Finally another night with no transmitter cutback in power!

See Virginia’s blog entry for today about out adventures. One thing she did not mention was the row of wind turbines just north of the Indian inscriptions. I have heard various stories. One by a tour guide that they are supplying 70% of Bonaire’s power needs. The other was by an engineer who says they are still awaiting the equipment to tie them into the power grid. Since no power lines were seen near the area, I tend to believe the engineer.

At 5pm this evening the transmitter ‘called’ and indicated there was a problem. By accessing the transmitter site using the internet, it was discovered that the transmitter site had no power. The monitoring/control equipment is on an uninterruptible power supply, so we can still have remote access. This is fortunate, because we havd to turn the transmitter on remotely when the power came back on. Of course, we could have traveled to the site to turn it on, but that was not necessary!

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