power problems and a video
Today was the show in Santiago, Chile. It was fairly uneventful, until about 3pm. That’s when things started smoking and popping. Upon unplugging everything and checking the lines, we found that we were getting a 390V electrical service between the hot and ground lines. Not a good thing when you’re expecting a 240V service. So after narrowing it down and finding a decorative light that was shorting to ground, we replaced the power conditioner and we were back up and running. I learned a lot about 3 phase power generation and it’s distribution, it was very educational and somewhat entertaining. Luckily we have a Cat Entertainment Power guy who speaks Spanish fluently. Other than that, it was a fairly normal day. I fixed computers, saw a rock show and loaded some trucks. I’ll probably drink some beer tonight too.
One last thing, here’s a funny little video. It’s a guy doing shadow puppets of two monkeys on a date, it’s really quite funny.
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