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Kern County
Morning,
Anybody know anything about kern County going to "Trunked"? They handed out new radios to the Chine Lake FD and said something about a "change"!!! Here's a little story about the storm last night. Lighting tore us up yesterday afternoon, most of the south part of town was with out power a few hours and I was out 12 hours. I took a hit on my transformer on the pole, blew it apart. Nothing happened to my radios or computers. I have my computers on a UPS so I had lots of time to shut down gracefully. My radios run on large 12v batteries so they came out ok, my antennas are grounded and one coil did drop and I had to replace it this morning. So it worked. Who would have thought that "I" would get hit out of all the houses and antennas around here. I went through the motions of grounding but thinking I would never need it. I use UPS's on my computers, TV and CD players because of "brown outs". I run my radios on 12v batteries to get away from the AC hum and normally recharge when I go to bed. At the time I got hit I had two PC laptops going and one "Big Mac", the Sat 800 and the BC 895. I ran the radios from 5:30am until I went to bed, I have two of the biggest batteries that Cosco has, I replaced the D50's that I used for years and used the Cosco batteries because of price. When the power came on about 4am I got up and checked to be sure everything was charging then went back to bed. Something to remember, UPS's are only good for 2 years. I sell a UPS with every system I install and I always push for them to change them out in two years. I have also found it is good to "work" the batteries, I pull the ones down in my motor home every few months, I "recharge" my car batteries every few months to keep them toped off, alternators do not top batteries off, they only replace what is used, """Maybe"""!!!! OK, here's my report on the power outages. Pick it apart if you want but it works. -- Burr Gurndig FR200, YB400, Sat 650 & Sat 800 Drake SW8 BC895XLT& BC245XLT Ridgecrest/Ontario, Ca. |
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