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09-05-2009, 12:45 PM
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The light on the tower looks fun but they can have the linework 
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09-05-2009, 12:46 PM
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thanks
strange though, i still cant get my "stoopid" brain to picture it right.
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The guy taking the picture is directly above the men doing the work, you are looking straight down. If the guy taking the picture had a plumb bob on the lense of the camera, the string would go straight down past the guy on the rights shoulder and land on top of the Empire State Building roof. What looks like windows are the reflectors of the antenna, it's just a wire cage.
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09-05-2009, 12:52 PM
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I've always wondered about those helicopter linemen...
What is the purpose of the 25% stainless suit that he wears? Why make the Faraday cage around him? As long as he's only touching the lines and not grounded, what could happen to him that he needs to also wear that suit?
Second, what's with the wand and the arcing? I assume the wand is to stop the arcing to his body and prevent burning, but why is electricity flowing at all? I it some type of high voltage static electricity?
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09-05-2009, 01:07 PM
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I've always wondered about those helicopter linemen...
What is the purpose of the 25% stainless suit that he wears? Why make the Faraday cage around him? As long as he's only touching the lines and not grounded, what could happen to him that he needs to also wear that suit?
Second, what's with the wand and the arcing? I assume the wand is to stop the arcing to his body and prevent burning, but why is electricity flowing at all? I it some type of high voltage static electricity?
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At those voltages, just the capacitance between the man and the other wires or ground is enough to allow a deadly current to flow through his body. If e were touching the wire all by himself, he would be one plate of the giant capacitor. The cage he wears takes that place instead, keeping him safe.
The arcing is again due to the capacitance of the overall system.
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09-05-2009, 01:21 PM
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Second, what's with the wand and the arcing? I assume the wand is to stop the arcing to his body and prevent burning, but why is electricity flowing at all? I it some type of high voltage static electricity?
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He uses that to get him and the helicopter to the same potential as the line.
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09-05-2009, 01:30 PM
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Could be worse, how would you like to change this light?
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Does anyone know what building they are on? I think it either the impire state building or on of the WTC towers.
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09-05-2009, 01:37 PM
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Does anyone know what building they are on? I think it either the impire state building or on of the WTC towers.
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It's the Empire State Building.
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09-05-2009, 02:10 PM
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It's the Empire State Building.
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Ok, because I've been up in the empire state building a couple of times and it sure looked familiar. 
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09-05-2009, 02:47 PM
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Ok, because I've been up in the empire state building a couple of times and it sure looked familiar. |
Yup-
Last edited by Fredman; 09-06-2009 at 02:36 PM.
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09-05-2009, 03:12 PM
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Nope. 
Check out the link in post #39 of this thread.
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Well, which building is it then?
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09-05-2009, 03:36 PM
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Well, which building is it then?
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I'm still trying to figure out what he's talking about. The video in the post he mentioned is titled Empire State Building. I'm not sitting thru 8 minutes of it.
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09-05-2009, 03:42 PM
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The video in the post he mentioned is titled Empire State Building. I'm not sitting thru 8 minutes of it.
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I watched it. It is pretty neat.
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09-05-2009, 03:58 PM
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I watched it. It is pretty neat. |
Yeah, it's a pretty well-done video.
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09-05-2009, 05:27 PM
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That picture at the beginning is just about as smart as this one.
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09-05-2009, 05:31 PM
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That picture at the beginning is just about as smart as this one.
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That's older than the crust on my underwear. 
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09-05-2009, 05:33 PM
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I know that. Still doesn't make it smart though just because it's old. 
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09-05-2009, 05:37 PM
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I know that. Still doesn't make it smart though just because it's old. |
It must be safe! He's been drilling that hole for years and never got electrocuted! 
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09-05-2009, 05:41 PM
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LOL. Good Point!
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09-05-2009, 07:13 PM
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That's older than the crust on my underwear. |
You got that right.
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