a whole different animal than AC voltage.
Love these. My dad served on USS Ray 271R, a Gato class converted to a radar picket boat in the late 50s. He had a lot of great stories to tell.
Necessity is the mother of invention 😂. My dad told us of our uncle putting the leads from a crank telephone on the seat of the family outhouse. Story goes that Grandpa sat down, Uncle winds up the generator, Gpa starts cussing and yelling that there’s hornets in the outhouse 😂😂😂
Hahahahahaha!!!!
Ha! That's why you don't piss off the electricians. No pun intended.
We plumbed our bathroom exhaust fan into the office of someone no one liked. Word got around, and anyone taking a dump used our bathroom.
Great stuff, as always, though I wish you'd have shown the interior of the former head space, as well as the engineer's office.
Along those same lines, I'd love to see a longer video showing a complete tour (stem to stern) of every space on the boat.
Well the cabinet is rather empty. The engineering office needs cleaning first. It's coming!
That electrical distribution panel is gorgeous ❤
It's not really a distribution panel, it is the battery, generator, and propulsion motor control cubicle. It is used to connect and control power from generators or batteries to motors and to connect batteries in series or parallel. Auxiliary power is distributed by panels located in other compartments. Some boats had the motor generators that produced AC in the pumproom beneath the control room and some had them in the maneuvering room where this video was filmed.
Great story, Thanks 👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸
What a thrill to see a fleet boat from back in the day and the arrangement of equipment. As an electrician's mate who served on a nuc fast attack boat, I know that pic you showed of the maneuvering area watchstanders is priceless. Thanks, and keep the great videos coming. ( I'm still laughing about that poor guy getting meggered while in the head.)
Keep history alive
i love the phrase "hidden history"--makes the videos very suspensful!
Been to the COD twice.. I could walk around there easily for days on end. Live in Akron area. Hope I can make it up yet this summer and see all the improvements. Dry dock trip was very impressive. Still in awe of our technology and mechanical manufacturing capabilities during WW2. Just wish there was a way to safely make such a great museum such as this fully operable,. I know I know.. never gonna happen. I can dream can’t I? Keep ‘em coming.
What an electrifying tale.
Your videos are always great, because you can make History come to life! I'm glad I found your channel!
Great presentation as usual!
if I was Smitty I'd crap on the floor in there as payback and say deal with the smell and mess because you literally shocked the sh_t out of me.
Boy talk about being on the hot seat!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🚽🚽🚽🚽⚡⚡⚡⚡
So glad I found this channel! Subscribed. Awesome videos. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
It should be noted, the US submarines were palaces, compared to British and Nazi submarines (I won’t mention Japanese submarines).
These videos are great. Love the short format.
Soooo…..THAT’S where the phrase “Hot Shit” came from! 😂
Oh, Smitty! Every unit has one.
Well, using the head in the room only for "non-smelly jobs" and the other 3 for the "heavy jobs" could have worked pretty well, in the end.
Outstanding lol this is my new favourite channel
That was a great prank. I love this kind of history.
Culinary Specialist Second Class Buckman in the "All Quiet" scene from Down Periscope. Poor kid almost gave away their location. I wonder if they did shoot him out of a torpedo tube. Interesting story. Thank you Navy!.
Oh, CRAP that is a good story.
That was quite intriguing, haha. I appreciate the video and look forward to more.
In the book Final Harbor, a similar story involving the head and electricity was told. Except it involved an officer beating his wife. Don't mess with electricians. 😂😂😂
A hilarious story--I thought of this as well! In the novel, the officer would also deliberately not clean behind himself after using the head, leaving it for the sailors.
Who knows, maybe the crew of the sub Harry Homewood (the author) did pull the same stunt on their boat...
This is a case like we had at a small shop. We had 2 bathrooms. One in office and one in the shop. Well if you needed to go #1 use either. But if it was tacos last night and you were going to wreck the toliet you went out into the shop.
Ive been on a couple sub tours as we have one at OMSI musuem in portland oregon and and have done the uss bowfin at pearl harbor twice. Find your little history lessons/stories much more entertaining and informative
TMI🙃🤣😂😁
im on the crew of the cod and a WW2 historian as my dad was in the Pacific on an APA ( troop transsport) and am ggoing to pearl in february--i booked the tour for a 9-hour day at Pearl itself. starting with the Arizona ,do they let you walk around anywhere u want to there? I ddont want to get arrested!☺🤣😂🙃
"Smitty" and the Megger: I worked on seismic boats and a Megger was available on but as far as I know it was never put to its best use. ps As I may incorrectly recall the Megger was used at a pinch to re-connect through welding, parted electrical conductors in the hydrophone "streamer" cable, whilst deployed.
This is really cool. Thank's for sharing.
"and they had a Meggar" Yep, those things hurt.
Source: previous experience with asshats while in tradeschool as industrial mechanic/electrician
Just heard the Smitty story last weekend on my Cod tour. 😂
Boss Your the Best 💪 I can see everything like I've never seen
Always heard an active sub smelled a combination of diesel, B.O.; food cooking; and sometimes sewage
It would have been nice to have seen inside one of the 'heads' to appreciate how tiny they are.
Didn't they have "PINE-TREE" air fresheners. ?
Toilet Taser!
Embarrasingly, i never knew that toilet was there!😁😅🤣🙃😉
Great story.
A nice video, but why didn't you show inside the head, or the engineer's office?
hmm--thats when u can really call it the "hot seat"☺😚🤣😆
Great story ❤❤❤❤
Great story!!
A great story! 🤣
This was awesome thank you!
Shitty for Smitty 😂
So the aft compartments are like Vegas - whatever happens there, stays there.
And I guess for Cod, three heads are better than 4
Ahhhh....the smell of San. 2!
Did anyone save the reading from the megger after the resistance check?
Good story. Is there any thought about restoring that space to its WWII configuration, or is it just not worth the effort? It seems like a poor design to put a head there with the lack of ventilation, although it seems well-intended.
Our focus date for restoration is 1953 after the head was removed. We could get a head from a dead sub but the fact it was removed in 1951 is part of our history.
@@paulfarace9595 Thank you for the response, that makes sense.
So Wise , Thank You . Embarasing but to common
Any USS Cod cookbooks ?
A war of [bowel] movement...
Yep, in military service there is always that one guy that hasn't yet realised he is in the military and needs to become a team player, and needs to be taught the hard way (for him). In the air force one way to help that type of guy was a medieval set of 'stocks' used in conjunction with a lot of water.
Taco Tuesday nightss and Wed.mornings must be an odious even on submarines...
Have you done any videos on the battery deck?
Not yet!
That would be referred to as lessons Learned
And for those who want to know what being on these boats was like in the 60's, liik up After Battery Rats by Dex Armstrong.
I laughed so hard at this.
Reminds me about Danny Trejo and the 3 headed Shark Attack movie. Don't ask me how I ended up watching it. Definitely the 3 headed Cod was more entertaining to watch.
Couldn't they let it be known that that head should only be used for peeing? The traffic might be increased, but it would keep the odors down.
This room always seemed to be confusing to visitors, i recalled
No actual film of the head?
They didn’t call them “Pig Boats” for no reason, no water for washing, 2 toilets, locked in your own and others farts for 24/7
The pig boats name actually refers to the pre-fleet submarine classes like R-, O-, and S-classes... the fleet subs were comparatively luxurious.
😂. Was it shitty smitty or sparky henceforth I wonder. Reminiscent of the stinkoffs referred to in Blind Mans Bluff!
I am just a touch surprised the electrician mates didn't find a way to leak some hydrogen gas into the head and touch it off. That would have made the seaman the first submarine launched ballistic missile! The result would have been something like in the movie Mr. Roberts when Ensign Pulver set off his firecracker in the ship's laundry!
I have a true civilian head story for all from the late 1960s as seen on WOOD TV-8 in Grand Rapids MI. The reporter was the late Dick Evans.
A lady was spraying her hair with a brand new jumbo can of hair spray. The spray valve stuck open. Not knowing what else to do, she pointed the can into the toilet bowl and put the seat on it to hold it. She left the room. A bit later after the can had emptied, her husband when in to take a dump. While sitting on the stool, he lit a cigarette with a match and tossed the lit match into the toilet. BOOM! He is tossed across the room. The toilet bowl is shattered. Hubby's butt is torn up from shrapnel from the toilet and bleeding. Wife calls for the ambulance. The ambulance crew does first aid on the lacerated rear. The load him onto a litter. The crew wants to know what the heck happens. As they are carrying him to the ambulance she explains what happened. The ambulance crew starts laughing so hard they drop poor hubby out of the litter. In hitting the ground hubby breaks his arm!
Dick Evans some how managed to tell this news story looking straight into the camera and not crack up in any way!
lol very interesting
Smitty? Why it was Seaman Hornsby!
That's why I have 4 or 5 meggers.
They were called pig boats for a reason.
I was Smitty😬
I thought you were Sparticus...
@@paulfarace9595 nope, Smitty 🤣
I could sink sink a sub all by myself
He dint show where the head was
semper fi,,semper fortis
Why didn’t you at least show how small it worth! That’s a thumbs down.
Ah,the venerable Pig Boats.. a well deserved nom de plume.
Never liked meggers , you are using high voltage , supposedly looking for a problem .
put it this way..the bastard that did that to me would get retribution.
Stop saying "uh" for Pete's sake!
Stop being “uh” Dick
Keep saying it; I prefer human speech, not scripted perfection. Might as well have a robot if perfection is the goal.
My name's Pete, and for my sake, you should keep your OCD to yourself.
Well I flunked radio deejay class at school 😢 and please understand that we grab our equipment, what little is involved, and go to the spot and begin filming... so I'm often putting it together on the fly... ahhhh yes .. 😅
@@paulfarace9595 you’re doing just fine. Pay the negative comments no attention
Smitty had the shits! 😂