Happy Holidays!

----- Original Message ----- From: "Clint Wolff (VAX collector)" &lt;vaxman(a)earthlink.net&gt; To: &lt;classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org&gt; Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 02:42 PM Subject: Re: Happy Holidays! Ahhh, we don't need no steekin' inspections. Around here the meter cans used to be supplied for free by the power company, and if you have a plug-in meter, there's no need to even bother them about it... Just pop the meter out, tear out the old stuff, stich in the new, and plug the meter back in. The meter maid will generally stick a new seal on it the next time they come around to read it. it's easy to tie it in yerself, too. Just remember to not touch two wires at once, and use a fiberglass (or wood-- uhg!) ladder. I did a service upgrade when we bought this place. The old service was basically 30A, and I have more load than that in VAXen alone! I called every week for three weeks prior to make sure the power company'd come out on the weekend to put the new meter in, including the sat. morning before I tore the old one off. I'm sure you can see where this is heading already! When I called for the new meter, the chick said `Oh, we don't do that on the weekend.' Boy, was I hot! Fortunantly, I had already popped the madisons in the meter socket, so we were on free power. After I mentioned that to her, she seemed to make a lot more effort to get the service guy out to put the meter in. ^_^ Ya know, that old lineman spent about ten minutes cutting off the mechanical butt splices I had installed and crimping on some hipress lugs. It took me 45 minutes to install them the first time! What I'd really like is a 20KVA UPS, like Brian's. That's big enough to run my whole house! Bob <snip>