Folks:
A newbie here, with experience in RF/Telecom, and working on bringing a cold war relic back to life, specifically the Jamesburg Earth Station, Near Monterey CA.
http://www.jamesburgdish.org/Portals/14/Gallery/1005/100_0897.JPG
The Station supports a 100 ft steerable
(ATT/Comsat) dish, that had its own turret/pedestal, attached to a control room, and a 20,000 square ft concrete single story Bunker building. The Station once housed about 12-15,000,000 square ft of Racks of Earth Station Telecom Gear that has been removed, but when it was there, required considerable power and air conditioning/air movement systems.
You can see a photo collection at:
http://citi.sdsu.edu/gallery/projects/jamesburgearthstation/photoalbum_view?b_start:int=0
Our new use, will use a tiny fraction of the floor space, and power formerly used. The station is almost unoccupied, and empty most of the time, but has considerable monthly power bills, which cannot at this time, review in detail. Sometimes $2k or more per month. Local Power company powered it up in 1968, and it ran till about 2003.
I am looking for guidance to minimize quiescent electrical consumption, since it is very lightly used but may have latent power suckers that I have to learn about. I cannot fathom any electrical loads that can accumulate bills in the thousands of dollars per month, so there has to be something still sucking power when the station is shut down, either by design, or by some defect. When the station was in operation by ATT there was a staff of about 40-50 that worked inside daytime, and a smaller crew Evening/Night shifts. The supply to the building is 480 3 ph. There are (somewhere) in the building, 120 v. system transformers for normal office, and room outlets. Where do I look to find currently unknown loads? Or to do an overall audit of power consumption at Jamesburg?
All the Best,
Sparky599
A newbie here, with experience in RF/Telecom, and working on bringing a cold war relic back to life, specifically the Jamesburg Earth Station, Near Monterey CA.
http://www.jamesburgdish.org/Portals/14/Gallery/1005/100_0897.JPG
The Station supports a 100 ft steerable
(ATT/Comsat) dish, that had its own turret/pedestal, attached to a control room, and a 20,000 square ft concrete single story Bunker building. The Station once housed about 12-15,000,000 square ft of Racks of Earth Station Telecom Gear that has been removed, but when it was there, required considerable power and air conditioning/air movement systems.
You can see a photo collection at:
http://citi.sdsu.edu/gallery/projects/jamesburgearthstation/photoalbum_view?b_start:int=0
Our new use, will use a tiny fraction of the floor space, and power formerly used. The station is almost unoccupied, and empty most of the time, but has considerable monthly power bills, which cannot at this time, review in detail. Sometimes $2k or more per month. Local Power company powered it up in 1968, and it ran till about 2003.
I am looking for guidance to minimize quiescent electrical consumption, since it is very lightly used but may have latent power suckers that I have to learn about. I cannot fathom any electrical loads that can accumulate bills in the thousands of dollars per month, so there has to be something still sucking power when the station is shut down, either by design, or by some defect. When the station was in operation by ATT there was a staff of about 40-50 that worked inside daytime, and a smaller crew Evening/Night shifts. The supply to the building is 480 3 ph. There are (somewhere) in the building, 120 v. system transformers for normal office, and room outlets. Where do I look to find currently unknown loads? Or to do an overall audit of power consumption at Jamesburg?
All the Best,
Sparky599
:grin:
