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Probably not long for this world... as everything in this room seems to be getting scrapped. The copper coils of a similar-looking machine nearby had already been sawed off.
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The Generator is the business end of the hydro-electric system and is rotated by the turbine below, which produces the electricity to be sent to the main grid to be used by the consumer.
The Generators were made by General Electric Co limited from Peterborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
2900 KVA
13,200 Volts
127 Amps
BR 47415 eases the Table 83 1E93 17:03 Holyhead to York into the Up platform loop at Abergele & Pensarn station back in September 1986.
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BN Coach/Generator car #7301. This car is still in Baldwin City, KS at the Midland Railway, but unfortunately, vandals caused thousands of dollars of damage to it, and it has been out of service for a few years.
A change of pace
A few years ago I talked myself into an invitation to get a special tour of an old hydro power plant that is only a few miles from my house. It happens to be one of the first hydroelectric power stations built in the world, and as you can see by the date of the wall was turned on in 1898.
This is the first of several images I took there, but its also probably one of the best I got. It turned out to be a very challenging shoot. First of all the entire facility is two hundred feet down an open elevator shaft that was dug into the solid rock by the waterfall where this was built. I had to have an engineer with me at all moments and could only go in very specific places. (If you look closely you can see that this is spinning and actually generating electricity at the time I took this) Generators like this actually cast out fields of energy and if me or my tripod were to get to close the electricity could leap out and kill me. So I had to be a good boy and not climb all over the equipment like I wanted to. It was very hard to get the lens into good positions with these limitations. I also was not allowed to bring any lights down, So had to work with the very dark ambient light that was there, mostly open bulbs hanging from the ceiling. And since I'm in a deep dark cave, no windows of course, not any fill at all really. It was also *very loud* so I could not communicate very well with my minder. Given all those restrictions, I am happy with this result.
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If you want to geek out a bit about hydro power, read on: As I write these words, this particular power plant is being retrofitted with modern generators, so this old beast is now gone. This in fact was the oldest generator in the plant and even though it was constructed around 1898 was still functioning and putting out power that people in our region use. (Apparently the magnetos were rewound sometime in the 70's and they had to hire experts who could come in and rebuild this in the old school ways. There were I think 6 generators in the cave, but only two I think in the beginning. The man who built the power station had the foresight to use AC power (Westinghouse) rather than Edison's DC power. Edison built a plant at Niagara falls that made DC power but moving the DC power to the customers was very expensive and difficult, and it did not last long. The world chose AC power of course and DC power went away like sony's betamax. After building this power plant, the other challenge was that the power had to be carried by one of the first transmission lines ever built back to Tacoma. (some 45 miles I think) a massive task in its own for the times as they had to clear there way through wild forest. (Some of the key technology in this AC generator was made possible by the inventions of Nikolai Tesla who claimed to get his inventions completely realized in dreams or simultaneous flashes of insight. )
At this power plant they've added more generators about 4 times so they can capture more of the hydroelectric potential. Each time they added new versions the efficiency and capacity just about doubled. So if the first one made x power from x flow of water, the next generation drew 2x (twice as much) water and was twice as efficient. so each generation of new equipment meant quadrupling of energy efficiancy. And that has held true until this day. The most recent generators, are very powerful and effiecient relative to this old equipment. But until this last retro fit that started in 2009, they never replaced any of the old ones. So for the last hundred years are so they have been getting less than half of what could have been gotten from this precious clean resource. Why you wonder? Cheap petrochemicals made it more efficient to just burn more gas or coal rather than spend money to replace the old equipment. That era is coming to an end obviously and hence they are doing this major improvement. One of the reasons this is all of interest to me is that its revealing of how human societies make decisions. Choosing dirty fuels and not facing the hidden costs to health and the environment that when added up probably cost us more than just refitting the hydro power plant earlier. (It should also be noted that hydro power alone could not have given us all our energy needs so we probably would have been burning dirty fuels all along. But not facing real costs never gives us a chance to think about it in the first place. Maybe we would have developed other alternatives.)
So.... just across the mountains from this waterfall, on the eastern side of the Cascade range, is Grand Coulee Damn which still is one of the largest hydro electric power plants in the world. It was built during the depression with federal development money, (so sometimes government does get it right) and even though its only about 40 years later than this place, Grand Coulee generates electricity on a massive scale. (compare the generator above to this: scienceservice.si.edu/pages/010041.htm ) So much electricity, that when the aircraft industry started needing lots of aluminum for all the airplanes they were building because of world war II, They eventually turned to The Pacific Northwest because the amounts of electricity you need to smelt aluminum are vast. And that is why, my friends, Boeing is in the Seattle region today. Cheap electricity. Also of interest, they have since put a whole series of damns on the Columbia river and make lots and lots of power. Guess what the The 'Aluminum Plant' hog of electricity is today? Server Farms. Google, Microsoft and yes Yahoo/flickr all need massive amounts of power to store data, these very words and photos actually. And that is why they are building their server farms up here in the Pacific North West. Lots of relatively cheap electricity for spinning drives and the air conditioning to keep them cool. Server Farms take up more power than the largest Steel foundries. That always blows my mind a bit. So you see, in a strange ways you could never have imagined, this image here in my stream has many hidden meanings. Who could have predicted way back in 1898, that this machine would one day create the energy to preserve the image of itself and help spread those pixels across the world
After putting the Automaxx body onto the Oxford AEC I had its original MAN cab left over. Nothing ever goes to waste in my workshop and I discovered this would fit very easily onto the chassis of an Oxford Scania artic. No cutting or filing was necessary, just a couple of plastic blocks to set the cab at the right height, thus completing what must be the easiest cab transplant I've ever done. The platform behind the cab is just the right size to accommodate this resin generator set acquired via eBay. Amazingly, considering my fairground fleet now contains around 70 vehicles, this is its first-ever 6x2 lorry as all other six-wheelers are double-drive 6x4s.
Camera: Zenza Bronica EC-TL
Lens: 75mm Nikkor f2.8
Film: Ultrafine Extreme 100
Developer: Xtol
Scanner: Epson V600
Photoshop: Curves, Healing Brush (spotting)
Cropping: None
MFZ - Wasteland Scrappers - Station - Power Generator
While Wasteland Scrapper frames run on steam power, the systems on board frequently utilize electronic components. In order to be able to run reliably, a power generator is used to provide the necessary electricity.
Mobile Frame Zero is "a tense, tactical game of giant robot squad battle!". It is a tabletop battle game, akin to Warhammer 40k or Malifaux. Players design and build their own companies of microfig-scale "Mobile Frames" and "Stations".
If you're interested, you can find its webpage here:
and a flickr group dedicated to MFZ builds here:
Another "Generator" diverted over the Blyth & Tyne line on 19th April 1984 was 47420 which worked 1S15, the 15:55 Carlisle to Edinburgh service. I am not absolutely sure of the location, probably Seaton Delaval. The steam heating boiler was clearly operating effectively.
Scan from a 35mm negative on Ilford FP4 film.
The Hickok electrical instrument Co.
Cleveland, Ohio
Signal generator Model # 188x
serial # 1-6463
A signal generator, also known variously as function generator, pitch generator, arbitrary waveform generator, digital pattern generator or frequency generator is an electronic device that generates repeating or non-repeating electronic signals (in either the analog or digital domains). They are generally used in designing, testing, troubleshooting, and repairing electronic or electroacoustic devices; though they often have artistic uses as well.
There are many different types of signal generators, with different purposes and applications (and at varying levels of expense); in general, no device is suitable for all possible applications.
Traditionally, signal generators have been embedded hardware units, but since the age of multimedia-PCs, flexible, programmable software tone generators have also been available.
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So at last I can reveal the shield generator! However I have a confession: It's only half a shield generator. And at that, the two rings I have built are only finished on one side. It will take many more Bricklink orders to complete. I added some flames to suggest the empire at in the middle of destroying it! I hope you enjoy what I've done so far. I'll be displaying it at a show in Ireland next weekend.
Norwegian Star was completed in 09/2001 by Meyer Werft, Papenburg, Germany. She was laid down on 23/06/2000, launched on 30/09/2001 and christened on 17/11/2001 in Miami, Florida, in a dual ceremony with another NCL ship, Norwegian Sun, with her maiden voyage being on 19/11/2001. She is from the Dawn Class of cruise ships and is registered in Nassau, Bahamas. She has a GTW of 91,740, has fifteen decks of which eleven are passenger accessible giving a maximum passenger capacity of 2,348 and 1,031 crew. She is powered by 4 × MAN B&W 14V48/60 (4 × 14,700 kW) diesel-electric engines and is capable of 24.6 knots. She is seen here on the River Test when departing from the City Cruise Terminal, Southampton, on 04/09/2022, about to begin a twelve nights Norway, Iceland & British Isles Cruise; Southampton - Eidfjord, Norway - Ålesund, Norway - Akureyri, Iceland - Reykjavik, Iceland - Belfast, Northern Ireland - Dún Laoghaire, Republic of Ireland - Portland, Dorset - Southampton.
In the distance, on what was a busy day in Southampton, is Cunard Line - RMS Queen Mary 2 - IMO: 9241061. Queen Mary 2 was completed on 22/12/2003 by STX Europe Chantiers de l'Atlantique, Saint-Nazaire, France. She was laid down on 04/07/2002, launched on 21/03/2003 and Christened by the late HRH Queen Elizabeth II, on 08/01/2004 with her maiden voyage on the 12/01/2004. She is a British transatlantic ocean liner and has served as the flagship of Cunard Line since succeeding Queen Elizabeth 2 in 2004. As of 2022, Queen Mary 2 is the only ocean liner (as opposed to a cruise ship) still in service and is registered in Hamilton, Bermuda. She was previously registered in Southampton from 2004-2011. She has a GTW of 149,215, has eighteen decks of which fourteen are passenger accessible giving a maximum passenger capacity of 2,695(after a 2016) refit, previously 2620 and 1,253 officers and crew. She is powered by 4 × Wärtsilä 16V46C-CR (4 × 16,800 kW) and 2 × General Electric LM2500+ (2 × 25,060 kW) diesel generators and gas turbines and is capable of 30 knots. She is seen here awaiting departure from the Mayflower Cruise Terminal, for a seven nights Norwegian Fjords Cruise; Southampton - Stavanger, Norway - Skjolden - Olden - Cruising in Innvikfjorden - Cruising in Nordfjord - Bergen - Southampton.
This photo was taken from P&O Cruises - MV Britannia - IMO: 9614036. MV Britannia was completed on 26/02/2015 by Fincantieri, Monfalcone, Italy. She was laid down on 15/05/2013, launched on 14/02/2014 and Christened by the late HRH Queen Elizabeth II, on 10/03/2015 with her maiden voyage on the 14/03/2015. She is from the Royal Class of cruise ships and is British registered in Southampton. She has a GTW of 143,730, has seventeen decks of which fourteen are passenger accessible giving a maximum passenger capacity of 3,647 and 1,398 crew. She is powered by Wärtsilä 12V46F x 2 & Wärtsilä 14V46F x 2 & propulsion electric motors - 2 x VEM Sachsenwerk GMBH and is capable of 21.9 knots and a cruising speed of around 19 knots.
MV Britannia was awaiting departure from Ocean Cruise Terminal for a lovely 14-night Mediterranean Cruise; Southampton - A Coruna, Spain - Valencia, Spain - La Seyne-sur-Mer(Toulon), France - Barcelona, Spain - Cadiz, Spain - Southampton.
The haze in this photo was from MV Britannia's funnels. © Peter Steel 2022.
20190216_1689_7D2-41 Smokai smoke generator
The salmon I caught the other day was processed several ways. One side was half steaked and fried or grilled, the other side put through a cold smoke using the hooded barbeque as a smoking chamber, and using a Smokai smoke generator for the smoke (see next photo).
I taped over the rotisserie openings on the hood.
The Smokai (combination of Smoke and the Maori word for food "kai") unit runs off an aquarium pump and I was using Manuka sawdust for fuel.
A cold smoke takes between 10 and 15 hours depending on thickness. I had initially brined the pieces with a 50-50 mix of sea salt and brown sugar. This was a further 12 hours.
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