As followers of the blog remember, a few weeks ago we were given a project to duplicate some switchgear that had been involved in a fire.
Power Plant: The accident occurred at the DeCordova Power Plant in Granbury, Texas. The plant operates four natural gas-fired combustion turbines that generate 260 MW total.
The Accident: It is believed that operators or electricians energized the 4160-volt switchgear while a ground was still installed following a maintenance activity. While initially it had to look like there was not much chance of a "quick solution" or perhaps any solution (they had to think they needed magicians not scientists), fortunately the power plant called on the right service group who knew how to solve the problem.
By combining resources, our two companies were able to respond to this project in the time frame required by the customer. There are way too many folks to thank here on this blog entry but about everyone on staff was involved in some little way either in working on the project direct or covering another job while we allocated that person to the project. Pretty easy for the author to say it was fun, but I heard at least one tech say "let's not do that again for a couple weeks". Scientists not magicians, this time we were magicians. This switchgear went from the left to the right in about 3 weeks.
That's what we call CBS Emergency Response. Check out the wire, tape, termination care package we also sent along. We even think of the little things. Hopefully you will not need us, but if you do, you will be glad we are there.
UPDATE 3/11/12 - Check out this video (posted in 3D if you can handle it! I think you have to download the "wmv" file and then watch it with NVidia on a 3D enabled monitor). But we are the first to have some 3D Video.
