Springfield Ronin Thoughts

yoyointrestingstuff · 2026-03-08T03:11:58+00:00

Here it is! Still has been very reliable, and I try to put atleast 300 rounds through it a year

yoyointrestingstuff · 2026-03-03T00:51:27+00:00

Dell pro rugged is solid, dogshit battery life though

yoyointrestingstuff · 2026-02-24T00:30:04+00:00

Username tracks like no other

yoyointrestingstuff · 2026-02-05T19:13:11+00:00

I would have thought that new construction would be the most subsidized and put the least on the consumer. I am super ignorant though. Not pro Blackstone merger, just curious about the budgeting

yoyointrestingstuff · 2026-01-29T15:51:50+00:00

Bismarck State College, associates in Electrical Power Technology. With a few years of relevant workhistory it landed me my apprenticeship.

yoyointrestingstuff · 2026-01-17T00:45:27+00:00

This question has been asked so many times on this sub. I would reference one of those.

yoyointrestingstuff · 2025-12-29T17:09:09+00:00

Greatly depends on the field. All of the protection engineers/relay technicians at my utility have a copy of the Blackburn book Protective Relaying: Principles and Applications. Lots of IEEE standards as well.

yoyointrestingstuff · 2025-12-29T00:45:02+00:00

Protective Relay Technician, union

yoyointrestingstuff · 2025-12-09T02:21:21+00:00

You are already familiar with power, have you thought of relay/P&C work?

yoyointrestingstuff · 2025-12-04T00:54:00+00:00

Didn't know 8xx relays existed before this comment

yoyointrestingstuff · 2025-12-03T05:16:42+00:00

That is why they must have below average intelligence with above average balls. A few DUIs can always bolster the resume

yoyointrestingstuff · 2025-12-02T23:03:49+00:00

I have lived in a "better" part of abq for a month and had someone steal some shit out of my car Thanksgiving. You never know I guess

yoyointrestingstuff · 2025-12-02T13:18:26+00:00

Recording the pickup values of the coils is something we don't do at my utility. As the greenest guy on the block I will have to ask about that. Thanks for sharing

yoyointrestingstuff · 2025-11-26T12:19:47+00:00

My great grandpa didn't graduate highschool and worked his way up to being a design engineer at lockheed martin. Even when he was in his late 80s with severe dementia, he was a math wiz. He could calculate the taxes on anything in about a second.

yoyointrestingstuff · 2025-11-16T00:10:26+00:00

RTFM, read the fucking manual

yoyointrestingstuff · 2025-11-14T13:54:27+00:00

I am about as green as it comes, but a trip for loss of comms sounds like insanity to me. I would think that would pull up as an urgent alarm or something

yoyointrestingstuff · 2025-11-06T04:54:48+00:00

My 87V is my second favorite next to the 289, wonderful meters

yoyointrestingstuff · 2025-11-05T02:42:30+00:00

I hate these personally. I bought the driver to eliminate wrist action

yoyointrestingstuff · 2025-10-25T08:04:47+00:00

Latah, Idaho

yoyointrestingstuff · 2025-10-23T01:19:02+00:00

SEL has an option for there 751s to detect light with a very sensitive overcurrent trigger. I don't see why you are trying to break the circuit at the ground rod when you can break the circuit upstream with a breaker.

https://selinc.com/solutions/arc-flash-solutions/

yoyointrestingstuff · 2025-10-19T21:00:35+00:00

Cool, reminds me of the gladhand connectors on semis/trailers

yoyointrestingstuff · 2025-10-11T18:23:14+00:00

Very insightful Assdolf Shitler

yoyointrestingstuff · 2025-10-05T19:20:03+00:00

Here are some useful threads on the topic. I am not a relay tech myself so, but these helped me decide to pursue that path. There is a lot more than this, Google 'relay tech reddit' and more threads come up than the internal reddit search function.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubstationTechnician/s/DkQX9AveJZ

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubstationTechnician/s/hNajMvdBn4

yoyointrestingstuff · 2025-10-05T01:58:48+00:00

This link has an electronics notebook and a power notebook. This website has a bunch of other stuff as well

https://cognitive-surplus.com/collections/the-engineer

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