You didn't drink your beer first?!What are "ignition points"?
Just kidding; I am old enough to have replaced many points, plugs, and condensers in my day. I have gapped points with a paper matchbook cover in the middle of the night on the side of the highway in a rainstorm while my buddy held the flashlight and my beer.
Had to be a Ford. I've set points on my '70 Ford LTD many times with a match book cover.What are "ignition points"?
Just kidding; I am old enough to have replaced many points, plugs, and condensers in my day. I have gapped points with a paper matchbook cover in the middle of the night on the side of the highway in a rainstorm while my buddy held the flashlight and my beer.
Yep. It was a 1971 (or so) Ford station wagon that belonged to my buddy (the one holding my beer and the flashlight). We were returning to Lake Charles, LA, with a carload of hippies after a concert in Houston when the engine suddenly died somewhere out west of Beaumont. The screw holding the points had vibrated loose and closed the points. I was a hero that night.
That would seem to have been a huge PIA once completed. pop into another room without a tablet and there is no way to turn them on…
Golddigger----In this case, the installing company apparently went through a couple of changes of ownership and the original manufacturer of the system went out of business.
Sometimes "state of the art" systems come from companies that do not have a sustainable business model.
The school district did not initially want to spend the money to completely rewire the school with a new control system.
It appears that somebody finally came up with a way of reparing the original system with some changes.
A company I once worked for needed a replacement for its ancient Xerox machine. The office supply company pushed a new copier with a wide range of flexible features that looked ideal for us, from a Korean startup company. We were a little nervous when we saw the serial number of 00000006.
The supplier was on site every few weeks tweaking adjustments or replacing parts. After 6 months we got a repair tech who had not visited us before. His first comment was "Who sold you this piece of crap anyway?"
Doing one right now, got a bank of Casseta switches in the laundry room. Inspector didn’t say a word about where the switches were!
In case you ain't been payin' attention, pretty much the entire focus of the discussion has been the cost of leaving contemporary lights on when they're not in use, not the starting surge current of long-obsolete technologies. Try to keep up.
I got the impression is was too difficult to turn off/on. Maybe it was cheaper to leave them vs paying to manually turn on in the morning and off at night.
Did I step on your toes? Sorry! LOL!In case you ain't been payin' attention, pretty much the entire focus of the discussion has been the cost of leaving contemporary lights on when they're not in use, not the starting surge current of long-obsolete technologies. Try to keep up.
I was taught that the more serious problem was the cost of reduction in the life of the fixture, particularly the tubes since starting a cold tube was a particularly stressful operation.
That must have been a long time ago, back when electricity was too cheap to meter.
Yes, it does reduce the life of the tube, by approximately 30% IIRC. However. You still come out ahead if you run them 12 hours on, 12 hours off.
I can see the economics of 12 on/12 off versus 24 hours on. I was thinking mainly of turning a light on when you enter a room and off each time you leave it. What happens with occupancy sensors depends on the details of a particular typical 24 hour cycle.
The post office paid $1.1 billion for 99,150 first-generation Long-Life Vehicles during their 1987-1994 production run, many of which are still in service. $11,094 each, including one-time design, development & tooling costs. Being purpose-built vehicles, they incorporated features not readily available in off-the-shelf models, including a rust-free aluminum body, right-hand drive, and an unusually tight turning radius.
www.caranddriver.com
I recall some controversy that Oshkosh didn't actually have a vehicle prototype and fudged it to get the contract.The post office paid $1.1 billion for 99,150 first-generation Long-Life Vehicles during their 1987-1994 production run, many of which are still in service. $11,094 each, including one-time design, development & tooling costs. Being purpose-built vehicles, they incorporated features not readily available in off-the-shelf models, including a rust-free aluminum body, right-hand drive, and an unusually tight turning radius.
(in fairness, it wasn't all unicorns and rainbows; they ended up with a gas hog ill-suited for their frequent stop & go operations)
The Post Office Is Getting a New Truck, and Here’s One of the Prototypes
The generic-faced van you see here is one of six prototype delivery vehicles meant to take the U.S. Postal Service into the modern era. Read more at Car and Driver.
In 2008, they purchased a number of off-the-shelf of Dodge Grand Caravan and Chevrolet Uplander minivans. I'm sure their operational experience factored into their decision to launch a second-generation Long-Life Vehicle program.
The 2021 2G LLV contract seems to be up to $6 billion for 165,000 of the vehicles over 10 years. $36,363 each, including (?) an initial $482,000 for design, development, and tooling.
Oshkosh Defense to build next-generation U.S. Postal delivery vehicles
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) said on Tuesday it will award a multibillion-dollar, 10-year contract to Oshkosh Defense to manufacture a new generation of postal delivery vehicles. Under the initial $482 million investment, Oshkosh Defense, a unit of Oshkosh Corp, will finalize the production...finance.yahoo.com
