Charles (/as Bill smacks his forehead with the palm of his hand/)
Of Course! Now why didn't I think of that.
After all, routes occur automagically, right? and they are always self-healing, right?
Yeah, sure.
Yes, we did teach our students about "magic smoke and mirrors"
...if you let the "magic smoke out, it won't work anymore...."
The classroom had plenty of power outlets. and when I asked to have a disconnect switch so I could insure that all of the work stations were powered off, they mounted a huge transformer at the top of the electrical closet with a relay across the primary.
We used it once.
and spent the next two weeks degaussing all of the CRTs whose internal mounting straps became severely magnetized by the "EMF" pulse that was created when the transformer was powered down.
I was told later, that the office space immediately above the classroom also had some problems with their Display CRTs that the Company's I.T. technicians couldn't figure out.
It seems that they all had severe color distortion in the lower right hand corner of the displays, and most also had a radiating circular rainbow effect....
I didn't say a thing!
/s/ Bill, wb4alm
On 10/4/20 10:01 AM, Charles J. Hargrove via 44Net wrote:
Bill, et al: You can easily make your experimental "sandbox" not routable to the rest of 44Net if you want. Everything is configurable.
On 10/4/2020 9:44 AM, Bill Turner, WB4ALM via 44Net wrote:
Never occurred to me at that time that the "44" net could have been used in that environment. I really like your idea of being able to use the "44" net as an educational facility just like Amateur Radio is used... The only question, is how do you allow experimentation without impacting the "44" net as a service?
/s/ Bill Turner, wb4alm