"Birddog" (maintmgt)
10/01/2016 at 01:27 • Filed to: None
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"Birddog" (maintmgt)
10/01/2016 at 01:27 • Filed to: None | 6
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1682. 1682 horsepower handles 2/3 of our Hospital in emergency situations.
One twin turbo V12 and two 6 cylinder Cat diesels running at full load from 6pm to 11pm. I did not make any friends in the neighborhood today.
Frenchlicker
> Birddog
10/01/2016 at 02:16 |
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Kind of surprising. Normally a gen room keeps them muffled enough where you just have a slightly annoying drone. I would like to see what our smaller ones at the farm are rated at, I’m assuming significantly less.
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Birddog
> Frenchlicker
10/01/2016 at 02:36 |
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They are muffled but the drone carries well. The layout of the building hurts too. Where they exhaust acts like a megaphone toward the street. And, my favorite, if the wind isn’t right the exhaust fumes get sucked into our air handlers.
MrDakka
> Birddog
10/01/2016 at 03:24 |
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Since you need 2523 hp for the entire hospital, you’re about 841 hp short on that engine. And we all know VTEC stickers add 50 hp, so 17 VTEC stickers on that sucker ought to do it. Once VTEC kicks in, you can thank me for saving you fuel and money.
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Frenchlicker
> Birddog
10/01/2016 at 03:36 |
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I’m going to assume this is an older hospital that wasn’t built with those in mind?
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Birddog
> Frenchlicker
10/01/2016 at 04:21 |
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Yeah. Compromises galore. The main building is from 1951 and several additions go from there. It’s actually fun trying to remember what feeds what and where.
jimz
> Birddog
10/01/2016 at 06:43 |
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I miss the days when diesels had those bundle of snakes injection lines.
And that engine less four cylinders (the 3408) was one of the few V8 heavy truck engines you could get in the US back in the day.
shop-teacher
> Birddog
10/01/2016 at 09:13 |
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Ugh, last year they were doing directional boring right outside the air intake for my shop. The diesel fumes were so bad, we had to move my afternoon classes to a regular classroom. I had one hell of a headache too.
OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
> Birddog
10/01/2016 at 11:15 |
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I toured a server center for a very large accounting firm. They had 3 generators and a giant battery back up to comb the electrical input. When the power would go out it would run straight off the batteries until the first generator kicked on. If the first gen failed the second would kick on and then if that generator failed the third would kick on. And then they had a contract that they got diesel delivered immediately after the hospitals. Also they are working on getting a decond power line into there from a different service. On top of that everything is mirred into another server center five hours away. The world could explode and they would still be providing data.
wafflesnfalafel
> Birddog
10/01/2016 at 12:44 |
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We had a big storm caused power outage several years ago - ours was out for 6 days. But we live just 5 blocks from our local hospital so we’d go hang out there, stay warm and the cafeteria was great. Word got out and a bunch of the neighbors started doing the same thing.
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Birddog
> jimz
10/01/2016 at 14:42 |
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It is pretty neat just to look at.