Remember Your First Home Phone Number?
...........And then there's the minor political battles........In Othello, WA they built a great big city hall/ jail/ pd which I gues was not without some controversy. They had a then state of the art computer controlled HVAC system, and the installing company had to have a phone line to dial into the HVAC for service and programming changes. They insisted they HAD TO HAVE a dedicated phone line. I finally took the bull by the horns and told them to go pound sand. The pd had a dedicated line to a fax which wasn't used "heavily" so I just put a switch in to transfer that line from the fax to the HVAC. Told the HVAC co. to "eff off." "You want to talk to the system, you call the regular dispatch number and tell them to flip the fax switch to the HVAC"
On a side note, I was up in the telco/ radio room doing some work, and there sites the new, unwired UPS. Electrician was up there, and it "occurred" to me, THERE WERE NO color coded electrical outlets down in dispatch. "How do we know" I asked him, "which outlets are supplied from the UPS?" He gave me a funny look--------turns out the moron engineer who spec'd it all out HAD NOT CONSIDERED DISPATCH EQUIPMENT in the UPS drawings. !!!WTF!!!!
So the electrician just wired it all up as spec'd and then they had to go in later and rewire a bunch of crap so the 911 gear would work in a power outage!!!!
This is the Othello radio/ telco/ network gear after most of the mess was cleaned up Motorola phone switch "Centralink" used to be SRX whoever they were. This was "sometime in the 90's"
...........And then there's the minor political battles........In Othello, WA they built a great big city hall/ jail/ pd which I gues was not without some controversy. They had a then state of the art computer controlled HVAC system, and the installing company had to have a phone line to dial into the HVAC for service and programming changes. They insisted they HAD TO HAVE a dedicated phone line. I finally took the bull by the horns and told them to go pound sand. The pd had a dedicated line to a fax which wasn't used "heavily" so I just put a switch in to transfer that line from the fax to the HVAC. Told the HVAC co. to "eff off." "You want to talk to the system, you call the regular dispatch number and tell them to flip the fax switch to the HVAC"
On a side note, I was up in the telco/ radio room doing some work, and there sites the new, unwired UPS. Electrician was up there, and it "occurred" to me, THERE WERE NO color coded electrical outlets down in dispatch. "How do we know" I asked him, "which outlets are supplied from the UPS?" He gave me a funny look--------turns out the moron engineer who spec'd it all out HAD NOT CONSIDERED DISPATCH EQUIPMENT in the UPS drawings. !!!WTF!!!!
So the electrician just wired it all up as spec'd and then they had to go in later and rewire a bunch of crap so the 911 gear would work in a power outage!!!!
This is the Othello radio/ telco/ network gear after most of the mess was cleaned up Motorola phone switch "Centralink" used to be SRX whoever they were. This was "sometime in the 90's"
