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To: Marc Phelan who wrote (48)	7/31/1998 5:24:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 89

'Transmission System Is Not Manually Operated Comment: This was posted on de Jager's Forum on July 29. * * * * * * * * * . . . At the last Senate/House hearing I attended, they stated that on the Grid (And that is what I was addressing - not the smaller switches in the local plant or in the local distribution system) the big switches are NOT manually switched nor can they be manually switched. One utility VP testified that they had 170,000 embedded chips in their system. Our state PUC (Public Utilities Commission) stated that it takes 2 hours per chip to test since the chip does not have an IO port for testing. I don't know how you calculate but that is 340,000 man hours to check our their system. That's 46,250 man days OR around 174 man years. Skip Baumhoefner, skipb@wavetech.net garynorth.com