Rack mount batteries got installed with the wires coming off the front then up
the rack with wire hangers for a bit then diagonally going to the rack and then
up the back Looks bad. I don’t know why the guy did not route them looking
better. So if we flip them around in the rack, the wires can go straight up
the back side of the rack to the circuit breaker panel and the inverter and
rectifier shelves.
The all aluminum building has the door threshold about 4 feet above ground
level. It was designed to resist flooding. And the place where it rests was
underwater in the mid 1980s. So, now the water would have to be over the top
of I-80 before I have a problem. And since it has a 4 foot sump, we can pump
it out (it has a built in sump pump too). But it needs stairs to get into. I
got some nice gnarly steel stair treat and built a set of stairs for it. They
need to be painted and put in place.
The inverter has a switch that will convert the output over to commercial power
if it fails. It has no 120 VAC feed into it at the moment. Nice Exeltech 4 kW
sine wave modular inverter.
A few years ago a guy wanted to rent some of our back lot to stage his tow
trucks. He parked several tow trucks and an older Winnebago style motor home
there. About a month or less some other guy showed up and said this guy
supposedly bought those trucks from him as well as the whole business but
defaulted. Those were his trucks. I told him that I would not notice if they
all disappeared as I could not get ahold of the guy and he only made the one
rent payment.
I finally made contact and told him to clear out the remaining truck and the
motor home. He never got the motorhome. I should have towed it out to the
highway and just left it. But instead I tried to sell it, give it away get the
local junkyard to take it. I eventually told the crew to go out with a mini
excavator (with a thumb) and pluck it to pieces and put all the pieces in a
large truck sized dumpster. I finished ripping all the pieces they left off
today and made a mess. Not sure what I am going to do with the chassis. It
was running when it was parked.
Kinda fun starting up another company brand new like this. We are installing a
576 strand C.O. cable this week. My C.O. rack can serve up to 10,024 customers
without adding another shelf. 576 strands can serve 18,432 customers. No
remotes, electronics, DLCs etc out in the field. Just 100% optics up to 20 km
and up to 30 km if we cut down the splitter ports.
The upstream equipment we are installing has the ability to go to 1000 Gbps on
a ring of just 4 strands. Thus the name Terabit Networks. The ring will be
about 100 miles long when I complete it. I have 2 gaps left to complete.
From: Nate Burke
Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2020 3:53 PM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] tomorrow
I really want some more explanations/story to some of the projects...
Batteries reversed
Stairs installed
Perhaps run the 120 VAC to the inverter input
Put all the pieces of that motorhome in the dump trailer.
Move that motorhome chassis somewhere it is not obvious.
On 7/12/2020 4:14 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote:
Good thing I didn’t start off: “who is the stupid bastard that took home the
only key for the red truck”...
From: ch...@wbmfg.com
Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2020 3:05 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] tomorrow
I am sure you all enjoyed it much more than my crew...
From: TJ Trout
Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2020 2:36 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] tomorrow
Pretty cool to get a sneak peek into the mccown world even if it's an
accidental peak 💁♂️
On Sun, Jul 12, 2020, 12:53 PM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
Were we the intended audience here?
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
On 7/12/2020 12:49 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote:
Excellent job on the intersection guys. Y’all just keep getting better
at what you do.
This week Centracom said they are coming to splice and perhaps install
equipment in the C.O.
BTW, C.O. stands for Central Office. Many years ago it was CDO for
Central Distribution Office. This is where the telephone operators used to
manually switch telephone calls with “cord boards”. Later automatic switching
equipment took over that job but the C.O. has remained. Internet companies
frequently call their main tech office the NOC Network Operations Center. NOC
is probably taking over for C.O. but I am an older dude and will continue to
refer to the C.O. Ours is so small it would more properly be called a Carrier
Hut or Remote. But I digress.
We want everything looking as nice as we can for our upstream provider’s
visit.
Inside the C.O. we need the following done:
Racks straightened
Batteries reversed
Walls and ceiling washed
Stairs installed
Unused wires and equipment removed
Wires straightened up and dressed better
Perhaps run the 120 VAC to the inverter input
Outside the C.O. we need the following:
Back wall painted where the ducts are.
Box that was over that area removed from the field to the North and
either saved for repurpose or put in the scrap metal dumpster.
All weeds removed from the fenced area.
Gravel covering 100% of that area.
Outside the fenced area we need the following:
Put all the pieces of that motorhome in the dump trailer. Any other
garbage too and take it to the dump.
Move that motorhome chassis somewhere it is not obvious.
Clean up, straight up etc the lot. Make sure all the trucks and such are
parked in a nice orderly fashion.
Knock down any weeds and lay down weed killer in those spots.
Need to make sure not to leave the HVAC on in there until we get
equipment actually needing to be powered.
Even then, we will want to set it no lower than 90 degrees. Just got 15
days worth of power bill (someone had left the AC on down to about 65 degrees)
and the bill was $100. With no revenue producing customers yet, I don’t want
recurring expenses.
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