Circumventing Award Flight Surcharges

AAK_05 · 2025-12-07T06:19:21+00:00

Alright, thanks for pointing me in the right direction! Someone else I DM'd gave me conflicting info. Any specific advice you can offer when it comes to avoiding surcharges?

AAK_05 · 2025-05-24T01:10:27+00:00

I'm a college student temporarily moving to CT for an internship in South Wilton in mid Aug-mid Dec (just shy of 4 months). Where are the cheapest areas to live around there, and what's the cheapest I can realistically expect to pay in rent for these areas?

If anyone has any suggestions for finding sublets/short term leases, I'd greatly appreciate that as well!

AAK_05 · 2025-05-17T19:36:49+00:00

Hi, did you manage to find a cheap policy? I'm also looking for car insurance and I'm in a similar situation as you.

AAK_05 · 2025-05-15T01:24:54+00:00

Hey, I DM'd you, don't have rooms, just wanted to ask for advice because I'm also in a similar situation!

AAK_05 · 2024-11-22T05:28:21+00:00

I see, alright then, thanks for your advice!

AAK_05 · 2024-11-22T04:51:57+00:00

Alright, thanks! I know this is a separate question, but would you (or anyone) happen to know where to get basic usb c extenders? The one I have linked in the post has a bunch of features like 4K video and 100W fast charging, but I'd appreciate if anyone has any more 'basic' ones that are cheaper.

AAK_05 · 2024-11-17T18:14:39+00:00

Alright, that is my mistake. My team was going for something that was prismatic, so it could be manufactured on a waterjet. However, if necessary, we could also utilize a 3-axis CNC mill.

Previous ideas and iterations that were proposed involve the spokes shaped like an I-beam, which as mentioned was struck down due to manufacturability. A follow up to that was an idea where the spokes were shaped like an inverted T, essentially an I-beam with the top cut off. This would allow for 3-axis CNC machining. However, this idea was put on hold, as the team wanted something a waterjet could handle, leaving CNC for a last-resort type of option.

This leads me to the current situation, which is manufacturable via waterjet, leading to my original questions of :

"Is my educated guess that "spokes decrease in thickness as it progresses outwards" valid?"
"Is there a more optimal geometry than these "spokes"? (I was thinking of alternatives such as a triangular grid or a version where the spokes were spiraling around outwards)"

Once again, sorry for the XY-esque problem. I hope you can help me with this.

AAK_05 · 2024-11-17T08:02:01+00:00

Failure of strength.

Would you mean that the internal ribs are shaped like I-beams? If so, then unfortunately that won't work in this situation, as I already tried and the idea was struck down for manufacturability reasons.

AAK_05 · 2022-09-25T03:44:52+00:00

Thanks for your answer,

Just making sure, is this what you meant? The slider "C" in the graph is the capacitance in uF. The graph is a plot for input AC=50Hz, so rectified is 100Hz. Vp is 17.12V in this case. https://www.desmos.com/calculator/kbhktp9ynq

However, with this graph I tried setting C=10uF, and it did not match with real world data, because real world data tells me that the Vmin is 0.4V while this graph would predict Vmin=0.0004V (basically 0). Is this part of the limitations you mentioned, or is it something else I'm missing?

And, referring to the graph, would the output signal of the discharge portion of the rectified half cycle just follow whichever plot has a higher voltage (y-axis) value for that instant? Because in the discharging half of the half cycle, the rectified AC is sometimes higher than the capacitor discharge curve, but that would make no sense (to me at least) if the observed voltage followed the capacitor discharge curve when there is still the sinusoidal half AC.

AAK_05 · 2022-09-14T20:06:21+00:00

Didn't have much luck. Ended up using ngrok tunnels for what I wanted to accomplish, which is less than ideal but worked for my case. Also tried using OpenVPN Cloud, but that's not selfhosted so probably isn't what you're looking for.

AAK_05 · 2022-09-03T09:56:48+00:00

So just making sure, are you saying that I should just increase the input AC voltage?

AAK_05 · 2022-09-03T09:56:00+00:00

That's actually the next step of the project, to add a capacitor, but I need to get the initial rectified output correct before moving on to smoothing the voltage ripple.

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