If you're too lazy then don't post instead of bitching. If you're unemployed post a picture of what you spend most of your day doing or what your summer job will be.

 

I have no idea how to delete this redundant thread. How embarassing.

 

its ok lets just start POST WHORING ON this thread!! +1

 

hell. this is a cool thread. "Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabit from my hat!"

 

nice day outside no?

 

just a few things i like to do the most. paint and build fireplaces.

 

 

hi

 

Kick his *** seabass

 

 

Work.

 

that is alot of baking soda

 

yeee

 

 

 

 

That's $200k worth of batteries in that room. There is a tank connected to the floor drains with a lot more soda than in those 5 gal buckets. Speaking of tanks. We have about 12,000 gal. diesel for the generators.

You can only see the one generator in the picture. It's twin is to the right. Look closely and you can see there are 8 starting batteries for each generator. Four group 27 sized 12v batteries in a 24v series-parallel string for each starter. Just your average everyday 750kW gen set.

 

is that for phone lines? and the setup that keeps the phones open when the power goes out?

 

Looks like a Satcom site to me. What diameters are the dishes in the 1st pic?

 

when i interned at boeing they had huge rooms full of batyterys and giant diesel geneerators. man when those diesel engines start up its LOUUUDDD... they got a big-o turbo tho

 

The site serves the Pacific Rim with long distance voice and data.

The batteries are for the two UPS systems that provide backup to what we call "technical power" that feeds all the communications equipment. During normal operation all the tech power goes through the UPS systems all the time. The UPS draws from the batteries only when needed. If commercial power is lost both generators start in about 5 seconds or so. The first generator to meet voltage and frequency requirements is connected to the emergency power buss and when the other generator meets volatge/frequency requirements and is in phase with the emergency buss it is automatically connected to the buss. The automatic transfer switches sense the loss of commercial power and the availability of emergency power and start a timer to transfer the load to the emergency buss.

Yeah, big turbos. You can see the size of the air cleaners and ducting to the compressor inlet and the two intercooler outlets for each cylinder bank. Hearing protection is required when they are running.

One genny is plenty for normal use, but we have two in case we need to deice the big antennas as they are electrically heated.

There are 240 cells in each of the two UPS batteries so at 2.25-2.30 volts per cell they are floated at 540-550 VDC.

The antennas are 18 meter (just under 60') for the two big ones, 11 meter for the smaller and 2.4 meter for the little one you can just see on the left.

 

 

They're alot bigger than I thought, from the picture. Biggest I ever played with was a 39-footer.

 

AN-FSC-52?

I worked dual AN-FCS-78s in Sunnyvale.

Joshua

 

GSC-39, Camp Zama, Japan. Didn't get to work on the -52, as I got assigned to Oklahoma just as they were upgrading. The -39 was fun, though. Always had one of the PAs down for some failure of another, so the site had sort of a bubblegum-and-bailing-wire feel to it. Wish I'd extended there.