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Old 09-07-2021, 04:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Braineack
So, someone actually does race in Mexico?


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Things are afoot.


480v distro panel, then 480 - 208 transformer, UPS (battery cabinet not in place yet), and pre-UPS 208v panel:




The main amplifier cabinets, still on their backside as shipped.

We're looking at the top here. Coolant pipes midway up, RF output pipes at the very bottom:




Cooling pumps:




Bandpass filters for the RF output:



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Originally Posted by triple88a
If only the earth spun on a perpendicular axis, then he could have walked uphill both ways...
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random shit on the internot......





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Originally Posted by DNMakinson
I KNEW there was an explanation!
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It's sometimes important to put really obvious labels on things.



Despite this, someone will invariably pull one of them, taking a channel off the air, and then say "Oh, I didn't see the tag."

It's quite large, red (no other tags in this machine room are red), and says "ON AIR" in large bold letters.

But yeah, I can totally see how you'd miss it.
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Originally Posted by DeerHunter
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This reminds me of a sign which I printed and hung on the door to the WGN-TV transmitter room at Sears a few years ago, during a scheduled overnight power shutdown when every engineer in town was on-site.




WGN has a famously historic reputation for being kinda crazy, and I do my best to perpetuate that myth within the local engineering community.
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Also, things are afoot in my new space at Sears 100:








That sumibtch is heavy.

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