[AT] Talking about shops/sheds

[Larry Goss]

You understand completely, Ralph.  REALLY completely!  It's the most frustrating thing you can imagine.  The old tubes were efficient, just not as efficient as someone wanted us to be.  So we've got to go through and change out everything.  When I changed the incandescent emergency exit lights at the church over to CFL's, I did the calculation on power savings alone and found that we amortized the complete cost of the changeover in less than one year.  But the congregation doesn't understand the full meaning of what I say when I tell them that the infrastructure of the church isn't worth our efforts to save it.  None of it was built to code.  Even though it is only around 50 years old, everything has to be replaced -- all the plumbing, electrical, HVAC, septic, parking lot paving, outdoor drainage, concrete floor, single glazed windows with steel casement frames,  --- everything.  The sound system stopped working about a dozen years ago because the insulation rotted off the copper wires of the 70 volt audio output.  It's all in steel electrical conduit, so it shorts out very easily.  But it's NOT just a job for pulling out the old wire and pulling in new.  All the original conduit was undersized, and you can't pull anything out to replace it because the new stuff is larger in diameter and won't even fit the existing space.  It's a good example for why nothing should ever be left up to a committee.

Larry
 

----- Original Message -----
From: Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net>
Date: Saturday, March 5, 2011 20:40
Subject: Re: [AT] Talking about shops/sheds
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> On 3/5/2011 6:39 PM, Larry Goss wrote:
> > T-12's are the flourescent bulbs that have been around since 
> Day One -- 1 1/2 inches in diameter (around 36 mm).  They 
> stopped making them in July 2010.  The newer T-8 bulb (1-
> inch or 25 mm in diameter) uses a lot less electricity (32 watts 
> compared to 40) and actually puts out more light.  I think 
> the bulb is "plug-compatible" but the ballast is designed differently.
> >
> > Larry
> >
> Well that is news to me. And not good news. Seems not that many 
> years 
> ago that we replaced most of the incandescent light fixtures in 
> the 
> house with flourescents. The four foot ones . They were supposed 
> to be 
> more efficient than incandescents.
> Latest I hear is that maybe incandescent bulbs are   
> being phased out in 
> favour of compact flourescent bulbs which are supposed to be 
> even more 
> efficient.
> Only problem is that they contain mercury and disposal of the 
> used 
> compacts is now a problem.
> Solve one problem and another one seems to replace it.
> 
> Ralph in Sask.
> 
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