Bet that's the most expensive 24 hours of power you've ever bought. I
was about to say I hope you get a lot more use of it when I realized
that was not the right thing to say. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 11/15/2012 10:22 PM, John Hermanson wrote:
> I visited the local Home depot on the way to work on Friday 11/9. The
> girls at the customer service desk said that when they have generators
> they are stacked right up at the main entrance. They had none. My wife
> called the store one hour later, "oh, let me check in the back...we have
> five 7K units, if you want one better come right down".
>
> I took a half day off and went home to set it up. That night we had
> heat, hot water and Fios TV. 24 hours later our neighborhood power was
> restore.
>
> ___________________________________
> John Hermanson | CPS, Inc.
> 21 South Ln., Huntington NY 11743
> 631-424-2121 | www.zuiko.com
> Olympus OM Service since 1977
> Gallery: www.zuiko.com/album/index.html
>
> On 11/15/2012 10:30 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> Wow. 12 days is a long time without power and I can well understand the
>> decision to buy a generator. But I'm surprised you could even find one.
>> Maybe you had to travel a long way to get it.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>
>> On 11/14/2012 7:10 AM, John Hermanson wrote:
>>> I posted this a few days ago:
>>>
>>> "Good to be back. Power was out for 12 days. Two trees down on our
>>> property, a third leaning at 30 degrees over our patio. One old pine
>>> tree fell where I would normally park my car. We got lots of usage from
>>> our LED AA powered flashlights and then invested in a 7000 watt generator.
>>>
>>> I've attached a small pic though I don't know if it'll go through. "
>>>
>>> That kept the message from going through (limit 40K).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ___________________________________
>>> John Hermanson | CPS, Inc.
>>> 21 South Ln., Huntington NY 11743
>>> 631-424-2121 | www.zuiko.com
>>> Olympus OM Service since 1977
>>> Gallery: www.zuiko.com/album/index.html
>>>
>>> On 11/13/2012 6:15 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>>> Hey, I'm glad to see you're here. I was concerned you were without
>>>> power after Sandy. I checked the Long Island Power Authority's outage
>>>> map and saw there were still several hundred customers in Huntington
>>>> without power. But maybe you were without power and just got it back.
>>>>
>>>> This reminds me that I was at Sands Point, Long Island in 1976 when the
>>>> eye of Hurricane Holly passed overhead. Looks like Huntington is maybe
>>>> 10 miles away so you probably remember that one as well.
>>>>
>>>> Chuck Norcutt
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11/13/2012 6:56 AM, John Hermanson wrote:
>>>>> We have a 3 day turnaround.
>>>>>
>>>>> ___________________________________
>>>>> John Hermanson | CPS, Inc.
>>>>> 21 South Ln., Huntington NY 11743
>>>>> 631-424-2121 | www.zuiko.com
>>>>> Olympus OM Service since 1977
>>>>> Gallery: www.zuiko.com/album/index.html
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11/8/2012 6:53 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>>>>> Another good article from LensRentals.com. On price and turnaround for
>>>>>> repairs Tamron looks excellent and Olympus looks fairly good. Not so
>>>>>> good if you own Nikon or Sony. One interesting observation is that
>>>>>> large, fast lenses have higher repair rates than their slower brethren.
>>>>>> The highest frequency of repair items tend to be big, f/2.8 and
>>>>>> really
>>>>>> big f/4 zooms. I guess AF motors and drive gears suffer the effects of
>>>>>> moving large masses. There are also comments about specific weaknesses
>>>>>> of certain lenses and bodies. There is a very high frequency of repair
>>>>>> on the Canon 5D Mk III and Nikon D800s bodies and the Nikon 70-200 VRII
>>>>>> for a tripod foot that's too weak and is easily bent. If you're in the
>>>>>> market for new (or even used) gear this is a recommended read.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ps: I guess Tamron looks good on repairs since John Hermanson is now
>>>>>> working there. :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2012/09/lensrentals-repair-data-january-july-2012#more-9311>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Chuck Norcutt
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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