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General Discussion Area / Re: Stemoshire.

« on: 22 October 2023, 22:50:02 »

It seems things can escape from beyond the event horizon that is Barnsley, My parcel is now marked as delivered, on Saturday at 11:54AM, to a buisness address that will have been unmanned at the time. I wonder what state the thing will be in though.

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General Discussion Area / Re: VOIP suggestions

« on: 20 October 2023, 16:16:41 »

my landline and my mum's works without power in the house (depends on the type of phone you have )

Yes, analogue land lines work because they are powered by DC coming down the copper phone lines from the exchange. So providing the exchange has power, existing analogue phones still work if you have a local power cut.

if BT have a power cut ,it's unlikely to be on  the same grid 

What BT are doing down our way is putting electronics at the top of all the telephone poles ready to force us all onto VoIP. I asked the engineers about it whilst they were doing it - they said it's powered off the local 240V grid. If the local 240V grid goes down (aka a power cut) then the electronics at the top of the pole will stop working, and we'll lose our phones even if we have home battery backup. Nothing to do with the exchange having power or not.

GSM based devices (with a sim card)  are also available ,

Yes, but they aren't being given out by the elderly home care companies (yet).

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?

« on: 20 October 2023, 14:59:02 »

Hermes.

Been waiting from a couple of seals from Rock Auto since October 10th. Chose DHL for delivery option. Once in the UK, DHL have given the package to Hermes, who tried to deliver it on Oct 18th, to a Buisness address, at 06:08PM. Of course there is no-one here at that time, and despite it only being 0.098lbs, did they put it through the letter box. Did they bollaux. So it goes back to the Avonmouth depot. Left Avonmouth on 19th heading to ... Barnsley, where it arrived at 11:53. Latest tracking shows it is now at the Barnsley Delivery terminal at 12am on October 20th.

The effin thing is getting further away!

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General Discussion Area / Re: VOIP suggestions

« on: 20 October 2023, 12:49:00 »

Contract free ,set the numbers it calls ,and has back up batteries .
Clicky  SureSafe Personal Alarm
plenty of similar devices about too
Panic Distress Intruder Alarm cheapo    
obviously ,the new-fangled router thingy will need UPS

Neither of which will work during a power cut. Doesn't matter if these devices have battery backup - the BT side of things does not.

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General Discussion Area / Re: VOIP suggestions

« on: 20 October 2023, 11:41:18 »

BT will move you to a VOIP

Does this mean new equipment like phones and incoming sockets etc  the reason I ask is that I was thinking of having mine moved and with VOIP bering talked about then maybe wangle something on the cheap

No, basically a new broadband hub / router that your phone plugs into.  phone network becomes a pure data network at the exchange level so phones will no longer work in an ordinary socket.  nothing to do with fibre, thats just a better way of getting that data network to your house.

And nor will they work during a power cut. Work of the devil if you ask me.

Indeed, thats causing a bit of a stir, are some backup battery options apparently

My mum had, and my nextdoor neighbour has, one of those local govt supplied 'panic' alarms - which are basically big red buttons that they hang round their necks and press if they have a fall or somehow become immobilised and need help. These won't work in a power cut. AIUI even if you've got local battery backup they still won't work, because the electronics in the BT cabinates relies on grid power. Your end might be Ok, but their end will be down. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: VOIP suggestions

« on: 20 October 2023, 10:03:07 »

BT will move you to a VOIP

Does this mean new equipment like phones and incoming sockets etc  the reason I ask is that I was thinking of having mine moved and with VOIP bering talked about then maybe wangle something on the cheap

No, basically a new broadband hub / router that your phone plugs into.  phone network becomes a pure data network at the exchange level so phones will no longer work in an ordinary socket.  nothing to do with fibre, thats just a better way of getting that data network to your house.

And nor will they work during a power cut. Work of the devil if you ask me.

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Internal lights & seat adjustment not working.

« on: 19 October 2023, 14:43:26 »

Thing is, fuses usually go pop for a reason, particularly ones that are 20 years old. If it goes again in the near future then you probably do have some other problem.

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Internal lights & seat adjustment not working.

« on: 18 October 2023, 19:20:58 »

That rings a bell. Also the rear aux. socket isnt working either and that runs off a timer. Drivers seat adjustment doesnt though.

I think the aux socket is X68, which runs off relay K154, both of which are on lines 1344-1345. The relay is turned on/off by the CSR (K153 lines 1327-1340). Again, that points to fuses F29 and/or F7. If it's not them, then the CSR itself. Dunno where that lives though- it's not a simple relay - it has at least 9 terminals.

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Internal lights & seat adjustment not working.

« on: 18 October 2023, 19:04:34 »

Does the passenger electric seat stuff work? Up down, back, forwards etc. Looks like the passenger seat isn't a "memory" seat (lines 3844-3849 on the circuit), and it's only fed from fuse F5. If the passenger seats work, then it's not related to F5.

The memory seat is lines 3800-3842 on the circuit diagram. Fuses involved are F5, F12 and F15. If F15 blows you lose the dashboard instruments - all of them - speedo, rev counter, fuel gauge etc. Since you've not reported that, then we can assume F15 is OK. The memory seat ECU is connected to the diagnostics, so Tech1/2 might (but probably won't!) give you some clues.

So F12. That seems to supply a shedload of stuff, including CID/MID/GID, alarm, and about 20 other things. I suspect you'd notice if they weren't working.

The light switch is S2, on lines 422-449. Does the light in the light switch itself illuminate?

The sunblind lamps are lines 1318-1323. These are driven from the light switch (S2).

The reading lights are E27 and E28 on lines 1220-1247. The consumer delay unit (CSR) is K153 on lines 1327-1340. The consumer delay unit uses fuses F29 and F7.

There is a link between the CSR and the electric seats - traces 1207[TKS], 1306[CSR], 3804[MEM]

So on balance, I'd agree you need to be looking at the CSR - specifically fuses F29 and F7.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Israel

« on: 17 October 2023, 20:46:19 »

The Spanish Airforce have F16s based in Gran Canaria. Not a massive stretch to think that the Portuguese do something similar. All NATO partners and all that...

The Spanish don't operate F-16', but they do have F-18's at Gando in Gran Canaria. Nothing at Lajes in the Azores though, coz that's a Portugese territory.

The Portugese do operate F-16's (although they've flogged half of them to Romania), but they are all based north of Lisbon at Monte Real - only a few Search and Rescue types based at Lajes. However, it was a big USAF/NATO staging post over the Atlantic quite until recently, and still gets a lot of transient traffic.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Israel

« on: 17 October 2023, 18:27:04 »

Bit of digging - on 3rd October around 10pm it was callsign "Canforce 2514", C-130J tail number 130614, and yes it came in from Lajes and landed at Waddington. Don't know why it came in that way, but if it was carrying spares for the dead F-18 it's possible it didn't start out from Canada - it could have come from one of the logistics bases in the USA where the spares are stored.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Israel

« on: 17 October 2023, 17:53:05 »

Here's one for you Malc.

Late one night last week, about midnightish I think, I heard a large aircraft go over quite low. When I checked it out it was a Canadian Herc coming from the Azores and went to RAF Waddington.

Wonder what they were doing? 

There was an exercise up at Waddington last month, and the Canadians deployed 6 F-18 Hornets from Canada to Waddington for it. Whilst there one of the F-18's was (and still is I think) broken, so they've been shuttling C-130's and C-17's backwards and forwards from various locations with spares trying to fix it. The Azores (specifically Lajes AB) is a common stopping off point mid Atlantic.

There has also been a Canadian C-130 deployed to Prestwick for the past several months. It typically runs from Scotland to somewhere in south east Europe fairly regularly, and your guess is as good as mine as tomwhat it's carrying.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Israel

« on: 17 October 2023, 16:43:47 »

Munitions runs for the IDF? 

Zelenskyy must be looking on enviously and nervously... 

No, the munitions are going in on normal transport types - C-17's and C-5's, and they show on the normal aircraft tracking sites.

The Hercs are special forces types which seem to be being positioned 'just in case', similar to when POTUS went to Kiev last year. These don't show on the tracking sites.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Israel

« on: 17 October 2023, 15:52:19 »

Getting him off the aircraft isn't a problem... straight drop/slide/steps/ambilift are all pretty effective.

For getting back on, a belt loader will get the job done if you use the straight drop disembarkation method

AirForce1 - or more accurately the two B-747 based VC-25's - have two sets of built in steps allowing people to get on and off via the (what were on ordinary B-742's) cargo doors...

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/31/1196803354/biden-air-force-one-short-stairs

The rear steps are normally used by the on-board press entourage so they can get off quickly and then scurry round to the front steps to photograph POTUS as he descends the front steps.

However, there is speculation that the VC-25's won't be used into Israel, although that would cause some loss of face for the Israelis. The VC-25 will probably bounce through somewhere like Ramstein, before carrying on to Israel, but POTUS may get there on a less conspicuous type. There's certainly a lot of 'dodgy' C-130 Hercules passing eastbound through Europe at the moment. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Luton Airport

« on: 11 October 2023, 23:35:43 »

I was at an ABS club meet at South Mimms many years ago when a car (not one of ours) started smoking in the car park. After a few minutes it was clear there was an under-bonnet fire. We used our own personal in car fire extinguishers to try and put it out - but after perhaps 5-7 of them it was clear we were having little effect. In the end we had to all back off and wait for Hew, Pew, Barney McGrew et-al to turn up. By the time they did the car was well alight inside and out. It took them a few minutes to put out the fire once they arrived, and AFAIK no other cars were harmed.

I know the airfield fire service at RNAS Yeovilton do respond to (very) local incidents around the Yeovilton/Ilchester area, but civil Fire Brigade also have to attend. I don't know what happened at Luton, but if you drag the airfield fire service off station then the airfield may have to stop plane arrivals and departures coz there is insufficient fire cover. Places like Heathrow have (IIRC) three separate fire stations so they can continue flying even if one station is dealing with a shout. Luton, being only one runway, may not have sufficient cover to handle two events at the same time.