I like to use #6 welding cable for the big batteries and it is so flexible you often don’t need to fasten it down, it just nicely routes itself.
https://powerwerx.com/welding-cable-epdm From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Bill Prince Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2020 6:22 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] tomorrow Without seeing the installation, my first inclination would be to have the terminals in front, and find a way to dress the cables to look more presentable and/or be more serviceable. Since I can't see what it looks like, I will say "Carry on." bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 7/12/2020 4:16 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: If the rack mount batteries are front terminal, you can’t blame someone for installing them with the wires coming off the front. In a European CO the racks are back-to-back and you have no choice, everything must be installed and serviced from the front. From: AF <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com <mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com> Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2020 5:16 PM To: af@af.afmug.com <mailto:af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] tomorrow 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com _____ -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com _____ -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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