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Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall!
From: Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon () cox net>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 20:01:59 -0500
On 8/30/2016 15:46, bzs () theworld com wrote:
About the worst that ever happened to me was a security guy's walkie-talkie setting off an instant Halon drop. Cost about $10,000 to refill and was fairly exciting for those present. That also cut the machine room's power. At least it didn't set off the sprinkler system. We sat down with the Halon system vendor to find out why that happened after proving, on a by-passed system, that yes indeed one of these common walkie-talkies sets the thing off. File under: More Things To Worry About!
We used to have to drive across a quarry to get to a repeater station (or to one of the cables, which was "aerial" across the quarry), and lots of folks scoffed at the "turn off two-way radios" signs as we approached the area.
I did not scoff. -- "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." --Albert Einstein From Larry's Cox account.
Current thread:
- Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall!, (continued)
- Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall! Keith Stokes (Aug 30)
- Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall! Larry Sheldon (Aug 30)
- Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall! Mark Andrews (Aug 30)
- Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall! bzs (Aug 30)
- Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall! A . L . M . Buxey (Aug 30)
- Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall! Ken Chase (Aug 30)
- Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall! A . L . M . Buxey (Aug 30)
- Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall! bzs (Aug 30)
- Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall! Eric Kuhnke (Aug 30)
- Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall! bzs (Aug 30)
- Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall! Larry Sheldon (Aug 30)