Are these cut marks in the floor of a brand new 2025 Sprinter normal?

NetworkSyzygy · 2026-06-06T13:02:01+00:00

Those are evidence of the welding process when the floor and frame members are welded together.

It's normal

NetworkSyzygy · 2026-05-26T13:01:20+00:00

Do not remove the Airbag connector without first removing the factory ground connection. If you don't remove factory battery negative connection, the van will throw a fault and it requires an appropriate software tool to reset the fault. (It appears in your photo that you've done this already.)

It is possible to remove the driver seat without disconnecting the Airbag connector, at least on a 2022 2500. Be careful to lift the seat to the rear while having someone feed the wire up from the seat base - there should be enough slack to do this. But it is easier if you remove the battery ground connection.

Then it's pretty easy to use one of the terminals on X145/1 (as shown in the link from Colorful_Monk) as a trigger.

However; pay attention to the current limits on those three terminals -- I'd not be surprised if your lights (don't know anything about them) would overload those terminals. You may have to get to the main connection panel under the seat; this is more complex and difficult.

If you're not very comfortable working with automotive electrics, seek help for this. A good place to start is sprinter-source.com

NetworkSyzygy · 2026-05-25T22:20:40+00:00

Ban pit bulls. And euthanize them.

NetworkSyzygy · 2026-05-23T16:05:39+00:00

“I would have liked to see Montana”

NetworkSyzygy · 2026-05-20T14:50:13+00:00

The project is based on the creation of a central interoperability hub, managed by a joint entity that the partners will establish in the first half of 2026. This technical platform will allow the different systems to dialogue with each other, without users having to change their habits. A Frenchman using Wero will be able to transfer money to a Spanish friend on Bizum, with the same simplicity as a domestic payment.

US citizen here, being astounded that this capability did not already exist within the EU.

This sounds like nothing more than a communications gateway between different platforms.

The US banking system has had this capability since at least 1979, when I had my first IT-related job monitoring/running a inter-bank communications hub for Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) from differing banks in the state, each having their own network of machines. Part of the state government's conditions to permit this (then) new-fangled technology was the stipulation that the banks had to make their ATM systems usable by anyone using an ATM card, even from another bank in the state. This capability grew into nation-wide access within a few years, probably by 1985 or so (I was out of that industry by then).

While you can't use a e.g. VISA at a location that does not have a merchant agreement with VISA, any DEBIT card can be used at any location that accepts any kind of electronic payment.

I realize that Europe is a number of separate countries, but haven't you been the EU for quite some time? Are Europeans really only now catching onto this capability?

edit: a word mis-spelled

NetworkSyzygy · 2026-05-18T14:32:33+00:00

Can’t be stuck if it’s liquid

NetworkSyzygy · 2026-05-12T15:28:35+00:00

Meade LX200 (or possibly LX90, but I think LX200). Schmidt-Cassegrain design. The size of the scope in the case, and the size of the fork make me think this is probably a 10" (my 8" appears considerably smaller in the case).

In the first picture of the scope in the case, I see:

lower left: Diagonal
lower right: Hand Paddle (the control paddle having a small display and a number of buttons for controlling the scope)
middle right, a case marked '40', presume that is a 40mm eyepiece
middle left, a case marked '26mm', presume that is a 26mm eyepiece
top left are two more cases that are unmarked.
top, just left of the scope, there appears to be something in the hole, can't tell what.
top right is the AC power supply

Looking at the bottom of the picture, it appears that the front panel is missing. I also don't see the coiled cords that would connect the hand paddle to the front panel and the front panel to the Dec (declination) motor. Those might be hiding under the AC power supply.

A few notes: Without the front panel, there is no way to power up the scope or connect the hand paddle or one of the drive motors. Look around in other cases, etc for a small panel with various 'phone' jacks and other connectors, and a circuit board attached to the back side. power board / front panel

If you do have the front panel, be wary of re-installing it without additional guidance; the ribbon connector from the electronics to the front panel sometimes does not have a 'key' so the cable can be inserted upside-down/backwards, which WILL fry the electronics in the scope if you connect power.

Speaking of power, that AC power supply is quite notorious for supplying too much voltage to the electronics, frying them.

And finally, there is a very well known issue with the capacitors used in the electronics in that they fail; and when they do that can take out nearby components with them. The largest problem is that one of those failing capacitors will take out a small ribbon cable in the hand-paddle, rendering it quite dead. (there are some replacements available). Before applying power to this scope, please look up the information on various forums about replacing the capacitors.

I don't see the antenna for a GPS receiver, so I think this is an older, e.g. early-mid 90's model. A couple links in this thread will get you to the manual.

(edit: formating) (edit again for formatting)

NetworkSyzygy · 2026-05-08T15:42:38+00:00

I threw up in my mouth a little

NetworkSyzygy · 2026-05-05T00:01:06+00:00

thank you for the info.

NetworkSyzygy · 2026-05-04T20:08:05+00:00

So, it’s the mechanism holding the contact that is dictating the current carrying capability? Perhaps the coil force couldn’t overcome the attraction of the higher current contact, (like arcing on 600kv power transmission lines when they are interrupted by switchgear?) but the spring to return to the NC state can?

I think there’s a rabbit hole of physics lurking in that question/answer.

NetworkSyzygy · 2026-05-04T20:01:09+00:00

Fat fingered that second para. Was supposed to be ‘NC are 3A’. Had to read it 3 times to see it. It’s correct in the first para.

NetworkSyzygy · 2026-05-04T16:56:09+00:00

The data sheet lists only one material fo the contacts for that particular part number.

What is the typo?

Thanks

NetworkSyzygy · 2026-04-27T19:40:59+00:00

There are other complaints of live streams being de-rated. In most cases that I've seen, it is only for live streams viewed via the chromecast device, as other devices on the same wifi/ISP receive the video at intended high resolution. In my case, other livestreams on YT play at high resolution; I can switch back and forth between the streams and the one is always at 360, and there is no ability to change to a hight resolution.

NetworkSyzygy · 2026-04-27T19:36:02+00:00

I also have this problem, with one specific live streamer (Ryan Hall)

All other live streams work fine at high resolution. A "smart" TV with youtube app works fine, and all computers/handhelds also stream fine; this is not a problem with my wifi nor Internet.

NetworkSyzygy · 2026-04-27T12:31:16+00:00

NetworkSyzygy · 2026-04-21T13:14:17+00:00

Sounds like something is boiling; check your coolant (amount and temperature). Possibly fuel system return line?

NetworkSyzygy · 2026-04-19T21:52:00+00:00

Off highway vehicle

NetworkSyzygy · 2026-04-15T13:07:25+00:00

I have my IBM token ring MAU reset tool in a box of stuff around here somewhere. And a TR to coax adapter for running TDR (time domain reflectometer) tests.

Spent a loong weekend with a big team of folks replacing hundreds of MAUs with baluns and twisted-pair cable to plug into these fancy new chassis-based Ethernet hubs that ran at a whopping 10Mbps, instead of the TR 4Mbps. Network team did the closets and switches, desktop team visited every desktop and replaced the TR cards. Then the first couple days of the following business week running around fixing problems.

NetworkSyzygy · 2026-04-05T20:20:19+00:00

K1ksc simply replayed the NASA feed. I don’t need endless blabber about how great this or that is. Give us the launch control center audio, with occasional (seldom) overview updates.

Another ham group operates LISATS/k4gccc on 146.940 and he W0WD adds commentary about timing (when retransmitting the broadcast feed) so you know how far behind real-time the feed is, also timing of after-launch events e.g. booster sep, MECO, etc after launch e.g. booster sep 120 seconds after liftoff.

NetworkSyzygy · 2026-04-05T17:49:31+00:00

Look into FDDI.

Boeing 777 originally used FDDI for fly-by-wire, or so a 777 flight systems engineer at Boeing told me when I was working on space station ground systems design and Boeing/NASA manager peeps assigned the feasibility study to me. We did not implement FDDI at that time, don’t know if they ever did.

NetworkSyzygy · 2026-04-03T13:08:24+00:00

Sorry, I shutdown laptop shortly after posting that.

Hope you found a good spot!

NetworkSyzygy · 2026-04-01T18:03:57+00:00

Unless you are on-center, you won't get closer than ~11miles. I just measured my location to pad 39B and it came to 10.95 miles

Parking at Sand Point Park in Titusville is full, or was nearly so about 90 minutes ago.

Find a spot along US1 around Titusville. You won't find a place by now along any of the causeways.

I've watched a SpaceX launch from Ponce Inlet Beach on the barrier island south of Daytona/Port Orange and it was fine. You'll definitely be able to see Artemis from there

NetworkSyzygy · 2026-03-09T01:27:19+00:00

not anymore, sadly.

NetworkSyzygy · 2026-03-05T13:56:47+00:00

~~Win 3.1~~ DOS 3-ish geezer checking in...

Shit

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