I ordered one of these flashlights from BangemGood https://www.banggood.com/XANES-XHP50-1800lm-Powerful-Long-Range-Zoomable-Flashlight-Kit-with-18650-Li-ion-Battery-USB-Rechargeable-and-Power-Display-Mini-Torch-Focus-Adjustable-Tactical-Light-p-1749466.html?cur_warehouse=CN on the 22nd July. They processed, packed and shipped it within 2 hours from their China warehouse and this morning it arrived at my very local delivery office, I'm very impressed with that kind of speed, its travelled thousands of miles in the same time it often takes for stuff ordered from within the UK. Now the postman has not yet been, will he come today and more important if he does, will he have this flashlight with him (actually I say him, it might be the rather cute postlady that comes sometimes), or will it lounge at the delivery office for a few days?
My money is on "lounge at the delivery office for a few days"!
My deliveries at the moment: Ordered a 121GW from Dave - Made it from Australia to Germany in less than a week. Speakers ordered (on the same day) from a shop that I could drive to in 40 minutes... Still waiting.
McBryce.Just as well you didn't put your shirt on it then, its arrived and first impressions are very favourable, although I doubt that its as powerful as they claimed, but it is very bright nonetheless.
Good luck with that. I just chargebacked Aliexpress because two orders got closed immediately and no refund issued. Their customer support is impossible to get to as well.Strange, I never had any problems with Aliexpress customer support, just fill in all the details as requested and post, then I normally get a response within a couple of hours.
Where do I find myself such a woman?
I can't let this unwarranted Mastech bashing go unchallenged.
Gee...chill out. It's not like I'm blowing smoke up your kilt or pissing in your blood pudding.
Ugh I hate stuff like that. One purpose novelty stuff does not belong on this planet.
Oh fun. The seller has packed the Tek 475 and the 7150 in the same consignment.
Place your bets….
Nuking the Saber part... WTF-ever.
The ballast/speaker/charge board is finished; time for testing. Which requires that I rebuild the emitter, as it died during testing with several different CC LED drivers which proved not sufficiently durable for the expecteduseabuse case. We (lightsaber nerds) tend to overdrive these LEDs to 125-200% of "rated" current to get adequate illumination of the blade, so I do keep a few spares on hand.
mnem
Went looking for a photo of my old bench. The only one I have was from when I was going to sell some of my cameras.
Both the bridge and the main table had cable trays. There was a rack on the right hand side and rack mounted power outlets. I would have kept it if it was possible.
I sold the Mamiya but found room for the Nikons in my carry on.
We brought our three dogs with us, which is the main reason why I had to leave so many things behind. We spent everything we had on the move.
Willow in her custom made flight crate. She was too big for the largest varikennel.
Tool Time widda ToolDwagon:
The pliers are GearWrench; like most of their products (evidently, an Apex Tools brand up here), quality is decent and if you can get them on sale you can get a great deal on a tool you'll use for years or even decades. The jaws are ground evenly with a well-centered point, and they meet close enough to pull a single hair off my arm without cutting it.
Ugh I hate stuff like that. One purpose novelty stuff does not belong on this planet.
Nuking the Saber part... WTF-ever.
The ballast/speaker/charge board is finished; time for testing. Which requires that I rebuild the emitter, as it died during testing with several different CC LED drivers which proved not sufficiently durable for the expecteduseabuse case. We (lightsaber nerds) tend to overdrive these LEDs to 125-200% of "rated" current to get adequate illumination of the blade, so I do keep a few spares on hand.
mnem
Can't you get some ultra bright LEDs to fit it?
Ugh I hate stuff like that. One purpose novelty stuff does not belong on this planet.Exceptions: a fish kettle, and an asparagus kettle. Possibly add a. turbotiere, but given the price of whole turbots, it might be better to rent
Easy way of avoiding kitchen geegaws. Ask whether you already have a way of doing whatever the geegaw does, and ask whether cleaning takes longer than any time saved.
Don't apply those question to TEA geegaws.
Vintage Multimeter for the brave? Who'd be willing to measure 5kV (AC or DC) with this meter and these probes?
https://www.ebay.de/itm/224547972795
McBryce.
Ugh I hate stuff like that. One purpose novelty stuff does not belong on this planet.Exceptions: a fish kettle, and an asparagus kettle. Possibly add a. turbotiere, but given the price of whole turbots, it might be better to rent
Easy way of avoiding kitchen geegaws. Ask whether you already have a way of doing whatever the geegaw does, and ask whether cleaning takes longer than any time saved.
Don't apply those question to TEA geegaws.
get a dutch oven.
A one stop solution to all your cooking needs ...
P.S. could really use one of them exploding cats, to install in this computer , had lots of problems with it the last few days, it froze shortly after an error appeared and then refused to boot afterwards (not even a beep from the motherboard), it's done this twice now, I suspect a hardware problem.
It could easily be a windows update (if that's your OS). My laptop started behaving oddly after updating yesterday, the line detection doesn't work properly now and it keeps dropping in and out, with accompanying beep (until I got annoyed and turned the sound off).
Naturally I checked the output from the brick as I thought the high ambient t was making it shut down, but nope. Just windows being windows.
Bit behind on here again.....
It's done it again over the weekend, I'm fairly certain it's a hardware problem, as it refused to do anything other than spin fans/drives up and light the LED on the front. To rule out the OS (win 10) I unplugged the HDD's and still couldn't get anything for a while after repeatedly trying, I would normally expect the motherboard beep & show the boot screen, then the post info, would have thought an error about no drives too.
Not sure I can be bothered investigating further as the PC is getting on a bit, the motherboard & CPU are from 2008, I did replace the cheap nasty Coolermaster PSU after it failed in 2011 (filled with CrapXon caps & not enough space to fit decent parts, due to component density). The GPU, RAM and HDD's got upgraded in 2014.
Might be time for a partial rebuild with new motherboard, CPU, RAM, SSD, etc. Thinking of going for a Ryzen 3700X (65W), not sure about the rest yet, as I need to see if I can find a motherboard with correct expansion slots for the GPU & other cards.
DavidJust as much for those playing along at home as for you, my friend :
Don't forget to go here and do some research; https://pcpartpicker.com/products/cpu/
Check parts pricing now vs history so you don't fuck yourself paying too much for something which price has tanked for some unknown reason.
A couple hours spent there can save you a few hundred or more, depending on build.
mnem
Anyone know if I can use the existing Win 10 OEM license, or will I have to buy another?
Anyone know if I can use the existing Win 10 OEM license, or will I have to buy another?
If you need a new license, I'd do the following thing:
- get a cheap Win7 pro license (DVD + sticker)
- install Win7
- upgrade to Win10
This is still possible, I've done it some weeks before on a notebook of an uncle of mine.
The notebook had Vista installed, so I replaced the harddisk with a SSD and added some memory.
Worked nicely and he is a happy camper.
I've bought the Win7 license here (NAWTS):
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/143980602049