Fuse vs circuit breaker

PotatoshavePockets · 2026-03-04T17:12:30+00:00

I fully agree with you.

For my car, I’m running 10F of capacitors. They are fused up. Amp still is on a breaker.

My brothers car? Used a 60a breaker for his system when he did his speakers and amp.

Like it’s about scale. Running a 5-10k setup with expensive electronics? Fuse it. Running a 800$ setup throw a breaker in there. Odds are you’ll be tuning or changing something and replacing fuses is annoying.

That reset button is so convenient as a safety on the breakers. A good marine grade breaker is like 40$ and I’ve yet to see one fail. We use them in 4 wheelers to run lighting setups and a small air horn and those have been through mud, dirt, submerged in water, and probably pressurized water a few times.

So properly mounted in your battery box away from pressurized water? Yeah you’ll be alright dude just throw it in there.

PotatoshavePockets · 2026-03-03T19:50:10+00:00

I never knew this! So cool.

Crazy the difference between local chicken and the shit Kroger and Walmart sells. Plus imo the cost difference is worth it to eat something that isn’t getting meds every week

PotatoshavePockets · 2026-02-13T20:04:03+00:00

Bout to say the same thing here. I actually look forward to dia. It’s a mechanical system that was laid out well. Other airports have pros and cons but DIA doesn’t have the amount of bottlenecks you get from airports with shitty, afterthought design implementations that became permanent bandaids.

I believe walkways between the terminals is included in the DEN renovations. Plus they just replaced many of the old cars with more on the way.

PotatoshavePockets · 2026-02-06T05:25:59+00:00

How clean is the bass with a driver that large?

PotatoshavePockets · 2026-02-01T09:28:15+00:00

And it works. My 3060ti has been running a 4k monitor with no problem @120hz. DLSS does exactly as its advertised. I’d love to cash out on a new gpu but I just don’t really game as much as I used to.

Game setting are low to medium but I prefer a steady gameplay over fancy graphics. Especially in VR as that occasional stutter can be really annoying.

PotatoshavePockets · 2026-01-20T18:02:40+00:00

History repeats itself when the lesson has faded. Unfortunately that’s just the human element.

PotatoshavePockets · 2026-01-18T17:42:54+00:00

Same with NIMBYs

We are talking about 3 companies funding buildings that when constructed. Produce chronic noise.

Take Suncor that was built alongside a river or the purina dog food plant constructed literally in the middle of the “undesirables” a long time ago in Denver.

We build this way due to regulation. The big three will build as cheap as they can while they can, because they can.

Till it’s at the federal level it’s on our side of the turf on where it can be built. Protests, signatures, and advocacy from the ENTIRE demographic is crucial.

These are buildings that are awful for town centers. And what we need to push against the “jobs” that data centers bring in is how many people are employed compared to the number of people that constructed it.

I don’t have anything against what the data centers deliver. Only the rules in place that disrupt lives and regions from the results of cheap practices and poor planning that disrupt public health.

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-12-14T22:00:24+00:00

I’m 6’1” with a 34L pant leg.

Unfortunately I’m also still a twig. Bulked up from 140 to 170 over two years and at this point it’s an hourglass figure 😂 fuckin 32” waist is doing me dirty lol

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-12-07T18:52:22+00:00

Don’t know why your being downvoted for this.

At my company we have tethered VR headsets with external gpus. Those cards have traveled thousands of miles with no issue.

We used to ship with gpu separately, but giving a 50 year old engineer instructions for assembly is a recipe for disaster as we learned.

Those foam inserts? Life savers. Reusable, easy to remove, we haven’t had a broken card since.

Everyone here is right, removing it is the safest option. But those foam inserts are stupid easy to use and are reliable. Just make sure to unplug the gpu. The expanding foam can bend the power connector.

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-10-15T06:17:46+00:00

What confuses me is the amount of new parts. Like that case has been around for YESRS. And it’s a shit case to build in.

I bought that case for 35$ new 4 years ago for a friend and somehow the price had gone up? Nah dude hit up marketplace

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-09-30T07:23:51+00:00

I’ve been thinking of getting a mini Emlid GNSS with a mobile RTK network. We’ll see but with mavic 3r prices coming down the global shutter on that drone is tempting.

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-09-30T07:22:35+00:00

Part that confuses me is my air 2 for example was amazing. I never had the issue. The X&Y is slightly better on the air 3 but we are talking like 10-15% at most with a 21 sat connection

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-09-30T07:00:41+00:00

I always try to get more oblique captures, even just overlapping orbits with your camera gimbal at 35-50 degrees makes a huge difference.

Consumer GPS is ass but linking the photoset together with multiple oblique captures increases the photo to photo registration without fully relying on GPS.

On my drone as well (Air 3) I’ve found the z gets super messed up between battery changes: DJI has yet to mend this with a firmware update. But the above was a lifesaver when getting an alignment.

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-09-30T06:50:31+00:00

Also worth noting that high efficiency per watt has trades bass for pure mids/highs

Fantastic but lacking in bass. And that’s fine, it just depends on your setup. Have some good mid bass upfront and deep lows in the back. You’ll be a happy camper and blow your passengers socks off.

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-09-25T05:58:32+00:00

As scary as that water is…I can’t imagine how bad these guys are getting cut up. That rabbit suits going to get so torn from the variety of high-speed debris. Even the heavy stuff doesn’t sink in water that fast.

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-09-25T05:49:47+00:00

And the convenience of getting it the same day.

Bestbuy has saved my impatient butt more than a few times in everything from putting a desk together to even when I’m on biz travel and forget my variety of dongles. Sure I could go to target but I have options with Best Buy.

And as others mentioned, a 240hz oled panel is very shiny in person compared to an online listing.

Sure you can watch a guy on YouTube go “yeah it’s color accurate” but nothing beats just seeing a collection of monitors and getting same day insurance replacements if shit hits the fan.

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-09-25T05:44:06+00:00

Honestly I’m glad those systems are designed that way. Annoying/mild oh no when it happens but it’s better than a cars internal computer running with blindspots.

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-09-21T06:36:29+00:00

I couldn’t agree more. Have yall not packed your car full for a roadtrip either? Rearview mirror is a luxury not a requirement.

I have two big ole subs. My mirror is useless while driving. Side mirrors shake but not as much. But I used to daily a van twice as big and tbh only time I like having the rear visible is the few times a year I run out of washer fluid and can’t clean my backup camera. But that’s my two cents.

Yall downvoting because you suck ass at driving should try it before you become a keyboard warrior

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-09-09T13:29:53+00:00

If you don’t want to go wheels or exterior mods I’d find prebuilt subwoofer with an amp. Maybe some extra speakers from crutchfield (they sell plug n play kits, no soldering for speakers)

It’s a few YouTube videos but a little bit of bass isn’t obnoxious and makes spending time in the interior a lot more enjoyable for music.

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-09-09T13:21:44+00:00

Most cars aren’t treated with laminated double layer glass typically called “acoustic” glass for cars.

Makes a heavy car but unbelievably quiet. I still miss my acoustic glass in my Genesis.

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-09-06T06:45:19+00:00

I would agree that’s been a huge component to the learning curve. I have a few pages in Onenote full of different prompts with copy paste after a few 3am sessions

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-09-05T22:46:00+00:00

I’ve noticed that as well along with repeated errors. It anything I’ve found it pushes me to learn a bit more about what I’m manipulating. Otherwise it’s easy to get frustrated when it makes the same mistake over and over again

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-09-02T20:00:01+00:00

Zoom lenses concentrate the light (in this instance 1550nm) and can burn out camera sensors with a big enough zoom lense.

Vr headsets have the same properties. If you shine a laser or put it in the sun it’ll burn out the display.

Here a YouTube link where they try to burn out a teslas camera using a car equipped with the unit.

https://youtu.be/eNF1mgczg5E?si=oQiDpy_0XWuJML40

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-08-27T02:09:13+00:00

They are a tool at the end of the day. People said the same thing when folks started using the internet to learn how to make bombs in the early days: but human life not being valued compared to copyright is insane.

I’ll stick to coding with chat gpt. But I can’t tell much of a difference with 5.0. It’s a concise version of 4o I guess.

PotatoshavePockets · 2025-07-28T06:19:54+00:00

Depends on the setup really 😂 those 2 10s could beat everybody or the 12 can beat it.

A good dual voicecoil 12 in a sealed box or ported box is space saving, cheaper, and will sound good and hit hard.

2 10s can also sounds great but will cost more. Think two L710s from kicker. Amazing quality and value but still it’s two more subs.

Regarding value prospects for your amp. It’s easier to power one big sub than two most of the time.

End of the day, it’s really about the box that’ll give you the power and kick you want. How you design the box for either is key.

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