To generate the power needed by the state, water is released from the New Spicer Meadow Reservoir into Highland Creek which meets the North Fork Stanislaus River. The water flows downstream until impounded in the McKays Point Reservoir.
New Spicer Meadows Reservoir
From McKays Point, the water is forced to enter an 18 foot diameter, 8.5 mile tunnel. The water picks up the gravitational energy as it falls the distance of 2,270 feet from McKays Point to the Collierville Powerhouse. The energy is sufficient to rotate two large turbines and generators weighing a total of 422 tons at a speed of 450 revolutions per minute.
Rebuilding this massive power generating tool is scheduled to be completed by Christmas, if everything goes as planned.
Watch the lift below, but don't get underneath it!
Ok, question number 56.....why did they have to take it out? My first thought is to replenish the magnets in the rotor.....
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All the copper pieces are coming out - replacements are scheduled to be received from the manufacturer in Austria this coming week.
DeleteFrom what I'm hearing, everything has to be tested and retested at every step of the rebuild. If something is damaged or incorrect, the last thing they want is to find out after the stator has been re installed.
The insulation on the copper bars breaks down, electrical current then starts to find a path to ground in the stator laminations.
Deleteor. governor failure induced overspeed caused rotor to contact stator and trip out load sensing breaker?. renewing the copper sounds like a contact issue with the stator to me. nahhh. i believe what ever they say. probably just insulation break down. rotor doesn't use magnets. uses a low DC current coil to induce a field in the stator. for the power output it would be really really big magnets and they are really sensitive to heat build up and tend to crack and there goes that homogeneous magnetic flux. thank you Nikoli T
DeleteI thought California's power production was supposed to be totally solar and wind farms. Jerry Moonbeam lied.
ReplyDeleteHe does that. And no more straws unless you ask. And the internal combustion engine is banned in a few years. Illegals get to vote. It's a mad, mad, mad state we live in.
DeleteIs ca. taxpayers going to fund changing out all those petrol stations to charging stationS? how many nuclear power plants are you guys planning to build to power those charge stations you are gonna build????
DeleteWhen push comes to shove you better have someone that knows there shit.
ReplyDeleteThese people did.
8:20 here @ 43725, "Their". FMR
DeleteThat wasn't the riggers first rodeo.
ReplyDeleteWell, as long as they're not shit we're OK.
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