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Genre: Science & Technology
Date of upload: Dec 14, 2022 ^^
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I have worked for many years on locomotives, and this is absolutely amazing.
The Alerter system is called the "Vigilance System" in other parts of the world, I noticed that you put an extra effort to use both American and European descriptions for the components. Just throwing in my 2 cents, your video is already excellent.
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Not gonna lie. I’ve watched this particular video many many many times over and over again. It’s something about these animations that keep me intrigued. Your narration in these videos is absolutely outstanding. The way you seamlessly articulate the content is such a smooth and pleasant way whilst discussing an incredibly complex machine leaves me in awe. Had I been narrating this, all you’d be hearing is the phrase, “ummm”.
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Watching videos like this reminds me of how ingenious humans can be, and to not take inventions like this for granted. It’s a humbling experience to see all the engineering and optimizations that go into designing a complex system like this. And there are so many disciplines involved: chemistry, electrical engineering, thermodynamics, material science, etc. It’s so impressive!
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Just found your channel. These animations are unbelievably amazing and useful. I'm an electrician and your video breakdown of a solar panel was more comprehensive and helpful than any of the literature that I have come across. I am sure these videos are very labor intensive. Please, please keep doing them! You are adding a level of knowledge and understanding to the world that didn't exist before. Also, on a personal note. If you could make some on electrical theory and modern circuitry. Myself and many other electricians that I know would happily pay for these videos. It can be so hard to visualize these principals and you have created a perfect way to do so. Thank you.
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VIDEO CORRECTIONS (complied from viewer comments): For questions about fuel usage calculations: www.factcheck.org/2008/07/fuel-efficient-freight-t… From user @briancelidonia8258: Some corrections (some nit-picky and some significant, mostly nitpicky): 00:00 Front door opens the other way on newer locomotives. This is in case the loco falls on over on the right side (blocking the rear exit door), the front door will flop open, allowing the crew to climb out without having to lift the door. 00:05 The small cranking transfer box shown on the left walkway has been removed for 10 years. (not mentioned in the description) 05:25 The "dummy" recepticle is shown having pins. The dummy doesn't have pins, that's why it is the dummy. 10:27 The Alternator Blower cooling air then cools the rectifier and inverters before exiting the loco. It does not just cool the alternator. 11:24 Only 4 inverter are shown on a 6 motor locomotive. 11:38 "This process may change". Not sure why it would. Inverter control uses "pulse width modulation" (PWM) or "six step" control to generate AC current wave-forms. There really are no other significantly different ways to do it. 12:10 The batteries are under the walkway, not under the aux cab. (way nit-picky on my part) 14:30 The sand boxes are only 1/4 the size that they should be. The nose cab boxes go all the way to the top where the fills are shown. Also, the rear sand fill is not on top of the radiators- maintainers could not reach that high to insert the sand fill hoses. The rear fill is actually about 6 feet above the deck...about eye level. 14:38 Most railroads do not use a 15 mph sand cutoff speed. Some have no cutoff at all. Some have different speeds depending on operating mode. 17:49 The stator exitation does not travel in reverse when the motor are in braking. It travels more slowly than rotor speed, but in the same direction. When in motoring, it travels more quickly than rotor speed...thus "inducing" current into the induction motor. However, I will grant that for general illustrative purposes, it does kind of get the point across (but it does not accurately depict how an induction motor works) 18:18 Grids are show backwards. As shown, the super hot air would burn any person exiting the operator cab on the right side where the rear door is. Blowers should be on the right, hot air exiting on the left. 20:18 "Smart Displays" are no longer used. These are now "dumb displays" called "TCD's" (thin client displays) 24:18 There is no "Smart Display" on the helpers console. Not sure what is shown there but it could be an Auxilliary Speed Indicator (ASI) which displays locomotive speed to the Conductor.
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