Thread: One for the fridgies

Originally Posted by scarry

And they are bloody noisey,real noisey,so thats me done.Although with better design,attenuates,etc,the packaged ones are quiet thesis days.

Electrics probably wouldn't be too bad,as the saying goes,a good Fridgie can sort anything

Many years ago,we had four V16 Diesel,quad turbo gensets in a high rise in the city which had to do a 24 hour test,before hand over.

The turbos glowed in the dark.

The noise was unbelievable.As was the amount of fuel they used for the test.

Those are the sort of machines I play with regularly. . Biggest install I’ve done on my own was to put 15 about that size (1250KVA) in parallel to run a Zone Substation that supplied 5 towns - all for a 2 day run while they upgraded the incoming 66KV line. A weeks work for around 20 hours running. Biggest machines overall I’ve played with were the 4 x 2500KVA units I installed and commissioned just before moving to where I am now - the load test there saw the machines drinking over 2000 litres an hour between them during commissioning.

The biggest gen sets I've seen were back in the 80's at Richmond RAAF base, big Oshkosh (I think?) diesels.
Can't recall now if they were 12 or 16 cylinder? Too long ago.
Insanely loud, you could hear them for up from anywhere on the base

Originally Posted by Homestar

Those are the sort of machines I play with regularly. . Biggest install I’ve done on my own was to put 15 about that size (1250KVA) in parallel to run a Zone Substation that supplied 5 towns - all for a 2 day run while they upgraded the incoming 66KV line. A weeks work for around 20 hours running. Biggest machines overall I’ve played with were the 4 x 2500KVA units I installed and commissioned just before moving to where I am now - the load test there saw the machines drinking over 2000 litres an hour between them during commissioning.

Cool stuff Gav.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

A keen, young, switched on fridgie I know (no, not Rick, another one) who employs a tradie and apprentice, working for, mainly, a nursing home chain from Gatton to the North and South Coasts, has just started a qualified sparkie. They are apprenticed to each other.

Yes like Rick said,that’s a good thing to do,if the opportunity arises.

In our day it wasn’t the done thing.

Originally Posted by rick130

They're BMX's Des

I knew that but wondered if you'd make the connection to my crap humour. You did.

Originally Posted by rick130

The biggest gen sets I've seen were back in the 80's at Richmond RAAF base, big Oshkosh (I think?) diesels.
Can't recall now if they were 12 or 16 cylinder? Too long ago.
Insanely loud, you could hear them for up from anywhere on the base

You need to try an oil rig engine room with 3 or 4 EMD,s screaming at each other. And then people ask: "are you deaf, Poppa"!

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Originally Posted by scarry

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Is that even street legal?
Talk about the owner having a Split Personality.