hey /diy/. I came across some photos of an old transformer station.

>>1109244
Looks like some SCP shit

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>>1109246
you're not wrong

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This is an oil switch

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lower half of oil switch

Time to harvest the copper OP

>>1109244
POLY
CHLORINATED
BIPHENYLS

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Look at this cool thing

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another cool thing..


once again, if anyone could tell me what any of these things are i'd appreciate it lol

>>1109338
i found a sticker that says no pcb's on a big transformer. so that's good at least

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couldn't tell ya what's in here

the cabinets look to be switchgear. I had to remodel a hospital and remove/replace a bunch of old transformers and switchgear

>>1109402

thanks a lot, man. I appreciate the response.
I'll have to do some research. they're pretty cool looking

>>1109394
this is an air compressor. it's fairly valuable, you can sell it for 500$+

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>>1109732
thank you! that's good to know haha.

there's a heavy duty gantry here too, but I can't get to it.

>>1110337

great thread OP, love this kind of shit

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>>1110346

Thank you! I love it too. We should have an urbex section.

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old switch gear?

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could this have been where the stepped up power left the building?

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everyone loves the staircase

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>>1109244
Abandoned power station near my house.essex power station. Fascinating inside, I'm sure it's obvious what these are

>>1110761

It looks like quite the place!
I don't have a clue what those are. My background most certainly isn't electrical.

Nonetheless I really love old power infrastructure. Something about it is amazing.

>>1110783
"Exide" should be a clue.

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>>1110784

Never heard of that. They look like big batteries or some kind of small transformer.

The wall that this equipment is on used to be an exterior wall until they added onto the side.

The original building itself was built around 1904.

>>1110789
They are large batteries. I'd love to have that lot for scrap!

>>1110783
Batteries

>>1110783
Batteries, enough to power jersey city.

>>1110854
You have no idea the cables in this place.they did a several page article with pictures of this abandon place. Tons of old hardware and meters

>>1110761
Beautiful old time union work

>>1110761
Batteries. It may be a power bank for the phone system.

>>1109633
Those look like current transformers, would've had busbars running through them

>>1109245
That's a computer. Those cards look like Flip Chip modules, made by DEC in the 60s and 70s.

It might be something sold by DEC, or it might be something built completely in-house. Those other panels are definitely custom-made.

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>>1111428
>>1111436

You guys are the best! Thank you very much.
This place closed down in the 1970's.

I believe the enormous water tower was used to reduce ground potential rise

>>1109244
That wooden box houses a high voltage capacitor.

>>1113350

You are the best, thank you.

>>1110761
Old OLD battery banks...haven't seen anything that old since being at the Tanners Creek Plant.

>>1110741
Possibly, looks like a relay in the bottom right portion. Then again it might be some sort of an older battery charger.

>>1109247
Had asbestos ceilings in school and peopled always rake fingers on it. Our planners had a warning like this and on the bottom said "do not disturb the asbestos will not disturb you." Kek. I still have mine somewhere

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>>1110337
I believe this is a two-ton overhead crane, could be wrong though. Might be a two-ton hydraulic press, hard to say.

>>1111489
Power plants use water to cool the plant and they turn it to steam to drive the generator which creates electricity. Surprised you didn't see the huge generator somewhere unless they removed it. Maybe I'm wrong about how this plant works, but that's how coal and nuclear plants work. They heat water, turn it to steam, the steam spins a giant generator which produces the electricity.

>>1116032
My bad just noticed you said transformer station and not power plant