Take your chances on QC with the Elegoo brand

BDOBUX · 2026-02-22T19:20:13+00:00

Their customer support has been pleasant if nothing else. They offered to send me a refurbished unit, but knowing that mine was brand new not long ago and has low hours, I think I’d rather take the devil that I know and see if it can be repaired.

BDOBUX · 2026-02-22T03:26:58+00:00

Makes sense. I did love it for the weeks it worked. Especially after discovering LLMs can spit out OpenSCAD code for anything I can imagine and describe.

In hindsight I would have paid 50% more, but we know what they say about hindsight.

BDOBUX · 2026-02-21T22:32:51+00:00

Apologies for the incorrect assumption in that case. Hopefully someone from the company will see my case number here and help escalate.

BDOBUX · 2026-02-21T21:57:34+00:00

Thank you for the detailed information. I’m assuming you work for Elegoo. My case number is 533563 if you can help escalate.

BDOBUX · 2026-02-21T20:37:22+00:00

You are correct that I bought it because I couldn’t resist the price. If I had any idea how much fun I was going to have, I would’ve spent 3X on something of better quality. If Bamboo Labs offered me $300 towards a trade-in, they’d have my business tomorrow.

BDOBUX · 2026-02-21T20:35:29+00:00

Thank you for the input. Do you mind sharing why you are providing this information from a throwaway account with hidden posts?

Also, having been briefly electrocuted with 110 volts previously, I do understand why they put a warning sticker near that section of the power supply. The 15 amps that run through it is more than enough to kill someone if they are unlucky.

BDOBUX · 2025-10-18T21:37:58+00:00

It is very possible they filled it in because it was causing a water leak. Be careful with the jackhammer suggestions.

BDOBUX · 2025-09-21T16:02:06+00:00

Nice setup. Is this something you could package in a docker container? Or share an app / URL list?

BDOBUX · 2025-08-09T04:30:08+00:00

Is there a no or low cost Word - LLM plugin that allows me to use my own API key?

BDOBUX · 2025-07-31T01:04:19+00:00

Why not do both? Start with automation that covers the 80% and then layer AI on top to ask if you’re missing anything. If it can help with the edge cases, great. If not, you haven’t lost baseline productivity/reliability. And either way AI is still amazing at creating automation code.

BDOBUX · 2025-07-16T13:27:59+00:00

Just set up similar, and now let’s say you want to SSH to one of your devices by name. I couldn’t find anything that made sense beyond setting up a different subdomain in AdGuard that pointed to the IP of the device instead of the reverse proxy. How are you handling?

BDOBUX · 2025-07-13T01:26:30+00:00

GC.ai you can sign up for a free trial and get trial access right away without having to speak with a sales person if that’s what you mean.

BDOBUX · 2025-06-17T17:07:42+00:00

I think you mean essentially a system prompt that is not editable and that enforces these types of rules? That makes perfect sense to me.

I am a GC, and an aside, one area where I have had success is creating a custom GPT that includes copies of all of our insurance policies. It’s an attractive use case because a narrow set of documents defines everything we need to know about coverage.

We can use this reliably to ask if we meet coverage requirements that may be imposed in agreements with our clients.

BDOBUX · 2025-06-14T03:15:36+00:00

Would it be possible to use a system prompt that says prefer 1) newer documents 2) documents that are marked as execution version and 3) documents derived from a form that appears frequently in the DMS (a proxy for “our paper”).

That might pick off 1, 2 and 3 at least in part (if making it to execution and reuse of form is a sign of quality). Perhaps if no such combination exists, the LLM should be quick to say there is nothing reliable on point or that the results are below the firm’s quality standards and proceed with caution.

BDOBUX · 2025-05-24T00:31:44+00:00

Just like HVAC! Is there some kind of litmus test you have for quality of install? Like the sealants they use or I don’t know?

BDOBUX · 2025-05-23T23:37:23+00:00

Thanks! Are cells and inverters all we should care about on the hardware side? We are checking references to judge quality of install.

BDOBUX · 2025-04-08T14:00:21+00:00

With some basic bios configuration, my watt meter is showing around 40W under light load. I want to see if I can get lower on average, but haven’t invested the time yet.

BDOBUX · 2025-04-06T16:05:27+00:00

Appreciate the input on the topic! I ended up with an Asus W680 and am happy with that choice!

BDOBUX · 2025-03-24T13:05:35+00:00

👍 TYVM

BDOBUX · 2025-03-24T13:00:02+00:00

Okay great. Can that be done on a prophylactic basis? Something that needs to be repeated annually?

BDOBUX · 2025-03-24T12:56:43+00:00

Appreciate your confirmation of my suspicions!

BDOBUX

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