The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!!

[Running Bear]

Good morning. It's 73° with 100% humidity. The high will be 95° (feel like 108°) and there's a fair chance of thunderstorms.
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It's Sunday! My last day of freedom for a while. Today I'll move some more stuff down to my fathers place and I'll set up the surge suppressor. I could let my father do it but he'll make a major operation out of it and still manage to screw it up. The outlet is behind a table leg so I got a suppressor that lays flat against the wall. It will cover the outlet and the cords will plug into the sides of it at up to a 90° angle relative to the wall. It's an RCA unit, only 1,200 joule but that should be sufficient for my needs. It has six outlets, three per side.

Tonight I'll be making preparations for leaving. Early tomorrow morning the a/c unit will be set to 81° to keep it a safe temperature in here for the electronics, the water heater and surge suppressor strips will be turned off and the water will be turned off. The only electric items that will be running will be the fridge, a/c, a small fan on the hallway ceiling and a small fan in the bedroom. The two fans are for air circulation.

Speaking of fans, the black IIe I have set up here has a DC case fan mounted in the case lid. It gets it's power from an outside power source. An old AT computer power supply I scrounged from a lightning blasted HP computer a neighbor gave me. The power supply box (it's fan is long gone) is open to the air so there's no danger of it overheating and as it's next to the back wall not much chance of arrant hands getting into it. The fan is powered from one of the 3.5" floppy power plugs. It's a somewhat wild setup but it works. I've used a similar setup to power the lights on my layout. The 5v side can pull a lot of lights. I had twenty-seven structures lit and that was with the small Christmas lights. Each structure had two lights connected in series so that was over fifty lights and they were on 24/7 for over ten years. So think about that before you toss that old AT computer power supply and those Christmas lights you don't use anymore. You can also use a more modern computer power supply but you'll probably have to wire a large resistor to it to put a load on it. Without a load it won't turn on.