Sunday, July 20, 2008

The Generator and the Switch Room


This shows me and the Generator that runs the entire complex when the municipal power is off. We run on the generator far more than on municipal power. Behind the generator is the Big Treats place Linda told us about with the picture of our Stake Building, Service Center, New Mission Building and small guard building. She took that picture from one of the windows to the left of the Big Treats sign over my right shoulder. This generator will supply power to the new building in addition to the buildings it currently supplies. It could light far more than that and not


break a sweat. The bottom picture shows the room where we move the black lever in the center of the picture "up" (as now) for municipal power and "down" for the generator power. We are supposed to have a second generator installed to the right of the existing generator in an "L" configuration. With the second generator, we should never be out of power for more than a few minutes. That depends of course on diesel fuel for the generators, the Master Switches being in the proper position and a supply of oil to add when the generators need oil. We can hope, can't we? The large Mission Building may be completed while we are here and the second generator also may become operational. We can be optimistic with 13 months to go for sure!

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