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Pics?
(hehe.)
Yeah, I know what you mean. While I was working at Meyer-Werft, I got to see an engine being installed in a cruise ship. They assemble the ship up to a certain point, then they install the engines (and switchgear, and propulsion motors, etc) and then they assemble the rest of the ship around the drive gear.
Not my photo, but one of the two ships I outfitted. Hull # 687, The DCL Dream:
Watched that whole thing last night. Amazingly cool how they designed that airplane (and its shipping container) so that nothing was wasted.
A tidbit from the officers' wardroom aboard the QE2:
Inscription reads "Echo diesel engine at 27469 hours 11th June 1992 R.I.P. Ripped itself to pieces."
(hehe.)
Yeah, I know what you mean. While I was working at Meyer-Werft, I got to see an engine being installed in a cruise ship. They assemble the ship up to a certain point, then they install the engines (and switchgear, and propulsion motors, etc) and then they assemble the rest of the ship around the drive gear.
Not my photo, but one of the two ships I outfitted. Hull # 687, The DCL Dream:
A tidbit from the officers' wardroom aboard the QE2:
Inscription reads "Echo diesel engine at 27469 hours 11th June 1992 R.I.P. Ripped itself to pieces."
If you ever have the chance, check out the Henry Ford Museum in the suburbs of Detroit. There are some monster engines on display there. It's really probably one of my top three museums ever.
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I have no idea what caused the failure.
Another interesting vessel, the NS Savannah
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Only a little over three years of continuous running. Is it just me or does that sound low?
If you ever have the chance, check out the Henry Ford Museum in the suburbs of Detroit. There are some monster engines on display there. It's really probably one of my top three museums ever.
If you ever have the chance, check out the Henry Ford Museum in the suburbs of Detroit. There are some monster engines on display there. It's really probably one of my top three museums ever.
Trying to keep with the theme. Might be repost.
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The museum is in / at the village, if it's off season you can still get into the museum.
Anna scripps whitcomb conservatory, Dossin museum, fisher building, DYC, tons of bars, restaurants, shopping centers and many other places are all original and preserved.
Despite what people may have lead you to believe, Detroit hasn't entirely crumbled to the ground.
Anna scripps whitcomb conservatory, Dossin museum, fisher building, DYC, tons of bars, restaurants, shopping centers and many other places are all original and preserved.
Despite what people may have lead you to believe, Detroit hasn't entirely crumbled to the ground.
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^ Looks fairly clean, for an aftermarket harness.
In other news, it turns out that you can purchase a 5 lb box of duck heads for $101.63 on Amazon.
Sadly, they are furnished without tongues. This led me down a whole other rabbit hole, and it turns out that duck tongues are apparently pretty delicious.
In other news, it turns out that you can purchase a 5 lb box of duck heads for $101.63 on Amazon.
Sadly, they are furnished without tongues. This led me down a whole other rabbit hole, and it turns out that duck tongues are apparently pretty delicious.
This is the closest thing to a wiring fail I could come up with yesterday:
That's the antenna controller for one of the four steerable microwave dishes which I have on the 105th floor of Sears Tower. Note that I had already removed the paperclip which was jammed into one of the terminals and then gator-clipped to that pin that's hanging out.
That's the antenna controller for one of the four steerable microwave dishes which I have on the 105th floor of Sears Tower. Note that I had already removed the paperclip which was jammed into one of the terminals and then gator-clipped to that pin that's hanging out.
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Yup, Troll X750, slaved to an S750, just like the ones in your photo. MRX4000 receivers and TMF350 filter controllers, all driven by an array of TouchStar workstations.
Not sure what you mean by "on the move" adjustment. Something like NavTrack?
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Troll has a system called NavTrack which does basically that job, but better. We have it on our helicopter. A GPS receiver at the transmitter figures out where it is, then encodes this information onto one of the audio channels. At the receiver, it decodes this and, knowing where it is (if the receiver is moving, you'd best run away from the tower quickly), points the dish in the correct direction in both azumith and elevation.
They're happy ducks, man...
This is the closest thing to a wiring fail I could come up with yesterday:
That's the antenna controller for one of the four steerable microwave dishes which I have on the 105th floor of Sears Tower. Note that I had already removed the paperclip which was jammed into one of the terminals and then gator-clipped to that pin that's hanging out.
The view ain't bad from up here, though.
Any EoC / MoCA gurus on here? I need to run 100 meg ethernet over about 200 feet of RG-59.
No, I can't pull a new cable, I gotta work with what I have already in place. (You don't wanna know how much red tape it takes to get a wiring permit in this building. Three men died in the process of doing the existing cable run. Well, not really, but this run scares the **** outta me. You're literally crawling over asbestos-coated structural steel I beams with about 50 feet between you and the concrete floor.)
No, I can't use a 10b-2 transciever. This is 75Ω.
Don't care how much it costs, I just need it to be utterly reliable. Actual throughput requirement is less than 1 mb/s. E-band would be preferred.
That's the antenna controller for one of the four steerable microwave dishes which I have on the 105th floor of Sears Tower. Note that I had already removed the paperclip which was jammed into one of the terminals and then gator-clipped to that pin that's hanging out.
The view ain't bad from up here, though.
Any EoC / MoCA gurus on here? I need to run 100 meg ethernet over about 200 feet of RG-59.
No, I can't pull a new cable, I gotta work with what I have already in place. (You don't wanna know how much red tape it takes to get a wiring permit in this building. Three men died in the process of doing the existing cable run. Well, not really, but this run scares the **** outta me. You're literally crawling over asbestos-coated structural steel I beams with about 50 feet between you and the concrete floor.)
No, I can't use a 10b-2 transciever. This is 75Ω.
Don't care how much it costs, I just need it to be utterly reliable. Actual throughput requirement is less than 1 mb/s. E-band would be preferred.