Real Time Clock Hardware

Clint Sharp wrote:

> In message <Ey2_h.4869$uJ6.3135@newssvr17.news.prodigy.net>, Joerg 
> <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> writes
> 
>>>> What kind should I get
>>>
>>>   Unscented!
>>>
>>
>> ROFL!
>>
> Get the mint stuff if your equipment is likely to be used by smokers, 
> makes it much more pleasant for the service techs.


It's industrial gear and here in the US there's no smoking anymore in 
that field :-)

-- 
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com

Clint Sharp wrote:
> In message <SB2_h.6957$rO7.1033@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net>, Joerg 
> <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> writes
> 
>> Reminds me of a friend who had to do a field repair in Australia. When 
>> he arrived the panel of the control box was already off. So he fixed 
>> it. Then he closed the box by mounting the panel. BIG mistake. He was 
>> read the riot act by a high-level manager. "What were you thinking?! 
>> That was the job of the mechanic and he belongs to another union and 
>> now we'll be in hot water there..."
>>
> LOL, and that's what killed the UK computer industry. Electrical crew to 
> isolate the equipment, mech team to remove the equipment from the rack, 
> tech to fault find, wireman to solder the bits in, tech to test and 
> qualify, rinse and repeat, re-assembly was the reverse of disassembly in 
> the tradition of the best auto manuals. Unions sucked ass big time until 
> they got their nuts crushed by a certain woman in the 80s.

Doesn't have to just be unions, just any beauracracy.  When working at 
UCSB, there were several times that a classroom problem would require 
3-4 different departments to resolve - facilities to handle turning the 
power on or off, telecom to troubleshoot the data connection, my 
department (A/V) to remove and restore the equipment, and my own groups 
computer support group if the trouble was in the computers... 8-)

Charlie

Charlie Edmondson wrote:
> 
> Then, as soon as the equpipment was switched over, they cut up all that
> nice laced up cable for recycling... :-(


   What else could they do with it?  Have you ever worked at a facility
with layer after layer of abandoned cables, covered by what was in use? 
I've pulled miles of wire from sets of racks 20 feet apart where
equipment was changed, and the physical plant wasn't properly
maintained.  I refuse to leave any abandoned wire in place, if it is
possible to remove it.


-- 
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

> Charlie Edmondson wrote:
> 
>>Then, as soon as the equpipment was switched over, they cut up all that
>>nice laced up cable for recycling... :-(
> 
> 
> 
>    What else could they do with it?  Have you ever worked at a facility
> with layer after layer of abandoned cables, covered by what was in use? 
> I've pulled miles of wire from sets of racks 20 feet apart where
> equipment was changed, and the physical plant wasn't properly
> maintained.  I refuse to leave any abandoned wire in place, if it is
> possible to remove it.
> 
> 
At least they had the forethought to put in the new cable trays so the 
new cable wasn't (usually... 8-) ) laid over the old cable.  Of course, 
everytime they took out a section of the old cable tray, they took 
SOMETHING down with it!

Charlie

Charlie Edmondson wrote:
> 
> At least they had the forethought to put in the new cable trays so the
> new cable wasn't (usually... 8-) ) laid over the old cable.  Of course,
> everytime they took out a section of the old cable tray, they took
> SOMETHING down with it!


   You were lucky! A military TV station i rebuilt had a homemade cable
tray screwed to the ceiling.  It was made from scraps of used packing
crates.  The way it was hung meant that you had to pull everything that
was laced out of one end.  I recabled the entire station wile I was on
the air.  At one point I had a piece of coax run from the film chain
camera, looped through channel "B" of the master video monitor, and then
fed into the transmitter's video input while I pulled out a six inch
bundle of coax and audio cables.  Every addition had been laced to the
previous bundle, till I finally got down to the two control cables for
the studio cameras.  It took three days to clean everything up, and I
had to do it while the station mangler (manager) was on leave.  It was
fun doing live newscasts with the "Talent" tripping over bundles of
wire. ;-)


-- 
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

Charlie Edmondson wrote:
> 
> Doesn't have to just be unions, just any beauracracy.  When working at
> UCSB, there were several times that a classroom problem would require
> 3-4 different departments to resolve - facilities to handle turning the
> power on or off, telecom to troubleshoot the data connection, my
> department (A/V) to remove and restore the equipment, and my own groups
> computer support group if the trouble was in the computers... 8-)



   I did contract A/V repair for three school districts years ago. One
of the smaller systems let me do anything, as long as I left a note for
their head of maintenance so he could inspect the work.  It was a year
before I saw him again. I asked how he liked my work.  He shrugged and
said, the first one was perfect, so I didn't check any of the other
jobs.


-- 
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

On Wed, 02 May 2007 16:01:54 +0000, Joerg wrote:
> Spehro Pefhany wrote:
>> On Wed, 02 May 2007 14:32:05 GMT, the renowned Joerg
>> 
>>>>You can see titanium spacers, a special copper alloy sprue bushing,
>>>>leader pins, titanium tubular dowels, and such like even in just a
>>>>simple couple of plates.
>>>
>>>Cool! But electrical engineers aren't s'posed to do that stuff :-)
>> 
>> I'm always doing stuff I'm not supposed to. ;-) 
>> 
>> At least it has a bit of electricals in it (connectors, heaters and
>> thermocouples). 
> 
> Reminds me of a friend who had to do a field repair in Australia. When 
> he arrived the panel of the control box was already off. So he fixed it. 
> Then he closed the box by mounting the panel. BIG mistake. He was read 
> the riot act by a high-level manager. "What were you thinking?! That was 
> the job of the mechanic and he belongs to another union and now we'll be 
> in hot water there..."

I had a client tell me about his experiences at a trade show. On his way
to the place, he stopped and picked up about a half-dozen bottles of
booze, and about $500.00 cash. 

He got his booth set up _tout suite_! ;-)

Cheers!
Rich