1,689 Comments for Eagle River Power Station

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How come the lights are still on?
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I would start throwing switches as many as I could in a minute then run like hell. It probably make my day more interesting. Weird how the place still had electricity after all the years.
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Yay! Button Pushing!
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They were pretty.
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Was there any purpose to these high celings?
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Duh there flux capacitors.

Actually they are excitors, I worked in an old powerhouse and they had much smaller versions of these. They look just like phase converters but a powerhouse would not need this style, but the equipment is antique so who knows.
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you are an amazing artist motts, breathtaking depth and sense of atmoshere
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? TH?NK THATS PHOTO ?S very nice according me taken the photo is professional take thank opacity.us
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As far as why things still run through the station...the power grids are very complicated and the power route for this area may have had to be rebuilt entirely in order to by pass this station........Since there is no power generation here whats left just comp[letes the circuit to get power out to its distribution points
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Did anyone catch the FELIX the cat refrance to the villan Master cylinder??
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funny that i'm listening to hellraiser now :p
i'm falling in love with this website, amazing pictures!
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This reminds me H.R. Giger...
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Newer diesel generators typically run at 1800RPM/60Hz, while many older ones ran at 1200RPM/60Hz (or less) A modern 50Hz diesel generator runs at 1500 RPM, an older one at 1000RPM, etc.
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While your small portable generator may run at 3600 RPM, the generators in a power generator station such as this do not. Although 60Hz for 60 seconds is 3600 cycles, this does not determine generator rotational speed. Rotational speed is determined by the number of poles in the generator. A 2 pole generator will make 60Hz at 3600 RPM, a 4 pole at 1800 RPM, a 6 pole at 1200 RPM, an 8 pole at 900 RPM, etc. At one of the generating stations I work at, our steam turbine turns at 4458 RPM, goes through a gearbox (with a reduction of 4.953:1) and turns the generator at 900 RPM.
Everything EE mentioned is spot on.
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Motts I am thinking about looking around. I would like to know if there are any guards that might want to stop me