<div dir="ltr">Tara<div><br></div><div>I can do pretty much any time after 10am.</div><div><br></div><div>Let me know what works for you.</div><div><br></div><div>Mike</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM Tara Halwes <<a href="mailto:tarahalwes@gmail.com">tarahalwes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">I sent it to Jen as soon as I’d placed the order ☺️</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 18, 2025 at 18:39 Phéna Proxima <<a href="mailto:adam@phenaproxima.net" target="_blank">adam@phenaproxima.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Tara, you are the best deputy a fella could ask for. And thank you Daver et. al. for fixing this. SH Trustees will reimburse the cost of the part if you send us a receipt (assuming you haven't already).</div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Greets from 34K feet over the North Atlantic!</div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">A</div><div>
On Saturday, October 18th, 2025 at 11:36 PM, Tara Halwes <<a href="mailto:tarahalwes@gmail.com" target="_blank">tarahalwes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">Awesome Mike! Aim for Wednesday unless you hear otherwise from Courtney. What time of day you’re available will determine if you get Courtney vs me to walk you through it, but it’s now substantially less weird than it would have been 24 hours ago because …</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We successfully installed and programmed the new level sensor today! Mostly Daver, but also Tara and Helené!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We added a new “call us” warning at 5’ before the “call fire dept” warning at 4’. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We confirmed these worked (signaled the FACP correctly) and that the new sensor correctly reported its depth as a function of pressure.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The new alarm level shouldn’t affect your testing as we’re not regularly going to fake out the tank level dropping to test alarm comms, but it is part of the set of cistern level thresholds you’re logging data in context of when you check the gray box readout and write it down on paper (aka “suction reservoir”).<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><u><b>Fire cistern level thresholds</b></u></div><div dir="auto">As programmed by Dave Ritchie for new level sensor installed Oct 18, 2025: </div><div dir="auto">- <b><u>4ft - VERY LOW ALARM </u></b>- summons FD </div><div dir="auto">- <b><u>5ft - LOW WARNING </u></b>- calls us (Adam/Tara/Ross/DaveS) so we can start investigating why it’s this low and also warn the Water team something weird is happening </div><div dir="auto">- <b><u>6.8ft - START FILLLING </u></b>- this level or lower signals the solenoid to refill the cistern until it hits 7ft - you should be able to hear it running if the level is 6.8ft or lower</div><div dir="auto">- <b><u>7ft - STOP FILLING</u></b> - if filling, tells solenoid to stop filling. You should not hear it filling above 7ft.</div><div dir="auto">- <u><b>8ft - HIGH WARNING </b></u>- calls us. Presumably sensor error or very heavy rain. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">~Tara</div><div dir="auto">508-361-9605</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">On Sat, Oct 18, 2025 at 14:18 Mike Gaisford <<a href="mailto:mgaisford@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">mgaisford@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I'd be happy to do the tests on the next scheduled date. Is there training needed to work the modified checklist? Im in AZ now but will be available on Wednesday onward to meet to review if needed. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 11:07 AM Tara Halwes <<a href="mailto:tarahalwes@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">tarahalwes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">FYI the new level sensor has arrived and is in my house, so hopefully I can get Daver to install it today or tomorrow and next week we can resume including that set of checks in our testing. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Generator repair is still To Be Scheduled, presumably waiting on a part ordered by Weld, who is our generator subcontractor through SWSS.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Our control panel display is still stuck on “updating” but we will continue to do pump testing regardless, referring to the analog pressure gauges for our measurements.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thank you Courtney for all the work you’ve done to make this easier for fellow volunteers to figure out, and consequently making me look smart and together in front of the fire chief. 😋</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Tara</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 08:27 Courtney Lewis <<a href="mailto:courtney.d.lewis@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">courtney.d.lewis@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I skipped the lines with the suction pump reservoir but everything else is done. <br>
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