Re: EOL's

["Russell Brill" <russwbrill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Frank Olson" <Use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:28uKf.51560$H%4.21337@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Russell Brill wrote:
>
>> That's funny, I've given magnetic contacts a few taps with the end of a
>> screwdriver and had them start working again (They got replaced
>> anyway)....
>>
>
> So have I.
>
>
>> That hasn't been my experience, I've had to replace EOLR's that were
>> toast and the panel was just fine...
>
> That hasn't been my experience.  I remember being called in to service a
> fire alarm panel.  An exterior bell had taken damage from a lightning
> strike on a fence adjacent to it.  The green light on the FACP was "on",
> no troubles showing.  Yet you couldn't get the sucker to alarm or respond
> to opens for anything.  When you look closer, the only thing that wasn't
> "fried" on the mother board was the freekin' Power ON LED.
>
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>> Hmmm..... I've always been told, "There is no way to predict how
>> Lightning will or won't behave"... There have been cases were the
>> Grounding electrodes provided the path for the Lightning to enter into
>> the building's electrical system...
>
> Dang.  Now you've gone and done it.  You've disagreed with something the
> Guru's said.  Now you will face the WOG (Wrath Of the Guru).  You will
> then experience ABSI (Attack By Subtle Innuendo) and this will escalate
> quickly to wild stories about how you piloted a Boeing Passenger Jet-Liner
> while you were inverted (or while you were standing up and the plane was
> inverted or while you were sitting down and the stewardesses were
> inverted - anyway while *something* was inverted or diverted or reverted).
>
>
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>

"while you were sitting down and the stewardesses
were inverted -"

 Hmmmmm, you've got my attention now Frankie...... :-))