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5th Stage Throttle

5th Stage Throttle

Some gauges were removed in this other panel, except for this one. Below it read,
MAINTAIN 720 DEG. WITH 2 HOUSE OPER.
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Please tell me that's not 720 degrees F. Yowza.

Steam bath, anyone?
Jude
Thu 12-01-2005
Steam the meat right off your bones, you mean.

THAT would be 720 degrees Yowza, not Fahrenheit.
Lynne
Thu 12-01-2005
It's one of those "scald risk" situations, I reckon.
Twug
Thu 12-01-2005
Scald schmald. Betcha that kind of heat would make al dente veggies in no time.
Serrena
Thu 12-01-2005
720 is actually not all that hot for steam plants. When I was running marine plants, we commonly used superheated steam at 1200+ degrees...
Deranged LunaTech
Thu 12-01-2005
Wow Honeywell, they make all kinds of gauges dont they? My thermostat for my heat in the house is labeled Honeywell.
awyper
Thu 12-01-2005
(1:54PM) I'ev been saying that a lot lately..."Honey....wellll....."
Cool pic, Motts!!
Tony C.
Thu 12-01-2005
It seems that it still is at 720...I wonder if it really worked or if it was a "dummy" gauge
sun ra
Fri 01-06-2006
This is a thermometer that was proabbly connected to a set of thermocouples. The switch would let the operator read either the throttle temperature (where the steam enters the turbine) ot the 5th stage temperature (at the 5th set of blades in the turbine) where they may have extracted steam for feedwater heating.
EE
Sun 02-26-2006
I work in Purchasing and I still order Honeywell items from time to time. Durable stuff. If they cleaned it up it would probably still work. Did you notice that the words in white on black are from one of those handheld machines that you plotted out the letters, pulled the trigger, and they were pushed into the plastic? I can't believe they are still sticking there! I have one of these machines and they don't seem sticky enough to last this long.
reddll
Fri 07-07-2006
That stuff's called Dymo Tape.
Richard Davies
Tue 04-10-2007
that would be the steam temp gauge I was talking about in the last pic.

Turbines need very dry steam to function at peak performance as well as to allow for max operating life of the parts.
Hawkeye
Tue 11-02-2010

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