Quad boxes galore! New electrical in 9032-A.
VCF East has had our show for many years in the 9032-A section which is the wide open room, concrete floor room. We also have had our repair workshops in that room. However the electrical power has always been unreliable due to aging wire and painted over outlets. I decided that we needed to do something about this for VCF East. This week VCF paid to have a new sub-panel and 8 new quad boxes installed around the perimeter of the wall. So the power will be vastly more reliable and plentiful for exhibits and anyone using that room. Thanks to Tony for recommending the contractor and the great and quick work that he did. I think all of the exhibitors will welcome the new electrical work in that room. ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
What is especially exciting is this was a financial collaboration between VCF National and VCF MA and not only brings good power to VCF East but will allow MA to (potentially) return to using the space for VCF MA Workshops and, COVID permitting, maybe even start offering indoor swap meets. -Adam VCF National - Director of Marketing On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 6:57 AM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
VCF East has had our show for many years in the 9032-A section which is the wide open room, concrete floor room. We also have had our repair workshops in that room. However the electrical power has always been unreliable due to aging wire and painted over outlets. I decided that we needed to do something about this for VCF East.
This week VCF paid to have a new sub-panel and 8 new quad boxes installed around the perimeter of the wall. So the power will be vastly more reliable and plentiful for exhibits and anyone using that room. Thanks to Tony for recommending the contractor and the great and quick work that he did. I think all of the exhibitors will welcome the new electrical work in that room.
========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
Ooh, this is good news indeed. It’ll be nice to not have to have extension cords dragged all down the row and daisy-chained from the handful of less-terrible outlets! (That said I’ll still bring plenty of cords and whatnot.) — Jameel Akari
On Oct 1, 2021, at 8:32 AM, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
What is especially exciting is this was a financial collaboration between VCF National and VCF MA and not only brings good power to VCF East but will allow MA to (potentially) return to using the space for VCF MA Workshops and, COVID permitting, maybe even start offering indoor swap meets.
-Adam VCF National - Director of Marketing
On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 6:57 AM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
VCF East has had our show for many years in the 9032-A section which is the wide open room, concrete floor room. We also have had our repair workshops in that room. However the electrical power has always been unreliable due to aging wire and painted over outlets. I decided that we needed to do something about this for VCF East.
This week VCF paid to have a new sub-panel and 8 new quad boxes installed around the perimeter of the wall. So the power will be vastly more reliable and plentiful for exhibits and anyone using that room. Thanks to Tony for recommending the contractor and the great and quick work that he did. I think all of the exhibitors will welcome the new electrical work in that room.
========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
It's really just not the same if you're not nearly melting a heavy-duty cord run down from the ceiling because you plugged Ian's Pr1me into it. That smell of softening rubber really warmed the early April air... - Dave
On Oct 1, 2021, at 10:38 AM, Jameel Akari via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Ooh, this is good news indeed. It’ll be nice to not have to have extension cords dragged all down the row and daisy-chained from the handful of less-terrible outlets!
(That said I’ll still bring plenty of cords and whatnot.)
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Jeffrey Brace