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[pherthyl]

I heard on the Ocean news yesterday that the cause of the hydrant failure was still unknown. Rubbish.

Not only was HB the first to break the story here on Vibrant Victoria, his exposé was complete with diagnostics. Sheesh!

Nice work HB.

And how is ocean news supposed to know the reason?

[Sparky]

And how is ocean news supposed to know the reason?

They operate a news outlet. Same as any other outlet gathers the news. They make a phone call to the city and ask the question. I think they probably did that. They just didn't get a straight forward answer. IMO.

[sebberry]

Garbage in, garbage out as they say.

[pherthyl]

That would assume the city knows the reason

[G-Man]

Well it has been posted on here for days and one of the city employees has commented on it. That would lead me to believe that they know the reason.

[LJ]

It only pulses when it comes out of the diode. This is known as "ripple" but a properly designed rectifier will use an inductive choke to damp this out and leave virtually no ripple in the final output.

Most of the electrical pulsing that an automobile puts out comes from the points in the distributor, which are often poorly filtered. This can be bad if you are powering a RF transmitter directly from the electrical system and usually requires a choke between the battery and the transmitter. It's often a problem for Hams when they install a mobile transceiver.

Points...distributor....wow, haven't heard those terms for awhile. Just how old is your vehicle?

[phx]

And how is ocean news supposed to know the reason?

They should know by now to check here for the latest news.