{"id":2309,"date":"2017-03-30T06:53:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T11:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/?p=2309"},"modified":"2017-04-04T08:39:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T13:39:35","slug":"march-28-2017-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/?p=2309","title":{"rendered":"28 March 2017 Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

After <\/span>devotions, work began on pulling in the 100 feet long 4 conductor 4\/0 cable that is about 2 inches in diameter, and heavy!\u00a0 I was amazed as a couple of the VanderWerf grandsons grabbed the end of the cable and shoved it through the hole into the loft.\u00a0 Two more grandsons received the cable to pull it through the loft and push it through a hole in the wall onto the cable tray going to the power room.\u00a0 The remaining two grandsons pulled the cable down the tray and threaded it through the entry into the power room.\u00a0 I didn’t time this operation, but\u00a0guess it took no more than a couple minutes.\u00a0 All I know is that there was not enough time to run outside to take photos of the process before it was already done!!<\/p>\n

This 4\/0 cable ran from the 200 amp panel in the transmitter hall to a breaker in the 800 amp distribution panel.\u00a0 We were trying to determine the best routing through the power room, as the cable was too short to run down to the trench then back up to the breaker.\u00a0 We decided to route the cable up and across the ceiling and use 2 hole saddle clamps to attach it to the ceiling.\u00a0 There were not enough clamps in stock, so Ralph and I made a trip to Kooyman, Bonaire’s hardware store.\u00a0 Kooyman had exactly what we needed.\u00a0 We gave these clamps to Paul and when we checked back in less than an hour, the cable was attached neatly to the ceiling and connected to its breaker.\u00a0 I suspect he enlisted the aid of his brother, or a cousin, to hold it up and secure it.<\/p>\n

Now that this 4\/0 cable runs to the 200 amp panel, Ralph and I switched off power to the temporary power cable that we had attached to the 200 amp main breaker a couple of days ago.\u00a0 This temporary cable keeps lights and outlets powered in the new transmitter hall. \u00a0 We quickly attached this temporary feed to a 25 amp three phase breaker in the panel.\u00a0 Power was then restored with the circuits now being back-fed through the 25 amp breaker.\u00a0 By switching the main breaker off (and taping it off), we were now able to connect the 4\/0 cables to the 200 amp main breaker.\u00a0 When the power company finally connects electricity to the power room, the temporary line can be disconnected and the main breaker switched on (after removing the tape) and this panel will be receiving its power from its designed source.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, ten 50 foot long 500mcm (about 1″ diameter) cables were being run from the 1,200 amp breaker in the power room to where the transmitter disconnect switch will be located.\u00a0 These are also routed on the cable tray.\u00a0 These cables are so heavy that the small tractor with front-end loader could not lift the spool containing the cable.\u00a0 The spool had to be lifted with a chain hoist to put it on the stand for unreeling the cable.\u00a0 These ten cables were cut for length then pulled through one-at-time, then Paul terminated then on the 1,200 amp breaker.\u00a0\u00a0 The other end was left hanging to be connected to a disconnect switch that will be coming with the transmitter.<\/p>\n

These ten 500mcm cables were bundled in two bundles of three cables and one bundle of four.\u00a0 Each bundle contains one wire from each phase.\u00a0 The fourth cable in the larger bundle is a ground cable.\u00a0 Each bundle is tie-wrapped to the cable tray to keep about 3″ spacing between each bundle.<\/p>\n

At noon, Ralph and I went to the duplex for lunch and siesta.\u00a0 We found out that Lionel treated the rest of our team\u00a0to some goat meat stew and iquana.\u00a0 Apparently the iguana was female, so they also had some iquana eggs!<\/p>\n

Jim and Jake began connecting the copper lines to the condensing units.\u00a0 The air handlers and cooling coils are supposed to be delivered tomorrow, just in time to avoid delays in the process of installing the air conditioners.<\/p>\n

Bruce completed the modifications required to connect the dual 350mcm cable to the standby generator.<\/p>\n

Philip and Brian progressed to the point of being able to switch on the LED light fixtures located above the future transmitter.\u00a0 Multiple outlet circuits are also being installed.<\/p>\n

As we reviewed progress at the end of the day, all the heavy cabling has been completed that can be done.\u00a0 The connections for incoming power need to be done by the power company and the transmitter needs to be here to connect the other end.<\/p>\n

Since we had been invited out for desert at 7pm this evening, our swim at Bachelor Beach was shortened.\u00a0 We then had ‘tater tot’ casserole, cole slaw,\u00a0 applesauce and salad with craisins and sunflower seeds.<\/p>\n

Dessert was at the guest house where the VanDykens\u00a0are staying.\u00a0 All the missionary staff were there and each family brought a dessert to share.\u00a0 There was a carrot cake, a couple of ‘dump cakes’, and ‘glorified rice’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After devotions, work began on pulling in the 100 feet long 4 conductor 4\/0 cable that is about 2 inches in diameter, and heavy!\u00a0 I was amazed as a couple of the VanderWerf grandsons grabbed the end of the cable and shoved it through the hole into the loft.\u00a0 Two more grandsons received the cable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bonaire-2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2330,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions\/2330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}