Denny Esterline wrote:
>>>
>> Does "racking a circuit breaker" mean turning it off?
>> Do you really have to be far away from it if it's inside a metal box?
>> -
>
> "Racking" a circuit breaker is the process of installing or removing
> it from the "cubicle". On some sites this is done very rarely (maybe
> less than once/year) on other sites it may be done more than once a
> day as a part of the site safety procedures when maintaining some
> piece of equipment.
>
> Some of this equipment is running 15kV at 3000A. When something bad
> happens, several pounds of copper turns from solid to vapor in a few
> milliseconds. Metal box or no, I don't want to stand next to it. And
> some equipment requires the door to be open while racking.

That's pretty scary. So the body bag protects from the explosion as well as =

from the UV & electricity?

OT: The site says "Copyright =A9 2006 Remote Solutions, LLC"

Might want to tell the web developer to put some code in, to auto-update th=
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year.

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