When will they learn...
When will they learn...
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RE: When will they learn...
I hear of more copper thefts due to recent rises in copper prices. They're even ripping up the buried grounding grids at substations.
old field guy
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They steal the HEP cables ($10,000) out of our rail cars if they're left unmonitored.
Keith Cress
Flamin Systems, Inc.- http://www.flaminsystems.com
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In the UK an acquaintance from a DNO in the Midlands claims their company loses the earth mat from a distribution substation every week and from a grid substation each month. Scary.
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Finding the 300 mcm copper earthing conductor missing on 2 grounding transformers (zig zag)leaving more than a dozen transmission lines without ground fault protection.
Should we cry over the bodies of dead copper thieves?
Not me.
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There was a guy found walking up the road a few years ago that never was arrested for breaking into the substation at a steel mill. Why? His hair and all of his clothes were burned off. The police figure he learned his lesson. You have to be some kind of stupid to try and steal a live electrical line.
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We lost the case because the faded sign on the fence only said "Danger High Voltage". According to the family's lawyers it was also supposed to say "KEEP OUT". The no trespassing signs on the fences at the road, the two barbed wire fences in the field, the high substation fence and the locked gates were not considered by the court. He had cut through all of them.
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Keith Cress
Flamin Systems, Inc.- http://www.flaminsystems.com
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Police checked local hospitals to find recent burn victims with upper face and body burns. Fake video cameras were put up to help stop the theft, so far this has worked.
Technodog
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A contractor friend has calculated that his losses THIS YEAR ALONE exceed $100,000 from copper theft. He built a set of power and control trailers for rock crusher operations., Theives cut the locks and removed the bus bars from MCCs and switchgear, then cut all of the portable cords used to connect mobile equipment.
In my opinion the removal or ground equipment or other safety related systems involving electricity should be considered attempted 2nd degree murder! Or at the very least, willful disregard for public safety, maybe even industrial terrorism. Then the scrap yards who buy this stuff from questionable sources could be held liable for aiding and abetting.
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One clear summer day they had a line trip out, and dispatched a line crew to look for the source of the fault. They found it. One of the entrepreneurs had gotten ambitious in his collection efforts and removed several cross-members, the last one being one too many. They found him in the mass of collapsed aluminum, pickup truck nearby.
I understand his survivors sued.
old field guy
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