I have the power! (Gulchers in Electrical Power Production)

Posted by $ MikeMarotta 11 years, 8 months ago to Technology
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In the Introductions today was a brief exchange between DaveTarver and jbrenner. As a technical writer, I have had the opportunity to work on a project for American Electric Power. To come up to speed on that, I got a college textbook on electrical power production just to get my head into the concepts and vocabulary.

It would not be surprising to find a few real electrical engineers here, plus a few with hard-won hands-on experience of their own.

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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 11 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I use those TLAs so much that I forget they're not just words everyone learns in kindergarten. In my world, PCB is a printed circuit board. MCU is a micro-controller unit, a small microprocessor chip that also has other resources on board such as an analog to digital converter or a motor controller.
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  • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 11 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Ah, those TLAs! Three letter acronyms such as PCB and MCU are supposed to speed communication, but just slow you down to think it through: printed circuit boards; and micro-controller units? Is that right?

    I mentioned the work for American Electric Power. My tasks were more managerial, just to document accounting procedures for the regulators (governments, not components). But I found the physics of public utilities pretty interesting. I mistakenly kept it in my mind in the Thomas Edison context and was surprised at the discussions of "fields" and other topics from modern physics.

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