Posted: 9/22/2010 8:21:07 PM EDT
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I don't get where you are coming from with your AVATAR...
A bridge rectifier ??!?!?!/11/1/221/2131///??!?!?! 
Too much canned ham radio on the mind? |
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There was a reason you weren't EMO / ERO on that battle frigate of yours... Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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There was a reason you weren't EMO / ERO on that battle frigate of yours... Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile No shit, One one ship I had Jet Engine techs maintain my generators, on another electricians did most of the repairs (Allison 501's and Cat's respectively). The GT's didn't really mess up mechanically, if they do, they eat their own guts and shit lots of metal parts out their asses, that's normally pretty catastrophic; the Cats didn't mess up mechanically no matter how many times we tore them down and re-built them for "preventive maintenance". I remember the craziest shit my Electricians hated working on was the (400hz? that was a long time ago) shit for the Helo's,, some man killer capacitors in almost every piece of gear, and then they were exposed to the sea air in the Hangar.. fun stuff. 
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Once upon a time, the RMD's UPS had a casualty. The EMs seemed to have fixed it. Later that day, about 50 miles west of buoy Juliet (the mouth of the Strait of Juan de Fuca), RMD ran some ECC drills. One scenario called for securing the EPCC. The watchstander secured the EPCC (this is where the UPS should have kicked in). Suddenly, our ship went totally dark and dumb. All the engineers were down in the hole trying to suicide-start one of the SSDGs in order to get the rest of the plant lit off. Do you know how much an Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate rocks and rolls in fairly calm seas when it is 100% DIW? I'm pretty sure they had to start one of the GTEs using the available HP air stored in the flasks, as no HPACs were online as a result of the clusterfuck. Glossary RMD = USS Rodney M. Davis (FFG 60) UPS = Uninterruptable Power Supply EM = Electrician's Mate ECC = Engineering Causality Control EPCC = Electric Plant Control Console SSDG = Ship's Service Diesel Generator (Detroit 16V92s) DIW = Dead In the Water GTE = Gas Turbine Engine (GE LM2500s) HP = High Pressure HPAC = High Pressure Air Compressor  |
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Quoted: Quoted: Fucking Halon........fuck.....Protip: Don't dump Halon in an enclosure with a running gas turbine engine that's not on fire. Halon... Better than the alternative when out at sea. If every Marine is a rifleman, then every Sailor is a damage controlman (firefighter). |
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Once upon a time, the RMD's UPS had a casualty. The EMs seemed to have fixed it. Later that day, about 50 miles west of buoy Juliet (the mouth of the Strait of Juan de Fuca), RMD ran some ECC drills. One scenario called for securing the EPCC. The watchstander secured the EPCC (this is where the UPS should have kicked in). Suddenly, our ship went totally dark and dumb. All the engineers were down in the hole trying to suicide-start one of the SSDGs in order to get the rest of the plant lit off. Do you know how much an Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate rocks and rolls in fairly calm seas when it is 100% DIW? I'm pretty sure they had to start one of the GTEs using the available HP air stored in the flasks, as no HPACs were online as a result of the clusterfuck. I was on LHD 6, the BHR when something smiler happened. We were all up on the flight deck for movie night and all the little ship noises you hear in the background started getting REALLY LOUD then shut off all at once. We were dead sitting in the middle of the pacific halfway from Hawaii to Singapore. Over the 1MC they shout to man the aft diesels. Went down to the smoke pit and ran into one of the engineers and tried to find out what was going on. Apparently some computer that was in charge of the boilers went TU and was either going to not restart, or not run coolant. The end result being either we blow up, or get towed to Bahrain. |
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Quoted: I was on LHD 6, the BHR when something smiler happened. We were all up on the flight deck for movie night and all the little ship noises you hear in the background started getting REALLY LOUD then shut off all at once. We were dead sitting in the middle of the pacific halfway from Hawaii to Singapore. Over the 1MC they shout to man the aft diesels. Went down to the smoke pit and ran into one of the engineers and tried to find out what was going on. Apparently some computer that was in charge of the boilers went TU and was either going to not restart, or not run coolant. The end result being either we blow up, or get towed to Bahrain. Huh? Hawaii has a full-service, U.S. Navy shipyard complete with NAVSEA types. |