{"id":12556,"date":"2018-04-17T11:14:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T09:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.victronenergy.com\/blog\/?p=12556"},"modified":"2018-04-17T11:14:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T09:14:48","slug":"shining-a-light-into-some-pretty-dark-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.victronenergy.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/17\/shining-a-light-into-some-pretty-dark-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Shining a light into some pretty-dark places&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Victoria Line &#8211; part of The London Underground Rail Network &#8211; was opened 50 years ago this year &#8230;so it&#8217;s time for a spot of re-wiring.<\/p>\n<p>The trouble is when you&#8217;ve turned the power off, 250 metres down a hole, things get pretty dark.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Victoria Line is one of the more &#8216;recent&#8217; arteries of the London underground network &#8211; which began life in the 1860&#8217;s. Back in those days steam engines pulled gas-lit carriages under London&#8217;s streets in order to provide a connection between the main termini of <em>overground\u00a0<\/em>railways. \u00a0It&#8217;s grown a bit since then &#8211; today the network covers 400 km (the third longest in the world); and serves 270 stations.<\/p>\n<p>All that infrastructure takes a lot of maintenance &#8211; with the power turned off! <a href=\"http:\/\/powersavingsolutions.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Power Saving Solutions<\/a> have got this one nailed: When the wiring loom needed to be replaced between Highbury and Islington and Kings Cross St Pancras, for example; the problem was to provide sufficient power to illuminate a couple of miles of tunnel, and to run power tools &#8211; without choking on the fumes of a generator!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.victronenergy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/03\/image001_66337275.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.victronenergy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/03\/image001_66337275.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"690\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.victronenergy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/03\/image001_66337275.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.victronenergy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/03\/image001_66337275-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/www.victronenergy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/03\/image001_66337275-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.victronenergy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/03\/image001_66337275-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Power Saving Solutions<\/em> have developed a range of mobile power units they call <em>Hussh Pod<\/em>. 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Not only does this provide them with full monitoring of on-hire units, it allows them to continually check that the solution they have provided for their clients is the right one for them.<\/p>\n<p>Only if you&#8217;ve got the power you need, where you need it, can you complete the job on time. And with 5 million passengers a day and a train every two minutes &#8211; the less time the contractors have to spend 250m down a hole the better they like it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Justin-Ruthven-Tyers\/e\/B006LMFEH0\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Tyers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Victoria Line &#8211; part of The London Underground Rail Network &#8211; was opened 50 years ago this year &#8230;so it&#8217;s time for a spot of re-wiring. 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