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Yeah, in the state I am in I am (Missouri), and I have a A.A.S. degree in it too.
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Yeah, in the state I am in I am (Missouri), and I have a A.A.S. degree in it too.
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That's what my father did, is it a chilled water system? I learned everything about them on weekends my dad had to work, I would hang out with him and he'd teach me how to weld, or troubleshoot electrical problems, it was cool that his workspace doubled as a vocational training center for the college I got a lot of free lessons....but alas it was that job that killed him in the end, he had asked a coworker to shut off a breaker so he could work on a unit and the guy flipped the wrong one and he got zapped stopping his heart....
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school for HVAC,, got laid off awhile ago doing bullshit restaurant work so happy tho in school now it's way better
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yes i basically retro-fit old pneumatic chill water air handlers to digital control. its a pretty cool job. been zapped more times then i care to remember.
And Kirk B. In HVAC work, electrical trouble shooting is key. if you not good at that, you will not be a good Tech. and you run the chance of getting hurt.
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My Dad did instrumentation at a power plant for nearly 35 years. He saw two men die from being stupid with electricity. One guy tried to work on a 440v breaker without locking it out. It blew all of his limbs off. There was nothing left of him but a torso.
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Say it ain't so. Sorry to hear that man.
Spent five years getting a Bsc. with a major in Neuroscience. Discovered that it's pretty much useless so now I'm working in a union up in Fort McMurray making good coin but I hate the lifestyle. I'm debating what I want to go back for next fall, either a finance degree or a power engineering technology certificate than transfer into a mechanical engineering program.
I learned all that in the Navy, I wish the College my dad worked at had required stuff like that....I also wish he hadn't placed his full faith in a guy to shut off the right breaker, all he needed was a voltage probe to check if the line was still hot....It just makes me many more times more cautious now when I work with 500-600VDC solar arrays....Lockout/Tagout is one of the courses I teach. Some of the pictures I've seen.
You definitly have to keep your head on right,(no pun intended). most of the work i do is on 480volt hot. and that keeps you puckered up a little. and also you don't trust other people to turn off the right switch when its your hand in there, or you end up like Manic's Dad. Which by the way i am very sorry to hear that.
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yeah i need more work in the trouble shooting department i'm good on everything else 80% of my problems will be electrical in nature
i use to get F's in highschool then i dropped out, went to get my GED and did good back in 2002 and now i get strait A's funny when you want to go you do good when your forced you don't do shit i had to learn the hard way
I read a lot about sociology, education, etc. and I think the numbers are close to 50% of HS dropouts who say they did so because they felt the material being covered was not challenging enough and not due to a lack of intelligence on the student like many think. it's a much bigger problem in US schools than people think.
I'm pretty sure it wasn't anything more than a 208v circuit he was working on, they had a special crew who did the extreme voltage work, but he and his coworker were journeyman electricians, accidents happen that's why I am super cautious around even 48vdc systems....hell even 12 volt systems can be dangerous, we had an intern testing a measly 10 watt panel and small battery and he crowbarred the battery luckily the sparks made him jump back and he didn't get hurt....
It's because they keep catering to the lowest common denominator, my GF's daughter is a smart kid but she gave up her sophomore year, I finally convinced her to get her GED and go to college and now she loves the courses she is taking their....High School was super easy for me, I could have graduated 1st if I had just done my homework and projects with more enthusiasm, I can only imagine how bad it's gotten with no child left behind and more districts focusing on test scores....
Electricity is like playing with guns, No respect equals a bad outcome. DC voltage hurts like a bitch. 277 volts put me on my ass making noises like some kind of animal. But fear is not an option when you do what i do. Knowelge and caution is the difference between life and death.
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In most cases getting bit by 480v is not going to blow your head off, as you probably know if you work with it. A guy I used to work with got bit by it and his whole arm turned white and blistered up. Luckily I've only been bit by 110v and a few times by DC from emergency lights.
