Re: Countrylink website.

[David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>]

David Bromage wrote:

> David Johnson (trainman@ozemail.com.au) wrote:
> > Daniel Nightingale wrote:
>
> > > I don't know about Countrylink staff surviving privatisation, but credit
> > > goes to the Explorer designers for putting in 240V outlets for laptops, a
> > > nice touch missing on the XPT's.
>
> > This feature was primarily for the use of vacuum cleaners.
>
> And as such they probably don't give regulated power. Plugging in a laptop
> while the Xplorer is powering away from a station will probably cause a
> lot of damage.

No, they are pretty good.  There is a separate Auxiliary power engine which
supplies 415V for A/C, battery chargers, headlights, interior lights, GPOs, etc.
During test runs, we ran a number of computers off the GPOs with no problems.

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David Johnson
CityRail Guard
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