How do you handle bad campgound power
Here is the scenario: Long travel day. We pulled into to a combination trailer park/campground near the interstate. Paid for the site, and was told to pick any open spot in the campground loops. I ...
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I would look to see what the voltage was and then make a decision. Likely I'd move on to a different campground if management could not fix it right away but
As someone said. A/C's and other devices with compressors and blower motors do not like LOW voltage.. A few volts on teh high side wont' bother them much.
Electronics (on the other hand) are a different pail of bait,, Now if I design a power supply. LOW voltage won't bother it much (nor high but that is if I design it) many designers do allow for low voltatge, and if it gets too low the device simply does not work.. See note however.
High voltage... I recall one microwave transciver running on a generator that was a few volts HOT.. The owner said, suddenly,, I SMELL HOT RESISTOR.. He sniffed just as the part blew.. He is waving smoke away with one hand and pulling plugs with the other.. As you may know Electroincs run on Magic Smoke, and he'd just let the smoke out.. Cost him like $1.86 to fix it, but that does not include labor (he gets about $200/hr, higest paid electronics Tech in that town).
Too high a voltage tends to let the smoke out.
The NOTE: Computers.. not so much laptops which are designed to protect themselves from low voltage, but if you you have a desk top, tower or mini-tower or an All-in-One. If the voltage goes low at the wrong time it can truly mess up your hard drive. I have seen it happen on major (main frame) devices... Took quite a while to get power restored and the drive back up and spinning. My mother saw it happen as well. (The difference is the computer I used has information on it that can save a life or capture a thief) Thankfully when my Dry Cleaners got ripped off.. I knew how to bypass that computer and get to the one with the thief's name and address on it.. So when he got home, he had a welcoming committee waiting for him to take him to his new home.
Alas. I've not used that 800 number is so many ears I have forgotten it.
As someone said. A/C's and other devices with compressors and blower motors do not like LOW voltage.. A few volts on teh high side wont' bother them much.
Electronics (on the other hand) are a different pail of bait,, Now if I design a power supply. LOW voltage won't bother it much (nor high but that is if I design it) many designers do allow for low voltatge, and if it gets too low the device simply does not work.. See note however.
High voltage... I recall one microwave transciver running on a generator that was a few volts HOT.. The owner said, suddenly,, I SMELL HOT RESISTOR.. He sniffed just as the part blew.. He is waving smoke away with one hand and pulling plugs with the other.. As you may know Electroincs run on Magic Smoke, and he'd just let the smoke out.. Cost him like $1.86 to fix it, but that does not include labor (he gets about $200/hr, higest paid electronics Tech in that town).
Too high a voltage tends to let the smoke out.
The NOTE: Computers.. not so much laptops which are designed to protect themselves from low voltage, but if you you have a desk top, tower or mini-tower or an All-in-One. If the voltage goes low at the wrong time it can truly mess up your hard drive. I have seen it happen on major (main frame) devices... Took quite a while to get power restored and the drive back up and spinning. My mother saw it happen as well. (The difference is the computer I used has information on it that can save a life or capture a thief) Thankfully when my Dry Cleaners got ripped off.. I knew how to bypass that computer and get to the one with the thief's name and address on it.. So when he got home, he had a welcoming committee waiting for him to take him to his new home.
Alas. I've not used that 800 number is so many ears I have forgotten it.
