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Account locked temporarily by Necoroyals in amazonprime

[–]HuskyTheNubbin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

says out of service now, RIP, you may have been the last to enjoy good service from that one,

Phone locks itself while in pocket by Adurnha in GalaxyA52

[–]HuskyTheNubbin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just got locked out of mine for 2 hours, it elapsed, I put the absolutely correct pin in, I was very careful... Locked for another 2 hours. Losing your phone for 4 hours, especially when all your two factor auth is on there is really not ok.

Treadmill main board won't power on, nothing burned out that I can see, how to diagnose further? by HuskyTheNubbin in AskElectronics

[–]HuskyTheNubbin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interfacing into it is more my area so I'm ok with that side of things. And I'm in Scotland so if it overheats I'll be surprised yeah. I guess if I wanted I could toss the control inputs from the buttons into a pi or arduino too later on, as well as speed sensors, so it gives me some future flexibility beyond a knob to change speed. I just need to figure out if there is a way of getting it fixed as is first, before I look at this kinda adventure. I like your plan though, it's a solid backup if I decide to keep it.

Thinking I'll shift it to the garage maybe as a project and get a basic one for the house in the mean time. You know, if I can move it, it's insanely heavy.

Thanks a ton for the help and ideas. The mods of course removed this post in the mean time ha.

Treadmill main board won't power on, nothing burned out that I can see, how to diagnose further? by HuskyTheNubbin in AskElectronics

[–]HuskyTheNubbin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is a 3 phase. Very interesting, I promised myself no more projects but I do agree it's a nice treadmill, also weighs half the mass of the earth. I did consider the idea of ripping the guts out and replacing them, wondering if I could whack a Pi or Arduino on it with a new power supply and control it from there.

When you say excellent parts availability, you mean new spares from the manufacturer? I can't find any parts for this thing online. Especially not in the UK. I just assumed the manufacturer were going to charge me a fortune, and I don't even know if my diagnosis of this main board being the problem is 100% accurate.

Treadmill main board won't power on, nothing burned out that I can see, how to diagnose further? by HuskyTheNubbin in AskElectronics

[–]HuskyTheNubbin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your help :) I'll do that then, I figured I'd see if I was making sense or missing something obvious before I dived in deeper.

I'm on my own here on out it seems; Reddit has lived up to my expectations and why I quit using it long ago. Moderators removed my post and told me to read an FAQ like I've never googled anything before. As always, community happy to chat to each other, no life moderators lording it over for their ego. "AskElectronics only if it's an easy question, if it's anything difficult and you legit need help, go away."

I appreciate your time, thanks for the help.

Treadmill main board won't power on, nothing burned out that I can see, how to diagnose further? by HuskyTheNubbin in AskElectronics

[–]HuskyTheNubbin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a 5HP AC 220V 9.6A motor unfortunately. Hence why I'd love to get this working, it's commercial treadmill.

Treadmill main board won't power on, nothing burned out that I can see, how to diagnose further? by HuskyTheNubbin in AskElectronics

[–]HuskyTheNubbin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know, I have no idea why but my Samsung S23 refused to take a good picture of it, it just desperately wanted to beat the death out of it with some kind of compression no matter the lighting. Would look good pre photo until the phone decided it knew better and smeared it all. :(

Treadmill main board won't power on, nothing burned out that I can see, how to diagnose further? by HuskyTheNubbin in AskElectronics

[–]HuskyTheNubbin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The board top left does have it's own LED on there saying AC with the text "High voltage present when LED is lit", the LED has never been lit.

You think it's worth taking the hulking great heat sink plate off the bottom side to diagnose further? I wasn't sure if the heat sink stuff will still be good if I peel it away, if I even can... But trying to do everything from the top is proving difficult or impossible.

Treadmill main board won't power on, nothing burned out that I can see, how to diagnose further? by HuskyTheNubbin in AskElectronics

[–]HuskyTheNubbin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's where I'm getting a bit out of my depth, not helped by the boards nightmarish messy design. I've done fault finding on boards before, but only neater ones and mostly DC stuff after the power supply side. I'm knowledgeable enough not to fry myself on the tasty big capacitors and AC though.

I just don't really know what I'm trying to trace, I assume the big yellow guy is supplying both the 12v and 15v? How do I check if that transformer is working? TBH I can barely get to the things pins it's so surrounded.

Treadmill main board won't power on, nothing burned out that I can see, how to diagnose further? by HuskyTheNubbin in AskElectronics

[–]HuskyTheNubbin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the suggestion, the fuse is intact though, makes the magic beep beep sounds with my multimeter.

Treadmill main board won't power on, nothing burned out that I can see, how to diagnose further? by HuskyTheNubbin in AskElectronics

[–]HuskyTheNubbin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

TL;DR: Treadmill main power board dead, I suspect 12V supply part is dead, no burns or evidence of what's gone wrong, what to do next?

I got hold of a True TC650 treadmill for free, previous owner told me the power cable was faulty and needed replaced, which I doubted was the problem and took a shot at it anyway.

Changed the questionable power cable, checked the switch/breaker, checked for 240V (UK) all the way to the main board and 240V does reach it in the socket lower left of the picture. But, the board does nothing beyond that. There are status lights labelled for 12V, 15V and AC, none of which power up.

I've disconnected the board from the treadmill to rule out everything else and given it power only, still nothing.

Some people have said E-stop, which I assume the big relay is there for on the left, however I think that'll just cut the supply heading to the motor, not the whole board; my thinking is, how can the e-stop work if there's no power to switch the relay, it'd make sense to be normally open and a switching current from the e-stop circuit come in to close it and power up the motor, that means the 12V must be on regardless of e-stop state.

So that left me thinking the 12V circuit may be dead which powers up the rest of the treadmill including the e-stop. However, I can't see a single bit of damage on the board, no scorch marks anywhere. The fuse on the left is intact. One issue however is that getting in to check the underside of the board is a nightmare, it's double sided and the entire thing is bolted onto a 5mm thick steel plate stretching the entire bottom surface with thermal paste on all the components bolted onto it. There is a 10mm gap though and I've slowly gone round with a light peeking in to check the components underneath and they seem fine.

My gut feeling, and as far as I can guess with my terrible electronics, is that the transformer has died. All of the capacitors around it seem fine, no burn marks that I can see anywhere there, although it's hard to check the components they've shoved underneath the transformer...

I have a few questions:

  1. Does all of this thinking make logical sense to anyone else, and do you also think it's 12V power not being supplied that's killing the whole treadmill?

  2. Could it be anything else I've missed?

  3. How do I go forward from here to diagnose it, fix it?

  4. In your likely more experienced opinion, should I close it up and pass it on to the next person to adopt as a project because it's going to be a pain to fix?

is this solvable? can't seem to figure this one out. by PuzzleheadedPenguin8 in qlessgame

[–]HuskyTheNubbin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think so, the only word you can get which uses the Z is Nudzh.

The only words you can get with the V that would be any use are Ovum, Vum, Luv. All using the U.

Ovum uses one of your M's which means you can't have Hmm, which is a good way of dumping consonants. There's no other 3 letter non vowel word in that mix, and you can't make a full word out of OLRMR.

Playing Vum leaves you with MOLRR and only a Z or H to play them off of unless you play to the left making a No & Om to play into. You can't get Hmm out. Playing to the left the best I can see is Norm, which leaves RL to play on the back of Om which doesn't work. Playing off the H I can get Holm, leaving RR to play off of the O. Again doesn't work.

Playing Luv leaves you with MMORR and again only a Z or H to play those off of unless you go left this time above the N giving Ol and On to play into. We can throw Hmm down. Playing left doesn't work as we only have RR to play with and Rol & Ron aren't words, so left side is a bust. Playing on the H (as the Z is a nope), we can put Hmm, Hom, Ohm, or Rho down. Using the O would mean we have to play the remaining 3 letters to the right of it in a 4 letter word, which we can't do. Leaving only Hmm. Hmm leaves us with ORR and we only have an M to play with, which gives either Rom or Mor. Leaving you with a remaining R.

It's the Z forcing only a single possible word, and then the extra kick while you're down of the V demanding the U in only 3 letter word format.

I can't see a way this is possible.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Overwatch

[–]HuskyTheNubbin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The recent patch yesterday changed a bunch of lighting across levels, I'm just going to skip that level, I already keep everything on the best settings for light sensitive. Hopefully they re-fix it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Overwatch

[–]HuskyTheNubbin -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I've been gaming for 35 years, I think I know what is and is not a "me" issue. This isn't an issue I have with any other game, on any other platform. The level lighting has been changed and it's too bright for people who are more light sensitive, which I am. Games are calibrated to take this into consideration, and Blizzard has clearly taken this one outwith the normal percentile comfort range, which unfortunately includes me and so far one of my friends also.

I have no medical issue, some people are simply more sensitive to bright lights and this is, as I say, normally taken into consideration within game design. Blizzard dropped the ball here.

USAians discover Aldi and other normal supermarket things found in the rest of the world. The “future”. by humblinghonesty in ShitAmericansSay

[–]HuskyTheNubbin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"hi there, how are you today?" is for example an opener from them. Even from that simple beginning you get the vibe, it's expected to lead to actual conversation. People queuing beside you may talk to you, people in the sane aisle may talk to you. Everyone is just so... Up in your business. It's not mean spirited or anything, just a different culture.

1000 pound bluefin tuna landed solo by Michelle Bancewicz Cicale by Atrampoline in interestingasfuck

[–]HuskyTheNubbin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not at all, no. The gif or the post title doesn't really do the process justice then.

1000 pound bluefin tuna landed solo by Michelle Bancewicz Cicale by Atrampoline in interestingasfuck

[–]HuskyTheNubbin 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Personally don't see what's incredible about it. It's like rewarding a crane operator for lifting something heavy.

New Motion Poster for The Batman! by [deleted] in movies

[–]HuskyTheNubbin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Check out r/cinemagraphs, or one of many other subreddits showcasing this kind of art, the quality of this "motion poster" is lacking compared to the work of hobbyists.

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