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Michael A Terrell <mike.terrell@earthlink.net>: Nov 16 10:14PM -0500 rickman wrote: >> ability to >> sufferer fools of any kind, in yet another newsgroup.   > Must be rough looking in the mirror... I'm just sayin'     Then tell us what it's like.

rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>: Nov 17 03:39AM -0500 Michael A Terrell wrote on 11/16/2017 10:14 PM: >>> sufferer fools of any kind, in yet another newsgroup.   >> Must be rough looking in the mirror... I'm just sayin'   > Then tell us what it's like.   So today you've decided you *do* care about my ignorant blather?   lol   --   Rick C   Viewed the eclipse at Wintercrest Farms, on the centerline of totality since 1998

Jeff Layman <jmlayman@invalid.invalid>: Nov 16 08:09PM On 16/11/17 12:29, Phil Allison wrote:   >> There have always been listening devices and there always will be.   >> I remember reading the clever way the Russians were snooping on the Americans with no bugs within half a mile of the room: they targeted a laser on a window pane of the room they were spying on. The window pane acted like a microphone diaphragm. They then demodulated the return signal which had the room audio modulated on it. Probably not hifi but I'll bet it was usable.   > ** By all accounts, bouncing a IR laser off a widow is not practical. The beam has to be precisely aligned *square on* to the window and the resulting sound quality is abysmal.   I don't understand that. Why "square on"? Wouldn't the beam have a tendency to pass right through the glass, with little reflection? Wouldn't it be best to have it meet the glass above the critical angle, so it would experience maximum reflection? Of course, the detector would then have to be well away from the laser, and aligning them would be very difficult.   And in these days of double and triple glazing, it would be even less viable.   > OTOH this simple Soviet invention worked well and had no such issues:   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)   Thanks for that link. A very interesting read.   --   Jeff

Phil Allison <pallison49@gmail.com>: Nov 16 10:30PM -0800 Jeff Layman wrote:   -----------------------------   > > The beam has to be precisely aligned *square on* to the window and > > the resulting sound quality is abysmal.   > I don't understand that. Why "square on"?   ** The IR laser and its receiver have to be in the same location, maybe hundreds of yards away rom the target window, so alignment is near impossible.   Google the idea.       .... Phil

Michael A Terrell <mike.terrell@earthlink.net>: Nov 16 03:36PM -0500 >> Is there any law of Physics, that Acme can't break? :)   > That coyotes actually eat roadrunners?     Would you want to eat a stringy, almost meatless bird?

"pfjw@aol.com" <pfjw@aol.com>: Nov 16 12:45PM -0800 On Thursday, November 16, 2017 at 3:36:25 PM UTC-5, Michael Terrell wrote:   > >> Is there any law of Physics, that Acme can't break? :)   > > That coyotes actually eat roadrunners?   > Would you want to eat a stringy, almost meatless bird?   If I were a coyote, very probably I would. De gustibus non est disputandum.   Coyotes are one of the few members of the canis family that eat carrion, as well as fruits, berries and some vegetables. Roadrunners fit right in.     Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA

krw@notreal.com: Nov 16 08:53PM -0500 On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 15:36:20 -0500, Michael A Terrell   >>> Is there any law of Physics, that Acme can't break? :)   >> That coyotes actually eat roadrunners?   > Would you want to eat a stringy, almost meatless bird?   Keyword: almost

Michael A Terrell <mike.terrell@earthlink.net>: Nov 16 10:11PM -0500 >>> That coyotes actually eat roadrunners?   >> Would you want to eat a stringy, almost meatless bird?   > Keyword: almost   There are Jackrabbits and other animals that are a lot slower, and provide more food than a Roadrunner. Not only that, but the Coyote is a self described 'Genius'. :)

"Ian Field" <gangprobing.alien1@virginmedia.com>: Nov 16 07:27PM "Jeff Liebermann" <jeffl@cruzio.com> wrote in message news:ld1q0dht5jcs0ga8m2fad495118ja7de29@4ax.com... > see how it works. The skool would frown upon me taking apart > something that was still working, but offered little resistance if I > took apart something that was broken.   The first powerbank I bought got destroyed by my curiosity - the second donated its PCB to an LED bicycle light that I converted to lithium. Just bought another to sit on the shelf just in case.     > battery packs, assembled by a reputable and experienced rebuilder, > trip the protector for no obvious reason. I recently had one go open > circuit during charging, which might offer a clue.   I suspect the charger - but it hasn't damaged any of the other batteries rotated through it.   The cell I peeled had what looked like a popper disc in the top, but it was malleable instead of springy - I suspect "resetting" it would compromise safety.

Wayne Chirnside <wdim@faux.com>: Nov 17 12:44AM On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 19:32:50 -0800, Jeff Liebermann wrote:   > packs, assembled by a reputable and experienced rebuilder, trip the > protector for no obvious reason. I recently had one go open circuit > during charging, which might offer a clue.   If the battery has a protection circuit built in, you can tell by the dark band at the negative terminal and a strip up the side to the positive it will trip at something under 3 volts and refuse a charge for safety sake.   You can put a very low current limited charge into the to get them up to around 3.2 - 3.4 volts then and only then will a lithium battery charger ( a proper one) attempt to charge it.

Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>: Nov 16 04:03PM -0800 On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 16:35:15 +0000 (UTC), harry newton   ><http://wetakepic.com/images/2017/11/15/Clipboard05.jpg>   One of these daze, I should read the Ubiquiti instructions. I didn't know it had a built in watchdog reboot feature. Same warning as with the Kantronics TNC. If the watchdog feature lives in the same hardware that it's trying to monitor, then chances are good that if one hangs, so will the other.   I've also had the reboot timer in DD-WRT screw up on me a few times, but that was long ago.   Bah Humbug (T'is almost the season).   -- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>: Nov 17 01:32AM +0100 On 2017-11-15 14:26, Peter Köhlmann wrote:   >> I know one or two, but they are expensive. >> A timer reboot is too aggressive when a reboot is not needed.   > Use a Raspberry   Yes, that's one of the methods I'm considering for when I have the time.   -- Cheers, Carlos.

"pfjw@aol.com" <pfjw@aol.com>: Nov 16 12:31PM -0800 First a bit on me.   Neither of my parents spoke English as a first language (Gaelic & German), nor were they born in the US. Growing up Mid-West, East, South and Mid-Atlantic, and working in various professions and 'jobs' from Janitor to Machinist, and in the US and Middle East, I have seen a bit of the world and experienced a few sorts of people and cultures. Dinner guests in my childhood through teen years included the likes of Dorothy Parker, Helen & Scott Nearing, Hannah Arendt, Felix Morrow, Oscar and Edith Tarcov, Richmond Lattimore, J. Glenn Gray, Peter Drucker and more. Those are the highlights, but I could drop a bunch more names if needed. I get my words from my father, and my humor from my mother. My politics are quite far left of center, but no where near as far as my parents - who were both gun-owning believers in personal responsibility, and felt the world owed them nothing, quite the opposite. I had an aunt in the Irish Post Office, my father was seconded to the OSS during WWII spending most of the war on both sides of the line in Europe. I am married, two step-kids (but I got them very young), four grand-kids, two cats, two dogs. I also consider myself an elitist of the first water - I dislike spending time and effort around ignorance - which I believe can be fixed and is a deliberate choice, never an accident past the age of consent. I also deeply believe the Islamic mandate: Never refuse food, water or shelter together with the Social Contract (best summed up by Karl Marx), although I subscribe to no religion in the belief that religion per-se is largely responsible for much, very nearly all, that is evil in this world - along with any -ism that requires absolute adherence. I am a few months from (technically) retirement age, although I very much enjoy what I am doing and intend to stay at it as long as that enjoyment remains. Due to my wife's and my efforts over the last many years, retirement will be comfortable.   It takes a lot to get me to light off on someone. But, anything worth doing is worth doing well - and I try. Some seem to learn and get over it. Some seem to escalate the exchanges beyond banter. I feel like the opposite of the Taxi Driver in the Rutabaga Stories - I can be a much nicer person 'at home' if I vent my spleen in venues such as this one. But, for the record, it ain't nohow personal - nor is any one in the focus worth any actual time, effort or real emotion. I reserve that for friends, family and some very few actual enemies, all now dead (not from my efforts, sadly). Usenet requires the hide of a rhinoceros, a dry sense of humor, and considerable tolerance if it is to be enjoyed. Considerable, not complete.   Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA

Rheilly Phoull <froggins@iinet.net.au>: Nov 17 06:24AM +0800 > It takes a lot to get me to light off on someone. But, anything worth doing is worth doing well - and I try. Some seem to learn and get over it. Some seem to escalate the exchanges beyond banter. I feel like the opposite of the Taxi Driver in the Rutabaga Stories - I can be a much nicer person 'at home' if I vent my spleen in venues such as this one. But, for the record, it ain't nohow personal - nor is any one in the focus worth any actual time, effort or real emotion. I reserve that for friends, family and some very few actual enemies, all now dead (not from my efforts, sadly). Usenet requires the hide of a rhinoceros, a dry sense of humor, and considerable tolerance if it is to be enjoyed. Considerable, not complete.   > Peter Wieck > Melrose Park, PA   So--- the complete legend in your own mind then ??

Ken <Ken@invalid.com>: Nov 16 05:53PM -0600 Rheilly Phoull wrote:   >> Peter Wieck >> Melrose Park, PA   > So--- the complete legend in your own mind then ?? Me too!!!!!

etpm@whidbey.com: Nov 16 08:53AM -0800 On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 20:38:35 -0800, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> wrote:   >on one winding. I have a few other guesses, but can offer much >without a clue as to how its wired, which might be available once you >disclose the maker and model number. Thanks for your replies Jeff. I did describe the cap in my first post. It is a 220 MFD 250 volt cap.I did not name the generator though. It is a Champion model C46540. It has an RV type 120 volt receptacle that used to put out the full 29 or so amps. It also has another 120 volt receptacle that is wired in parallel to the RV receptacle and it is the type that allows either a 15 amp or a 30 amp plug to be used. It also used to put out the full rated amperage. I don't know if it does now. It also has a 240 volt receptacle that I have never used except once just to test it. In your previous post you mentioned using a heat gun to remove the pottying compound. I'll take a look at the links you posted. Thanks, Eric

etpm@whidbey.com: Nov 16 08:55AM -0800 On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 10:56:56 -0800 (PST), "pfjw@aol.com"   >If you slide the potted guts out of the case, you then may freeze it hard, and hit it with a hammer to shatter the potting. This may help you get to the individual components faster. Been there. Done that.   >Peter Wieck >Melrose Park, PA Does the shattering damage other stuff? I could get some dry ice and freeze it really hard and then go after the potting with a punch. Eric

etpm@whidbey.com: Nov 16 08:57AM -0800 On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 11:13:51 -0800 (PST), John-Del <ohger1s@gmail.com> wrote:   >> Eric   >A lot of smps designs want the bypass electros as close to the secondary rectifier as possible. I don't suppose a good electro a few inches away will be as bad as one with high esr properly mounted, but it still might cause problems.   >Unless it's an epoxy potting, you should be able to de-pot the board and get that cap in as it should. I don't know what the compound is. It is black and hard. I'll try to get the new cap as close as possible. Thanks, Eric

etpm@whidbey.com: Nov 16 08:59AM -0800 >> The OP should add just enough wire to make connection to the PCB and twist the pair.   >Do what you can do.   >NT Your's and Rick's replies pretty much agree. I'll just get the new cap as close as possible and then not worry about it. Thanks, Eric

"pfjw@aol.com" <pfjw@aol.com>: Nov 16 09:03AM -0800 > Does the shattering damage other stuff? I could get some dry ice and > freeze it really hard and then go after the potting with a punch.   Typically, not. This is not liquid-nitrogen cold. The stuff usually cracks into fairly separate pieces, but not explosively.   Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA

tabbypurr@gmail.com: Nov 16 11:33AM -0800 On Thursday, 16 November 2017 02:02:20 UTC, Phil Allison wrote:   > Wot a tenth-wit.   > .... Phil   I apologise for not considering you the centre of the universe. Have a nice plonk. Again.

"pfjw@aol.com" <pfjw@aol.com>: Nov 16 11:43AM -0800 Every so often, Phil goes off his meds and starts to act out. Dealing with him at these times is much like nailing Jell-O or peeling raisins. Not very rewarding despite considerable effort.   I am not sure what drives him back onto his meds - I expect he mouths off to one-too-many people face-to-face and gets his clock cleaned, or he is found moldering in an ally somewhere. A stint in rehab, and he is fit, once again to be in polite society until the next 'event'.   Either way, he has some good knowledge, with the failing that it is neither absolute, entirely accurate or complete. This is true of all of us - however, Phil takes that failing very personally, and deems himself exempt from the consequences.   Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA

tabbypurr@gmail.com: Nov 16 12:37PM -0800 > Either way, he has some good knowledge, with the failing that it is neither absolute, entirely accurate or complete. This is true of all of us - however, Phil takes that failing very personally, and deems himself exempt from the consequences.   > Peter Wieck > Melrose Park, PA   I hope I never end up so intolerant or crazy.     NT

makolber@yahoo.com: Nov 16 10:16AM -0800 > levels; when I turn it lower, it goes silent again. I'm wondering if there > are > any simple ideas I might try?     stereo?   both channels go out?   m

etpm@whidbey.com: Nov 16 09:02AM -0800 On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 04:38:33 -0800 (PST), "pfjw@aol.com"   >Those of you looking for vintage parts, or into DYI may find some use for this source. They ship promptly and their parts are exactly as described.   >Peter Wieck >Melrose Park, PA I've been buying stuff, mostly optics, from Surplus Shed for years. They are a great outfit and I have gotten some great deals from them. Shipping is a flat 6 bucks. My latest purchase was a pair of 80 x 20 binoculars. I really like them. Eric

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