#earinn — Public Fediverse posts

Fixed this one today. I do enjoy the warmer weather, and they were kind enough to let us eat have lunch and a drink inside when our work truck wouldn't start.
To keep the transformers out of the water, I bent this metal shield. I also put transformers on the R and the B- so they have their own transformers instead of sharing one- a little more robust. I did leave the other letters alone (except for the A and R on the more paint chipped side, I remade those). The electrodes on the "A" cant be any further apart. I really should note that on my pattern. When your working with a tracing of a tracing, its tricky. I gotta digitize these patterns.

We actually have 2, 60ma transformers powering the 4/6 letters. I put in two, 30ma transformers. The lower current is less bright, but human eyes are really bad at seeing brightness. I bet you cannot tell which R and B are dimmer than the others ;)

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I did another service call on EAR Inn today. The A and funky "R" were looking the orange look of going bad, and those transformers were acting up.

They notice it tends to go sometimes in the rain- its because the transformers are sitting on wet wood (I propped them up on foam blocks as a temporary fix).

Water always gets in these things, and because NYC has "Grandfather sign" laws, it cannot be taken down and remade in Aluminum, hence the rust bucket nature.

So I met the owner- a lovely Irish guy and I asked if he was ok with me remaking the entire letters and he said "whichever is cheapest". Since there are already a bunch of bad welds and bends in there I am gonna trace my usual patterns and do just that.

And add some bent metal on the inside to prop the transformers up and keep them shielded from water. I also want to put one 8kv, little transformer on each letter as opposed to three 9kvs

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