Protection Relay or Protective Relay or something else? 1

[521AB]

Is there any commonly accepted formal word to denote the followings:

- Protection Relay or Protectiove Relay or others?
- Relay Engineer, or Power Protection Engineer or Protection Engineer.. what else?
- Operate time or tripping time or operating time or what more?
- Starting signal, start signal or pick-up signal or?

 

[slavag]

Folks. I asked those Qs, not for understand who are you.
On the forum it's clear and we don't need any titels.
I have really problem, several cards with titels and I don't know what are mean. Its all.
And now I don't understand something other:
David, if you start work at another state, you need get licensed again????. Its crazy!!!!!
Regards.
Slava.
I have other problem, my wife know exactly what I do and know lot of my clients according to night phones

 

[521AB]

Slavag,
I think this thread is funny actually. Relay Engineers have always the "complex" that they are not able to explain to other people what they do. I don't try to explain it anymore. I say that I do those long lines for transferring the energy, and I usually can point at them.
People say "oohhhh! ahhhh". They are happy, me to.

 

[davidbeach]

Yep; I am licensed in three states, but don't actually need it for this job, and at this point I anticipate retiring from here at the beginning of 2027. I may never stamp anything again, but I will certainly maintain at least two of the licenses. My first license is the only one that is based on the exam, all subsequent licenses are by reciprocity based on having the first one; if it expires or is revoked all others based on that one also go away. I'd also keep the one for the state I live and work in. The third state is in the same metropolitan area so I'll probably hang on to that one also.

 

[slavag]

, .
I say other: yes Im EE for high voltage and protection. They say, yes plugs and plug-in-socket. I say yes, but bigger size and big MCBs.

 

[Sideswiper]

My wife tells people I stop substations from blowing up.

 

[521AB]

I am amazed by the fact that you have succeeded in telling/explaining your wives what you do.
I'll ask my wife what she knows about my job, I am getting curios.

 

[Eleceng01]

My wife just tells everyone that I am a "techno-geek" and they usually lose interest (as well as she does). She does understand that it is "something like the surge protector that your computer is connected to......just for the power lines."

 

[slavag]

Oh Folks.
Are this Forum not enough for you? We need discuss with wife about EE;-) too?
Only one solution, "next time" we'll marage to EE women .

 

[lz5pl]

Exactly, Slava, like me. My wife is EE -(Electrical Mashines, not Power systems). No problem to explain why next week I will be somewhere there up to 12 pm, because some station will be energized.;-)

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It may be like this in theory and practice, but in real life it is completely different.
The favourite sentence of my army sergeant

 

[521AB]

Ok, I have asked now...

"Do you know which job I do"?
"You are engineer"
"Ok, but what do I do? Bridges? Water pipes? Gas ducts? Boats?"
"no, you do electrical lines"
"what, more exactly?"
"The protections"
"What is a protection?"
"They trip/trigger when there is a fault"

Unbelievable, she new it

(but then she said that I have told her, some times ago. I didn't remember that"