NSW new metro

Whenarewethere · Guru

NSW new metro

Cupie · Guru

This must be a NSW joke .. I don't get it ..

As that notorious Queenslander once .. or many times, said ... Please explain

Whenarewethere · Guru

The new metro line was supposed to open a week ago.There were some final safety tests. A fire brigade person got an electric shock.

The opening which was supposed to have happened, is now on hold indefinitely.

Basically it's tap & stop... electrocuted!

Are We Lost · Guru

I smell a rat after all the pressure from the union movement to delay the opening.

The firefighter supposedly suffered a small shock when he was manually opening the train door. It was apparently a "stray current" according to this article.

Firefighter suffers small shock

The trains themselves have been in service for years, so you would expect any "stray currents", whatever they are, to have been resolved by now.

Cupie · Guru

Thank you for the explanation.

Perhaps it was static electricity.

Whenarewethere · Guru

In our block of 15 Units in 2016 we had a major electrical upgrade from the street to the & including the meter room & replaced asbestos meter board, old NMB (Network Main Board) which were all asbestos, & also meter room asbestos lining while at it.

Cost a bucket load, $38k for the basic work... was surprised at the "blasé" trades mindset on removing asbestos, even though we paid for documentation left right & centre.

Air monitors which I could see were not set up properly, not masks on removalists, not wetting of asbestos, not handled correctly. I could go on. But we have all the official documentation (also done the Mr Fuffy asbestos ceiling certificate).

2 decades in the planning, mostly due to politics in a block of Units, but got it done (I had major input as advised by my electrician (he didn't get the work as I did not want any perception of brown paper bags)). Also removed the black asbestos meter board (as per most meter boards).

Upgrading the entire electrical mains was one of the items on our 10 year maintenance plan as required by NSW legislation for blocks of Units updated every 5 years.

We brought it forward a bit because NSW changed the system so that in a block of Units that meter electrical work had to go through every retailer. Probably would have cost another $5k minimum going via every retailer to upgrade the meters.

Anyway, putting all the above BS aside, which we got around, within a few days. Main feed back to the street. New meters for 15 Units & 1 common meter, & replaced the paper insulated oil packed 3 phase 415 volt mains to the building. 200 amps per phase, for all the 415v instantaneous hot water systems in every Unit as installed, & another 2 in the common laundry (17 three phase instantaneous HWS).

A few years later we were getting electrical shocks via the plumbing in the building. More so if not wearing rubber thongs. I often walk around the building in bare feet, I was "bitten on the hand many times... not something I enjoy!

We got in "another" electrician. Fixed the failed earth... & pointed out that he was surprised than that there was not not more permanent human "tap & stop"

P.P.S. Most of the 15 Units we have RS breakers. but there are a few Units we still can't resolve the very minor issues.

Probably rats!

P.P.S. Have livedin the block of Units since 1989. We know how to keep BS to a minimum. There are some short term investment owners who have met their match for the first time. I don't take prisoners... it is exhausting long term fighting these battles. But I am still breathing!