--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 272 HOME POWER Ref: DBY00013 Date: 07/27/96 From: CHRIS HARPER Time: 05:47pm \/To: TIM HUTZLER (Read 3 times) Subj: testing links On Thursday July 25 1996, Tim Hutzler of (1:119/88) wrote to Ronnie Cramer: TH> Hey. I know of a place where the hot air blows all the time.... So do I , and stop eating those darn burritos! RYL, Chris --- GoldED 2.40+ * Origin: The Grizzly BBS, Wadsworth, OH, USA (1:2215/10) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 272 HOME POWER Ref: DBY00014 Date: 07/27/96 From: JIM DUNMYER Time: 08:34am \/To: TOM KOSTEN (Read 3 times) Subj: LOOKING FOR THE SCHEMETICS FOR A HOME > I'm in need of a home wind power generator for use as emergency > power. It can be either AC or DC. Be SURE that you can depend on the wind in times of emergency! <> --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: Telnet toltbbs.com or call 313-854-6001, Boardwatch #55 (1:234/2) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 272 HOME POWER Ref: DBY00015 Date: 07/27/96 From: CLOYCE OSBORN Time: 09:33pm \/To: GERALD LIVINGSTON (Read 3 times) Subj: Free Alfalfa hay??? GL> Jerry Wagner wrote in a message to Gerry Calhoun: -=> Quoting Gerry Calhoun to All (on June 18, 1996) <=- GC> for build a straw bale barn with plywood inside walls GL> (I have a source for free old straw or alafala). Straw I can see being free. If you've got a source of free alfalfa, I'll hook up the trailer and come see you. That stuff is going for abour $4.25 -$4.75 per small square bale around here (40 to 75 pound bales). I like to feed my cattle about 3 bales of prairie hay to one bale of alfalfa. Regards. Cloyce. --- EZPoint V2.2 * Origin: Res Ipsa Loquitur, Indian Territory (1:147/34.13) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 272 HOME POWER Ref: DBY00016 Date: 07/23/96 From: GATEKEEPER Time: 10:46am \/To: RONNIE CRAMER (Read 3 times) Subj: testing links RC*Hello all! RC*Seems I have not gotten any msgs from here in several days. Is this etting RC*out? RC*Groetjes, RC* Ronnie RC*--- Keevah Mail 2.0+ RC* * Origin: The Kastle Returns! (1:362/714) Ronnie! Send your voice number via netmail. IGA is screwed up, BIGTIME.. GATEKEEPER Sorry for the off topic use of this echo. Comm failure in progress. --- PCBoard (R) v15.22/M 5 * Origin: 1:3615/50 (1:3615/51) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 272 HOME POWER Ref: DBY00017 Date: 07/25/96 From: ALEC CAMERON Time: 10:05pm \/To: ELVIS HARGROVE (Read 3 times) Subj: OOPS! Hi Elvis On (22 Jul 96) Elvis Hargrove wrote to Alec Cameron... -> was done with high powered versions, great howling monsters running -> at about 20volts, 20 000 amps. Brown Boveri *I think* made these. EH> Great googly wooglies, Alec! That's some huge rectifier! What EH> frequency did it run? Didn't the rectifier contacts take a beating? 50 cycles, three or six phase. I *imagine* that the contacts were carbon and that the synchronising was such that overlap, put most of the sparking on the transformer primary circuit, the LV side contacts moving at zero current. B Boveri also supply the railroad 1500v dc steel tank pumped rectifiers in he same city. We were required to work inside these at major overhauls, "in stockinged feet" in order to minimise dirt ingress. EH> We have similar instruments in use in the oil patch and along the miles EH> and miles of natural gas transmission pipelines. Also lots of EH> sacrificial anode power supplies run off the power mains with stepdown EH> transformers and silicon rectifiers now. Here we would run rectifier controlled contactors to close "bonds" between he rail track and the structure to be protected. The orientation and location, was chosen so that the structure would then be forced to a negative potential to soil. Of course this caused the rails to corrode! but that was acceptable. EH> Lord, Alec. You aint as old as I thought. The ones I'm talking about EH> were in the late 30's and early 40's cars. NO transistors of course and EH> the 6 volt tubes drew about 7 amps of heater current, plus whatever the EH> vibrator and B+ system required. (Normally about 250 Vdc @ 3-500 ma.) Here, auto radios were a novelty until about 1946. The synch and asynch vibrators, were standard then. EH> The other thing is too gross to consider! I'd just as soon never have EH> KNOWN about it! Well, that's how med science progresses and without those gross experiments lotsa us would have fallen off our perches years ago. Cheers.....ALEC ... ........BUNDANOON, on a dirt track leading to the Info Superhighway --- PPoint 1.92 * Origin: Bundanoon, Southern Highlands, NSW (3:712/517.12) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 272 HOME POWER Ref: DBY00018 Date: 07/25/96 From: ALEC CAMERON Time: 10:25pm \/To: MICHAEL HIPP (Read 3 times) Subj: apartment power Hi Michael On (22 Jul 96) Michael Hipp wrote to All... MH> Hello everyone, I was wondering if there was any information on a portable MH> solution for home power that would be convinient to say, an apartment. Living close to neighbours, would rule out using an engine generator. A tall windmill is probably inappropriate too. If you can hang a solar panel on the south side wall or roof and get a 12volt auto battery, then you could get basic lighting for say three rooms if there are only one or two persons residing- a panel size of at least three sq feet. Not much good in winter though. With a panel of more than 10 sq feet you might get to drive the TV set for he news- in- brief, but not for the movie. A gas lantern like campers use, is a fine investment. In winter wear jumpers indoors and get to bed early. Better yet, make friends with your power company. Cheers...ALEC ... ........Good and quickly seldom meet --- PPoint 1.92 * Origin: Bundanoon, Southern Highlands, NSW (3:712/517.12) Hi Ronnie On (20 Jul 96) Ronnie Cramer wrote to all... RC> Seems I have not gotten any msgs from here in several days. Is this RC> getting out? I poll daily, got yours today 24th July. My main reason for reply, is to mention that the HOMEPOWER echo has shrunk from about 30 messages weekly, to about 5. There is a hitch between US and AUS it seems. A cuppla sysops might be in Atlanta and their auto pilots have fallen over. Cheers....ALEC ... Life is one long process of getting tired --- PPoint 1.92 * Origin: Bundanoon, Southern Highlands, NSW (3:712/517.12) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 272 HOME POWER Ref: DBY00019 Date: 07/24/96 From: ALEC CAMERON Time: 10:07pm \/To: RONNIE CRAMER (Read 3 times) Subj: testing links Hi Ronnie On (20 Jul 96) Ronnie Cramer wrote to all... RC> Seems I have not gotten any msgs from here in several days. Is this RC> getting out? I poll daily, got yours today 24th July. My main reason for reply, is to mention that the HOMEPOWER echo has shrunk from about 30 messages weekly, to about 5. There is a hitch between US and AUS it seems. A cuppla sysops might be in Atlanta and their auto pilots have fallen over. Cheers....ALEC ... Life is one long process of getting tired --- PPoint 1.92 * Origin: Bundanoon, Southern Highlands, NSW (3:712/517.12) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 272 HOME POWER Ref: DBY00020 Date: 07/20/96 From: JOHN TUCKFIELD Time: 10:04pm \/To: MARTIN CROCKETT (Read 3 times) Subj: "Hogging Another Node" message at log-on22:04:0407/20/96 Martin.. It happened occasionally at the start of Maximus but now happens often. If I get to a stage where my web browser tells me my server is down or not responding (and I do check by re-loading saccii web page and get same response) and I diconnect, many time ss I get refused entry at log-o. I anm advised I am currently "hogging another node and should log off that node b4 trying to log on again!!!!!!!!! In discussing this with Mike Carter he tells me he often has the same problem. Can y6ou help? Some days I am excluded like this for the remainder of the day and lose all my remaining time. Thanks in advance....Johnt --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: SA Country Club II BBS (3:800/3) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 272 HOME POWER Ref: DBZ00000 Date: 07/29/96 From: ELVIS HARGROVE Time: 10:01am \/To: ALEC CAMERON (Read 3 times) Subj: OOPS! -> Well, that's how med science progresses and without those gross -> experiments lotsa us would have fallen off our perches years ago. Yeah, but a "Man Engine?" URK! -> B Boveri also supply the railroad 1500v dc steel tank pumped -> rectifiers What the heck is THAT? Sounds ominous! -> 50 cycles, three or six phase. I *imagine* that the contacts were -> carbon and that the synchronising was such that overlap, put most of -> the sparking on the transformer primary circuit, the LV side contacts -> moving at zero current. Jeeze, I think I need a diagram..... SIX phase syncronous zero crossing makes my HEAD HURT! What drove the contacts? -> Here, auto radios were a novelty until about 1946. The synch and -> asynch vibrators, were standard then. I had a 1937 Chevy sedan that had a "Factory" radio in it. I suspect all of them were actually dealer installed, but it had been in it since new. ^..^ --- FidoPCB v1.5 beta-'j' * Origin: BOO! Board Of Occult, Rio Grande Valley Texas (1:397/6) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 272 HOME POWER Ref: DBZ00001 Date: 07/30/96 From: GERALD LIVINGSTON Time: 01:29am \/To: GERRY CALHOUN (Read 3 times) Subj: Free Alfalfa hay??? Cloyce addressed this to me rather than you. Forwarded to make it easier for you to find. * Forwarded (from: homepowr) by Gerald Livingston using timEd 1.01. * Originally from Cloyce Osborn (1:147/34.13) to Gerald Livingston. * Original dated: Jul 27 '96, 21:33 GL> Jerry Wagner wrote in a message to Gerry Calhoun: -=> Quoting Gerry Calhoun to All (on June 18, 1996) <=- GC> for build a straw bale barn with plywood inside walls GL> (I have a source for free old straw or alafala). Straw I can see being free. If you've got a source of free alfalfa, I'll hook up the trailer and come see you. That stuff is going for abour $4.25 -$4.75 per small square bale around here (40 to 75 pound bales). I like to feed my cattle about 3 bales of prairie hay to one bale of alfalfa. Regards. Cloyce. ___ EZPoint V2.2 - Origin: Res Ipsa Loquitur, Indian Territory (1:147/34.13) --- FMail/386 1.02 * Origin: Force One RemoteAccess -- No BBS -- Mail ONLY! (1:106/3723)