Videos Of Class 373 Startup

[Doomotron]

I remember a really good video on YouTube of a 373 set with 3999 on test at Ashford a few years ago, and the startup sounds after the pantograph raised were amazing. However not only does that video seem to have gone, I can find no videos on YouTube of a 373 startup at all. If anybody has links to videos with the startup I'd really appreciate it if you could send them.

I believe the specific video I remember was posted by either HSTHoward or Choo Choo Plane, but anything will do really.

 

[DanNCL]

I remember a really good video on YouTube of a 373 set with 3999 on test at Ashford a few years ago, and the startup sounds after the pantograph raised were amazing. However not only does that video seem to have gone, I can find no videos on YouTube of a 373 startup at all. If anybody has links to videos with the startup I'd really appreciate it if you could send them.

I believe the specific video I remember was posted by either HSTHoward or Choo Choo Plane, but anything will do really.

Many videos of trains at Ashford or Lille-Europe will feature at least one 373, often several. Search for either of those and you should find something quite quickly.

 

[Doomotron]

Not what I meant. The train accelerating isn't what I'm looking for. The actual startup procedure (batteries, circuit breakers, pantographs, etc) is what I'm struggling to find.

 

[Jturner98]

Is this what you mean? Watch it from about 10:30

 

[Doomotron]

Ah, that's the one. Originally it was a separate video but that bit is indeed the one I was looking for, thank you a lot.

 

[Jturner98]

That’s ok, they may be more on YouTube but that’s the first one I could find. Never get tired of watching a class 373 startup

 

[D365]

Circuit breakers shouldn’t normally be used as part of a vehicle starting procedure. In the majority of cases, breakers aren’t intended to be operated as switches.

 

[Elecman]

Circuit breakers shouldn’t normally be used as part of a vehicle starting procedure. In the majority of cases, breakers aren’t intended to be operated as switches.

There is no problem technically using circuit breakers as switches as they are designed to make onto and break fault current that is way in excess of nominal load current

 

[D365]

There is no problem technically using circuit breakers as switches as they are designed to make onto and break fault current that is way in excess of nominal load current

Technically not, but it depends how the breakers are designed. For example, the breakers in my electrical installations aren’t intended for regular operations.

 

[dosxuk]

A lot depends on what is meant by regular operation. I don't know about circuit breakers in use by the rail industry, but even cheap ones in industrial use are often rated to 10000 operations - obviously not suitable as a general on/off switch, but more than suitable for a turn on at start of day, off at the end - you'll get over 25 years of life with that sort of usage.

 

[D365]

My worst-case estimates would include the driver changing ends on a multiple unit, several times per day.