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Re: HEP & refrigerated containers
Author: Dr Zarkoff
Date: 09-11-2008 - 17:53
<Splittin' Hairs Again!
>Call it HEP, or REP, or ITEP, or whatever,
H=head E=end P=power. It's self-explanatory. If the generator itn't on the "head end", then it's " power". Back in the days when each car carried its own generator (axle, Waukesha, or diesel) it wasn't called "head end". However, there was just such a system available in the late 1800s (generator in baggage car), and it was also called "head-end".
>Since the electrical disconnects at each end of the car were apparently poorly thought out, all power (both circuits) to all occupied cars in a train must be killed before any electrical lines between the cars are handled.
Would you rather spend several thousand more dollars per car just so you don't have to shut down the [loco] HEP to disconnect part of the train. You're pretty clueless.
>Call it HEP, or REP, or ITEP, or whatever,
H=head E=end P=power. It's self-explanatory. If the generator itn't on the "head end", then it's "
>Since the electrical disconnects at each end of the car were apparently poorly thought out, all power (both circuits) to all occupied cars in a train must be killed before any electrical lines between the cars are handled.
Would you rather spend several thousand more dollars per car just so you don't have to shut down the [loco] HEP to disconnect part of the train. You're pretty clueless.
