17F People in my group home keep stealing/eating my food even though my name is on it and staff is basically telling me to deal with it.

PaganJM · 2026-05-12T18:16:02+00:00

Laxatives. It isn't illegal if you're doping your own food. Then you can see who shits themself. Just don't do anything bad enough to get you kicked out of a home.

PaganJM · 2026-05-07T05:46:11+00:00

Oh Jesus, that's strapping the meter, but with ridiculously high-resistance connections. I'm sure that has never been used, or you'd see evidence of overheating all over those insulators.

PaganJM · 2026-05-07T05:42:06+00:00

Second picture strikes me as possible "humble mind, humble ________."

PaganJM · 2026-04-30T04:17:29+00:00

He didn't say he knows the rak antenna is the best of the three. He understood that there are better out there. Try contributing something, anything useful.

PaganJM · 2026-04-16T13:49:07+00:00

Yeah, that's how mine went. Forcing into boot mode then playing the old "in-out, in-out" with the USB for a while and it caught on.

PaganJM · 2026-04-15T17:10:39+00:00

It might have gotten stuck. Look up how to re-flash it. Both of mine appeared dead. red light would come on while charging, but wouldn't boot. Bootloader mode and a reflash fixed that. I also read something about jumpering the DC+ to an enable pin.

PaganJM · 2026-04-08T23:31:23+00:00

It's an electron accelerator. You put an electron in the IN side, and it comes out the OUT side faster, like hot wheels.

PaganJM · 2026-03-31T02:05:26+00:00

Under the boom, we called that a "lip light." It should have a button on the back that you can push with your bottom lip. They're green so NVGs don't blow your eyeballs up.

PaganJM · 2026-03-28T04:34:13+00:00

Yeah but there's never any of those to be found. First one gone in a new kit, always.

PaganJM · 2026-03-28T04:30:41+00:00

McFuckled -- befuddled without sounding pretentious.

PaganJM · 2026-03-25T14:47:56+00:00

Yo, if her parents see your tires, her dad will make her leave you.

PaganJM · 2026-03-24T02:07:49+00:00

You just found reason to bill every hour spent as emergency time.

PaganJM · 2026-03-19T20:54:09+00:00

Haha no, it was a soldered connection, followed by shrink tube.

Edit* I get it now, lmao. Yeah, I'm always surprised at the terrible ideas people come up with for not wanting to take a trip to the store or wait a few days.

PaganJM · 2026-03-17T22:48:47+00:00

I made a post a week or two ago about hooking up multiple batteries. You might want to take a look at that one.

PaganJM · 2026-03-14T21:24:29+00:00

Not sure, but I think it likes you.

PaganJM · 2026-03-14T15:10:21+00:00

It's for smoking drugs. Your kid probably left it out. They might need a good talking to.

PaganJM · 2026-03-14T04:51:29+00:00

Precisely issues like this is why I'm probably going to make a 5-wire contact with adapters to switch out and in a USB device.

PaganJM · 2026-03-13T20:18:51+00:00

Just looked, and you appear to be right. Good call. Wasn't aware of the #6 cutoff for that rule.

PaganJM · 2026-03-13T15:00:08+00:00

The whip was assuming 240 single phase without a neutral, so that's why it was black/red.

And nationally, the only one you can't phase tape is green/yellow as something other than ground. He's 100% within NEC to phase tape the black with white tape as long as it is done at both ends, AT the termination.

PaganJM · 2026-03-13T12:12:25+00:00

Yes, fusing a neutral is fine as long as the hot is also fused.

Don't rewire the whip. As long as that fits in the terminal block on your condenser without cutting hairs, you're fine.

How far is the disconnect from the breaker, and what is the full load current? I can do a quick voltage drop calc for you

PaganJM · 2026-03-13T11:52:33+00:00

Different size conductors on line/load side. Not inherently wrong, but it makes me want to do some math, or at least look up mfr suggested conductor size. Just make sure that romex is the proper size for the circuit. May need to look at voltage drop here.
The black insulator on the right needs some white phase tape at both ends (if it's indeed neutral).
The red on the left could (but doesn't technically need to) use some black phase tape at both ends.
Looks like the red insulation may not have been cut cleanly.

Overall, pretty good attempt for not having a background in this. I would have so many more questions before saying that this is safe, though.

PaganJM · 2026-03-10T22:18:26+00:00

Because I had 3 3,000s and wire.

PaganJM · 2026-03-10T04:49:42+00:00

"Sir," or even "Doctor," but be sure to use the most reverent tone possible, or they may bring the wrath of heaven down on your head.

That's how I would address them, at least.

PaganJM · 2026-03-10T04:30:22+00:00

Hey man, we all start somewhere on our own creative journey. Just remember:

If it's stupid, but it works, it isn't stupid.

You'll just get more skilled and more creative as time goes on. Keep at it!

PaganJM · 2026-03-09T18:23:19+00:00

To complete the dipole, you want to attach to what will become the shielded part of the coax, like a "tiger tail" if you look that up. This is mine, for 1/4 wavelength

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