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- Sat Nov 09, 2019 3:43 pm
- Forum: The Peabody Lounge
- Topic: home improvement turns into science fair projects?
- Replies: 235
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Re: home improvement turns into science fair projects?
We've started installing USB wall outlets here. The Levitons have two USB ports and two NEMA outlets. The USB is 15W. I would love to have a bunch of adapters that would take 5V USB from the outlets and give me switchable 6, 9 and 12V to replace conventional magnetic wall warts. Do you mean you are...
- Sat Nov 09, 2019 2:13 pm
- Forum: The Peabody Lounge
- Topic: home improvement turns into science fair projects?
- Replies: 235
- Views: 260398
- Sun Nov 03, 2019 1:58 pm
- Forum: Document
- Topic: Vintage Digital Clock Circuits
- Replies: 28
- Views: 125800
Re: Vintage Digital Clock Circuits
Like this thingy from Garmin: https://www.proaudiodesignforum.com/forum/php/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1068 Same look. High tech @ $30. USB. ( Serial over USB, so using a driver giving a virtual serial port ). I played making my own GPS system using this receiver with a marine navigation software and...
- Sun Nov 03, 2019 11:47 am
- Forum: Document
- Topic: Vintage Digital Clock Circuits
- Replies: 28
- Views: 125800
Re: Vintage Digital Clock Circuits
In case you need the accuracy of the best atomic clocks.
Use a GPS receiver.
It's embedded SIRF chip gives the time, in the stream of data given on a serial port.
10^ -13 accuracy.
Use a GPS receiver.
It's embedded SIRF chip gives the time, in the stream of data given on a serial port.
10^ -13 accuracy.
- Tue Oct 29, 2019 6:43 pm
- Forum: The Peabody Lounge
- Topic: Entropy
- Replies: 1312
- Views: 1155052
Re: Entropy
Before I found the clogged fuel filter, I was suspecting dirt in the fuel system. I was going to follow advices about dirt that could be eliminated by recirculating the fuel. On this car, the pump is inside the gas tank, pushing gas to the engine stuff that takes care of it and there the unused gas ...
- Tue Oct 29, 2019 4:33 pm
- Forum: The Peabody Lounge
- Topic: Entropy
- Replies: 1312
- Views: 1155052
Re: Entropy
What's wrong with the old car ? Just in case...On an old car, gasoline fuel injection, I had those sneaky ones _One of the four plugs wire wrong, looking good and measured all good as the others with a multimeter. Swapping that wire with a crummy one from a junk car fixed the trouble. _The fuel filt...
- Sun Oct 27, 2019 11:21 am
- Forum: The Peabody Lounge
- Topic: Gentle persuasion over time
- Replies: 184
- Views: 334379
Re: Gentle persuasion over time
Tanks for the news. And about: The more that I poke and prod, the more convinced I am that this tree would not (will not) behave... prodding around the bottom I can find various regions of rot eating into the trunk, mixed with regions of solid wood. When this falls it could twist and turn in unpredi...
- Sun Oct 27, 2019 6:05 am
- Forum: The Peabody Lounge
- Topic: Gentle persuasion over time
- Replies: 184
- Views: 334379
Re: Gentle persuasion over time
- Tue Oct 22, 2019 7:11 pm
- Forum: The Peabody Lounge
- Topic: Gentle persuasion over time
- Replies: 184
- Views: 334379
Re: Gentle persuasion over time
You must train the termites to feed on the right side of the tree.
- Sun Oct 20, 2019 7:39 pm
- Forum: The Peabody Lounge
- Topic: Gentle persuasion over time
- Replies: 184
- Views: 334379
Re: Gentle persuasion over time
About pecan tree and tap root, I found this:
https://www.robertkourik.com/taproot-tidbit.html
https://www.robertkourik.com/taproot-tidbit.html