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Powering up Pripyat after 30+ years.
Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 10:02 pm
by FrontSideBus
Not sure if this has been posted before but might as well share this again.
Group of people have ventured into the Zone of alienation around the old Chernobyl NPP with a portable generator and have wired up some buildings to see if the lights work!
https://www.facebook.com/Napromieniowan ... 0507401837
Quite neat tbh!
Re: Powering up Pripyat after 30+ years.
Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 10:04 pm
by Slyspark
Seen a few of these before. One group even tried to get the ferris wheel turning too!
Re: Powering up Pripyat after 30+ years.
Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 10:09 pm
by FrontSideBus
That would take quite a bit of WD40 lol
I love the shots of the street lamps going outside... really surreal!
Re: Powering up Pripyat after 30+ years.
Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2020 8:32 am
by AngryHorse
Wonder how many HV transformers they energised doing this?
Re: Powering up Pripyat after 30+ years.
Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2020 8:42 am
by Oliver
Re: Powering up Pripyat after 30+ years.
Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2020 12:30 pm
by FrontSideBus
Wonder how many HV transformers they energised doing this?
They have all probably been cut up for scrap copper long ago Lol
Re: Powering up Pripyat after 30+ years.
Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2020 9:05 pm
by Ash
Kreosan (Креосан) had quite a go at things there, they also restored one flat in one of the buildings (twice, as it was trashed between their visits). IIRC they pulled a HV line from some guard post that had 230V power, using MOTs to step the voltage up and then back down
(It would make sense if they would remove the shunts from the MOTs to reduce their leakage, but i dont have any recalls of anything like that mentioned - So maybe they used the mots as is and get the voltage drop they get)