Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

Don’t ya just love a frustrating challenge, Mike?

Glad wife is doing well. That’s most important.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Wife put mail in the mailbox this morning, and I got my email and text message from the mailbox. So resetting the indoor unit to my WiFi fixed it. Don’t have to risk life and limb out at the road today. Overall this mail sensor has been great. I’ve used it over a year, batteries at 88%. Because of the distance I got the LoRa option, which connects to a WiFi unit in the house. The lower cost option is WiFi from the mailbox and no other unit inside.

MySpool

Smart Alerts and Notifications

myspool.com

Still can’t see IP address for my geothermal monitor, so have an email into them. I think this is same thing that happened years ago and they had to reflash with a cable. The cable is $54, I have the bin file, asked if I could do it
Guy makes and sells these from his house in western MD.

Low Cost Temperature Logger: The Web Energy Logger

 

[wngsprd]

Still can’t see IP address for my geothermal monitor, so have an email into them. I think this is same thing that happened years ago and they had to reflash with a cable. The cable is $54, I have the bin file, asked if I could do it
Guy makes and sells these from his house in western MD.

Low Cost Temperature Logger: The Web Energy Logger

That geo monitor is pretty awesome...just studied the Madison, VA and the Paw Paw WV locations. The only monitoring I have is looking at the thermostat.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Look what my neighbor just got delivered.

His wife was out there and the grandkids. It has a buddy seat. I was drooling over it also.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Discovered my water softener salt tank half full of water. Last time it happened was a 50 cent gasket, which is now 3 for $14 on Amazon if I want it this week.

Bailed the water out by hand with an old plastic container.
Also pulled battery from the non working basement UPS.

This is the geo monitor with cover off. The red board is a commercially obtained processor board which plugs into the I/O board underneath that he has built. He then writes the C program for the processor.

 

[riptides]

Don’t ya just love a frustrating challenge, Mike?

Glad wife is doing well. That’s most important.

Yes, all else is trivial in details. Thank you.

I took another stab at it, measuring the inside wall to an outside wall. Then I added the true 2x4 widths for the wall, went up in the attic and I am still entering the black hole or worm hole. It's like the wall doesn't exist in this dimension according to the attic. Yet less than four feet across from my new outlet, I have wired an outlet with success on the same plane/line.

I will give it a rest for a few days and concentrate on running the SO's other outlets. Worse case scenario is the kitchen has one outlet at counter level on that wall.

 

[rswyan]

58F with a rain shower @ 15:30, which looks like that might be the high for the day.

Set another high temperature record for the day yesterday @ 62F, previous record was 60F.

Got hopper feeder filled and the two tube feeders set out yesterday, also cracked corn scattered.

Walked out back to the edge of the lawn and took down the deer feeder and brought it up and hung it over by the bird feeders on the small oak tree.

That oak tree is actually a sucker that grew up out of huge oak tree that we cut down better than 20 years ago. It's now around 6" or so DBH.

Still need to take some hot water out there and flush out the deer feeder before filling it.

Woman ran to the grocery and pet store, took recycle bin up to the can at the road and dumped it.

Amazon delivered new air purifier, got that unpacked and set up.

Did some banking and got bills scheduled for payment, another one to do today that came in the mail yesterday.

Drew 18+ gallons of hard water for pwc's, got most of it moved into the fish room.

Got a little bit of staining done.

Checked softener salt, added another bag.

Fishies all fed.

Finished up the sausage dumplings yesterday for dinner.

Woman is going over to the neighbor's to get her haircut later. She's making up another batch of sausage dumplings and will take some over with her.

Was abruptly woken up @ around 05:00 this morning, not sure by what. Got up and took a whizz, had no trouble going back to sleep.

More later.

 

[m7040]

The old air grinders are not used much anymore. The 41/2 inch angle grinders does most of the work and the cordless and corder grinders the rest. Would like to get a cordless straight grinder as well. I use the old Craftsman corded grinder some because it has speed and torque and is very good with the flabber wheels

 

[buckeyefarmer]

That geo monitor is pretty awesome...just studied the Madison, VA and the Paw Paw WV locations. The only monitoring I have is looking at the thermostat.

Mine should be on the map, but I don’t see it right now. Maybe because it’s not reporting.

I also have a thermostat monitor that connects to it.

 

[KilroyJC]

Loudspeaker designs have changed dramatically with the availability of inexpensive, almost unlimited power amplifiers.
Where you once had designs like the Klipsch and Altecs leveraging every available watt into acoustic energy, they required trade offs that just aren’t practical now.
As far as low bass goes, speaker placement and the room itself becomes very important in making it coherent rather than just noise. Many times a high pass filter is employed just to clean up the mud.

Yeah, but those old University horns were so efficient you could get theater-filling SPLs and base response down to 6Hz in a proper cabinet with a 40-watt tube amp….