Re: Alarm system transformer + power supply (would both go bad atonce?)

[The Daring Dufas <the-daring-dufas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/6/2013 5:21 AM, Michael A. Terrell wrote:
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> The Daring Dufas wrote:
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>> On 12/5/2013 5:39 PM, Michael A. Terrell wrote:
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>>> The Daring Dufas wrote:
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>>>> On 12/5/2013 6:03 AM, Michael A. Terrell wrote:
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>>>>> The Daring Dufas wrote:
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>>>>>> Back in the 70's I made my own circuit boards on the kitchen table so I
>>>>>> could build my own solid state alarm controls. Most of what was around
>>>>>> was the old reverse polarity on a pair going directly to a central
>>>>>> station like the police/fire department. ^_^
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>>>>>      That depended on the type of equipment at the local CO. Touch Tone
>>>>> phones had to be modified to work with the 1920s designed CO equipment
>>>>> in my home town before the DTMF to pulse converter would work.  They
>>>>> really went whole hog in their conversion. Only 100 DTMF lines were made
>>>>> available, out of 30,000 numbers.
>>>>>
>>>>>       We looked into manufacturing some alarm equipment, but the
>>>>> manufacture's liability insurance was over $1,000,000 a year at that
>>>>> time.
>>>>
>>>> Well heck, what can I say, I grew up in Alabamastan. The most advanced
>>>> thing to come out of my province was this little space program thingy. ^_^
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>>>     It didn't 'come out', it ESCAPED!!!  ;-)
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>>>      I spent a couple decades at Ft. Rucker, but the US Army claims it was
>>> only nine months. :(
>>>
>>>
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>> You aired up the tires on the choppers? ^_^
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>     No, I maintained the WeatherVision system that provided weather data
> to the pilot ready rooms, and delivered the base ETV programs to their
> classrooms. We were only allowed 15 minutes downtime before they shut
> down the airfields.  Up to 17 of them.  I also repaired a couple RADAR
> systems when they were short on techs.
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>    The only thing that was inflated on a chopper were the pilots. ;-)
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Were there girl pilots flying choppers when you were there? You don't
want to dis your girlfriend if she pilots an Apache. ^_^

TDD