Smoke detector flameout [RE-wrenches]

[Lynne A Carter]

Some of you wrenches need to *live off grid* for a while.  We have Smoke
Detectors here they are on the SW 4024.  It is true that DR did smoke the
smoke detectors but now we have the SW and SD(Smoke detector ) with battery
back up.  The inverter stays on, big deal, so I am and My customers are
spending an extra 500 for this.  I like to sleep at night. I hate it when I
think my house (or some one else) could go up in flames and kill loved ones.
And the NEWS reads "KILLED IN SOLAR POWERED HOME"  come on think it threw...
Or if you have a choice leave them on the grid.   Besides that sleep mode
isn't great on lots of things; my computer is so efficient that it put the
SW to sleep, if for some reason I Turn off the lights unplug the fax.  (Ha
Ha that is a funny one.)
Lyn
Lyn at solarvillage.com
Solar Village Institute inc.
PO Box 14
Saxapahaw, NC  27340
Tel. 336-376-9530
Fax. 336-376-1809
www.solarvillage.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Kurt Nelson <sunwise at cheqnet.net>
To: <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: Smoke detector flameout [RE-wrenches]


> > Re Phantom Loads - in my early days of PV installation (1981), we found
> most
> > Sony TVs drew 20-30W when off (the CRT filament is kept hot to allow a
> quick
> > "On").  For this convenience, if you multiply say 50 million TVs times
> 20W,
> > you get 1GW, or the output of a sizable power plant..
> >
> > YES, and someone on the list a while back was asking about the power
> consumption of small Dish systems for TV reception.  I recently measured
one
> with my brand new Brand meter and while it only draws about 30 watts while
> turned on, it only draws a couple watts less while off.  When will someone
> come out with a little power box device that will utilize the now standard
> mulit-task remote control to power down the entire TV/VCR/Sat dish at the
> press of one of the programmable remote buttons?
>
> Kurt Nelson
>
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