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Just to throw more old knowledge in here.. lol.. A 'reed switch'.. At least the ones that I am used to.. Are usually small glass encased switches that close (or perhaps open) when a magnetic field goes around then.
I worked on an ANCIENT Point of Sale system back in the 90's that had a keyboard that used reed switches. You had 80 or so keycaps on it, each of which contained a magnet and when you pressed the key, it moved the magnet over the reed switch, closing the switch and shorting a row and column, telling the controller what key you had pressed.
The fact that something like that was still used in the 90's.. And.. Just FYI.. It was Hardee's in the southeast that used them. God awful things. They'd spill drinks on the registers, which, of course, landed on the keyboards. The acidity would eat at the legs of the reed switches. I probably replaced thousands upon thousands of them.
Of course, the sodas would also eat away at the traces on the circuit board.. So.. The backs of those keyboards looked like spaghetti we'd have to rewire them with so many jumpers to fix the broken traces.
Yep, that is one type. IIRC the ones in inverters were in metal cans like the big capacitors of the era. You could hear them working. I repaired Pacer ticketing and concession systems. Thankfully, the concession terminals were membrane keyboards, so not much of a problem there. However, there were a couple of theatres where if I had to take equipment out for bigger repairs I would stick it in a garbage bag in the trunk of my car and spray the heck out of it with bug bombs and leave it for a day. Florida and Puerto Rico have serious roaches and palmetto bugs.
OK-- to close the loop on this (almost) we finally had a Generac 26kW installed by a "do it all" generator service. It was a bit over $12K. The install is clean enough, and we bought during a window where Generac offered a bumper-to-bumper 10 year warranty. I probably spent about $1K more than if I bought the unit on my own & hired my own trades, but with all the other things I had going on, it was worth it to turn it over to someone else. Now I still need to spend a couple hundred dollars on adding a pressure regulator to the pool heater and then getting the gas service provider to up the gas service capacity, but that's it (i think). The generator "self tests" once a week, so I know the gas delivery is fine for now, but we were told that running the pool heater & the generator at the same time may cause a failure.
OK-- to close the loop on this (almost) we finally had a Generac 26kW installed by a "do it all" generator service. It was a bit over $12K. The install is clean enough, and we bought during a window where Generac offered a bumper-to-bumper 10 year warranty. I probably spent about $1K more than if I bought the unit on my own & hired my own trades, but with all the other things I had going on, it was worth it to turn it over to someone else. Now I still need to spend a couple hundred dollars on adding a pressure regulator to the pool heater and then getting the gas service provider to up the gas service capacity, but that's it (i think). The generator "self tests" once a week, so I know the gas delivery is fine for now, but we were told that running the pool heater & the generator at the same time may cause a failure.
Thanks everyone for the input.
You may find that your gas service provider doesn't charge to "up" the gas service capacity. When I got my generator, the gas company provided new lines and meter at no charge. I guess they figured they'd be getting their costs back eventually.
while i think my cummings is quieter than my friend's generac, that is only anecdotal.
but from my experience of owning and operating boats, we always preferred cummings or kohler on our boats. so, when i went shopping for home generators, i ask the owner of the company selling several different brands, which one he had at his house, he said "cummings." i said, "i will take what you have."
I think I forgot to use some capital letters too, sorry
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