{"id":457,"date":"2010-11-11T23:23:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T03:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bonaire2010.mcguireclan.org\/?p=457"},"modified":"2014-06-01T13:23:51","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T18:23:51","slug":"10-nov-2010-wednesday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"10 Nov 2010 Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Caribbean Princess as seen from 'our' swimming beach at Divi Flamingo Resort pier<\/a><\/p><\/div>The Caribbean Princess<\/a> was at the pier by 7am this morning. [The photo at left was taken from the Divi Flamingo Resort pier<\/a> where we try to swim each evening.] There are supposed to be two cruise ships here on Friday and two more on Thursday of next week.<\/p>\n

This morning, we had a 30 amp twist lock connector that had a broken screw on one terminal. I like a challenge and decided to see if it could be repaired. It was a ‘challenge’, but the repair was accomplished and I was able to assemble an adapter cable to connect the UPS at the transmitter site. This way it would not be necessary to remove a 30 amp connector from the UPS and have an extended time of outage.<\/p>\n

After our noon meal of Japanese chicken and rice, Virginia and I headed to the site. We noticed at least three things while on the way.<\/p>\n

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Caribbean Princess leaving shortly after noon.<\/p><\/div>\n

First, the Caribbean Princes was already leaving. The cruise ships, we have seen, have always left at sunset.<\/p>\n

Second, we noticed there was a ship at Salt Pier<\/a>. It was the United Tenorio<\/a> that was here last week! We asked the pier guard where it took the salt. He replied ‘America’. My response that it made a quick trip made him chuckle and say that

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After loading almost two ships, there are noticeably fewer 'mountains'of salt<\/p><\/div>the ship had gone out to sea before fully loading due to the rough waves of the past week. It had just now come back to complete loading. I thought I had seen a similar ship (to the United Tenorio) a long distance from shore over the past several days and opined whether it might be another salt ship arriving.<\/p>\n

Third, we observed a truck and trailer capable of loading a 20 foot container onto itself at the transmitter site. He was moving the dozen or so containers that WEB, the electric company, has there, by loading them one-at-time, then taking them out to the main road and transferring them onto a truck with a container trailer. As fast as he could load the containers another truck would be there to take it. All the containers were moved in a period of about four hours.<\/p>\n

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The site property looks almost bare with these gone.<\/p><\/div>\n

Most of these containers were Aggreko generator sets<\/a> that WEB had rented to meet the increased power demand for Bonaire before they built their new power plant just south of BOPEC.<\/p>\n

At the site, I swapped out the old UPS and installed the new UPS. Everything went smoothly until I started to push the UPS under the lab workbench. The stiff electric cable caused the standard 110 volt plug to ‘pop’ out of its receptacle! [There is a reason a lot of UPS’s use twist lock plugs for the output.] Since the power was already down, I took the extra time needed to ‘safety wired’ the plug into its socket before turning the power back on.<\/p>\n

Now it was necessary to check all the transmitter’s automation equipment to see that everything was working. This also included the dial-in remote control feature which, though not working at first, seemed to recover after a few minutes.<\/p>\n

It was nearing time for ‘sign on’, so we delayed our departure to make sure the transmitter came on with no ‘glitches’. While waiting, I investigated what was needed to do a couple other projects on my ‘to-do’ list. One is the capability of overriding the photo cell to remotely turn on the tower lights. The other is to shut off the transmitter’s office area air conditioner by a time command and\/or remotely. I was able to glean some useful information for both. Hope to have time to implement both.<\/p>\n

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No, I'm not about to drown! -- just perfecting my elementary backstroke, which is best for use while wearing my glasses to observe what is going on around me.<\/p><\/div>\n

The transmitter came on fine, so we headed home for a swim. The waves were still a little high, but not dangerously so. It is amazing how refreshing the swim was after not being able for several days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Caribbean Princess was at the pier by 7am this morning. [The photo at left was taken from the Divi Flamingo Resort pier where we try to swim each evening.] There are supposed to be two cruise ships here on Friday and two more on Thursday of next week. This morning, we had a 30 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10,8],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bonaire-2010","tag-10","tag-bonaire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","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=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}