Drawnnite
Obviously Unsensible
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Its very hard to find a person that has a broad knowledge that far apart.
Thats true, but its also because its not common to get such a broad range, need to be lucky with scenarios and experience.
Wont go into specifics, but Dual Trade (Elec & Instruments including specialist controls), Haz Areas, HV, Permits, Rigging/Cranes & Engineering Quals to name a few.
I remember doing Elec Eng stuff and the teacher said we are working with dangerous voltages being 24 and 41.5v (which was specifically done so it looked realistic on a meter), when asked what I did at work that day "Switching out and earthing/testing 66000v" made their jaw drop.
You must never trust anyone with your life. I never trust anyone when it come to anything that has power going through it.
This is absolutely true. Never trust anyone unless you can prove it yourself.
Had guys I issued a permit to say they want to know its dead (11kv switchgear) before they touch it, so did the process and then proved I was willing to touch it myself. Made them happy and proved it was safe to touch.
Its much easier to simply scare the masses with elec being dangerous and get them not to touch it because too many are complete morons who will mess it up as you cannot see and most times not hear it either.
But then you get some of us who get taught to specificaly work live because you cannot turn things off, again, specialist training and all that to make it safe, completely different world.
To answer the linie/elec question. Often the linies will be up to the meter, also depends on what part of the Overhead crew they are in (ie metering or distro or transmission etc), then there is the Underground guys who will work up to the meter.
Some elecs will work on the Meters, often these are network/distribution ones.
Most will only ever work after the meter as its network property.