So what do you do exactly?

Braden gets this question a lot when talking about work... He is now a Sub Station Operator with Edison, and will be going "on-shift" in the next few weeks. (Meaning he'll be by himself and work 12 hours verses being with another "subbie" and working 8 hours). Here are a few pics of what he does...

In his words: "This is mainly what my job entails. (switching)... A crow got across two phases on top of the circuit breaker, so my job was to de-energize the circuit breaker by opening up disconnects which were right above the breaker. Needless to say, the crow didn't make it..."

Top of 16kv Bus Parallel CB


Note the deceased crow on the ground


Braden in action :)


Cool You Tube video of an Electrical Arc... this is with 500,000 volts.