I think my entire block is running on UPS

9 years ago

The flickering lights are disconcerting.

Tags: photography, sf

10 Responses:

1. Tom Sparks says:

   9 years ago at 11:54 am

   Genset for the win!

2. Pavel says:

   9 years ago at 12:10 pm

   Offer to drop an extension cord down to them, and watch the onset of an instant migraine. :)

3. spoonyfork says:

   9 years ago at 12:39 pm

   As I was walking home one evenin'
   I know this takes some believin'
   I met a group of creatures
   With the strangest lookin' features

   A poor old dove and a worm in the weed
   And a fine old pigeon, yes indeed
   A daddy longlegs jumpet sprite
   As he danced to the reel in the flickering light
   Oh round we go, heel to the toe
   And the daddy longlegs jumpet sprite
   As he danced to the reel in the flickering light

4. bbot says:

   9 years ago at 1:54 pm

   Oh jeez, they should know better than to coil live cable like that. The coil won't heat up much, but an already marginal circuit could easily overload.

   • Thomas Lord says:

     9 years ago at 2:13 pm

     Yeah, it's as if they've never done anything like this before and failure is assured.

     • karlshea.com/ says:

       9 years ago at 7:25 pm

       Plus, better than.... what? What other cable arrangement would work better? A tangle?

       All of the pro high-amperage cable I've ever seen run, at least with large gensets and audio/lighting rigs, has been arranged in exactly the same way.

       • Rae says:

         9 years ago at 12:17 am

         Film-set electricians coil bandit (4 cables bundled together) into figure eights. I don't know why.

         • hattifattener says:

           9 years ago at 1:27 am

           I have a vague memory of a figure-eight coiling pattern that doesn't put any twist into the cable. Sailors worry about that; stage and film people seem like they might also. 'Course, there are non-figure-eight patterns that also don't put any twist in, so dunno.

           • Jake Nelson says:

             9 years ago at 9:31 am

             Figure-eight is basically the simplest non-twist pattern; in a fixed installation, many use a two-post rack, which makes it even easier.

             It's a little bit not wanting to twist the cables, for various reasons, and a lot of those cables will fight a twist surprisingly strongly. Feel like they're alive and thrashing sometimes, the big ones.

5. Ray Arsenault says:

   9 years ago at 10:17 pm

   I have a similar Diesel-Powered UPS.

   Very nice indeed, although rather thirsty, although mine won't power a whole block.