TITBITS WITH BATCH MATES

We the batchmates of the Class of '86- have something in common- and that is not just age.It is the common 1460 days spent together in common environment.
The bond still holds strong(at least some of us).
Even being of the same age I have learnt so much from each of them- and most of it about life.
A difference of class and families that existed on 7th Dec 1982 vanished overnight and what emerged was a common comradeship that got defined only by our attitude to life and each other.
Probably people like John Kuruvilla, Thapar , Sanatani and the inimitable Hrishi will never know how they positively influenced my life. How, not they, but their bringing up helped ME change my thought process and mould my attitude to life.. A whole aspect of life...and that's the truth.
Growing up must be a collective process of various inputs. A healthy companionship is one of them…and today when Pradeep wrote about his daughter it triggered a very strong sense of a common feeling and common life inflexion point once again.
This phase is one of the most enjoyable and introspective when we know what exactly our progeny is thinking.
How can they think different about life than what we did 28 years back.
However since their life will also depend upon what we (did or did not) taught them. Does it not say that somehow the values commonly learned and adhered to by all of us are being transferred to our children.
So do they also not have some common thinking platform howsoever small it may be.

I think time has come when we must meet with or sans our children but definitely with our better halves to talk and talk and talk. Without any expectations from the meeting. Even if it does not mean 118 but just 18 or 8 … we must.
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Hi, Rajeeve,

Why the doubt came to my mind was that there is only one cable overhead from
where electricity is transferred, hence it has to be single phase. Since it
is all 11KV lines, it has to be AC. Then to use a single phase induction
motor for such high load looks improbable. So how do they manage.

With regards to my daughter, she is in a age when she is supposed to feel
she knows everything and she can give me a funda or two.

B/Regards

K.Pradeep

years
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Just on a different note, Does electric locomotives have single phase/ three
phase motor, A/c or D/c and what could be the actual voltage on the motors.
Apologies to Mr. Saha.
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Hi Pradeep

Last I checked the Motors used to be DC but in India over the last decade
and a half there was a changeover to AC.

Elsewhere in the world the change is almost complete.

I remember being told how the pantograph used to change at VIRAR from AC to
DC.

The rectifiers also used to be big serious stuff(some mercury rectifiers).

Of course now Maglev trains are rewriting technical history.

Looks like somebody's son is giving 'someone' tuff time.

Check out this site:

railway-technical.com/drives