Monday, September 04, 2006 (Posted Tuesday night)

Found an Internet café last night but the speed was so sloooooow that I only got an email sent out. Could not get to the blog site......
Sunday was a busy day copying CDs and taking pictures of the patients before surgery.We visited with the post op patients and took pictures of them and watched as they had their sight checked. Some could see for the first time in many years. Next item will be getting them glasses for the final correction. Happy people!!
Worked on a microscope used in one of the surgeries that had a camera malfunction. The staff found a small extra camera designed for a different brand of scope that I adapted with surgical tape. The focal length was very critical. Ran a cable out to a viewing area and used a projector so the rest of the doctors could watch the procedure. The eye looked as big as basketball when displayed on the screen (wall).
Took a lot of video of the doctors operating when I could get in close to the patient. Doris was busy taking pre op pictures and having fun with the patients.
Food has been good to me, some things I can recognize. Eating a lot of chicken and eggs, I think.....
Staff at the eye center is most accommodating, and have enjoyed getting to know them. They have the same concerns and joys that we have.

Monday morning;
Met with Mr. Hai (pronounced hi ) who is the chief tech officer and Mr. Kayode who is the chief engineer for the site. We toured the facility and discussed the generator transfer issues and the non working UPS system. They have 3 generators here, 2 are 1100 KVA (power just went out so they are manually starting one and transferring to get the power back on. The Doctors in the operating room are sitting still and not moving. Yesterday when this happened there was an instrument in the eye...) now the power is on via generator and sometime they will switch back to the grid. This happens several times daily. Will get the UPS information to them so the microscope lights used in surgery will continue to shine.Back to the generators. The third one is only a 350kw unit feeding a separate area of the complex. One of the 1100 kVA units can easily run this place. When this complex was constructed in 1983 the electrical contactor was replaced and the result was that the automatic generator transfer system does not work. So a person stays here at all times to do the manual transfer sequence when power fails. I would love to start working to get the automatic system operational. The technical specs are; 3kv to the site, then to 1.1kv, then to 415v 3 phase. From phase to neutral it is 220 volts which every thing runs on.Fun stuff to see and maybe work on..

All for now, Pete