"Jay in the Mojave" wrote in message
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U-Know-Who wrote:
"Jay in the Mojave" wrote in message
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Hello MDW:

Yeah I am sure it would heat up a radio room on a cold night.

Man look at the price this old KW amp is going for, 3300 American
Dollars, TILT!

The amp shouldn't draw that much juice, since its only a stock ham band
amp.

I worked on a amp that used two each 3CX300A7 Tubes, for Spectral
Analyst, a tool in mining. It drew an RF Arc, in a special chamber, and
the spectral light was looked and photographed by a optical analyzer,
that gave out the content for the material being tested. And it didn't
draw that much power, it didn't trip the 40 amp circuit bearkers that
supplied the 220 volts power to it. After the testing I plugged the
clothes dryer back in.

It just drew a lot of current when it was in transmit operation, but that
was just for a short while. So it didn't take a lot of juice for a long
period of time. But if it did that would be expenive. Kind of like when
the kid left his electric ceiling heater on for a few days.

Or the air compress runs open loon for a few days, because the air hose
leaks.

Edison isn't too bad. But they got upset when I disabled there power lock
out assembly, when they locked out my power, after I paid all the Bills.
I handed it back to them at there payment center.

Jay in the Mojave


We'll just cut you loose at the pole or transformer. Good thing you don't
live here. Not to mention the $200 per incident tamper fee.........

Not a problem, I paid all my bills so they didn't have a leg to stand on.
I and they knew it.

Yeah disconnecting my power at the pole would have done it. But they would
have had to "Hi Occo" it back the next day any way.


Jay,

Not that you are a bad customer as far as the electric utility is concerned,
but here in Texas we have 48 hours to reconnect a customer after they
pay...and sometimes, we do make them wait 47 if they have been too much of a
pain. Of course, we only do that because we are so backlogged. :-) And that
usually fixes the problem. You don't know how much you depend on electricity
until you don't have it.

Hello U-K-W:

I am sure they could have taken their sweet time, but I reconnected it
myself. They had a lock out bar over the main breaker. That was easy to
remove, with Mr. Hack Saw.

Yes I have to agree with you there about missing the electric power. I
have looked into low voltage, battery systems for remote places that
don't have electric power run to them. I keep on coming up with a gas or
disle generator.

One guy I work with, we have priced out different power systems and such
for his remote home in the Seria Mountains. After years of running a gas
generator, and charging batteries and such. He was able to have Edison
run in a power poles and a step down transformer for under 5000 dollars,
which we figured to be cheap, as compared to all the other ways of
getting power to the house.

Now he can run a big linear.

Jay in the Mojave

U-Know-Who wrote:

Jay,

Not that you are a bad customer as far as the electric utility is concerned,
but here in Texas we have 48 hours to reconnect a customer after they
pay...and sometimes, we do make them wait 47 if they have been too much of a
pain. Of course, we only do that because we are so backlogged. :-) And that
usually fixes the problem. You don't know how much you depend on electricity
until you don't have it.

On a sunny day (Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:41:00 GMT) it happened "U-Know-Who"
wrote in :

Not that you are a bad customer as far as the electric utility is concerned,
but here in Texas we have 48 hours to reconnect a customer after they
pay...and sometimes, we do make them wait 47 if they have been too much of a
pain. Of course, we only do that because we are so backlogged. :-) And that
usually fixes the problem. You don't know how much you depend on electricity
until you don't have it.
Small generators go for less then 100Euro (120$ ?) here.
:-)
Solar cells are subsidized....
My stuff will run on battery, car battery for 50 hours if it must.
That is 2 more then 48 ;-)

"Jan Panteltje" wrote in message
news:1129633675.f7992e59f2bb573b08fb81a998f095e9@t eranews...
On a sunny day (Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:41:00 GMT) it happened "U-Know-Who"
wrote in :

Not that you are a bad customer as far as the electric utility is
concerned,
but here in Texas we have 48 hours to reconnect a customer after they
pay...and sometimes, we do make them wait 47 if they have been too much of
a
pain. Of course, we only do that because we are so backlogged. :-) And
that
usually fixes the problem. You don't know how much you depend on
electricity
until you don't have it.
Small generators go for less then 100Euro (120$ ?) here.
:-)
Solar cells are subsidized....
My stuff will run on battery, car battery for 50 hours if it must.
That is 2 more then 48 ;-)

Kinda tough to run 4 tons of AC on a car battery.

On a sunny day (Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:30:02 GMT) it happened "U-Know-Who"
wrote in :


"Jan Panteltje" wrote in message
news:1129633675.f7992e59f2bb573b08fb81a998f095e9@ teranews...
On a sunny day (Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:41:00 GMT) it happened "U-Know-Who"
wrote in :

Not that you are a bad customer as far as the electric utility is
concerned,
but here in Texas we have 48 hours to reconnect a customer after they
pay...and sometimes, we do make them wait 47 if they have been too much of
a
pain. Of course, we only do that because we are so backlogged. :-) And
that
usually fixes the problem. You don't know how much you depend on
electricity
until you don't have it.
Small generators go for less then 100Euro (120$ ?) here.
:-)
Solar cells are subsidized....
My stuff will run on battery, car battery for 50 hours if it must.
That is 2 more then 48 ;-)

Kinda tough to run 4 tons of AC on a car battery.
AC is measured in Watts, 4 kW?
100A/h 12V battery, 70 % efficiency converter 1200 x .7 = 840 W/h available AC.
So 840 / 4000 = .21 hours = 12.6 minutes.

I had 1 of those way back.

Dana wrote:
I had 1 of those way back.

What did you replace it with?

I replaced it with a heath kit dx-100 I think. Been a long time, just got
around to checking news groups.

On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Steveo wrote:

Dana wrote:
I had 1 of those way back.

What did you replace it with?