Basic Electrical Engineering and its importance

Electrical branch was somehow close with Mechanical with regard to classes and course curriculum. But electrical girls were not that close to Mech boys. Be it the teachers or students, the feminine gender of electrical never showed any compassion to us.

A high display of this annoyance was shown during the electrical lab exams. The external teacher who came from another college demonstrated a high level of exasperation to us resulting in supple for many hardcore Rumboys during their S3. The supple exam in S4 was also not different. First day witnessed 3 “Criti” which we felt as the sign of disaster that will fall upon the supple candidates in the next two days.

Something needs to be done to postpone the Lab exams. Discussions started from Hobnob, continued in the LH steps, mess room and ended late night in Room No 407. Someone even called the ‘DC office’ of the prominent students union to enquire on the chances of calling a strike next day. Somebody contributed the wildest idea of even planting a bomb in the lab.

By this time Googly came with a great idea to generate power failure in electrical lab. All of us was thrilled by this idea and decided to throw chain or rod into the electric lines so as to blow off the fuse. But the electrical engineers who designed RIT were shrewder than us that they routed all the electric lines in RIT, underground.

We decided to call an electrical expert who could help us in blowing off a fuse outside RIT so that the KSEB authorities can only fix it. Thus the representative of S4 Electrical came as a consultant. Based on his guidance we located the Main receiving station of RIT which was at the back side of Electrical lab. Detailed plan was choked out and the time of attack was planed at 0600 hrs next day morning. Pothan, Poocha and our rep Bosh were assigned the task and five alarms were installed in their rooms to wake them up at 0545 hrs.

Morning I woke up early at 7 am and saw Pothan, Poocha and our rep Bosh walking towards hostel from the canteen side with cycle chains and iron rods in their hands. I understood from the smiling and happy face of the trio that they have accomplished the task. As they entered the hostel, they told us the numerous unsuccessful attempts of throwing the chain into the wires till the chain did its work and the street lights went off. Though satisfied, they were unhappy that the chain was reluctant to come down and it hung in the wires above their heads. Numerous attempts were made to bring the chain down but all in vein. Poocha was seen very delighted while he narrated how he climbed the ladders and brought the chain down.

We all were happy that the chain, the only evidence of our prank is now safe in our hostel and the fact that there will be no experiments to do made us even happier. Merrily we all marched to our lab much ahead of time and waited for the invigilators to conduct the viva and make us pass. But to our surprise, we saw that the papers containing title of experiments to be done were neatly arranged in the table and all the lights in the lab were ON. RIT never had a DG at that time and we were puzzled how this could happen. KSEB people, through some political contacts were asked not to come to RIT till 2 pm.

While we stood puzzled, the internal examiner said to us “There will not be any experiments in 3 phase motors and transformers as one KSEB line is at fault. You may do all experiments with single phase.”

We stood desperate