-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2014-05-06 14:09, James Knott wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
For an obvious reason: it was 4 car batteries in series.
If you were to look at telephone company batteries, you'd realize they have little in common with car batteries and in fact even predate them.
I know. I have installed them things ;-) But they started with car batteries, 6 or 12 volts. Otherwise, they could have chosen any random number or elements cells.
BTW, I used to work for a telecommunications company and the -48V plant in the office I worked in provided about 7000 amps and could support that load for several hours. Not many car batteries are capable of that.
Someone I know let a screwdriver drop across the copper bars in one of the power distribution boxes. An entire island had no GSM service for hours. Unknown reason ;-) If you are going to say that the screwdriver should have the metal rod in a plastic leave, yes, it should. This is what happens with "expense cuts" and "subcontracting". Serves them well. They could have been working on the distribution box during the night, but... see above. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iF4EAREIAAYFAlNo1QkACgkQja8UbcUWM1wzLwD/V3zMJsBzyy4pcq+vBt56QtzD xiys7SOdo/uloaRbBjQA/2ilBAUKV6M8tnlp7nvfNgGA0cRlm228K6DD+UnOFfdn =TBpL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org