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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #51125 on: March 02, 2020, 03:15:31 pm »
Especially this product made me laugh.

 https://www.djmelectronics.com/gigafoilv4-inline-ethernet-filter.html


Everyone here should buy at least three for LXI ethernet network

At home I use this stuff:



No electrons to filter and it's 10 times faster.  :)

Can't get any LXI stuff that's man enough to use it though, so I have to stick to old fashioned electrons for that stuff.
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #51126 on: March 02, 2020, 03:50:29 pm »
So my company sent me home for 14 days because I was in my home in Italy over the past weekend.

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #51127 on: March 02, 2020, 04:04:15 pm »
@zucca - Are they paying you to stay away from work...? Not seeing a downside here... :-DD

   Saw this on the way to the UPS drop off point this morning. This is probably the crappest bodge I have ever seen of any kind  :-DD :palm:

Probably to keep the tyre from hurling rocks & mud up on the back of the headlight cell, cracking the hot bulb. Either that, or local vehicle safety laws against having any hole in the body larger than x . When I lived in Pittsburgh they had such "body shop" laws; ostensibly to keep the vehicle from being able to draft exhaust fumes into the passenger compartment.  ::)

That spray foam insulation is magic shit man... the smashed corner inside Franken-Cruiser is watertight thanks to the stuff, and a youngster mnem drove a Beetle through one winter that was easily 20% foam by volume.  :palm: Still froze my ass off, but at least I stayed dry.  ;)

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Hey... as long as you plug it into the neighbor's, you'll still break 1:1.  :-DD

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #51128 on: March 02, 2020, 04:13:22 pm »
Here in Blono there are FREE chargers all over.  Walmart just installed pay chargers. Maybe they didn't understand our EV Town situation. 48% here are free.
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #51129 on: March 02, 2020, 04:22:18 pm »
Here in Blono there are FREE chargers all over.  Walmart just installed pay chargers. Maybe they didn't understand our Electric Car City situation. 48% here are free.
Yeh, but don't the free ones charge at a snails pace?
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« Reply #51130 on: March 02, 2020, 04:32:10 pm »
Well there are Level 1 and Level 2 chargers all over and a few Level 3s.  I personally do not know where all the good chargers are. But the ones at my old job were fairly quick.  Rivian has taken over that factory.
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #51131 on: March 02, 2020, 04:37:34 pm »
Especially this product made me laugh.

 https://www.djmelectronics.com/gigafoilv4-inline-ethernet-filter.html


Everyone here should buy at least three for LXI ethernet network

Read the reviews.. :wtf: |O :palm:
 

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #51132 on: March 02, 2020, 04:51:28 pm »
You can do the same sort of thing to electric cars. Just attach a generator to an axle and it will re-charge the battery while you are driving.  8)

I think you're running foul of thermodynamics there. However, if you installed a couple of small children in the back with a pedal generator...
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #51133 on: March 02, 2020, 04:52:47 pm »
You can do the same sort of thing to electric cars. Just attach a generator to an axle and it will re-charge the battery while you are driving.  8)

I think you're running foul of thermodynamics there. However, if you installed a couple of small children in the back with a pedal generator...

Uh yea - it's a joke ...  ::)
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #51134 on: March 02, 2020, 05:07:05 pm »
You can do the same sort of thing to electric cars. Just attach a generator to an axle and it will re-charge the battery while you are driving.  8)

I think you're running foul of thermodynamics there. However, if you installed a couple of small children in the back with a pedal generator...

That's terribly inefficient as you have to feed the buggers and stop to empty them every two minutes  :--
 
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #51135 on: March 02, 2020, 05:32:49 pm »
You can do the same sort of thing to electric cars. Just attach a generator to an axle and it will re-charge the battery while you are driving.  8)

I think you're running foul of thermodynamics there. However, if you installed a couple of small children in the back with a pedal generator...

Uh yea - it's a joke ...  ::)

Erm, I kinda got that. I'm a little worried that you don't get that I knew it was a joke from my, obviously joking, suggestion of using child labour.

Is there something you need to tell us about? A sweatshop in your garage? Six year olds hand soldering 0602 passives to your production boards (small hands, great eyesight)? Your chimney cleaning business?  :)
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #51136 on: March 02, 2020, 05:36:30 pm »
That's terribly inefficient as you have to feed the buggers and stop to empty them every two minutes  :--

Feedbag full of oats and spent brewing grains, open gutter at the back, brush 'em down with a curry comb at the end of the day. Simple.  >:D
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #51137 on: March 02, 2020, 05:38:55 pm »
How long does it take for a package to go 100 miles? If you're USPS apparently a very long time.

The 1A2 plug-in zipped cross country via ground in about 3.5 days. Got to USPS distribution center on Saturday in Springfield, Masshole. About 100 miles away. According to the tracking left there yesterday. Did not arrive at my local PO early this morning and as per tracking still hasn't arrived. Not the first time a package has gone to that center and went into slo-mo. If it had gone to the Albany center I would have had it today.  |O 
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #51138 on: March 02, 2020, 05:48:40 pm »
Erm, I kinda got that. I'm a little worried that you don't get that I knew it was a joke from my, obviously joking, suggestion of using child labour.

Why are you worried about it?
I told my friends I could teach them to be funny, but they all just laughed at me.
 

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #51139 on: March 02, 2020, 05:51:36 pm »
Gaffa tape, string and bungees are how you fix a car properly!  :-DD
I dunno, you townies.  ::) No. 8 fencing wire fixes anything !  :phew:

pfft you're all living in the Dark Ages.

These days we use cable ties!

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #51140 on: March 02, 2020, 06:00:28 pm »
This is probably the crappest bodge I have ever seen of any kind  :-DD :palm:



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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #51141 on: March 02, 2020, 06:07:40 pm »
How long does it take for a package to go 100 miles? If you're USPS apparently a very long time.

The 1A2 plug-in zipped cross country via ground in about 3.5 days. Got to USPS distribution center on Saturday in Springfield, Masshole. About 100 miles away. According to the tracking left there yesterday. Did not arrive at my local PO early this morning and as per tracking still hasn't arrived. Not the first time a package has gone to that center and went into slo-mo. If it had gone to the Albany center I would have had it today.  |O 
Lets hope that it manages to show up in the end, unlike my handheld scope which must have vanished in a cloud of smoke  >:D
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #51142 on: March 02, 2020, 06:37:40 pm »


Last time I was drioving in Palermo, a numerical majority had bodywork damage, and significant number of cars had a missing front wing.

Yes, you could look down from above and see the top of the tyre :) No, I didn't feel I could take photos!

Must be a Latin thing. San Juan, Puerto Rico.....not only do they drive like maniacs the majority of vehicles have body damage and cracked windshields.  :palm:
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #51143 on: March 02, 2020, 07:17:50 pm »
You can do the same sort of thing to electric cars. Just attach a generator to an axle and it will re-charge the battery while you are driving.  8)

I think you're running foul of thermodynamics there. However, if you installed a couple of small children in the back with a pedal generator...

Uh yea - it's a joke ...  ::)

Erm, I kinda got that. I'm a little worried that you don't get that I knew it was a joke from my, obviously joking, suggestion of using child labour.

Is there something you need to tell us about? A sweatshop in your garage? Six year olds hand soldering 0602 passives to your production boards (small hands, great eyesight)? Your chimney cleaning business?  :)

Forget 6 year olds as a vehicle power source. They don't get the range, the horse power is pretty lame and as far as torque is concerned, the car better be empty!

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #51144 on: March 02, 2020, 07:31:06 pm »
Forget 6 year olds as a vehicle power source. They don't get the range, the horse power is pretty lame and as far as torque is concerned, the car better be empty!

McBryce.

6 year olds? Don't be silly. Of course you can't use 6 year olds - they'd have to be, like around, oh 10 - 12 years old before you can get the power you need.  :-DD
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #51145 on: March 02, 2020, 07:33:44 pm »
They’d use all the power charging their phones  :-DD
 
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« Reply #51146 on: March 02, 2020, 07:39:58 pm »
They’d use all the power charging their phones  :-DD

Damn you're right.  :(  This problem is very difficult!
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #51147 on: March 02, 2020, 07:47:54 pm »
You could put their phones on the end of fishing rods in front of the vehicle.
 

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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #51148 on: March 02, 2020, 08:19:42 pm »
Nothing bugs me more than buying some piece of surplus equipment with stickers and labels all over it. It seems that the previous owner or seller tries to put the stickers in the worst places, sometimes right over the displays. Trying to get them off is a pain and involves some sort of scrapping with a thumbnail or wooden tongue depressor along with some white gas/camping fuel and paper towels.

I went shopping with my wife to a kitchen supply store and found what I think will solve the problem for about $4. It is a nylon scraper that I hope won't mar the surface but I haven't tried it yet. It looked like it was worth a try. Hopefully it will save my MANicure! 8)
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
« Reply #51149 on: March 02, 2020, 08:35:02 pm »

You can do the same sort of thing to electric cars. Just attach a generator to an axle and it will re-charge the battery while you are driving.  8)

I think you're running foul of thermodynamics there. However, if you installed a couple of small children in the back with a pedal generator...

That's terribly inefficient as you have to feed the buggers and stop to empty them every two minutes  :--
Forget 6 year olds as a vehicle power source. They don't get the range, the horse power is pretty lame and as far as torque is concerned, the car better be empty!
McBryce.
6 year olds? Don't be silly. Of course you can't use 6 year olds - they'd have to be, like around, oh 10 - 12 years old before you can get the power you need.  :-DD
They’d use all the power charging their phones  :-DD

Damn you're right.  :(  This problem is very difficult!
You could put their phones on the end of fishing rods in front of the vehicle.
Yes, but then you'd have to put up with the incessant 12-year-old whine... in stereo.  |O

No, wait... you could use these to filter out that whine!!!        As long as you apply them percussively, I'm certain they'd be effective!!! 
:-DD

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