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| Thread ID: 138115 | 2014-10-07 00:17:00 | Power Cuts and the effect on telephone exchanges - thought you might like to know | Roscoe (6288) | PC World Chat |
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| 1385739 | 2014-10-07 19:36:00 | When I started in Auckland we were using this stuff well an earlier version of it..www.youtube.com | paulw (1826) | ||
| 1385740 | 2014-10-07 21:22:00 | This sort of stuff (www.youtube.com) didn't seem so weird back in the day, but it was for the outside world, not NZ in the main. Even if that old test gear was working perfectly now, it would be of amazingly little use today. It was bleeding edge then though, real magic stuff, and almost impossible to describe to outsiders. LOL Instead of watching tv, bored people stuck at home could listen to the party line. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1385741 | 2014-10-07 22:17:00 | This sort of stuff (www.youtube.com) didn't seem so weird back in the day, but it was for the outside world, not NZ in the main. Even if that old test gear was working perfectly now, it would be of amazingly little use today. It was bleeding edge then though, real magic stuff, and almost impossible to describe to outsiders. LOL Instead of watching tv, bored people stuck at home could listen to the party line.:+1: |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 1385742 | 2014-10-07 23:20:00 | Boy, those links bring back memories. :) I worked on the old Rotary, pre 2000, and 2000 switching in Hamilton before moving to Carrier & Toll, later to become known as Transmission. Anyone got a photo of the old Wellesley Street battery room? That was what real lead acid “plante” cells looked like. :D |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1385743 | 2014-10-08 01:25:00 | Well our careers overlap by about 6 years so if your husband worked in the waikato during that time we probably met. If you like I can PM you my name, not sure I want to post it publicly :) OK, PM, he might know you. He didn't work in the Waikato but did go there.... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1385744 | 2014-10-08 06:06:00 | Boy, those links bring back memories. :) I worked on the old Rotary, pre 2000, and 2000 switching in Hamilton before moving to Carrier & Toll, later to become known as Transmission. Anyone got a photo of the old Wellesley Street battery room? That was what real lead acid “plante” cells looked like. :D No, but I can remember it as if it was yesterday. Always had the endcell switched in.. Carrier and Toll. Now there's a name I haven't heard for a few years.. Been there done that. I remember being on power room duties and having to read both the 52 volt main batteries and the two 130 Volt carrier batteries and the two 24 Volt toll batteries... Those weren't the years take it from me.. The only fun thing was cranking up the ac > dc motor generator set to keep the batteries going during the morning and afternoon rush hours and watching the girls go past.. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 1385745 | 2014-10-08 07:03:00 | No, but I can remember it as if it was yesterday. Always had the endcell switched in.. Carrier and Toll. Now there's a name I haven't heard for a few years.. Been there done that. I remember being on power room duties and having to read both the 52 volt main batteries and the two 130 Volt carrier batteries and the two 24 Volt toll batteries... Those weren't the years take it from me.. The only fun thing was cranking up the ac > dc motor generator set to keep the batteries going during the morning and afternoon rush hours and watching the girls go past.. Yep, the end cell was called the 25th cell and was switched in if the voltage dropped to 48v. And if you wanted a real wake-up call, get tied up between the ringing current busbar at 75v 16 2/3 hz ac, (sawtooth), and +130v plate voltage busbar for the carrier room. I kid you not, it got your attention when the ringing voltage went negative and there were amps in abundance. :D And yes, diving down to the generator shed in the middle of the night under emergency lighting (read torch) to crank up a couple of massive caterpillar diesels where you had to start a petrol starter motor and then make sure the Caterpillars were decompressed before throwing the starter into gear and pulling down one compression lever at a time, so starting the Caterpillars one cylinder at a time. After that you had to synchronise the two units so they were in phase otherwise when you threw them onto load all hell would cut loose and there would be circuit breakers and fuses popped everywhere. Yep, on your own in the middle of a filthy night in a shed on the banks of the Waikato River doing battle with the emergency power supply was exciting all right, well character building anyway. :D But I’m buggered if I can recall any girls going by. :confused: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1385746 | 2014-10-08 07:06:00 | I remember as a kid batteries in cupboard round red ones quite tall never seen any like it since. We were on party line even remember the number 604 Ngatimoti. When I lived in Havelock I recall phone number 1 Havelock which was the garage I think.. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 1385747 | 2014-10-08 07:58:00 | when i was crawling under the house fixing the bathroom floor (before garage blew out) i found a couple of those big read top drycell? batteries still connected to a telephone cable. mind you i think its 10 pair? cable, no idea where it runs to. i've come across those batteries quite a few times in older homes. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 1385748 | 2014-10-08 08:32:00 | Those fat dry cells were good value, The zinc remaining in the case was handy for zinc plating, or making acid into killed spirits, the carbon center electrode had many uses, plus there were two Fahnstock clips on some, screw terminals on others. The paste and bag was good for making chooks try to spit, they'd peck the bag, then dance about trying to get rid of it. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
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