Creating a basic flow chart with MS Visio

SAS ASSEGAAI Submarine Tour in South Africa - Simon's Town, Cape Town Area

There is a place where all the land locked guys, whose governments will never have a marine squad will be happy to visit Simon's Town in Cape Town for the submarine tour.

The SAS ASSEGAAI submarine is open for touring. The experience is wonderful and breath taking.

This is the SAS ASSEGAAI submarine. The entrance is through a hole with a ladder.

You go down three metres down to get to the base of the submarine, you will be about two and half metres under water. The submarine can go up to around 500 metres under water.
The pictures below show what under there.

Tickets and visitor access: 

Tickets can be purchased from the HGTS office at Simon’s Town station or from the STADCO office on Jubilee Square.


Cost:
R50 adults | R25 children < 12 years


Departure Point: The bus departs from Simon’s Town station and travels via Jubilee Square to the submarine.  The Bus trip and submarine tour lasts about 1 hour.


Operating times on the hour:Daily summer (Dec- June): 10h00 – 14h30
Daily winter (July – Nov) : Weekdays: 11h30 – 14h00 Weekends: 10h30 -14h30
Closed on Christmas Day and Good Friday.
Please Note:

• No photographs are allowed in the Naval dockyard until one boards the submarine.

• This vessel was designed and built as a deadly warship. She is compact and filled with machinery. She was not designed for visitors. Passages are narrow and you need to be careful where you step. Ensure that children do not fiddle with switches or equipment because some valves control water ballast systems, and high voltages are present in equipment.

• Due to IMO regulations there are NO TOILET FACILITIES on board.

• In addition to having some degree of sea legs, it is imperative that visitors are reasonably fit and don’t have a fear of small, enclosed spaces

Location on maps: SIMON'S TOWN SUBMARINE TOUR DIRECTIONS

Enjoy the tour.

Nine Advantages of Multiphase Machines over Three Phase machines.

·    1. The required current rating of the power electronic switching devices used in the inverters and converters is reduced as the number of phases increases for the same machine power rating,

·        2. The torque ripple is reduced in the multiphase machines,

·       3.  Stator copper losses are reduced leading to higher efficiency,

·       4.  Power per root mean square (rms) current ratio is increased,

·     5.    Smaller rotor current harmonics are produced leading to more stable and reliable operation,

·       6.  Multiphase machines have inherent fault tolerance,

·        7. Multiphase machines have higher power and torque density for the same machine size,

·        8.  There is less interaction with the dc link current when VSI are used,

·       9.  Less noise and vibrations.

Fire Destroys People and Property In Southern Africa - Graphic Pictures

Last week was on the red fire danger alert. But this was not a veld fire. In three separate incidents, fire showed its dangerous side. Watch these photos.

In BeitBridge, Zimbabwe's border with South Africa, the warehouse for the customs went in flames.

This incident was following one in which an Eagle Liner bus heading for Zimbabwe went in flames. Fortunately the passengers had vacated the bus.

The most gruesome incident was when trucks at the border for DRC caught fire killing several drivers.

Be grateful for each day.

Salary Survey for Electrical Engineers in Zimbabwe

This is what I found out from the CV people Africa survey on salaries. the survey was taken from 8 practicing engineers of both genders.

The maximum salary for a highly experienced engineer is appalling.

Week Joke- Engineer and talking frog

An engineer was crossing a road one day, when a frog called out to him and said, "If you kiss me, I'll turn into a beautiful princess." He bent over, picked up the frog and put it in his pocket.
The frog then cried out, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a princess, I'll stay with you for one week and do ANYTHING you want."
Again, the engineer took the frog out, smiled at it and put it back into his pocket.
Finally, the frog asked, "What is the matter? I've told you I'm a beautiful princess and that I'll stay with you for one week and do anything you want. Why won't you kiss me?"
The engineer said, "Look, I'm an engineer. I don't have time for a girlfriend, but a talking frog, now that's cool."

This was taken from http://www.tickld.com/x/10-jokes-only-engineers-will-understand

There are many of these jokes on that site

Working with MS Visio - Manipulating Shapes

When you drag and drop your shapes in the page, you need to move them and position them using the guides and rules. The platform allows you to move your shapes in any way and also to resize them.

 Once the shapes have been moved and joined together, you may find out that some blocks may remain behind when you move others. To get over this, you select all the blocks which you want to be always together and then you group them.

All the basics have been covered. We will then draw block diagrams in groups as given in the Visio platform. Below is a typical block diagram you can produce. Its very nice and spices up your presentation.

Keep Checking as we grow through this powerful tool.