The official "WTF" thread

[Arjun]

 

[David L]

I'm honestly shocked we haven't seen a ton more "news" items like this in the last few years.
Watching the drones walk by, face plowed into their phones, oblivious to the world around them.

It almost looks fake, I have been in many manholes, and lifted several handhole covers too. They are usually heavy, and if placed on right you can't flip them when you walk on them. But there are many different kind out there...I have ran across some light weight ones too...but those were mainly handholes...

This was definitely a Manhole.

 

[David L]

Just curious, what is the focal length on that camera?

So this camera was left at our old house that we sold. It was a Dahua IPC-T5442TM-AS 4MP Starlight+ 2.8mm Fixed Lens Turret (S1 first Gen series)

We had enough street lights light there that it did pretty good at night without IR but mainly from the street up to our house, from the edge of our driveway/start of the street beyond it was sometimes hard to Recognize...I kept going back an forth on whether to force IR or not. I stayed with no IR since I could still Identify in my Driveway/Yard which is really all I care about.

The 5442s Rock!!! I bought some S3 versions I am excited to install soon here at our new house...

 

[David L]

 

[David L]

 

[JPmedia]

So this camera was left at our old house that we sold. It was a Dahua IPC-T5442TM-AS 4MP Starlight+ 2.8mm Fixed Lens Turret (S1 first Gen series)

We had enough street lights light there that it did pretty good at night without IR but mainly from the street up to our house, from the edge of our driveway/start of the street beyond it was sometimes hard to Recognize...I kept going back an forth on whether to force IR or not. I stayed with no IR since I could still Identify in my Driveway/Yard which is really all I care about.

The 5442s Rock!!! I bought some S3 versions I am excited to install soon here at our new house...

Thanks for the info

 

[David L]

 

[Arjun]

 

[wittaj]

 

[Arjun]

Perverts

 

[Arjun]

 

[JPmedia]

Only Arjun. I would never find something like this on the "Tube"

 

[mat200]

 

[Arjun]

This is worse than the Kumbaya

 

[TonyR]

Circa 1986 I had to change out a Westinghouse SPB 2000 amp breaker like that once. The brute was huge, weighed about 50 pounds and was on tracks. You fastened it in from both sides with ratchet-driven bolts. You can see the ratchet handle at the lower right of the image below. It mated into Molex electrical connectors that mated male-to-female pins so external relay logic could monitor the breaker's status and remotely open or close it via a motor drive.

Some engineer got the bright idea to open a "UTILITY" breaker then close a "GENERATOR" breaker externally instead of utilizing a standard transfer switch when the H-U-G-E 550kW Caterpillar generator was to be put offline and online. The 3 phase, 480 volt genset powered a maintenance facility for municipal buses. They'd reverse the operation to take the genset offline and place the utility back on.

It was a nightmare when it didn't work. One tech was careless and drove in the SPB without checking the Molex's pin alignment and messed them up bad. Yours truly laid on his back, replaced all the pins then guided them in while another tech re-mounted the breaker.

The image below is an 800 amp version. Imagine the size of the 2,000 amp breaker. As I recall it was about 18" wide, 16" tall and 18" deep. When it closed via the stored energy spring (would up by a gear motor) it sounded like someone firing a 12 gauge shotgun.....and that was when it was working as it should.