Made it Back
About 3:30PM. Didn't get into the hotel in Portland until 2AM since the plane was 2 1/2 hours late. Got into Frankfurt going over 3 hours late, so Delta can't run planes any better than United.
Didn't hear back from the guy in Geneva so went up to Hamburg instead. Unfortunately I should have made a reservation at the model train place. I got there about 10:30AM last Wednesday and the next tour that wasn't full already was 2:30PM. Must be a real tourist trap to be that busy on a weekday morning in non-summer season. So, I just
took an earlier train back (they run every hour during the day). Nice train, cruises at 200Km/hour (124MPH) and some of the cars have LCD TVs on the seatbacks just like the newer planes.
Saw a number of wind turbines on my train trip. They tend to be in small groups of 2 or 3, although I did see a group of 10 one time. They look bigger than the ones we have in Oregon.
As far as the problem with barnnetwork, it's what I came to suspect. When the kid filled the water tank they must have gotten some water into the control box for Dino's water dispensor, shorting it out. They brought in a big metal water tank for
Dino to use. If the waterer was setup normally it wouldn't be a problem, but the control box is needed to turn on the water pump. I cleaned the corrosion of the PC board and jumped over a trace that had completely corroded away and it works again.
Have some pictures from the trip. If any of them are worthwhile I'll put together a webpage for them and post the address here.
Didn't hear back from the guy in Geneva so went up to Hamburg instead. Unfortunately I should have made a reservation at the model train place. I got there about 10:30AM last Wednesday and the next tour that wasn't full already was 2:30PM. Must be a real tourist trap to be that busy on a weekday morning in non-summer season. So, I just
took an earlier train back (they run every hour during the day). Nice train, cruises at 200Km/hour (124MPH) and some of the cars have LCD TVs on the seatbacks just like the newer planes.
Saw a number of wind turbines on my train trip. They tend to be in small groups of 2 or 3, although I did see a group of 10 one time. They look bigger than the ones we have in Oregon.
As far as the problem with barnnetwork, it's what I came to suspect. When the kid filled the water tank they must have gotten some water into the control box for Dino's water dispensor, shorting it out. They brought in a big metal water tank for
Dino to use. If the waterer was setup normally it wouldn't be a problem, but the control box is needed to turn on the water pump. I cleaned the corrosion of the PC board and jumped over a trace that had completely corroded away and it works again.
Have some pictures from the trip. If any of them are worthwhile I'll put together a webpage for them and post the address here.
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