by Fenton Rees
October 14, 2015
So it looks like Saturday will be the moment of truth when we switch the eye clinic over to the revised wiring plan along with the new CVT (Constant Voltage Transformer);- that’s the gismo that will protect all their expensive eye doctoring equipment from voltage surges and lightning issues. So that will be almost 3 weeks of fairly intense work that gets to be tested. There is only so much checking and double checking you can do and then you just have to throw the switch and see what happens. NOTE that this type of work is NOT real close to my day job;- there I mostly drive a desk or man a lab bench and have other people do this kind of stuff ! Fortunately the engineering mission outfit (eMi) I came out to Gabon in February with for 10 days have been a good resource for me and I have been able to bounce a few issues off them.
Ex US defense chief Donald Rumsfeld use to say that there is the stuff you know, the stuff you don’t know, and then the stuff you don’t even know you don’t know. It’s that last category that gets you in trouble. And that’s what I’m concerned about. I am not 100% sure how things were wired together when I started, as documentation is a foreign concept here. So there is a slight chance I have overlooked something and bad things will happen. In electrical engineering we say that once you let the smoke out, things no longer work! Pray for no smoke, no fireworks, completely boring.
Blessings,
Fenton & Pat