MW10 at WBGS

contracteng · Post by **contracteng** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:55 pm

MW10 at WBGS went into storage today after loosing a plate transformer.

Nautel transmitter will be replacing it, hopefully be on the air sometime Tuesday if it arrives on time.

Cameron · Post by **Cameron** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:19 pm

This is a sad-thing?

I thought this was the same transmitter that was playing Rush Limbaugh to pilots over the North Atlantic.

contracteng · Post by **contracteng** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:37 pm

It was!

Cameron · Post by **Cameron** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:05 am

Yep, much to the dismay of the penny-pinchers, the 1978 technology is drifting-away.

(Just don't tell them that if they repaced that power-hog 10 years ago, they would have payed for it in electricity bills).

Lester · Post by **Lester** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:45 am

Cameron wrote:Yep, much to the dismay of the penny-pinchers, the 1978 technology is drifting-away.

(Just don't tell them that if they repaced that power-hog 10 years ago, they would have payed for it in electricity bills).

Am I to assume that your home and work place have been fully converted to CFLs?

Cameron · Post by **Cameron** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:06 am

Lester wrote:
Cameron wrote:Yep, much to the dismay of the penny-pinchers, the 1978 technology is drifting-away.

(Just don't tell them that if they repaced that power-hog 10 years ago, they would have payed for it in electricity bills).
Am I to assume that your home and work place have been fully converted to CFLs?

...with the exception of 14 bulbs...yes.

I'm wasting something on the order of $42 a year in lighting.

Now to the transmitters...

genlock · Post by **genlock** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:08 am

Cameron wrote:
...with the exception of 14 bulbs...yes.

.

And the one dim bulb he can't replace.

Cameron · Post by **Cameron** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:50 pm

genlock wrote:
Cameron wrote:
...with the exception of 14 bulbs...yes.

.
And the one dim bulb he can't replace.

You got it...hey wait a minute....

contracteng · Post by **contracteng** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 4:58 pm

The new Nautel transmitter was delivered Friday norning and by late afternoon WBGS was back on the air.

Lester · Post by **Lester** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 5:51 pm

Is there anyway to determine the difference in power consumption after a month or two of electric bills? I'd really like to know just how much an old vs. new costs to operate.

Waveguide · Post by **Waveguide** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 10:58 pm

........ dim bulb

Zak Tyler · Post by **Zak Tyler** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 6:18 am

Waveguide wrote:........ dim bulb

let's leave dave outta this, n'kay???

[/had to]

Dave Allen · Post by **Dave Allen** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 4:17 pm

I would expect nothing less, chicken shit.

lastone · Post by **lastone** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:03 pm

Lester asked

I'd really like to know just how much an old vs. new costs to operate.

The MW10 should run around 30KW in. The Nautel about 20 KW in. Therefore if it were in WV and operated 24 hours a day, the estimated costs would look like this:

@7.5c per KWH

MW10

$2.25 per hr.

$54 per 24 hr day

$19,710 per 365 day yr

Nautel

$1.50 per hr.

$36 per 24 hr day

$13,140 per 365 day year

or around $6,570 less per year or 33% LESS!!.

Using published numbers. I would expect the savings to be even greater using operating numbers. You must take into account actual xmtr output required and whether they're doing ssb or not, repair costs over the next decade,....etc.....but you get the idea....

Then there is the five or ten year tax deduction for capital expense and other such cost reducers too.......

No one should be using a 30 year old xmtr! (pipedream)

contracteng · Post by **contracteng** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:22 pm

Something else to factor in is the reduced air conditioner load.

genlock · Post by **genlock** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 11:19 am

Much lower tube costs!