buckeyefarmer
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As we drove by the smokies on monday, i told my wife about you sometimes go to the smokies, but was going somewhere else this time.....
My youngest wants to go there again.
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My youngest wants to go there again.
buckeyefarmer
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I have no plans for the day, will probably get it all done...
Oh yea, Do have a costco run when wife gets home later. We picking up 2 cakes and rolls for a church lunch tomorrow. She said something about eating out tonight, which is fine with me.
Need to check front brakes on truck. Sounding like they might be down to rotors. Only got 30k miles on the 2008 HD2500.
Pellet stove wont light, no heat from the ignitor. Ordered ignitor on amazon.
Need to change tractor oil, hydro filter. Wont get to that.
Drew, how did the food bank tour go?
Oh yea, Do have a costco run when wife gets home later. We picking up 2 cakes and rolls for a church lunch tomorrow. She said something about eating out tonight, which is fine with me.
Need to check front brakes on truck. Sounding like they might be down to rotors. Only got 30k miles on the 2008 HD2500.
Pellet stove wont light, no heat from the ignitor. Ordered ignitor on amazon.
Need to change tractor oil, hydro filter. Wont get to that.
Drew, how did the food bank tour go?
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70°F and .65 inches rain.
Review class today for my Ham Tech exam.
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Have a great day
Review class today for my Ham Tech exam.
Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day
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Yesterday morning our low was 66 degrees and the high went to 87. And now it's 34 degrees going for a forecast high of 45.Winter SHOULD be about over.
I neglected to mention that today is opening day for the Denton Community Market in one of the city's parks. We drove by and were surprised to see a big crowd there in spite of the 34 degree temperature, north wind, and mist.
buckeyefarmer
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pulled stove ignitor. 0 ohms.
farmer2009
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We arrived Monday in the smokies. First time we’ve been back since the fire. Burn scares are still very noticeable. It’s also odd not to see all the houses looking down on the towns. They rebuilt the attractions first. Now building houses. We were there about 6 weeks before it burned in 2016.
You should take them. The wife and I have seen just about all the shows but we enjoy going back. Now with kids we go to the aquarium and the Stampede every visit. Kids love both. Once they’re older we’ll go back to the Lumberjack Fued and Hatfield and McCoys. For older kids they have a great Titanic museum. They give you a name when you go in and at the end you find out if you lived or died.
We’ve been enough that we’ve learned how the locals get around town. We spend very little time in traffic.
mpham
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Woke up to about an inch of heavy slippery snow.Now the sun is out and it is melted off of hard surfaces. Should be in the middle 40's with light wind. Lows in the 20's still....come on Spring!
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Well, the new floor sweeper robot was delivered Wednesday, and it's already worn out its welcome. Read on if you're at all curious what a supposedly state-of-the-art machine is capable, or more accurately incapable of. Otherwise save yourself some time and know it's going back to Amazon next week, and I'm still looking for a robot buddy to take care of the floors.:thumbdown:
After reading the reviews, and sending back a Roomba 980, I had great hopes for the Neato Botvac D7. Unfortunately it was a miserable failure in my home. Half the floors here are covered in porcelain tile, the other half with engineered laminate. Two 10'x8' and several 5'x7' area rugs sit on top of the laminate in places like a great room and the three bedrooms. Smaller 2'x3' area rugs sit in front of the many doors and glass sliders. The first problem is that the robot couldn't get up onto the area rugs. The thicknesses range from 0.625" to just shy of an inch, and Neato Support says the maximum height the D7 can climb is 0.6". Wish that was published somewhere I so could have read it before purchase (and believe me I looked); I wouldn't have bothered buying the thing. Next, when it did manage to crawl its way up onto a rug, it would often pivot and run itself right back off. Sometimes it would go right over the edge and up onto the rug, others times it would get the front edge up and reverse. I suspect that the drop sensors were being triggered on some rugs that had black borders, but this also happened with one with a cream colored border.
Often times the robot would give up trying to get up onto the rug, stop, and beep for help. I'd get a notification on the iPad/iPhone asking me to move it no more than 2', which I would do, but then the robot would just sit there. The screen on the iPad/iPhone would remain on the "I'm stuck" screen with the "home", "stop" and "pause" buttons grayed out. Only way to get the darn thing moving again was to hit the start button on the robot, and that for some reason would send it back to the charging station. Never did figure out that one, as the instructions that came with it (I'm an engineer, so I do read instructions) never mentioned that behavior.
It also couldn't negotiate the fringe tassels that frame the ends of the rugs. They'd get wrapped up in the brush and the robot would stop, beeping for help. It would then have the same problems getting restarted as with the rug height.
Neato support suggested I create lines around the area rugs to keep the robot from trying to clean them, but without a complete area map, how was I supposed to know where to draw the lines? Kind of a chicken-and-the-egg problem, and not well thought out by the Neato software developers. And besides, I'm pretty sure I sent eight hundred bux on a robot to clean ALL the floors, even the rugs.
Oh, and the iPad version of the Neato app would only display in Portrait mode, very inconvenient since my 12.9" iPad is equipped with a Logitech keyboard and I pretty much always use it in Landscape mode. Makes me wonder if anybody at Neato ever even used the app.
I was able to get the robot to connect to the 2.4 GHz WiFi at my home, but it never saw the 5 GHz network. Inconvenient, as I usually keep both the phone and iPad on 5GHz for higher throughput when streaming video, and they have to be on the same network as the D7 to communicate with it. Or at least that's what the instructions seem to indicate, as again the instructions are anything but comprehensive and the web site is pretty poorly organized as well.
For all this, the best the D7 was able to clean in a half dozen cleaning attempts was about half the great room. It never got to any of the three bedrooms or two bathrooms, the kitchen, or either of the two short hallways. Maybe if you live in a featureless box with threadbare carpets and an extremely open floor plan the D7 may work for you. I found that the best way to get along with the D7 was to pack it back into the box and send it back to Amazon; thank goodness for Prime.
Comparison wise, the Roomba 980 fared much better than the D7, especially with climbing up onto the area rugs and not getting stuck on the tassels. But the edge sensors on the 980 threw fits with the black borders on the rugs, and it couldn't even get through half a cleaning before the dirt box was full. That wouldn't trigger an "I'm fill" message of any kind though, so it continued "cleaning" but not picking up anything. Again, makes me wonder of anybody at iRobot ever tested their machine under anything resembling real world conditions.
So at this point it's back to using the Dyson upright vacuum and keeping an eye on the latest robot reviews. Maybe by next year they'll have grown up enough to be of some use in a real world home.
After reading the reviews, and sending back a Roomba 980, I had great hopes for the Neato Botvac D7. Unfortunately it was a miserable failure in my home. Half the floors here are covered in porcelain tile, the other half with engineered laminate. Two 10'x8' and several 5'x7' area rugs sit on top of the laminate in places like a great room and the three bedrooms. Smaller 2'x3' area rugs sit in front of the many doors and glass sliders. The first problem is that the robot couldn't get up onto the area rugs. The thicknesses range from 0.625" to just shy of an inch, and Neato Support says the maximum height the D7 can climb is 0.6". Wish that was published somewhere I so could have read it before purchase (and believe me I looked); I wouldn't have bothered buying the thing. Next, when it did manage to crawl its way up onto a rug, it would often pivot and run itself right back off. Sometimes it would go right over the edge and up onto the rug, others times it would get the front edge up and reverse. I suspect that the drop sensors were being triggered on some rugs that had black borders, but this also happened with one with a cream colored border.
Often times the robot would give up trying to get up onto the rug, stop, and beep for help. I'd get a notification on the iPad/iPhone asking me to move it no more than 2', which I would do, but then the robot would just sit there. The screen on the iPad/iPhone would remain on the "I'm stuck" screen with the "home", "stop" and "pause" buttons grayed out. Only way to get the darn thing moving again was to hit the start button on the robot, and that for some reason would send it back to the charging station. Never did figure out that one, as the instructions that came with it (I'm an engineer, so I do read instructions) never mentioned that behavior.
It also couldn't negotiate the fringe tassels that frame the ends of the rugs. They'd get wrapped up in the brush and the robot would stop, beeping for help. It would then have the same problems getting restarted as with the rug height.
Neato support suggested I create lines around the area rugs to keep the robot from trying to clean them, but without a complete area map, how was I supposed to know where to draw the lines? Kind of a chicken-and-the-egg problem, and not well thought out by the Neato software developers. And besides, I'm pretty sure I sent eight hundred bux on a robot to clean ALL the floors, even the rugs.
Oh, and the iPad version of the Neato app would only display in Portrait mode, very inconvenient since my 12.9" iPad is equipped with a Logitech keyboard and I pretty much always use it in Landscape mode. Makes me wonder if anybody at Neato ever even used the app.
I was able to get the robot to connect to the 2.4 GHz WiFi at my home, but it never saw the 5 GHz network. Inconvenient, as I usually keep both the phone and iPad on 5GHz for higher throughput when streaming video, and they have to be on the same network as the D7 to communicate with it. Or at least that's what the instructions seem to indicate, as again the instructions are anything but comprehensive and the web site is pretty poorly organized as well.
For all this, the best the D7 was able to clean in a half dozen cleaning attempts was about half the great room. It never got to any of the three bedrooms or two bathrooms, the kitchen, or either of the two short hallways. Maybe if you live in a featureless box with threadbare carpets and an extremely open floor plan the D7 may work for you. I found that the best way to get along with the D7 was to pack it back into the box and send it back to Amazon; thank goodness for Prime.
Comparison wise, the Roomba 980 fared much better than the D7, especially with climbing up onto the area rugs and not getting stuck on the tassels. But the edge sensors on the 980 threw fits with the black borders on the rugs, and it couldn't even get through half a cleaning before the dirt box was full. That wouldn't trigger an "I'm fill" message of any kind though, so it continued "cleaning" but not picking up anything. Again, makes me wonder of anybody at iRobot ever tested their machine under anything resembling real world conditions.
So at this point it's back to using the Dyson upright vacuum and keeping an eye on the latest robot reviews. Maybe by next year they'll have grown up enough to be of some use in a real world home.
ronjhall
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RNG, You may find buying 2 of the lower priced robot vacuums will work better. 1” thick carpet would be a problem for our iRobot. We have a 1” high tiled area from a hallway to wood stove. It is edged with 1/4 round. The transition happens about 90% of the time. When it misses it goes back down the hallway and approaches from the dinning room. It seems to spend a lot of time cleaning under and around the wood stove.
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That sounds like fun, Ron: Dueling robots! One robot enters, one robot leaves. Just like Thunderdome!:laughing:
I think that part of the problem is that the "Smarts" being programmed into the top line models aren't smart at all because they make assumptions that, at least in the real world, are not valid. Simple things that a manual vacuum easily copes with disable the robots. Things like a black border on a rug or a 1" transition/threshold. The advanced features like cleaning maps and exclusion areas are nice, but if the darn thing won't go where it's needed, it's all pretty much for naught. I'm looking at one from Dyson now that uses tank like tracks to get around, but once again, the Dyson website is pretty thin on technical details, or even not so technical details like the overall dimensions of the robot body. Sure would hate to get something that won't be able to clean under the woodstove.:shocked: