Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 05:01:03 -0500 From: cliff ainsworth III <cliff@cliffsworld.com> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Power Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19971116050103.00abc420@mail.internexus.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.971115225541.cdillon@tri-lakes.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971115130536.14527A-100000@wopr.inetu.net>
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If you must use an extension cord. Try #10 SJ cord and make your own. Just goto Home Depot or Electrical Supply House and buy everything you need. It will last longer and it will handle just about anything. Just watch out for voltage drop off. It can happen with extension cords over 75 ft long. Especially on 12 gauge or smaller gauges (#14 and #16). When I was a field electrician with the local Ibew 164 on the Hudson River (NJ side) we used make them all the time, as some of our power runs to for tools were really long. If you guys like U.P.S. systems.................. I worked on the one in the U.P.S. at UPS HQ in Mahwah. They had two rooms each with a couple thousand batteries in them to keep the building's computers on-line for 10 seconds while the turbo-charged diesel generators spun up to speed. And when I worked for Lehman Brothers in Leonia (15% of the worlds transactions go through that building). They had 4 twin turbo d-12's (same engine as the earth-movers). When the had to take the building off of city power for three days they parked a fuel tanker truck over the inlet and used two or three of them for the weekend. see ya and good luck. -cliff /=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=\ <http://www.cliffsworld.com>; <http://www.openthrottle.com>; PGP v5.0 public key <http://www.cliffsworld.com/flash>; "Those of you that renounce this superstitious and hysterical belief in users will be eligible to join the Warrior Elite of the M.C.P." -Tron 1982 \=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=/
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