[OZAPRS] APRS Advice

[Damien Gardner Jnr]

On 06/04/2009, at 1:04 PM, Ray Wells wrote:
>
> I like the "neat" installaton of that gear, it makes me feel so much  
> better about mine ;-)
*grin* yeah those were the days - we had eight racks of rack-mountable  
gear, then a few sets of shelves for stuff that couldn't be rack- 
mounted.. :)

These days everything's rackmounted - all 1ru gear for work, and the  
older 4ru atx cases at home - http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs009.snc1/2627_66743427762_506862762_1643021_7314785_n.jpg

> vk2tv at tvbbs: ~vk2tv at tvbbs:~$ uptime
> 12:55:46 up 23 days,  4:38,  2 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00
>
> I once managed 60 days but Country Energy said enough is enough and  
> dumped supply for maintenance purposes.

Yeah I can't say I've managed more than about 100 days at home - our  
suburb is apparently insanely over-populated power-wise (so the sparky  
that came to replace our aircon last year told me, anyhow), and  
there's always a supply transformer popping somewhere in the chain..  
(which always has me wondering, when we're a whopping 15km from two  
power stations...).  I don't know if the fellow's explanation is  
right, but we have a 3kva UPS in every room of the house - brownouts  
and surges are a daily occurance..  We're currently on our second  
aircon since we shifted into this place 6 months ago - if we weren't  
renting, I'd have a UPS on the aircon as well!  I'm waiting for  
bestbuy to get one of their 6kw electric-start diesel gensets back in  
stock, because the 5-6 hour power outages just on dinner time are  
getting really annoying - especially since I traded the diesel hilux  
in on a commodore - it doesn't like idling for hours to run an  
invertor quite like the hilux did ;)

Weird thing is that our last place, 10km south never had so much as a  
brownout in 2 years!

Cheers,

DG

Damien Gardner Jnr
VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust
rendrag at rendrag.net -  http://www.rendrag.net/
--
We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
  We ran to the sounds of thunder.
We danced among the lightning bolts,
  and tore the world asunder

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