Monday January 10, 2011

A busy and productive night at Sharon Civil Defense garage. The following projects were worked on during the night:

New heavy jumper cables for testing equipment were made up using alligator clips that were on hand. They will be used for testing 12 volt equipment like are new lighting tripod. Pictures of the tripod lighting stand will be available next week.

A small dent in the hood of our bucket truck needed to be fixed. The preliminary work started tonight.

Equipment was loaded back onto the Utility Truck to complete the generator transfer project. This small, lightweight 3000 watt portable generator and homemade cart, were put back onto the truck. This generator has the ability to do both 120 volt power and also 240 volt power.

The last fabrication was completed on the utility truck, a flexible exhaust for the generator. We found it difficult to find the small pipe that fit the generator. We wanted to move the exhaust away from the truck, so we purchased flexible tubing and then was TIG welded and installed.

Most of our pre loaded messages for the LED signs were imported into our laptop and are now ready to be loaded into all of our signs. This will make the signs easier to use for multiple town events and emergencies. Click on the video below to see one of our led signs in action.