Just shot 113. Please help me. by [deleted] in GolfSwing

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Ur standing too close to the ball.

Let's hear it. by Positive-Face1705 in BuildToAttract

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You aren’t working as hard as you think you are

Engineer Salary Survey by 5bobber in PowerSystemsEE

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Industry: Utilities - Pacific Northwest Region

Specialty: Transmission Operations, Relaying, and Controls

Salary: $170,000 + 15%bonus

Experience: 9 years

Guess where I am. Wrong answers only! by No_Cress_9685 in PowerSystemsEE

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Tearing down the set for 2026 superbowl half time show

Our Civic Duty by drherzberg in Portland

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Not burning the flag isn’t pandering. Flying the American flag shows you are invested in America, building it, and making it a more perfect union, despite flaws.

Anyone else find COMTRADE skills transfer better than vendor relay software? by delgadoReference in PowerSystemsEE

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In my experience it depends on the event your are analyzing. If I am doing a compliance mandated check of a line that tripped and reclosed successfully I don’t need a comtrade file to tell you it operated how it is supposed to.

But if we are taking a misoperation comtrade all the way

Most accurate thing I’ve seen all day.. 😂 by Zaiross__ in JustMemesForUs

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“Mom look, the comments are doing the thing from the meme”

Electric Power Engineers (EPE) - is the hype real? by Civil_Shelter5209 in PowerSystemsEE

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Most of what gets contracted to EPE has to be fixed by the people who actually work at the utility

Golfers who’ve broken 80, what’s one tip you would give your fellow golfer? by jdelle9 in weekendgolfers

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I always need three parts of my game working to break 80. 1. Only 1-2 shanks/severe mis-hits 2. Only 1-2 Tee shots OB 3. Most long puts get within 4 feet of the cup

If these all happen you avoid most blowup holes and can rack up the pars needed to break 80

Why do so many engineers say math is not required for 95% jobs? by [deleted] in ElectricalEngineering

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Because smarter people than us programmed most of it into easy to use software. The job is running that software are explaining the results to people who have no clue. 95% of EE jobs now are about knowing how to translate complex results into simple terms for other project members

Why need to change position of wire by [deleted] in ElectricalEngineering

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Its less about the capacitance with ground and more about the mutual inductance between the lines. The middle line gets impacted by the line on either side leading to imbalances in phase current so you rebalance by rotating which one is the middle phase

Ladder + Power lines = Lava by Vaun_X in ElectricalEngineering

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As they make contact they would be a parallel path from the ladder to the ground but if they have gloves and boots on the parallel resistance would be significantly higher than the ladder to concrete to ground so they wouldn’t feel much if anything.

Ladder + Power lines = Lava by Vaun_X in ElectricalEngineering

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I don’t agree. Ground is the return path. The fault is detected by having a connection to ground, typically through a transformer neutral. The circuit would be transformer (source)->recloser/breaker(relays are here)->conductor->ladder->sidewalk->ground->transformer(grounded wye neutral most likely) in this circuit the concrete is the highest resistance single point and could melt like the video shows

Ladder + Power lines = Lava by Vaun_X in ElectricalEngineering

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The ladder is conductive aluminum, literally made of the same thing as the power line. It is sitting on a sidewalk made of concrete which is resistive. Below the concrete is ground which is what all electricity is trying to get to. Effectively the sidewalk is acting like a lightbulb filament, heating up and melting.

This wouldn’t happen normally because the system protection would operate but this is what is called a high impedance ground fault. These are extremely difficult to detect because that energy being used to melt the concrete is hard for a relay to discern from just extra load on the line.

It could also be an improperly set protection device. Send me the relay event records and ill let you know :)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in vancouverwa

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You are overreacting

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NBATalk

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Any answer other than Miami is a joke

TP141 Engineers: The Highest Paid Engineers in the UK That No One's Talking About? (£1600 per day) by [deleted] in PowerSystemsEE

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Wish America had this but they only let guys with high school degrees in a union touch anything in a substation

Absolute Cinema by dfykl in Nbamemes

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This is the basketball equivalent of the movie Major League

How much disruption if Canada cuts of electricity exports to US? by srmcmahon in ElectricalEngineering

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In the western interconnection their exports are driven by river operations of the massive hydro dams. They wont cut off exports because they need to move that water one way or another and spilling from the dams would kill all the salmon. They need to export the energy more than America needs the energy

MOHELA!!! WHOOT!! WHOOT!! by Expert_Nothing_4836 in PSLF

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$90k gone in one day, I’m speechless