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Subject: Re: Emergency Power lights.
From: "Mark Fellhauer" <sparkfel@qwest.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 20:35:51 -0500
X-Message-Number: 40
At 06:01 PM 9/26/2003, Bob Bruninga wrote:
>For what it's worth.
>
>While running emergency generators, I thought I would use the 30
>watt screw-in compact flourescents (CF's) (100W equivalent light output)
>so that I could get 3 times as much light in our darkened building from
>my tiny 300W generator.
I've had similar problems using high output CF's on regular utility
power. I bought two matching GE 2D 55W floor lamps that retail for as much
as $200 each, depending on where you buy them. One smoked (literally) the
minuted I plugged it in. Returned to Home Depot and replaced. Over the
next six months both lamps failed. At first they would take longer and
longer to come on, and finally would just never light up. This was not a
bulb issue...
Also in the process I plugged one into a 2-way X-10 Appliance module and
the module quit working (for good) within minutes.
GE replaced the lamps under warranty and the replacements started to fail
the same way within a month...
I have a few screw-in lower wattage instant-on compacts that have worked
fine for years...
Mark
KC7BXS
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Subject: Re: Part 2/2 -Re: Take Control - oh let's just go backwards
From: "Spider" <spider@rivcom.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 18:37:26 -0700
X-Message-Number: 41
>So it doesn't save you the first time but it saves a lot of load if the
>packet is repeated.
>
>Kind regards,
>
>Henk.
Thanks for the explanation. I am not sure that I would want to implement
something like this. I still actually think if people would just reduce
there paths, most of the troubles would go away. Locally, I enjoy watching
all the digi's do their thing as they are suppose to.
Jim, WA6OFT
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Subject: Re: WAS: TRACKING THIEF IS: 911 and GPS Phones
From: "Mark Fellhauer" <sparkfel@qwest.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 21:15:49 -0500
X-Message-Number: 42
At 06:43 PM 9/26/2003, Neil Johnson wrote:
>I just recently upgraded to a Nokia 3685i. It has a GPS in it and also claims
>to support Mobile Java Apps.
>
>Some day when my provider actually gets around to supporting 1XRTT ("High
>Speed") Internet. I was hoping that I could write a Java Applet that could
>send my position to findu.
Bear in mind that the GPS in the 3685i is an Assisted GPS and therefore
requires the service to be enabled on a cell-tower level before it will
work. AFAIK there are only very few areas in the U.S. where that is
currently the case.
Also, AFAIK very few areas/providers are offering 1XRTT service to the
internal "browser" on their handsets, instead the service is the lower
speed packet switching, but this would be fine for location
packet... Verizon has been promising 1XRTT to the handset for what, 6
months now?
BTW, I have noted little difference in speed when connecting to Verizon's
Express Direct Network, 1XRTT, and the "slower" Quick-2-Net Service. I
think it's mostly hype...
Mark
KC7BXS
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Subject: Re: WAS: TRACKING THIEF IS: 911 and GPS Phones
From: Dennis Hudson <n2lbt@n2lbt.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 22:24:27 -0400
X-Message-Number: 43
The Nextel i88s has a "real" gps, java subsystem, developer access to
the phone, and data packet service(wicked slow). Check into it if you
desire, but if you make a working javaprs client for it you have to
share.
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Subject: Re: Emergency Power lights.
From: "Spider" <spider@rivcom.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 20:45:42 -0700
X-Message-Number: 44
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Fellhauer" <sparkfel@qwest.net>
To: "TAPR APRS Special Interest Group" <aprssig@lists.tapr.org>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 6:35 PM
Subject: [aprssig] Re: Emergency Power lights.
>At 06:01 PM 9/26/2003, Bob Bruninga wrote:
>
>>For what it's worth.
>>
>>While running emergency generators, I thought I would use the 30
>>watt screw-in compact flourescents (CF's) (100W equivalent light output)
>>so that I could get 3 times as much light in our darkened building from
>>my tiny 300W generator.
During an expedition with AM General, when they were introducing the
gasoline engine powered hummers, we used sodium vapor lights for all
generator applications for the medical 6x6 we had with us. I continue to
use sodium vapor on missions that require emergency power. I have a 30kw
Onan (30EK) that I mounted on a trailer and pull to ICP's I help set up.
Yes, sodium vapor lights are expensive, but they work really good. 2, 25
watt lights generally out do the 500 watt halogens and will generally out
last them. Some times you can scrounge around and find these lights that
have been thrown away. The better ones are fully rebuildable for little
money and make excellent emergency lighting. Get 2 25 watt sodium vapors,
get them up about 10 feet off the ground and you'll light up the area for
several hundred feet. I mount mine on 3/4" thinwall conduit and I pound a
cement stake in the ground and slip the conduit over the stake. This holds
the light very good in mild conditions. I also have a candle lantern that's
pretty cool! Jim, WA6OFT
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