I have the power! (Gulchers in Electrical Power Production)

Posted by $ MikeMarotta 11 years, 8 months ago to Technology
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In the Introductions today was a brief exchange between DaveTarver and jbrenner. As a technical writer, I have had the opportunity to work on a project for American Electric Power. To come up to speed on that, I got a college textbook on electrical power production just to get my head into the concepts and vocabulary.

It would not be surprising to find a few real electrical engineers here, plus a few with hard-won hands-on experience of their own.


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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 11 years, 8 months ago
    I'm an EE. I've worked on some power equipment, 480V 3-phase power controllers, but recently all I've done is PCB and embedded MCU stuff.
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    • Posted by $ 11 years, 8 months ago
      Ah, those TLAs! Three letter acronyms such as PCB and MCU are supposed to speed communication, but just slow you down to think it through: printed circuit boards; and micro-controller units? Is that right?

      I mentioned the work for American Electric Power. My tasks were more managerial, just to document accounting procedures for the regulators (governments, not components). But I found the physics of public utilities pretty interesting. I mistakenly kept it in my mind in the Thomas Edison context and was surprised at the discussions of "fields" and other topics from modern physics.

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      • Posted by CircuitGuy 11 years, 8 months ago
        I use those TLAs so much that I forget they're not just words everyone learns in kindergarten. In my world, PCB is a printed circuit board. MCU is a micro-controller unit, a small microprocessor chip that also has other resources on board such as an analog to digital converter or a motor controller.
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