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Gizmo

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Posted: 11:11pm 22 Mar 2010

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Back up and running.

Bandwidth will be slow for a day or two, servers have a lot of email to process and there is one adsl line down. Site running on backup generator. Local exchange was down too.

Glenn

The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now.
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dwyer
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Posted: 11:28pm 22 Mar 2010

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Hi Glen good to see you back in one piece and running look like having abreak however nasty Cyclone Ului storm has gone for good and any much damage done around your place?

Dwyer

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Posted: 12:09am 23 Mar 2010

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Gizmo
I can sleep now since i've finally accessed my Treasure Box.

It seamed to be necessary for me to hit the bookmark every
10 minutes. Definately addicted.
When you get some time I'm sure that many would be interested in some details about your local area damage, and if you were affected. Reguards, Roe.
Edited by Greenbelt 2010-03-24

Time has proven that I am blind to the Obvious, some of the above may be True?

GWatPE

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Posted: 12:13am 23 Mar 2010

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Hi Glenn,

good to hear you weathered the storm OK.

Very calm here at the moment, but bad weather has just hit WA as well.

Sounds like power was cut to many areas, so was good move to shut the site down as a precaution.

Gordon.

become more energy aware

kingw

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Posted: 12:51am 23 Mar 2010

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Was worried, glad to see all's well.

-William

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Downwind

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Posted: 02:19am 23 Mar 2010

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Hi Glenn

Was it scary??...Did it put the wind up you??...Good to see things are starting to return to some form of normal for you guys.
Next time lets do a deal....You can have the wind and we will have the rain.

Pete.

Sometimes it just works

Gizmo

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Posted: 10:14pm 23 Mar 2010

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The site is still up and down, no power yet at the ISP and they are shutting down the generators at night and to refuel.

Glenn

The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now.
JAQ

JimBo911

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Posted: 04:16am 24 Mar 2010

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Glen
I never doubted it, I knew you would come through for all of us no matter what.

Thanks for all your good work.

Jim

Gizmo

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Posted: 12:56pm 24 Mar 2010

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I'm having some serious slow internet speed issues at the moment, the site is pretty much unusable. Trying to find out whats causing the problem.

Sorry about this.

Glenn

The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now.
JAQ

KarlJ

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Posted: 01:31am 25 Mar 2010

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i'm hooked too, was thinking what the hell will I do now?
I'll have to get a job!
In fact bought a house in Perth in my spare time.

Luck favours the well prepared

Robb
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Posted: 03:26am 25 Mar 2010

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The irony

Wind power website shut down by........ wind

KarlJ

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Posted: 11:26am 25 Mar 2010

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good one

Luck favours the well prepared

Gizmo

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Posted: 10:42pm 27 Mar 2010

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Yeah funny Robb

Everything is getting back to normal here. The web site has power again, and we we found a faulty ADSL modem was causing the bandwidth slow downs.

Its amazing how a few days without power, spent cleaning up tree branches, can make a dent in your business life, so I'll be working flat out for a few weeks just to catch up financially.

I'm renting a house while my place is on the market, so I dont have any windmils or solar panels on the go. I did set up a couple of the big old CAT batteries Phill gave me, and my little 300 watt sinewave inverter, so I could watch TV and charge up my phone. At the start, I measured the battery voltage at 12.14v, after watching tv for 4 hours, it was 12.13v

The batteries are rated at 1500cca ( cold cranking amps ), I dont have a AH figure.

Glenn

The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now.
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Trev

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Posted: 10:51am 31 Mar 2010

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Glenn,
The cat batteries would be over 200ah.

I have one left that is still alive out of the 4 I got. 2 died and sold one.

Trev @ drivebynature.com

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