What Does AIPed Mean #engineering #hydropower #scrap #millwright #powerplant

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[peosea]

My favorite is finding a breaker labeled "temporary" with a date that is before the day I was born 😂

[kegwf]

They have been converted to gap fillers for the vacant holes in the control panel.
Easy to remove, but then what do you do with the odd sized hole in the panel? Lol

[stevecarter]

10 points for "sometimes that's me"
10 points for "couldn't be arsed"

[SylvieTheBagel]

I love that actual generators have staff who communicate over discord, including good profile pictures

[goosenotmaverick]

As an electrician, AIP is something we do a fair bit with certain types of things. Sometimes it's just easier, faster, safer, and more cost effective for a customer.

[foremanhaste]

"The moment after you throw it out you are going to need it."

[TekYou-]

Those two meters taking up space is not as bad, compared to walking into a server room of a new client and finding two Cisco routers mounted on the wall, connected solely to AC power, and having been operational in that state for years.

[frankmayer]

I like the honesty of the sentence „sometimes that’s me“

As a technician, I feel that…

[christopherwojtan]

As a Naval Engineer I feel this one. The old Navy CG ships where built as a steam and gas Turbine combo with waste heat boilers. When they upgraded to remove the steam much of the piping was left and some oddities.

[GordonGaz]

Also it might be quick to remove the unit, but to fix the hole is going to take a lot longer and for safety you cannot have holes in your enclosure that is there to keep fingers out

[charlesrichards]

The local paper came by to take pictures of the facility where I worked (in the control room). We had just deactivated some panels and installed newer ones next to them, but the new ones didn't have pretty blinking lights. The photographer complained about the "boring" control room so I went behind the main board and plugged in the old "flashy" panels and that's what got printed in the paper. Yeah, I got chewed out until I told them the reporter said she wasn't going to bother with this story until I plugged in the blinky stuff. 😜

[bpg]

Also, if they were removed, they would leave a hole that needs to be covered to maintain the arc flash protection of the panel door 👍🏻

[firemedic]

So glad you are back!!! Always enjoyed your power plant education. I am in Michigan as well...

[joshm]

I've been doing E&I at a water treatment plant for a few years now, and this video speaks to me on a personal level. "That's a fancy way of saying they CBA to remove it. Anything worth scrapping, however..." 😂😂😂 Love it!

[grahamwilson]

Reminds me of underground utilities. It's very common to fill old sewer pipes with flowable grout if the new one is in a different location.

[humbleevidenceaccepter]

I am impressed with the neatness of the wiring behind the panel.

[BLAZE-]

It would be a neat project to 3D print cool covers for those disconnected or “AIP” modules you showed on the metal panel.

[Green__one]

What always gets me is when you find abandoned safety sensors that have been superseded but not removed. We have a bunch of overhead doors at one of the places I work where they replaced the magnetic door sensors with pressure sensors instead. But instead of removing the magnetic door sensors they duct taped the magnet to the sensor, and shoved the whole thing out of the way.

[HNemo]

Those discord profile pictures caught my eye 👀

[ThinkFreely]

Most of the refineries i visit still have entire walls of the old analog indicator and control panels in place. Some of them still have a few blinky lights. But they're (almost) all run on a few computer monitors now.