I was mistaken on this. It was changed, recently, crew do not count as passengers anymore. A change I knew people were begging for years ago, but I didn't know they did it. So, eight or less on a boat now. https://www.deepwaterhappy.com/2020...ts-boat-passenger-laws-do-you-need-a-captain/
house took a direct lightning strike and fried the router and a bunch of electronics hooked up to what I thought were good surge protectors. Can anyone recommend a strong one to make sure this shit doesn't happen again?
Get a ups. Never had a lightning strike but have had power outages and the like and never had a problem.
AFAIK, regular power strips / surge protectors are meant to protect against surges from the grid, not direct lightning strikes. There are whole-house setups that might help with this, though.
Surely a consumer-grade surge protector can block a lightning bolt that is capable of jumping across thousands of feet of open air.
i don’t know how this stuff works. I would assume that the surge protectors are like the sacrificial lamb in the connection, but that doesn’t explain to me why some things like my WiFi router and satellite tv modem fried, while other electronics like our speakers and tv that were hooked up to the same surge protector were just fine. electricity is terrifying and I don’t understand it so that’s why I stay the fuck away from it
thanks for the info. It was definitely the “cheaper” items that went, which makes sense the way you explained it. Yeah we have several dozen large oaks surrounding the house which are much taller than the roof, and I’ve generally relied upon those as the lightning rods. Though ironically we’ve been having a tree trimmer cut a lot of them back both to remove limbs likely to fall and damage the house, as well as raise the canopy and make it look nice. He was up in the trees when the storm approached and it looks like left in a hurry. I’ve yet to find any physical damage to the house, so we might not have taken a direct hit actually. I’ll have to drive around tomorrow once it dries out and see if there’s any downed trees that could have been the impact zone. Those lightning strikes are crazy. A few years after I started driving I was leaving class and a telephone pole got struck in the transformer right next to me. Bright yellow everywhere, I thought the car got hit until I saw the pole on fire. Loudest noise I’ve personally ever heard.
Yep. Unstable or unclean power, regardless of how wildly it fluctuates, causes damage to a large number of electronics. A surge protector will do basically fuck all in some/most conditions. I had a neighbour fry $15k of tv/sat/stereo gear due to a problem from the grid... massive surge that hit so hard that it caught the carpet on fire under the surge protector. I never trust them. But I do have a good whole-house surge protector at the main panel. https://www.thisoldhouse.com/electrical/21194149/how-effective-are-surge-protectors Every single piece of electronics in my house has some form of UPS on them for not just the surges, but also the brownouts. When power drops below nominal and then fluctuates to get back to normal it can cause damage. A UPS, regardless of the size, helps provide constant, clean power even when there's a slight brownout. It doesn't have to be big. My TV's have one of these on them: https://www.apc.com/shop/ca/en/products/APC-Back-UPS-425VA-120V-6-NEMA-outlets-2-surge-/P-BE425M Same for the AppleTV and the cable box. It'll run for about 3-5 minutes when the power goes out, but that's enough... at least it didn't let the Spike of Death go through. All of my routers/wi-fi shit in the house has something more serious, so we can go more than 12 hours without power and still have internet access. My computers in my office, and all networking gear all has SERIOUS UPS on them so that I can hack the web for 10 hours or so with all monitors and external peripherals... and are set up to auto-shutdown stuff when the batteries get to 10% or lower. My hot water on demand also has a UPS on it so that I can still take a hot shower when the power goes out, and I have a portable spare to plug the gas fireplace into so it'll heat the house if needed. I've been tempted to upgrade to something like the PowerWall, but figure I'll stop trying to polish this turd of a house and save it for my next, "dream" house, that will have all the toys and bells and whistles.
I will say there is one serious downside to having so many UPSs in the house... the fucking alarms that go off when power dies. It's like all hell broke loose in a coo-coo-clock factory. And then when the power does go out, it resets an internal "test pattern cycle" for a lot of them, so that means that every 10(?) days later after that, at that same time, a whack of UPSs will do their internal switch-over test to ensure they are still working properly... makes for some weird electrical switching noises when it happens.
Years ago, I aquired a bunch of UPS for my squadron from another unit that had been deactivated. They had sat unplugged for over a year and we found out the batteries in them were bad because after a few days, they all started beeping...a lot. I looked into replacing the batteries...it was cheaper to buy new UPS.
Yeah, I've found that it's somewhat cheaper to buy aftermarket 3rd party batteries for some of the bigger UPSs I have. Prices of that stuff has gone way, way down it seems, while the cost of the controllers, integration features, etc, have improved.
Yea, that was 2005-2006...I just remember coming into the office on a Monday morning and my boss looking at me like wtf is going on?
Do any of you live close to Lorain, OH? I'm looking at a boat there and was looking for someone to go take a look and see if the photos in the ad are an accurate representation of its condition. It's a 600+ mile trip for me, one that I don't want to make if it has been photographed in a way that hides tons of defects. I've done it before, been sorely disappointed after a long drive.
Anyone good with an autocad program? I am using autodesk fusion 360 have a question. I am proficient enough with stacking circles and squares to make most small things. I am trying to make some replacement wheel for my dish washer. I am trying to put some supports. With my very limited knowledge, i am not having any luck trying to figure out how to do this. Any have any suggestions?
Most dishwasher parts are readily available on Thingiverse. I just finished printing 3D replacements for my sister's dishwasher. It's a bit of a known thing that most of those wheels are absolute shit and don't last long. https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=dishwasher+wheel&page=1&type=things&sort=relevant
I know that's not the question you asked... but I can't help you with that because I don't know Fusion... but I wasn't sure if you knew where you could get the actual sliceable files.
So we had our annual 'merit' raise at our work. It was 5%. Im not one for the stress of negotiating and left the meeting really without questioning it. The operations manager that we meet with kind of left it open if I had any issues with the amount or how they came to it (just a throw away line they said that it was inline with local jobs in the same vain). Talking with my supervisor she was egging me on to push for more as she had that day and another guy in our department had last year and they worked with him on it. I ended up emailing him and requesting another meeting. I feel like another 2 dollars an hour is warranted and probably the upper limit of what the cheap owner might say yes to. My question, Im actually wondering if instead of asking for an additional pay increase I could ask for additional benefits as something that may be a little more enticing for them to say yes to. We get two weeks vacation with a 3rd week after five years (which would be next summer for me). A year or two before I started incoming employees I believe got 3 weeks with a 4th after 5. They had cut that, as again, the owner is cheap. Im curious if companies would be more willing to shell out vacation time in lieu of higher base pay? More beneficial on the financial accounting ledger for them? Id probably be willing to do a dollar more an hour with an additional week vacation (which basically be a wash for 2 dollars an hour), if they really dig their heels in on any increase Id be happy with just an additional week. Could I ask for it retroactively for what Ive accrued this year?
Sounds pretty reasonable to me. And better framed than my brother, who recently texted his boss and brought up managerial benefits. The guy asked what he was looking for, and my brother typed back, "You ever seen Jerry Maguire?" He showed me the text and I laughed my ass off. I suspect it worked for him, though I wouldn't try it.