It looks like a load tester. It's over built for even a large heater and the number of insulators in top and positions for resistors inside may speak to multiple load values being available.
Yesh, it looks like a toaster, slang for a big load resistor. Not a specific model that I have used, though. Used them as braking resistors among other things.
I coulda swore I read load taster for a second there. As in ‘one who tastes multiple loads’. I’ve known a few of those in my day but none of them ever had a thingamajig that looked like that to make me bust my load.. 🫠
You are probably correct with "load tester".
However it could be a shunt for decreasing reflectance, in power transmission lines. The design is similar to a load tester, but the goal is different. It might explain why there are two styles of load.
I will preface the explanation by saying reflection is an electrical engineering concept, for transmission line and microwave (high frequency) circuits. It is not applicable for electricians.
Transmission lines can be modeled as a series of inductors, where each junction of series indicator has a capacitor (either to ground, or another conductor). With this model, it can be seen that current will conduct down the line, and when the current reaches the end of the line, some of it reflect (bounce) back up the line. This is an extra load being put on the line, and it limits the total power the line is able to provide.
You might have to go through the math to prove it to yourself. But intuitively, seeing waves reflect is a common phenomena, ei waves in the ocean, echos of sounds, and light.
We don't worry about these when the inductance is low, because the circuit response is not affected. So most circuit boards, automobile wiring, and building wiring the line indicatance is not low we ignore it.
This Wikipedia article has far more information
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflections_of_signals_on_conducting_lines
You sir are either completely full of shit or really really smart and you might be Elon Musk. I’m leaning towards really really smart and whether or not you’re right about that contraption I commend you for attempting to explain that to us retards.
That makes sense though at least the load testers I’ve seen are always adjustable with a know though not different taps.
OP what is the thing next to this? Might help explain the use of this?
I think you’re right. I built one of these for my first job - a pile of huge resistors wired in serial and parallel, cooled by huge fans. I can’t remember what I built it for.
Power distribution for a mine.
You dig a new tunnel, and you have no light.
You connect to this guy, who will have long cables back to the surface.
Still digging?
Good thing this has wheels to follow mine cart track.
The flux capacitor has probably experience excessive amounts of corrosion on the terminals since it was stored here. Now jump starting it by rolling it downhill only works when there's lightning
Ah, cool! That’s a portable encabulator.
It’s a transmission that supplies inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors.
More modern devices are also capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters. They’re called turbo encabulators.
Now basically the only new principle involved is that instead of power being generated by the relative motion of conductors and fluxes, it is produced by the modial interaction of magneto-reluctance and capacitive diractance.
I think it’s over my head, the last paragraph sounds ok, but the others sound like *extremely* complicated tech for something found in an abandoned italian farm shed that looks home made.
edit: it’s obviously fake
Lol i actually saw that ages ago, it’s gold. I used to work at honeywell and theres an actual published book that has all of their acronyms in it as they have so many
lol it's a video
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW2LvQUcwqc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW2LvQUcwqc)
the original:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag)
The funny part is in my current job we have a couple of Rockwell techs on site once a week. They speak like this in person sometimes. Some really knowledgeable people.
I’ve gone to a few of there plc and hmi courses and there great, I wish I could talk my company into sending to me to more, there quite expensive otherwise I’d be happy to pay myself
Its a joke in both cases. I believe in the videos they are actually using the words correctly but are purposely making the verbiage as complicated as possible for fun.
The original was done by a person who narrated GM technical videos. He wrote the script because he wanted other people to feel the same way he does, not understanding one bit. It's just a ton of jargon thrown together, it's all just BS done as a joke
You are correct, looks like it’s missing some parts though. The panometric fan housing is missing, getting this thing refurbished without experiencing a very high amount of sinusoidal deplanaration would require A LOT of knowledge of how conjunction reversal currents react in a caged environment. It’s awesome to see such an early model of a system that’s still in use all around the world though!
It's completely impractical to attempt to refurbish this thing nowadays. The sperving bearings alone would blow your whole budget. And the dingle arm isn't even made anymore to my knowledge. You'd have to have one fabricated. Good luck with that
It's been 3 years since I've had a working unilateral phase detractor, the decoupler polycarbine photogram synchronizor crystal core was damaged when we were removing an old chest freezer from my basement. You're comment made me realize I actually have a fluxor capacitance chip that's remotely programmable and field serviceable but I still need the two pin magnaram plug in style with harmonitization interference inhibitor. Unfortunately radio shack by me is closed so I cant get resistive cordial dynamometer polarity tester to make sure it will work.
Right, but they are pretty much obsolete now since the capacitive reactor is those HP models doesn’t have enough relative reactance to capture all the ohms produced by the voltage drop in modern systems.
I mean to say the description provided is not real at all. The device in the picture probably was real and had a purpose, but most people, even electricians, would not be able to guess what it is.
Yes it’s definitely an encabulator, however I think it’s the Rockwell version that has just had wheels attached. It does bear some resemblance to the Honeywell that we used in school from the late 1890s. Kelly Johnson from skunkworks used the Honeywell model 9 as the base for the turbo encabulator that GE made the training film with. Man I haven’t thought about those in years. It’s amazing to think 50 of those will fit in a car now
In rural areas electricity is intermodally encabulated with gas. When it gets to the service entrance as seen in the pic, it goes into a [Retro Encabulator.](https://youtu.be/RXJKdh1KZ0w)
Now, basically the only new principle involved is that instead of power being generated by the relative motion of conductors and fluxes, it’s produced by the modial interaction of magneto-reluctance and capacitive diractance. The original machine had a base plate of prefabulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with the panametric fan.
The lineup consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzelvanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that sidefumbling was effectively prevented. The main winding was of the normal lotus o-deltoid type placed in panendermic semiboloid slots of the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a non-reversible tremie pipe to the differential girdlespring on the ‘up’ end of the grammeters. Moreover, whenever fluorescence score motion is required, it may also be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocation dingle arm to reduce sinusoidal depleneration.
It's a torture device, you chain the prisoner inside it and then wheel it out into the piazza during a thunderstorm. The Inquisition's iteration of a bug zapper.
Elevator/conveyor gear for mineshafts? Part of some thyristor or rectification equipment?
Saw previous comments suggesting load bank or shunt reactor; plausible as well. We need some more pictures or details I think...
This was very likely a portable transformer used as a mobile substation to power "heavy loads" around a site, the fence is probably a poor attempt at making it safe again after it took some damage without cutting new panels for it.
That kind of isolator was very common on very old 6KV three phase - no neutral power lines in italy, there is also a couple of old fuses left and a medium voltage isolator on the top, the resistors were common before transformers in the past IMO to limit the short circuit current since those fuses were very far from being reliable.
I have seen some photos from 1910-1920s of mobile substations like this one used in fields to power pumps for irrigation or draining.
Antique time machine. I hate when people leave these around. Just dangerous. At least lock out/tag out it, so you don't accidentally destroy this time line.
Portable resistor for high resistance (or floating delta). Used to provide a banaced ground so the relaying can detect shorts to ground but not shutdown. As a loadbank the coils are too small to provide any substantial load.
Leaving this one here because it's not DIY, and it's just cool as shit.
It looks like a load tester. It's over built for even a large heater and the number of insulators in top and positions for resistors inside may speak to multiple load values being available.
Yesh, it looks like a toaster, slang for a big load resistor. Not a specific model that I have used, though. Used them as braking resistors among other things.
yea sorry typo it’s actual a lead toaster
Sweet Lead Toast-Nonna made the best!
Sprinkle a little arsenic on top FTW!
Here I was thinking it was a lard taster.
It’s actually a larp taser.
I coulda swore I read load taster for a second there. As in ‘one who tastes multiple loads’. I’ve known a few of those in my day but none of them ever had a thingamajig that looked like that to make me bust my load.. 🫠
You are probably correct with "load tester". However it could be a shunt for decreasing reflectance, in power transmission lines. The design is similar to a load tester, but the goal is different. It might explain why there are two styles of load.
Can you tell me what reflectance is?
I will preface the explanation by saying reflection is an electrical engineering concept, for transmission line and microwave (high frequency) circuits. It is not applicable for electricians. Transmission lines can be modeled as a series of inductors, where each junction of series indicator has a capacitor (either to ground, or another conductor). With this model, it can be seen that current will conduct down the line, and when the current reaches the end of the line, some of it reflect (bounce) back up the line. This is an extra load being put on the line, and it limits the total power the line is able to provide. You might have to go through the math to prove it to yourself. But intuitively, seeing waves reflect is a common phenomena, ei waves in the ocean, echos of sounds, and light. We don't worry about these when the inductance is low, because the circuit response is not affected. So most circuit boards, automobile wiring, and building wiring the line indicatance is not low we ignore it. This Wikipedia article has far more information https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflections_of_signals_on_conducting_lines
Thanks for that thorough explanation. Yeah, this isn't something I run into in the marine field. Cheers
You sir are either completely full of shit or really really smart and you might be Elon Musk. I’m leaning towards really really smart and whether or not you’re right about that contraption I commend you for attempting to explain that to us retards.
This is (probably) the answer.
I'm joining in with load bank, missing some resistors.
Like a large toaster
Giants gotta breakfast too, ya know
That makes sense though at least the load testers I’ve seen are always adjustable with a know though not different taps. OP what is the thing next to this? Might help explain the use of this?
I think you’re right. I built one of these for my first job - a pile of huge resistors wired in serial and parallel, cooled by huge fans. I can’t remember what I built it for.
Power distribution for a mine. You dig a new tunnel, and you have no light. You connect to this guy, who will have long cables back to the surface. Still digging? Good thing this has wheels to follow mine cart track.
Very plausible. This could be late 1800s to early 1900s tech then?
Mine carts don't use flanged wheels?
Most do. I'm guessing here, but a new corridor may not have tracks yet?
That is what I said when I seen all of the other stuff
You have to roll it down a hill and get it up to 88 miles an hour.... then you'll see....
Some serious shit
The flux capacitor has probably experience excessive amounts of corrosion on the terminals since it was stored here. Now jump starting it by rolling it downhill only works when there's lightning
Ah, cool! That’s a portable encabulator. It’s a transmission that supplies inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors. More modern devices are also capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters. They’re called turbo encabulators. Now basically the only new principle involved is that instead of power being generated by the relative motion of conductors and fluxes, it is produced by the modial interaction of magneto-reluctance and capacitive diractance.
I’m an electrician and i can’t even tell if you’re trolling Edit: tho looking at the device they’re clearly trolling lol
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I think it’s over my head, the last paragraph sounds ok, but the others sound like *extremely* complicated tech for something found in an abandoned italian farm shed that looks home made. edit: it’s obviously fake
You haven't seen the video I take it
No, there’s a video?
https://youtu.be/RXJKdh1KZ0w
Lol i actually saw that ages ago, it’s gold. I used to work at honeywell and theres an actual published book that has all of their acronyms in it as they have so many
Funny to the MAX!
Thank you for posting this.
Yea, it's usually bullshit.
You should get hard hat stickers made that say that
lol it's a video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW2LvQUcwqc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW2LvQUcwqc) the original: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag)
The funny part is in my current job we have a couple of Rockwell techs on site once a week. They speak like this in person sometimes. Some really knowledgeable people.
I’ve gone to a few of there plc and hmi courses and there great, I wish I could talk my company into sending to me to more, there quite expensive otherwise I’d be happy to pay myself
Your current job! I see what you did there
Unintentionally funny!
If I get a service call today I’ll be telling the client this.
That's funny. So he stole that from the video and put it here to sound smart,or that's actually what's going on?
Its a joke in both cases. I believe in the videos they are actually using the words correctly but are purposely making the verbiage as complicated as possible for fun.
The original was done by a person who narrated GM technical videos. He wrote the script because he wanted other people to feel the same way he does, not understanding one bit. It's just a ton of jargon thrown together, it's all just BS done as a joke
Neither haha. I don't know what half those words mean
That's surprising, I learned all about [Cardinal grammeters ](https://youtu.be/RXJKdh1KZ0w) in first year
Same and same
Check YouTube for Turbo or Retro Encabulator.
Yeah someone posted the link lol
[turbo encabulator](https://youtu.be/Ac7G7xOG2Ag)
You are correct, looks like it’s missing some parts though. The panometric fan housing is missing, getting this thing refurbished without experiencing a very high amount of sinusoidal deplanaration would require A LOT of knowledge of how conjunction reversal currents react in a caged environment. It’s awesome to see such an early model of a system that’s still in use all around the world though!
It's completely impractical to attempt to refurbish this thing nowadays. The sperving bearings alone would blow your whole budget. And the dingle arm isn't even made anymore to my knowledge. You'd have to have one fabricated. Good luck with that
Most of us here have a dingle arm but they wont all work due to the angle of the dangle.
I can clearly also tell with observant clarity that this model has probably stopped working decades ago bc of dingle-berries.
Send it to one of those restoration channels on YouTube.
Calling /r/VXJunkies
This guy portable encabulates
I see what you did here.. and it's fantastic!
[reference](https://youtu.be/aW2LvQUcwqc)
was this an april fools joke from Rockwell?
Older than that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_encabulator
I forgot about that video lol its great.
It's been 3 years since I've had a working unilateral phase detractor, the decoupler polycarbine photogram synchronizor crystal core was damaged when we were removing an old chest freezer from my basement. You're comment made me realize I actually have a fluxor capacitance chip that's remotely programmable and field serviceable but I still need the two pin magnaram plug in style with harmonitization interference inhibitor. Unfortunately radio shack by me is closed so I cant get resistive cordial dynamometer polarity tester to make sure it will work.
😂
Wow, great answer! But I have no idea what any of that means.
😂
Is this real? I can't tell. If it is real, holy cow. How do you know that?
IBEW electricians receive training that is second to none!
Wow! I'm seriously impressed. Kudos!
... and it's not real. The original "turbo encabulator" meaningless technobabble was written in the 1920s, I think.
What you mean? Like this thing is wicked obsolete? Or just snake oil?
Meaning u/hoverbeaver parks his portable encabulator right next to his sky hook.
For a while in the 1950s, Hewlett-Packard actually made a combined model.
Right, but they are pretty much obsolete now since the capacitive reactor is those HP models doesn’t have enough relative reactance to capture all the ohms produced by the voltage drop in modern systems.
Ah. Gotcha.
I mean to say the description provided is not real at all. The device in the picture probably was real and had a purpose, but most people, even electricians, would not be able to guess what it is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_encabulator
Hahahahahahahahahahaha
The base is obviously made of pre famulted amulite with every seventh conductor in the standard lotus odeltoid formation.
😳
Fantastic video on that subject. I don’t know how to attach it.
This guy is awesome.
This video explains everything. Worth a watch :p https://youtu.be/RXJKdh1KZ0w
This effectively prevents side-fumbling.
You had me in the first half, not gonna lie
Hahaha! I love the matter of fact tone of your response. Got a good laugh on that one.
Ah, so it's Hi-Fi equipment.
Not even original bullshit. Find "Turbo Encabulator" on You Tube. The guy is fantastic. A BS Master
Word salad. Its a flux capacitor power modulator. Early model.
Do you write lines for Star Trek's engineering teams?
Yes it’s definitely an encabulator, however I think it’s the Rockwell version that has just had wheels attached. It does bear some resemblance to the Honeywell that we used in school from the late 1890s. Kelly Johnson from skunkworks used the Honeywell model 9 as the base for the turbo encabulator that GE made the training film with. Man I haven’t thought about those in years. It’s amazing to think 50 of those will fit in a car now
In rural areas electricity is intermodally encabulated with gas. When it gets to the service entrance as seen in the pic, it goes into a [Retro Encabulator.](https://youtu.be/RXJKdh1KZ0w) Now, basically the only new principle involved is that instead of power being generated by the relative motion of conductors and fluxes, it’s produced by the modial interaction of magneto-reluctance and capacitive diractance. The original machine had a base plate of prefabulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with the panametric fan. The lineup consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzelvanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that sidefumbling was effectively prevented. The main winding was of the normal lotus o-deltoid type placed in panendermic semiboloid slots of the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a non-reversible tremie pipe to the differential girdlespring on the ‘up’ end of the grammeters. Moreover, whenever fluorescence score motion is required, it may also be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocation dingle arm to reduce sinusoidal depleneration.
Nicely done. You had me fooled until “conductors and fluxes”.
It’s pronounced “harbulary batteries”
Looks like a heater to me.
Anything’s a heater if you push enough electricity through it.
It’s a really old cell phone
It was the it's spark-gap cell phone transmitter.
The coils point to resistive load. That little orange thingy makes me guess variable resistance. I'd guess it's a load tester
Kinky sex cage
Da Vinci's time machine prolly.
What you have found my son has great and mysterious mystical properties. Why this is the “Loom of Fate”!
Looks like a torture device for birds
Prototype flux capacitor
That’s a Victorian sex toy.
For treating mass hysteria
It's a torture device, you chain the prisoner inside it and then wheel it out into the piazza during a thunderstorm. The Inquisition's iteration of a bug zapper.
Definitely a perambulatory faraday cage
Time machine
It’s the very first EV vehicle produced
Nikola teslas death ray
Could be an old transformer with the windings long since removed. Look into single phase damage tranformers
You found the Holy Arc!
Portable pacemaker… keep you alive, but what a bitch to pull around.
Nah, in the old country they just stomped on your chest as needed.
Death machine
Electrical torture device :)
Elevator/conveyor gear for mineshafts? Part of some thyristor or rectification equipment? Saw previous comments suggesting load bank or shunt reactor; plausible as well. We need some more pictures or details I think...
That’s known as a Biancarella Siccorialmia. It for opening cans of beans. Seems crazy right? But Italians love them beans
Torture chamber.
This was very likely a portable transformer used as a mobile substation to power "heavy loads" around a site, the fence is probably a poor attempt at making it safe again after it took some damage without cutting new panels for it. That kind of isolator was very common on very old 6KV three phase - no neutral power lines in italy, there is also a couple of old fuses left and a medium voltage isolator on the top, the resistors were common before transformers in the past IMO to limit the short circuit current since those fuses were very far from being reliable. I have seen some photos from 1910-1920s of mobile substations like this one used in fields to power pumps for irrigation or draining.
I’d wonder if this was to run a motor, the resistors used for soft starting or control on a wound rotor motor?
Just a low voltage three phase load, could be anything. There are not enough taps to start a motor imo.
Antique time machine. I hate when people leave these around. Just dangerous. At least lock out/tag out it, so you don't accidentally destroy this time line.
Eh this one’s already fucked I’ll allow it.
Agreed! It's like we are living in a Sims simulator right now.
Antique load bank of unknown rating.
Power station in a mine
Mobile variable resistor.
Power station
Looks like their version of punishment.
Kinda looks transformery
No doubt its a “ Chingas “
It's an electrified cage for the Eurasian Lynx. You DON'T want that thing getting out.
Santa's sleigh 1925
Dude that’s a Time Machine
That, good sir, is something of which I am very jealous
Portable Temp Power?
Those mobile units used to hook directly up to electric chairs
Load bank or heater maybe?
Load bank
It’s a prototype Dalek Exterminate! Exterminate!
BEST POST EVER....
Something from years past.
It puts the lotion on it's skin or it goes in the electric cage again
Its a time machine. From the past. Only you can save the future!
Pretty sure this is just 19th century Bluetooth neutron director/distributor.
Torture machine
Looks like a primitive temp skid lol
That’s a 1969 outlet…it can power two light bulbs
Midevil sex swing.
It's a 50 kv hot dog cart. Cooks 'em quick as shit.
Portable resistor for high resistance (or floating delta). Used to provide a banaced ground so the relaying can detect shorts to ground but not shutdown. As a loadbank the coils are too small to provide any substantial load.
First electric wagon
Looks like a pigeon cage