[rescue] Introduction + Cray Solaris questions

[Kris Kirby]

On Sun, 12 May 2002, Tim H. wrote:
> They must have been really small forklifts, the little ones I used to
> drive around at Sam's Club had 2100 lb. batteries.  And at the current
> loads generated by those little forklifts impurities in the solder
> joints from lead battery electrode to 00 gauge cable would
> occasionally cause the cable to blow off the electrode, about as loud
> as a shotgun and definitely startling.

Then it was as I originally remembered: 3500 lbs.. and two of them.

It was in a magazine somewhere.. he used a generator on a wind turbine
(windmill) on a 300 foot tower. 5" OD iron pipe, 300 lb apiece, 21 feet
long.

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