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    OT Bill for Electrical Work

    And just a thought, I went thru 2 years of day school, 3 years of night school, and then 16 hours every two years just to renew the license, and then there is the other OSHA required stuff, for hot work that some contractors get away not doing, and the high voltage classes every six months, all...
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    well jet pump problem

    Just a thought, My great uncle put in wells, and pumps for years, been gone for years, on the airmotor pumps I think I remember there was something about a plug being put in or removed if you went from shallow jet to deep jet, he's been gone for 25 years, check the instructions just for the heck...
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    OT Bill for Electrical Work

    Depending on where you are they may not be able to legally do that, here if a handyman does "electrical work" and there is an injury, or fire, you are toast, if it's electrical work you have to be licensed, doesn't matter if it's a ballast or a service, handymen may be able to make it work, but...
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    OT Bill for Electrical Work

    Sounds like a good deal, our company charges far more than that per hour, they got a call, sent an electrician over that had an apprentice with him most likely going to another job, they found the problem, got the parts, and fixed the problem, I used to carry ballasts on the truck, but no more...
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    Chevy compass won't calibrate

    Glad to see I'm not the only one with this problem, have a new work jobbing van, same problem, never knew their was a compass, and when I found it, it's off by 180 degrees, nothing I have tried has made it better. Funny, my personal car, (Ford) has never had a problem with the compass. Good...
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    What could this be for?

    Don?t laugh, but I think it may have fell off a dairy truck, we have a huge dairy here with hundreds of hooks like that, they hook the bottom crate and drag the stack of milk crates around, it?s in St. Paul, see tankers come in from far away, furthest was Idaho.
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    Surge protecter question.

    Personally after being a sparky for almost 30 years I would cut that wire off that ground rod, ?driven electrodes? are almost worthless, and if you ever have an issue (lightning strike) you will have a major difference of potential between that and your existing grounding electrode system...
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    OT MERCURY VAPOR LIGHTS

    LED, look at the Keystone corncob LED direct replacements, 120V to 277V just remove the ballast and screw it into the existing fixture, add a photo-cell if you need one, there a lot of options out there, last shop I worked for used a lot of Keystone products, they even have HO LED lamps for...
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    Old time steam heat control

    Had one in a house I grew up in, watch the movie ?A Christmas story?, you will see what it was like, ours had two sets of controls, I think draft and stoker control, ours came up into the dining room above where the old furnace was, two holes in the floor, think they left that on the wall...
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    Large gen set question

    Several of our customers are huge datacenters, I put the third 600 amp, 13,800 volt service in last spring at one, when we lose utility it gets loud and cloudy on a cold day, for those buildings I have a special phone number for Xcel, never get a recording, or automated system, last two new...
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    Large gen set question

    Well if bubba gutted the controls that may be a clue, there is a lot more there than just starting it up, I would assume that since it came from a college it was a 480/277 wye, so depending on the actual capacity of it it may have had GFCI protection for equipment on the output, usually with a...
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    Large gen set question

    How big of a unit is this, it sounds like a tiny baby one from your description, we have 16 that each run about 4,500 amps easily. Do you trust the generator guru, or was it bubba? Are the parameters in the softstart field programmable, if so increase your ramp time, a lot, everything i have...
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    A Christmas story

    Remember hearing him on the amateur bands years ago, still think I have a QSL card here from him, in one of the piles, a pretty talented guy, didn?t know who he was at the time, we didn?t have QRZ.com then, just the old call book. Not a bad movie, tried to get the kids to watch it today, most...
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    bearing plastic

    You may be thinking of Delrin, think that?s how it?s spelled.
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    Numbers stations???

    I used to hear them all the time, haven?t spent much time on HF the last few years but remember them well, now that it?s getting colder I have to try and get a decent HF wire hung from the tower.
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