Saturday, March 16, 2024

Duracell Batteries quality control has gone down hill and damage is occuring

 If you have noticed that Duracell Battery's quality have gone down hill and tend to leak faster than other batteries you are not alone .

Many hobby groups within Facebook and Paranormal investigation groups are reporting problems as well 

https://talk.dallasmakerspace.org/t/beware-of-duracell-battery-leakage/2865

 I will no longer purchase or use their battery's especially in anything electronic

 

 


 Duracell use to be a very dependable battery and had a warranty but once they changed making them in USA to overseas the quality went away .

Sadly Sam's club generic battery's are better than the premium Duracell battery's your buying. 

Is it the chemicals they are using? not sealed right? who knows but Duracell has issues they need to address

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

How Allegheny Trails Council put an entire camp of scouts lives at risk by using an unregulated Natural Gas Well

 

 A recent Explosion of a unregulated Natural Gas Well in Crescent Twp. Pa which Killed an elderly couple who where getting gas from it which had no odor to it 

https://www.wpxi.com/news/local/private-well-site-deadly-house-explosion-does-not-appear-state-mapping-system/NXNMWLM5CJDPDBVTIIOW7GVZPI/

 

Example of private well

 It brings back memories when I was on Staff at BSA Camp Semiconon  in 1977 in Conequnessing  Butler County on Boy scout Road  as a Rangers Assistant .

We where having problems with the stoves in the kitchen of the large Mess Hall where up to 150 scouts gathered 3 times a day for meals , some times even more when we had Weekend Camporees . They were   having low gas pressure and the ranger asked one of the scout leaders who worked for one of the Natural Gas Company's if he could look at it . 

Which he did and

When he realized Raw Gas with no Odor  was being feed from a private well he raised absolute hell about it and camp was forced to install propane tanks as the well was water logged and would be too expensive to properly fix and put odor.

Now Gas Codes even back in the 1970s forbid using raw gas into structures yet Camp Semiconon somehow skirted the issue. 

Now you think the Council who ran the camp would no better  especially after their  where over 400 children killed in a school in 1937 in New London Texas when no odor gas exploded  But no they could care less as the camp which was around from 50s .

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London_School_explosion

 


All they did was complain the cost of paying for propane . They Could care less scouts lives could have been affected.  

But this is what you have when a council was run and dictated to by big corporate donators .

The well is still there in woods don't know if current owners got fixed or capped it  . 

Pa now has an extensive program to find and cap these private unregulated wells as so many now are well over 100 years old and causing issues.

The worst part I am willing to bet there are still scout and other youth camps in Western Pa still using private unregulated non odor wells

Sunday, March 3, 2024

A Very Strange and Unusual Breaker and Electrical Service which where banned but may still be out there in rural areas. the Delta Breaker

 Now after 40 plus years in the field and seeing almost every type of power  service configuration   from 480- 3 phase Delta to 230 Volt 2Phase and 240- High leg 3Phase  I recently ran across an article a fellow long time electrician shared .

Its Called a Delta breaker and they where banned in 1973 .

 A delta breaker is a load center breaker with 2 plug in stabs and a third wire from the third terminal that goes to the third leg of a transformer. This allowed you to use a single phase load center and get three phase power by running a third wire back to the transformer.



 This breaker was designed so a  standard 3 wire electrical service breaker panel could be used 

instead of having to purchase a more expensive 3 phase panel .


You would find them in old mom& pop general stores where their was 1 -3 phase load 

like a Cooler.  as everything else used single phase 230 or 120 volts.

Personally I have never seen one and have done plenty of work in rural America. 

Many power company's paid for or made customers switch to the more expensive 3 phase  4 panels where all 3 hot wires are clearly marked and visible. 

But these types of services could well be still out their in the backwoods some where and if you work in those areas you should be aware of them.  


  

 

Saturday, February 24, 2024

A Very Dangerous Situation about to happen in City of Pittsburgh when no Police response to Burglar Alarms overnight and that's not the worst of it

 Imagine this its 3 am you get a call from the central station monitoring your stores  burglar alarm  and it has activated an internal motion sensor  .

But the Pittsburgh Police will not respond unless there is an active Burglary in Progress .

So you look at cameras you had installed on your smart phone everything seems OK but you can not see everywhere . You put on your sweat clothes go down to your store and all looks OK you assure yourself its a false alarm and you have a weapon with you just in case and you enter the store only to be confronted by a Burglar who has broken thru the roof. 

This merchant could not afford a paid armed  response force like the big company's have in place and meet clients at the door.

This exact scenario is about to play out in the city as the police commander has decided  to reduce police staffing and calls from 200,000 to 50,000  a year over night . 

https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/pittsburgh-bureau-of-police-announces-operational-changes-that-will-go-into-effect-next-week/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h

 

Not only are they not going to respond to non active crime scenes or burglar alarms . they are eliminating desk sargents at all police stations  and install emergency call boxes citizens can use instead.

I just wrote how municipal building are getting rid of them due to liability and the city of Pittsburgh is installing them .

Yes the citizens of Pittsburgh are going to be the ones paying the price and anyone caught in the city working or traveling thru late at night .

Criminals are going to fully take advantage of it. and are already talking about it according to a couple corrections officials I know especially the bad juveniles who're freely running the streets because there is no place to lock them up in Allegheny county.

https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/pittsburgh-police-chief-reopen-juvenile-detention-center/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h

Yes at a time when crime is rising people are leaving the city as well as business  and they go to this very unwise plan .