How many Battleship Curators Does It Take to Change a Lightbulb?
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- In this episode we're taking a closer look at the ship's lighting, its changed a few times in the last 75 years!
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I never knew I wanted to know about battleship light fixtures.
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Same.
I disposed, of used lamps, over the side, "DEEP-SIXED".
@@charletonzimmerman4205 LOL! Nice! =)
@@BattleshipNewJersey would it be more cost effective to run a boiler to generate power? I know fuel cost and a crew would cost money but would that be less than what yall are paying
Well you had me going. As I watched along I'm screaming internally. "LED, just convert them to LED. It's not that hard. I've done a couple hundred at work." But then comes the end & that's exactly what you already did. I would think about some motion sensors also. Save even more electricity.
Those LED tubes save a ton of money; in addition to battleships, they work excellently in basements and garages.
Schools too.....my town refit their schools (several of which are over a century old) with LED tubes 2 years ago.
Don't need to be rewired either, they come with a switch starter fuse replacement.
BTW the most difficult lights I've had to change over the years have been the HV navigation lights at the tops of many tall buildings. The rubber seals normally have seized to the lens.
i find them too unreliable tbh. But that's probably depending on the manufacturer. I can't tell you how many times i changed those LED tubes as an electrician something like 2 months after i installed the fixture.
@@robertgarrett5009 yup 10+ year old rubber seals are a nightmare to open without breaking something along the way. Mine was an oooolllldddd anti explosion light fixture with 4x85W (2m long tubes). Other fun ones were the whole of something like 100 lights inside the walls of this big spray painting chamber. They had actual glass covers and the lowest one was around 2m from the ground, going up to 6m spaced by 2m in every direction.
My worst lightbulb change ever? Not at all naval- or even nautical-related, but:
One on occasion when I was in college, I had to change one of the two fluorescent bulbs in the marquee at the fast-food restaurant where I worked part-time. This required 4 trips up and down a ten-foot ladder, first removing the cover from the sign, then removing the dead bulb, then installing the replacement bulb, and finally replacing the cover. It was January or February, and for some reason I decided to do all this after dark (to be fair, sunset was something ridiculous like 4 PM) when the outside temperature was around 15-20 degrees Fahrenheit. Also adding to the fun, some clever soul had surrounded the base of the marquee with a rock garden - so the feet of the ladder were somewhat precariously sited on a bunch of smooth, round, palm-sized rocks. The whole process took about 20 minutes from the time I set up the ladder, and every second of it was... Call it a _"learning experience."_
Yes. I am sure you lived in North Dakota!
♪ come with me, and you'll be / in a world of OSHA violations
That T12 fixture is, by all appearances, the most maintenance-friendly light fixture I have ever seen.
In the RCN ours had clamps on the outside to retain the cover, instead of fucking around with screws. No tools required whatsoever, just pop the cover open, toss the new bulb in, close the cover again, and you're good to go. ;)
I changed Broadcast Tower Lightbulbs in my Youth. The tallest tower was 1135' AGL It sounded like easy money, like really GOOD money. OH Man, did you work hard for that money! Scary, windy AF, brutally hard to climb hundreds of feet straight up. It was hard as hell and you hurt for days after. You checked the new bulbs on the ground, and made sure you had enough new gaskets, carry spares and all tools tied on with lanyards....... lots of prep. I was a farm kid then a Marine and this was the hardest job I ever did. I only lasted for 3 years. I don't love money that much.
Im a windturbin tech and i know exactly what you mean.
Granted most turbine's are 250to400 feet up. But it is damm hard on the body. Tallest ive ever climb is a t.v broadcasts tower of 1050 feet middle of November no wind till halfway up then about 20 mph gust i figured the windchill at around -25 degrees.
I have never been so cold in my life.
There was a time, when I was younger, that I dreamed of climbing one of those towers, but now in my 70's, I'd chicken out at about 150 feet...
Back in 1984, we were conducting 16" bombardment of targets in Lebanon, only the gun crews were at GQ. While #3 was firing, we, that were not on watch were enjoying a movie in the mess just under #3 turret, so they let of a salvo and a light fixture came crashing down on some unsuspecting sailors due to a faulty weld, nobody was injured, but it really livened up the movie
Now what movie were you watching? Would be hilarious if it was well timed with the scene too though.
Can’t imagine being on an Iowa Class firing a full salvo watching a movie. Totally realize that only the gun crews were at GQ, but I’d want to be doing something more exciting than watching a movie
That sailor be like; WE'RE HIT! THEY SHOT US!..
Oh wait.. It was a falling light....
I'M HIT!
Of course, they weren't really at GQ, they were just at their GQ stations, with presumably the GQ conditions for the guns set. Just a little piddling semantics.
@@charlesgantz5865 When it is GQ, it is off when they find the general and stuff him in his quarters again, that is what it means! :D
To everyone suggesting they should switch to LED’s, Watch until the end...
Hint, they did already 🙈
The LEWD retrofits are a drop in for those light fittings that are rapid start (that has a starter) as you simply put in the tube, put in a starter replacement, which is a starter body with a 2A fuse built into it,, and then do nothing more. Existing ballast still is there, and serves only to keep spikes and surges away from the LED lamp, so it will last a long time, and will probably last 10 years there. Done that at home, and have some lights that are on 24/7, exactly the same reason the ship has them, dark spots in the passage, and they have been running for 7 years plus now with the same lamps in them.
Yeah well I'm lazy lol
As an Electrician, I changed and fixed many a light back in the late 60's onboard three different ships, BEST memories are fixing "aircraft warning lights" while at sea (the highest point on the ship, top of the mast), repairing lights in a "torpedo locker" was interesting for a "boot" from the heartland, and it was always cool if you had to fix anything in the Captains cabin. One of the unpleasant chores (although, not that bad) was rigging the "Med Lights" around and over the ship when entering a port, before you could "hit the beach"...So many of the lights back then were 48" fluorescents with the separate little "starters" and were a constant "chore" to keep maintained, and anything outside, exposed to the elements, had to be sealed just right.
yeah i remember those starters , kinda miss the buzz now
I do kind of wonder why they would use "starters" for a self contained electrical system. Why not have a central lighting system, where the starter is centrally housed and enormous, both to reduce complexity and potential failure points.
@@ravenbarsrepairs5594 There was a separate little "starter" for each bulb as he showed in the presentation...
The lowest ranking guy in "E" gang had the "pleasure" of fixing lights, other than that, being an Electricians Mate was one of the best ratings on a ship, as you had access to "whole boat".
@@ravenbarsrepairs5594 You'd have to change the wiring since the output voltage from the starter is basically a high voltage pulse.
The effect the LED revolution is having on lighting on any field is astounding. My current employ is building maintenance, one or two of which are literally about as old as BB62. Changing to LED while initially quite expensive is a massive saving in the long run - much lower power consumption, no fragile glass to shatter (and spread things like mercury about), less of a fire risk overall as they draw so much less power on ancient power grids. Still, I do hang onto a few good old fashioned incandescent bulbs, more for trouble shooting than anything else. Its the nuts and bolts - and bulbs - type of vids that help highlight to the masses just how crazy much maintenance there is in any large structure, more so when open to the public. Keep up the fantastic work!
I am the contractor that converted all the fixtures from fluorescent to LED on the Iowa in Los Angeles harbor. It was over 10,000 bulbs. I didnt personally do all the fixtures but my foreman did, and even the old hands said that my foreman saw more spaces on the ship then most all the current crew.
It was a great project and the lighting bill went down for the Iowa.
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Ryan, you even make changing light bulbs interesting.. As I previously mentioned, you are a wealth of knowledge and your “camera” presence has gotten much better since your first video. Well done to you and your team. Keep the videos coming.
Depends on how many times you have to rotate the turret.
Could you run a “lights out” tour for a small group? 3-4 people, trekking throughout the entire ship at the end of the day to switch the lights out.
We had to do that in the Navy. As a drill they would turn off all lighting and you would have to find you way up to the main deck from your berthing compartment without any light My berthing space was on the third deck, the galley on the second deck, and somewhere near the galley were ladders to the hangar (main) deck. Toilets were on the second deck since the third deck was already below the water lion.
My personal worse was a 10kw sodium lamp on the side of a two story building that sat over a open water aeration system.
It's always fun when I takes a few engineers, a few labourers, and a few operators with a few permits pulled just to change a lamp.
Love LED's... Worked at a museum for a few years and had to do a "light round" every day or at least every week... Only like 500 lights but there was about 1-3 per day, or a nice chunk every week... Not fun when the high ones were broken, or one bad day when 10 of the ones at 6 meters up were all broken and all you have is an old tall ladder.. Once we swapped to LED's the light rounds were a thing of the past, saves so much money and time that I really recommend swapping to them ASAP, especially the time spent checking and changing quickly eats of any installation cost.
Have you ever thought about adding motion detectors to reduce power usage?
This is such a niche topic I never would have looked for it, but I'm glad I found it.
"The thorn in the flesh" of being an "EM" in the Navy, which otherwise was one of the most interesting ratings onboard a ship, no other rating took you to every nook and cranny of the vessel...imho
@@markmark2080 Well, that sounds fascinating. I'm just an Army cadet. The only lightbulbs I have to take care of are the ones in my apartment.
Have you thought about using LED tube lights? They make them to fit fixtures like those on New Jersey. They are good for like 50,000 hours and are quite bright, I used them to replace the lights in my kitchen, and it's a clear difference.
I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by the end of this video
Ryan, these sorts of videos are why I’ve come to love the battleship New Jersey, even though I live way across the country in Arizona, and my only real connection to battleships before discovering this RUclips channel were seeing the gun barrels and the copper formal tea set from the USS Arizona that are on display at the Arizona State Capitol.
I never thought I’d spend 17 minutes watching a RUclips video talking about light fixtures on battleships, but you can make even that interesting. Gosh darn it, if I can ever get anywhere near the Atlantic, I’ve got to see the USS New Jersey now, even though I am probably closer to the USS Iowa than to any other museum battleships.
This Old Battleship
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Worst bulbs I've changed were in a galley freezer. The dead incandescent bulb would freeze in it's socket and the first time I tried to change one, it shattered in my hand. After that, I began carrying a modified cigarette lighter with an extra-tall flame to thaw the base of the bulb enough to get it to spin free. A side benefit was the entertainment value when one of the smokers among the crew would ask me for a light...
The scope and scale of your museum is astonishing. I hope to be able to visit it someday!
The issue with disposing of old fluorescents wasn't the the gases inside were hazardous, it was that fluorescent contain Mercury, which vaporizes when the bulb is energized. This is not only a hazard to peoples health if the bulb is broken, but Mercury forms amalgams with metals that they contact. This usually isn't a problem, but if the amalgam is formed on a high pressure steam line it weakens the pipe, and no one wants a weakened high pressure steam line.
On the nuc ship I was on, the instructions for cleaning up a broken fluorescent bulb was longer and more complicated than cleaning up a radioactive spill.
At least for these light fixtures you don't have to go through a whole "Tag Out" procedure to make sure you don't get electrocuted because someone turned on the switch while you were working on the fixture. Then again, watching you put in that starter while power was on says maybe you should. "Tagging Out" can be a video of its own.
Heres our video on tagging out ruclips.net/video/kSyDWo4-FWo/видео.html
I'm a sparky by trade. It's hard to pick just one but anything up a 25' Genie lift is a contender. Doing ballast changes in the Genie through the 6" hole of a recessed potlight where my hands got sliced by the stainless steel ceiling tile would probably be my pick.
Battle lanterns have LED kits now too. I changed out dozens of the damn things
I was waiting for you to say that the hardest bulb to change was the running light at the top of the mast :-)
Curator, Cave Diver, Marine Electrician, Ryan wears many hats. Next week, how to underwater weld a blanked off seachest.
you missed Gun Diver
There is a simple cost saving engineers use to reduce lamp cost and energy cost. Which is fine for grade 1 listed buildings in the UK. Change the fat 2" t12 lamps to a newer 1" t8 lamp, and change the starter. The lamps are directly swappable, and use less energy.
Fluorescent tubes contain a small amount of mercury. The actual mercury vapor, when On (ionized), glows in the ultra violet (UV). The "phosphor" coating on the glass walls absorb the UV, and re-emit the visible light. btw, most modern white LEDs also emit violet, have a "phosphor" coating (yellow stuff), and re-emit white light.
Mr. Szimanski I would like to make a suggestion. I think it looks very professional if you have on a pair of khaki 5.11 cargo pants with A 5.11 belt. I realized that you do a lot of work on that ship but I think we're doing videos clean par of 5.11 and your blue polo shirts from the New Jersey are just fine. I like how you present a topic and videos so keep up the good work.
My most difficult light bulbs to change were the ones on top of the chimneys to keep airplanes from running into them. You take EVERYTHING that you need with you to the top of ladder and hopefully you don't need to come down for another part or a special tool.
I did the same job on tall ships, my "chimney" wasn't as tall, but it did move all the time... And nothing worse than getting to the top and finding that the screws were torq heads and you only brought a Phillips and a straight driver with you! Lol
Including often the entire fixture, complete with lamps, and change it complete, as it was often faster to do so. 4 bolts, and you took at least 10 spare, plus 4 spanners on lanyards, along with a small pot of anticorrosion compound for the threads and mating faces.
Memories of being lifted by a crane, in a harness, to change signs, going up with a bag containing signs, a pneumatic drill on a long air line, a pocket full of rivets and the rivet gun.
@@SeanBZA yes, the lanyards! I remember when we first started using cordless tools, a co-worker secured the tool (mikita drill driver) with a lanyard, went up and upon pulling the drill out of the bag the battery compartment popped open... Missed a co-worker by inches and destroyed the battery. After that the tools were frequently seen with lots of duct tape on the handles.
"Aircraft Warning Lights", on the highest point of any ship, I repaired them on two different ships (top of the masts) and took my camera with me for some treasured views (late 1960's)
We have a coal fired boiler here at the Abbey, and have a tall chimney. fortunately it does not require lamps at the top, but to get to the top you have to climb a ladder that is INSIDE of the chimney, which of course makes it necessary to shut down the boilers first. twice a year we had to shovel out the fly ash from the base of the chimney. Be glad that your battleship is not coal fired.
We converted back to coal in the early 1980s, but now with the price of gas so low, we bought a new gas boiler sized to fit in through the powerhouse doors. We still had to remove the doors and its fittings, and some of the fittings attached to the boiler to make this transit. We used pipes for rollers, and then used a fork lift to get it up on to its foundation.
I’m serving right now. I always want to go AWOL when they send me to change lightbulbs.
Lol, same feeling over half a century ago...
What does AWOL mean?
Absent without leave, an executed absence
i'm going to bite here. It takes 4 curators to track down junction/fuze boxes, 2 curators to tag out the hardware, 2 curators to verify the tag out, 1 curator to fetch coffees for the other curators, 3 curators to video the process for RUclips, and one WWII vet to actually change the bulb. :D Just joking; I love your videos. Keep 'em coming!
I believe it was a company in the Detroit area named Toggled, and was a GREAT company. Ahead of its time in both maintaining a Made-in-America stance through money saving automation, as well as having a great bunch of people working for them.
Lighting and electrical are my specialty.and thats like a dream to me
I have changed many of those bulbs and starters on a ship. The Supply Dept. stocked a great number of them and we were expected to maintain them.
The worst light bulb I had to change was the smoke periscope lamp on top of an operating boiler. Did it twice in three years. The most fun lightbulb to replace was the mast light. Did that twice too, once while underway. EM3 USS Weiss APD135 1966-69.
Neat, those 'fat' T12 tubes!
Do stock up (the tinner tubes also fit) because fluorescents are going the way of the dodo, and their light is (although objectively worse) to me a pretty significant part of the atmosphere of a place.
"And, of course, we turn the lights off when we aren't using the ship." I just love something about the phrasing there.
Not a light I have had to deal with, but one that has caused a friend some problems. The FAA required warning light on top of a radio tower. Those are probably one of the most expensive lamps to change or repair.
When we change the lights on top of our smokestack we always have to have 2 people. It's actually a union rule but we tell management that we need 1 guy to change the bulb and 1 guy to call the ambulance when the first guy falls off.
The admiral was coming to visit our ship. Naturally, everything had to be made ship-shape, which included changing all the dead fluorescent bulbs. When this was done, the XO was not happy that the new bulbs were brighter than the old-but-still-working bulbs, so we had to replace them with new bulbs so that the admiral would not be offended by seeing bulbs of different brightness in the same fixture. Now you know where your tax dollars go.
Had to "lol" at that one, my second ship in '66/'67 was a WW2 LST operating in and around Viet Nam, living and working conditions were so bad we had a "Totally relaxed" uniform, no self respecting Admiral would be seen anywhere near our ship.
Admirals are sensitive creatures. Actually, XO's are the sensitive creatures. The Admiral probably could not care less.
@@charlesgantz5865 Yeah. I have a hard time believing the admiral spent even a millisecond comparing the brightness of the bulbs in even a single fixture.
In commercial application, including in the United States Navy it is or should be the policy to change all of the lamps in a fixture at one time. Labor costs far more than the remaining life on used lamps. In our building, we replace all of the lamps on the same switch at the same time on the assumption that they all have equal wear and are at about the end of their lives anyway. In switching to LED in new construction, we use LED troffers. No lamps at all, just a row of LEDs affixed to the metal work of the troffer.
@@eliasthienpont6330 The navy is not a commercial application. The marginal labor costs are zero. Plus, in this case, it did require going around to each fixture twice. The XO said explicitly that the reason was so that the admiral would not see two bulbs of different brightness in the same fixture.
Thank you. Never a dull topic!
As a career Electrician's Mate I don't know how many thousands of those light fixtures I installed/replaced/repaired and changed lamps in during my career. That was easy. The worst lights to change were periscope lights on an active boiler and mast head and aircraft warning lights underway.
Fluorescent tubes require special disposal because they each contain a small amount of mercury which vaporizes when the bulb is on. Most of the gas inside the tube is inert argon or other inert gas which are not hazardous.
Very interesting. Thank you!
I don't know how your lockdown is going ... but I just watched a 17:44 video about changing light bulbs ...
And wasn't it wonderful?
Wait a decade and the privatized International Space Station will have a couple of caretaker astronauts making RUclips videos between tourists.
Thank you
Your camera person got great footage of you installing the starter.
Seems like it might be worth it to consider adding motion sensors to control lights in compartments that aren't occupied. And transitioning to lower operating cost LED bulbs on a gradual basis.
In the rail industry all the fixtures are like that. The mods done over the years remind me of old house wiring. I like the red bulbs. Reminds me of Red Alert on Star Trek lol
Obviously the red lights are a real thing. Many compartments including many passageways would run red lights after 'Darken Ship' was called in order to preserve the 'night vision' of watch standers who worked on deck (lookouts and Bridge / Pilothouse / Signalmen.) Other compartments like CIC ran red or blue lighting 24/7 at sea to make it easier to read the green displays on radar or computer screens.
@@robertf3479 I was not disputing the fact that the lights are a “real thing”.
@@richhoule3462 In retrospect I was wrong to word my response as I did. A number of people who I've talked with did question the need or use of red lighting inside the skin of the ship, that's what prompted my response as posted. I regret any insult you might have taken from it, it was not intended.
Stay safe sir.
@@robertf3479 copy that. Fair winds and following seas!
turns out it's two, one to change the light and one to film him doing it
Had my share of ship bulb changes.
Worked on two aircraft carriers during Vietnam... Never changed a light bulb. My job was baking bread!
illuminating
Most difficult lightbulb is on my car: Having to reach through a small hatch in the wheelhouse just to change the low beam lamp, and reaching 20 cm blindly to pull the old bulb from its spring loaded fixture was ridiculously hard
For a fund raising event, have a movie night , on deck. Captain Queeg serving strawberries and ice cream.
The most recent bulb I changed was the front turn signal on my pickup. It can be reached by laying on the ground under the front bumper, reaching up through the fender, twisting your hand around various frame members and removing the plastic holder from the assembly. Or you can pull three screws from the front - one of which is cleverly hidden under the full headlight assembly. But I did get some nifty new LED bulbs from Amazon after waiting a week and installed one of those. Unfortunately, the LED bulbs do not draw enough power for the truck to register the bulb is working. A trip to the local auto store and a new incandescent bulb fixed that. The overall process took several hours of figuring out how to get to it using RUclips videos, but dammit, the light works now. Sigh.
I work at a car dealership and there are some turn signal bulbs and headlamp bulbs that I absolutely detest replacing because of the difficulty of accessing them.
I used 12 volt incandescent auto lamps on my model railroad in place of fuses. If the light came on I knew that there was a short somewhere and since the lamp used the power, nothing got hurt anywhere.
All of them!
Wow, what a cool/creepy job - Overnight battleship museum security.
I was on an EM in the early 80's. I remember our whole shop being involved in replacing the incandescent fixtures with the fluorescent fixtures on USS Butte. It took us a couple of weeks to finish. Then we had to stock the bulbs and starters.
The most "entertaining" one I've changed was part way down the wet-well (also known as the hot-well) in a steam pumping station. Fixed ladders covered in green slime, metal at about 80C, wood work "damp", and the odd rat. Descend to the light fitting, untie it, pull it up to the surface, wash it, dry it, change the bulb, the fuse, inspect the cable for rat damage, repair the cable - then finally lower the fitting back into the hole and secure it so the next poor soul will have equal enjoyment.
Well, probably my fog lights on my truck. Its a Toyota so it had about 1000 fasteners holding a single piece of the wheel well together. And even after removing them, it only made a 1 inch hole for my hand with a new bulb to fit through.
you can use motion sensors to turn the lights on off with a timer. Depending of the values it might be worth verifying if it is worth for you guys...
Watching this video gave me an idea for a future video I would like to see. Since you are still a "floating" museum ship how do you prep the ship for incoming hurricanes? Such as do you close the water tight doors? Do you leave a small crew onboard to keep a look out for any potential flooding issues? Just an idea, but something I would definitely like to see. Thanks again for all the work you put into the videos I really enjoy them.
We don't do much about hurricanes. Haul the flag down, drag the trashcan inside, make sure sure the doors are shut (which we do every day). She weathers storms very well.
@@BattleshipNewJersey I figured she would, she is a battleship after all lol. It was something that I was curious about though. Thanks for the answer.
@@BattleshipNewJersey I do not know the local conditions, but is it not a topic of extreme high tide when the wind from a hurricane pushes the sea water into the Delaware river? Here in Denmark we can experience 1-2 meters (up to 7 feet) difference even in the inland waters between Denmark and Germany (Sønderborg/Kiel) when the hurricanes in the North Sea pushes the sea water into the Skagerrak and Kattegat (the waters between Norway/Denmark and Sweden/Denmark).
There are many places here with the extreme tides too but right where we are it isn't a major concern. Every once in a while it gets higher than our pier, so we make sure people are safe. Low tides never get far enough out on the Delaware to be an issue for us.
@@BattleshipNewJersey This makes things a lot easier for you when the weather turns out to be brutal. Thanks for the reply and keep up the good work.
Great job guys!
That was hilarious, during your doing battle with the starter a 15 second commercial came on. When it ended you video came on with your light popping on. Basically saved by a commercial.🤣🤣🤣
Create a youtube creator account
Just as the started clicked into place, my screen went blank.
I never see any commercials... Ad Blocker takes care of the small stuff.
Have you considered switching to LED bulb replacements? As simple as changing the tube and can pay for itself in a year or 2. Even just for "off the tour route" spaces would be a significant savings.
Looks like you commented before the video finished, we have switched to LEDs
@@BattleshipNewJersey Yup, I do have a bad habit of commenting on video's before they're over. A couple years back, the place where I work switched to LED's . $7000 to pay for the swap for $7000 in savings the first year.
I just gave away several of the original light shade covers wish id have known
I did a similar conversion to LED in my basement and it made a world of difference!
For lesser traveled sections of the ship, would motion or timer switches be a viable option to help reduce costs?
Could the museum augment its power needs with solar panels? Not altering the ship itself, but you seem to have a lot of pier space that might be used.
I can't believe that you haven't been switching over to LED instead of just replacing bulbs and tubes
The LEDs are a lot more resilient can withstand vibration and shock and I'd be surprised if they hadn't switched over on all the active ships due to cost and especially the longevity
Im a windturbin tech and the most difficult light bulb i have to change is the aircraft navigation warning lights on top of the turbine. Most are on a 5 to 20 foot mast on the top of the turbine nacelle.
On older turbine climb 200 to 350 feet up a ladder to the nacelle squeeze thru the yaw plate opening open the top hatch of the nacelle the change the bulb. Reverse the steps to get down.
Started doing away with starters while replacing ballast in old luminares. They were just 1 more thing to cause a problem. Reason the flurescent lamps must be properly disposed of is the mercury inside. I started to switch over the 4' flurescent lamps to LED'S . Best type is type that powers directly to sockets and not thru old existing ballast.
Worst light bulb?
During my college years I worked for a stage craft company, doing rough ins, repairs on existing systems and load ins. Got a call from a church that had a massive stage lighting system that they needed a bunch of bulbs changed, and wanted some new upgrades installed. So since I wasn't busy got the job. Figured how hard can this be? Get my harness on, go up to the catwalk and swap some bulbs, easy! Wrong!
Turns out in an effort to save money during construction, the catwalk that was on the blue prints would be built later, and never was. Instead they had a huge ladder to climb up to the, I think it was a 40 or 50 foot ceiling, into the cut and get behind the lighting pipe!
So yeah, spent 2 days up there, climb up and in, send a draw bucket down and bring stuff up.
The funny part of this though was, at the time I had really really long twin-tails, and didn't realize that at times they'd hang out of the cut while I worked. So my partner is getting stuff ready to send up when the church secretary walks in to check on us, and just about has a heart attack seeing this creature hanging out of the ceiling. He calmed her down and asked me to poke my head out and she got a good laugh out of it.
Also had to take the front end of some cars apart to swap headlights, that's always fun too.
At our sewer plant we started to change over to LED lighting. Yesterday we just found bulbs that we could use in the flood lighting. Right now we just have the the office/lab building to do.
A sewer plant requiring flood lighting. Sounds messy.
@@eliasthienpont6330 I have seen it flooded twice inside the levey. once 6 ft and the other 5 ft. water was out side the leveys and found it's level through the collection system.
When the New Jersey was launched, was she powered by DC (Direct Current)? I was Chief Electrician on a ship Built in 1952 and Operated by MARAD that was 240 vdc though out the vessel.
My hardest lamp-up was a 4" halogen machinery space floodlight bulb, about 40ft above the deck, wedged precariously between some pipe supports atop the 85°C enclosure of the roaring 385-litre propulsion diesel and the 65°C aft bulkhead of the engine space. The machinery space halogen bulbs always sucked, but that one was the worst.
Very interesting, a shame HMS Vanguard wasn't saved
Since we’re on a ship there is no ground, mind blown 🤯 lol
Good video
I hated working on those when I was in. God help you if that plastic broke.
You didn't stock extra of those on hand?
To be blunt honest, I was a angry Po3 and I didn't have enough forethought to do so. Also, my Division didn't ever seem to have the budget to have spare parts lying around.
I'm glad I watched the entire video before coming to the comment section. I didn't have to waste my time telling you to switch to leds like captain obvious
LED'S do not have a ballast but a driver that operates on DC voltage. Smart move switching over to LED'S. They ones that I have used to replace a flurescent lamp & ballast tells you to never replace a LED with power on.
Dude, nice hair cut!
Enjoy Elohim.!
Perhaps he visited the ships volunteer barber?
I was worried about his mental health when I saw his hair groomed so well.
The most difficult bulb I've ever had to change was the masthead sailing light on a 125' tall fore mast of a brigantine sailing ship, while under sail and heeling about 15°. Because of the way the bulbs were mounted I had to climb up the topgallant shrouds on the leeward (downwind) side. This meant I was leaning backwards, hanging over the side of the ship for the last 1/3 of my climb. Oh and because the mast bends from the pressure of the sails, the rigging is slack and I'm bouncing around a little with each swell. Then I got to disassemble the running light fixture, remove the bad bulb and install the replacement (which cost over a hundred dollars in the 90's), while not dropping any tools lest they land on the head of a shipmate or go to Davey Jones's locker. But here's where it gets cool: I look down to the mate to tell him to turn the lights on and I see a whale swimming in our bow wave like a dolphin! He was so close to the ship that when I reported it the crew couldn't see him until he came up to blow. And I'm not making this up, one of my crew mates was looking right down the blowhole and got a face full of whale snot!
That was the hardest and most memorable bulb change I ever did.
would motion activated lights make sense? And maybe switching to LEDs. 😉 Seriously Smart LEDs that can be remotely controlled. A routine could be set up to turn on the lights and then off again after the day is over. Motion detectors to switch on when the space is occupied. You can even monitor the lights from your computer to see which lights are on. Even set up lights for 10% power then ramp up when people are about.
We do use LEDs.
@@BattleshipNewJersey yes, but are they smart and can they be controlled.
@@brianfieler2332 yep! By a switch!
I had to change a bulb at the top of a 20 foot vaulted ceiling. i only have a tiny step stool, so it was done with an extremely long bulb changer. holding that over my head got tiring!
Have you guys looked at converting to LEDs? Ofton a decent saving in energy over florescent. You can also get Led tubes that screw into a florescent fitting...
Looks like you commented before finishing the video. We do use LED.
@@BattleshipNewJersey Yes I did lol Ooops!
You should look into LED retro fits for the fixtures
Changing out the ARK light bulds in the Signal Lamps, you had to wear a old pair of Dress White Gloves so no oil from your hands ever touck the new bulbs, This wasn't a Electricans responsiblable , it fell to the Signalmen.
Looking at the thumbnail it's gonna be one more if you climb on top of a stack of bed racks instead of getting a ladder. Safety third, right. LoL 😆
You definitely got the toy as a kid you always wanted
It depends. I need more details.
Crew plus 1. 1 holds bulb on gyroscope platform, crew runs ship in circles
Saw a ghost escaping out the light locker door.
They had those darkened ship switch on the LCI 713 ww2 landing craft
The worse Light I have had to change was the blinker on my Mom's Hyundai Elantra because it is I think the left Headlight that can't actually be accessed without either going in from below or just taking out the entire assembly. The other one however can be replaced like normal which is weird to me.
How long does it usually take to turn off all the lights after a day of tours?
Just walking through takes about a half hour of you hurry. But we're also checking for trash and misc objects or of place so that can slow us down.
120v 1phase should only have 1 fuse on the hot leg,nothing on the neutral. A 220v 1phase would have 2 fuses as it's the combination of 2 hots without a neutral. 220v 3phase would only have 1 fuse as it's a neutral and ground. 400v+ 3phase would have 3 fuses. It's not good practice to fuse neutrals as its tied into the ground.
As this ship was originally built around World War II, the electrical system is probably still pretty old and back then on 120 V single phase they would fuse the neutral, they don’t do that anymore with modern systems, after all back when they did that knob and tube was still the go to wiring method for residential and bx or conduit was used in commercial