[WARC] Power Pole Transition - Supported Agencies

[Clare Jarvis]

Hi Len,

My option is that we should not contact them, but should be prepared to 
install connecters to their power supplies to accomodate our equipment or 
better yet bring our own power supplies.

The reason for this opinion is multi-fold:

1.  We will probably not get full agreement with our customers and therefore 
any committment will be slow in coming.
2.  We do not want to cause any more comittee meetings etc for our customers.
3.  We do not know at what locations or what equipment we will be 
interconnecting with.   If we anticipate and think we are covered then we may 
be complacent when a real emergency starts, because the equipment we planned 
on will be at other locations.
4.  It may be years  (hopefully) before we will need to interconnect 
equipment.  We do not want to monitor every equipment change at our customers 
and keep changing out connectors as they change equipment.
5.  If we are prepared with an assortment of pre-configured power pole 
adapters to common connectors and if we carry spare connectors, spare wire,  
with crimpers then we should be able to make a connection on the fly in a 
real emergency no matter what equipment shows up.   At that point a committee 
meeting will not be necessary or desirable.

6.  If we bring our own power supplies then, we will be able to plug them in 
with a standard three prong plug.  If we do not have power then we will need 
our own batteries and generators. 

73 Clare




On Tuesday 02 September 2008 10:01:12 Len Litvan wrote:
> Should we be working with some of the most directly-supported emergency
> service agencies to minimize the power connector issues as we transition
> to Power Poles?  I was thinking especially of the county EOC and Winona
> Health....
>
> 73,
> Len  KC0RSX
>
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