Update: New Diary Entry - November 20

Looks like there's a bunch of people huddled in the center of the row of cars too.

I noticed that too...

Yeah, wonder whats going on......

Soon maybe a bunch of fire trucks will show up and there will be a fire in an electrical building. That's what happened last time a bunch of vehicles gathered together during ride construction. ;)

Lets just hope one of them doesnt take a pee in front of the station cam.:)

Jeff said:
Only power is measured in watts, not volts. Better start Googling electrical terms!

Ampere
Watt
Volt

True Jeff, but all those terms listed above are related to one another.

By increasing the volts you decrease your amp draw or load.

Let say you have a dual voltage motor that can run either 440 VAC (voltage alternating current) or 220 VAC. At 440 VAC it will consume lets say 9.6 FLA (full load amp), that will mean that if it were to be wired to 220 VAC the FLA would about double.

Also I am quite sure we were using it as a generic term, such as how much power do you have under the hood?

I know they're related... that's what I was getting at.

DBCP said:
Didn't want to start a new thread, but anybody know what's with all the vehicles parked on the Snake River Falls bridge/walkway (as seen from the webcam)?

Looks like it was a group of engineering students.

http://www.pointbuzz.com/news.htm?id=1050
*** Edited 11/22/2006 5:27:03 PM UTC by Jason Hammond***

Jason I don't see anyone on the bridge? Do you have a saved archive of the camera of that day? I was going to ask yesterday but it was Thanksgiving.

It wasnt anything big Shawn. Just a few cars and people on the bridge looking at Maverick.:)

@webber said:
Doesn't he mean 34 kilovolt, or 34,000 volts. I can hardly believe 34,000 kilovolts. Thats like 34,000,000 volts.

Sorry for the randomness, I just found this mistake a little funny.

He also said that they were waiting for the transformers. The 34 kV may just be for the transfer to the park, then transformed down to a lower voltage and higher current. Long range power lines are actually well above 100kV for transfer due to high IR^2 losses in power lines, so the 34 kV is not out of the question. Once the electricity gets to where it needs to be it is transformed down to a smaller voltage and higher current.

GO BUCKS!!!

Yeah, if i'm not mistaken... most electrical energy is transported by large volts at very slow rates (amps). This is done to minimize the net energy lost during transportation of energy from point a to b (say power station and cedar point). Then the energy is ran through the transformers to increase amps and lower the voltage... electric energy is usually most useful in higher amps... but the higher current would mean more energy lost through friction... [actually fun fact, you could technically run tens of thousands of volts through your body without any adverse effects so long as the amps are low... but about lower than .1 amps]