I worked at a television station years back that was designed in such a way that the lights going up the tower were powered by the separate phases of three phase AC with the one at the top powered from all three combined. This was pretty normal but what the engineer had done was rotate them at every level so that if a phase was dropped you could count the lights and quickly see from a distance that the power wasn't r…
Clever! I know I talked to the folks at Masterclock in St. Louis recently about one of their clock displays; they intentionally default the separators to flash if the clock is not synced to NTP, and then they go solid once the connection is established. It's a quick way to know if something is down, using context clues that are already there to begin with!
Re: Why do some radio towers blink?
#131Jeff, it's very cool to hear from you as I have enjoyed your videos for some time. I would like to make one request though. Next time you do a project like "How I almost broke MrBeast's Ages 1-100 video" that involves setting up interactive electronics for an event, you should really call me. I managed interactive technology deployments for the automotive marketing industry for over a decade. It's a niche that has unique challenges which you fell face first into. I would be happy to help make things go much smoother should you ever do something similar. Proof: https://imgur.com/a/5z5JrwT I'm also on Reddit, same screen name if you want to dm me there.