{"id":270,"date":"2020-10-05T21:09:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T03:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lozwott.com\/?p=270"},"modified":"2020-10-05T21:18:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T03:18:01","slug":"lots-of-work-no-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lozwott.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/05\/lots-of-work-no-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Lots of work – no posts!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Even though I haven’t had time to do many posts the last couple of weeks – there has been significant progress on the observatory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I finished on the siding on the roof peaks, installed the exterior door, installed electric service\/fiber optics for networking, and a coat or two of paint on the siding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The siding work on the roof peaks was a fun exercise in cutting angles to match the 4:12 pitch of the roof – this was perhaps some of the most difficult cutting I have had to do at this point. Here are some pics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Siding on North Peak almost complete<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Siding on South Peak complete – and some screw hole putty work<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The exterior door is a Cannonball 36 inch steal door. Nothing overly exciting here -just the normal process of leveling and shimming for install. My neighbor Dave helped out with this part – he is a pro at this kind of stuff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Door after base step installed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The week before last, I had the electrician back out to finish extending power and network connectivity from the house grid up the hill to the observatory. This consisted of running 8 gauge wire + 2 strands single mode fiber through about 100 ft of 2″ schedule 40 underground conduit I had installed back in the spring. Vince and Justin from Romig Electric pulled the wire and connected 220 volt service to the observatory, and I installed an outlet in the building office area to use for tools (beats running an extension cord up the hill everyday). The fiber optics will be used with bi-directional small form plug-able (SFP) optics installed in Cisco ethernet switches located at the house and the observatory, providing two 1 gigabit links to the world. I have 1 Gigabit symmetrical internet service through Co-Mo Connect, a fiber to the home network with 20K+ subscribers that I helped design and build.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vince and Justin deciding on the position of the LB<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Conduit on house side of service – going into my shed to tie into house electric grid and IP network<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Lastly Tif and I spent this last weekend putting 2 coats of paint on the siding of the observatory, in preparation for adding trim, and cutting in a few small windows and vents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nice coat of paint!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Looking from South to North<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Even though I haven’t had time to do many posts the last couple of weeks – there has been significant progress on the observatory. I finished on the siding on the roof peaks, installed the exterior door, installed electric service\/fiber optics for networking, and a coat or two of paint on the siding. The siding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lozwott.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lozwott.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lozwott.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lozwott.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lozwott.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lozwott.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/www.lozwott.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lozwott.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lozwott.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lozwott.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}