Re: Phoenix metro area design/installation recommendation

["Mel" <Respond@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> "Crash Gordon®" <NONE@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I love the Mexican electrical codes too...holy moly!...can't believe all
> of
> Mexico hasn't burned to the ground by now.
>
> Sounds like some good stories here... when you're bored, please share
>
>
Normal and usual to have a phase missing, a ground missing, 200mS spikes 10x
normal voltage. 120 volts could be anything from 85 volts to 135. All our
equipment had a constant voltage transformer on it. When power went off, it
could be for 5 minutes or for two days. As far as security goes, the biggest
threat was from the police. They came in with guns one night and made the
guard load all the computers on their truck. If a home was broken into,
people said they never called the police because the police would take
whatever was remaining as "evidence" of what wasn't stolen. Every home had
walls, fences, barbed wire. A friend of mine bought a fancy new red
sportscar. On the way back to the US at the end of the day, we were all in
bumper to bumper traffic, 2 miles an hour stop and go. The police pulled my
friend over and said, "You were speeding, give me $25". My friend said he
had only $20. The police took it. Mexico is still a third world country and
probably always will be.

Bob