Small Scale Hydropower Plant Daily Cleaning and Maintenance  

Omg it’s not a short. Keep up the longer videos. Well done.

Electricity that powers your modern appliances comes from ancient machinery. And thats pretty cool

I'm an electrician and was also a trout hatchery worker for 4 years. Im starting to think that maybe a power plant job would be right up my alley lol.

So happy to have another longform video

You know that weird phenomenon when you can smell a video? This definitely hits that!

Fun fact, the guac/avocado thing is genetic, most people have the flavor gene to make guacamole taste good but a fair number don't. It's like cilantro. For most people, avocado tastes buttery and cilantro tastes kinda spicy/black-peppery, but if you lost the genetic lottery avocados taste like lawn clippings and cilantro tastes like dish soap.

People forget how much work it is to maintain a wet beaver. :) Love the new red paint on the panels, thank gods you didn't resort to the boring electrical gray!

0:31 I love the "reactor SCRAM" light XD

That screw mechanism to lift the gate is fascinating to watch lol 😂 could watch this stuff for hours. P.s. I BET that smells AMAZING 😂😂

WOW compound double worm gear drive, that is reduction right there.

as a hopeless amateur with an interest in sound engineering this place looks like a treasure trove of mineable sounds

WOW those control panels look great! The red and yellow color combo is sharp.

Up until 2013 the only major purchaser of kale was pizza hut, who used it to decorate the salad bar.

That log strugling to pass through shouldnt be so entertaining

Amount of times I was told "you just haven't had good guacamole" "you need to try it at my favorite restaurant" no Megan I don't like avocados. Also there's 3 Mexican restaurants in this town. I'm absolutely certain I've not liked their guacamole either.

I spent 45 years as a power plant electrician, and I've never seen a square synchroscope! Now I can say I have!

Yes! A long form video! Thank you Chris 😊

I just love the way the generator sounds when it spins down and up, but I bet it's pretty loud in there when it's running

It's VERY interesting to see the workings of the hydro powerplant! Thank you for posting the videos and letting us in :)

Cool that as the gate was lowered that the water had to go somewhere, so it went over the nearby weir.

So happy to see more videos of maintaining those small hydropower plants! Just awesome. GIVE US MORE

Man I love old style hydro, I really want to build a gristmill in Scioto county but lord knows the epa pricks wouldn't let me because everyone knows it's less damaging on the environment to ship bakers corner flower 400 miles by semi to my local grocery store from the packaging plant + farm to the plant traveling instead of doing local processing 😡 , shout out to the nice folks who restored rockmill on the hocking river but weren't allowed to install the dam but currently have to use a pump to run the largest overshoot water wheel in ohio

The first thing I thought of when I saw the magnet was demagnetizing arc flash. It made me laugh, they might just cook onto the enclosure. I figure I could tell what was what after a few minutes wandering around. Things do break unexpectedly sometimes, like dominoes. One time an 80 ft steam vent clogged up next to a switchgear. I was setting up some very large motors for a nearby water processing facility to help with a factory next door. A steam vent had gone unnoticed as a hazard because the pressure could never exceed the structural capability of the pipe(plumbing). Maintenance thought it would be a good idea to uncouple the pipe in the adjacent room. This instantly threw a jet of water, kicking the pipe into the MCC room. There it spun the elbow and shot 800 gallons of water under high steam pressure at the steel. Nobody was hurt, except for a perfectly good switchgear. Next month there was a flood. A quarter mile away the whole city was under water. Crazy times, but it was very fun setting up the switchgear and motors for a water processing facility.

As a hydro operator I love seeing how other plants are run. You guys are very manual, where the stuff I run is very automated. Also our units are vertical Francis units of much greater size…. The smallest unit I run is 60MW

that worm gear gate lifting mechanism might be the most satisfying thing ive watched all month

My favorite labels are the ones for the abandoned instrumentation.

Cooooool! Dude, I absolutely love your shorts and these longer vidyas are pretty great too. Keep em coming, hoss!

Another fantastic video, don't stop making them. My boss taught the golden rule of synchronization: Never close the connection counter-clockwise from the frequency, it could blow the stator due to the difference in frequencies and the load that it suddenly puts in the opposite direction. (Protections may fail) I've seen generators blow up because of this.

I absolutely LOVE videos like this!! Keep em coming Please?

Kale as in smoothies? Blearch. But cooked? With Kasseler, Kochwurst, pork belly and a side of potatoes? Also the occasional Schnaps? Give it a try. If too bitter, blanche it first, pour away the water and then cook it. Do not overcook, or else its just so much green goo. Like spinach is.

THANK YOU for posting a longer video.

Oh man, the sound of that generator spooling up is music.

Loved the REACTOR SCRAM light.

That’s a great video. Love seeing the everyday things that need to be done

OH! A new video on hydropower! I love learning stuff from you.

finally an actual video instead of a short

so happy to se a longer video,, thank you.

You did an excellent job on the labeling & paint!

our plant just changed condenser water sources for our chillers/District cooling heat sink. before our travelling screens would "roll joints" out of sea weed, with how much came through.

Love the old stuff , thank you

3:58 forbidden waterslide 😳🤌🏼

Love these long videos you make. Awesome

All that stuff scooped up from the cleaning grates should be put in a compost pile next to the powerplant and used to feed a garden there.

Fantastic labeling

7:24 I love how operating a hydroelectric plant is 50% mechanical, hydraulic, and electrical engineering and the other 50% is basically: “the damn dam designers didn’t give us an instrument to show us how open the bypass gates are so why don’t we cut a triangle out of a beer box, duct tape it to this here chain, and use a magic marker to write some reference marks on a column”

Excellent video as always Chris! Very interesting!

Your paint job came out well. Nice video

Much much cleaner than it was 3 years ago! How's the other plant holding up after the huge refurb project?

When was the last time those worm gears were aligned. Holy cow!!!!

Dam that's a lot of water...I see what you did there!

That was awesome 😎

Fascinating, I always wondered how maintenance was done on a hydroelectric unit.

HELL YEAH T-BONE

Ooh, something cool to see!

Agree 💯 that guacamole tastes like lawn

Love the red on the cabinets it looks decent

The new labels look great.

Awesome worm gear drive

Nice video

Wow that pretty cool!

That was pretty cool!

Oh hell yeah a new video 🤘🏻

Labels look Great! Colour choice is really nice, If it were up to me though I'd go with a more we'll say "period appropriate" font type. Something antique but sexy, like the rest of the place lol

That's pretty cool.

Pffft, “REACTOR SCRAM” 😂

I love it

I laughed so much at the avocado bit. You're absolutely right and it's why I can't do it either. 😂

Was waiting for a "floater" comment with the log... what a shame..

Fuck yeah let's get some more long form

Yaaay! A long format video!

That worm gear is terrifying

And that's pretty cool.

Thank you for this long format, happy you didn’t find a floater whilst cleaning the rake. I like the new labels, I hope you didn’t take a past comment as critique but as inspiration 😊 Stringent change ctrl can be a nuisance, especially when one is upgrading a plant but can’t test the implementation before.

OMG just noticed the Radiation in the Containment.. level 8 (perfectly normal) above the Reactor Scram. I absolutely love China Syndrome, I've watched wayyyy more times than I care to admit. Well done! Bow down to your geeky godness even more.

Awesome video. You need some proper permanent badging on the panel doors. Im surprised to see the operator not wearing a PFD. I love the new upgraded lock....its totally authentic. 👍🏻

Welcome back!

Wee little baby generator 😂 I'm definitely not fond of the magnetic labels for that application. Too much chance of something stupid happening for me.

Reactor Scram! I love it

What a great job. I hope you look forward to going to work every day.. pretty sure I would . But I would clean the grates an hour or two after lunch…

That was good to see. Give us more detail on the startup and sync of the machine. Cheers

It sure looks like that Hydro power plant is very old. I find it interesting how fast a hydro unit can be brought up to speed and synchronized to the line. That is nothing like the steam electric generating stations I used to work in that took about 12 hours to go from a cold start to generating significant amounts of power.

Yes, we will say "Cut over when the indicator is moving clockwise, fast" Good transfer.

Your control panel labeling looks really slick. Love seeing a well-kept facility! What year was the plant built?

Just like MY toilet! The dam logs just won't FLUSH! 😂

0:31 is that a RBWR reference????😂

cool video, and i love the new magnet labels, but one thing that bugged me is some of the labels spell out one and two and some use the number 1 and 2, for common understanding i think it should all be in numbers rather than spelled just in case someone who doesnt know english has to use it for some reason, i know its a fringe theroy but it would also look alot better IMHO. :) love the content, glad your back!

Ahhh finally…. The content I’ve been waiting for… love the hydro videos…. Why does that generator sing so loudly?

So you have 2 power plants you take care of? Interesting videos, keep them coming.

I would love to see your explanation of why KWh is a bad unit for measuring the usage of power. Thanks.

I do the same intake cleaning in the UK for a 2000MW Coal Station.

Thanks for posting! What was the total shutdown duration for the cleaning? Sorry if you said it in the video and I missed it.

Nice!! you have to do this everyday? that often? nothing like the noise of the genny syncing up with mains, i love that!.

Damn finally. A new video

And here we all are

Damn that's a lot of water...

you made magnetic poetry

neat!

What happens during droughts? Can you not open the gate as often to clean the system or do you have to shut the plant down?

well he wasn't slowly in the fast direction but at least it wasn't 180 out usually we look for a 12 second revolution before syncing

Question: How many times per year... or month... or week... does this maintenance have to be done? Is it a seasonal thing, or is it by some metric seen in the control room? I really appreciate what you're doing here. You're one of the few channels I watch shorts for. Love the long videos when they happen. Thanks for showing us this!