Good morning!!!!

[PJSprog]

62°F and cloudy this morning, going up to a whopping 72° today. We'll be back in the low 90s by the weekend.

Ran into a little light rain on the way home from work yesterday, and it struck me as curious how these gentle clouds and light rain were all that was left of what was just a few days ago the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean. I remember that same odd thought when we got rains from hurricane Katrina. We got a lot more rain from that one, though.

Started making up a checklist of things to review on our final walk-through with the electrician this weekend. I'm liking this light at the end of the tunnel (pun intended).

 

[Buppies]

Gary wonderful story thanks for sharing

 

[Buppies]

Buckeye hope you get back to feeling better soo. No pun intended

 

[sodamo]

View attachment PK-Map3.pdf

70ｰF and no rain

Glad to hear Irma was less destructive than forecast, still traumatic though.

Anyone ever play with the PDF version of the USGS MAP sheets? I did a bit yesterday creating a topographical overlay on aerial pic of my property.

Hmmmm can't attach PDF or maybe it did

Be safe
Have a great day

 

[RedNeckGeek]

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Anyone ever play with the PDF version of the USGS MAP sheets? I did a bit yesterday creating a topographical overlay on aerial pic of my property.

The .pdf attachment downloaded and opened just fine on the Mac, David. What link did you use to create it?

 

[txdon]

Do you know more than the girl at tractor supply? Neither of us knew if this was a battery LOAD tester. Is it a battery load tester?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Google, looks to be a load tester

 

[sodamo]

RNG. If you mean the USGS file I dl and opened on my MacBook using Preview to open and grab the map portion. Imported both map portion and photo files into a blank Numbers spreadsheet where I could play with opacity and scaling. Save out as PDF. Took about 15 minutes, but I wasn't trying for a particular scale, just close match.
Used the safari TBN to import the PDF.

Back in 2003 when we bought the property, I spent hours creating a file with the topo overlay of my survey using a copier, printer, clear sheets. PITA. I was still in Atlanta at the time brainstorming what if on the property.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

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Do you know more than the girl at tractor supply? Neither of us knew if this was a battery LOAD tester. Is it a battery load tester?

The write up on their web site says it's a battery tester, but it isn't big enough to be a load tester. The resistor needed to dissipate the heat generated during a real load test is about four times the size of that little bitty box. I use one of these and it gets HOT!

500 Amp Carbon Pile Load Tester

When you charge a battery, then read it with a volt meter, what you're seeing is "surface charge". Hooking up a headlight bulb and running it for a few minutes will burn off the surface charge and give you a more realistic reading. But a real load test is a much better indicator of a battery's condition, as the ability of the battery to produce substantial current flow, similar to when starting an engine, is what is being measured and tested.

 

[daugen]

OMG Montana and Oregon are burning up and there is nothing on the news.
David, I have pictures sent to me from friends driving from Delaware to Washington, and they got into Bozeman last night.
Said the smoke had been bothering them for days, all the way back to Minnesota.
The pic they sent showed a haze everywhere.