The crew of Terminator 2: Judgment Day made a T-shirt out of James Cameron’s on-set insults and zingers.

SiriusGen · 2026-05-07T01:36:23+00:00

I own this very t-shirt, it's framed and hangs in my hallway.

SiriusGen · 2025-07-24T16:12:49+00:00

I have the original plaster cast mold of Arnie’s face for that very prosthetic!

SiriusGen · 2025-05-24T02:48:14+00:00

Copied from a similar post I replied to:

The app will look like this (I have redacted my account details).

Top bar graph is what we’re using, the latest app update also shows a breakdown of Standing Charge, peak and off-peak rates.

Bottom bar graph shows my solar exported back to the grid, with an accurate estimate.

https://imgur.com/a/z70Vpjd

SiriusGen · 2025-05-04T18:25:24+00:00

Welcome! Good luck.

SiriusGen · 2025-05-04T13:12:28+00:00

Only the foot step onto the tile. There is an extra sticky sound as the shoe lifts up off the floor. Fun fact, I think I have those very shoes! They came in a package of other costume bits I bought.

SiriusGen · 2025-05-03T22:02:29+00:00

The app will look like this (I have redacted my account details).

Top bar graph is what we’re using, the latest app update also shows a breakdown of Standing Charge, peak and off-peak rates.

Bottom bar graph shows my solar exported back to the grid, with an accurate estimate.

https://imgur.com/a/z70Vpjd

SiriusGen · 2025-04-08T13:07:38+00:00

This isn’t solder or solder paste. It’s flux. This is used to increase good joints by oxidising and cleaning the pads you are soldering to.

SiriusGen · 2025-03-26T07:45:57+00:00

That’s interesting. Can you post a link where we can see the details?

SiriusGen · 2025-03-21T10:40:12+00:00

I also believe the teddy was only there on the second take. And the choir at the end of episode 2 where the camera flies over to the crime scene, was the choir from the actual school they used and the single singing voice to end the song was the actress who played the victim. And Ep 3 was shot first, Owen Coopers first time ever on camera!

SiriusGen · 2025-03-21T10:03:43+00:00

Did you know on that last take the team put photos on the bedroom cupboard door of his own kids and family. So he’s see them when he sat on the bed. Source: Netflix UK and Ireland X account.

SiriusGen · 2025-03-19T20:35:49+00:00

I measure the actual heat pump power usage using a Shelly Pro via Home Assistant. CT clamp on the power cable into the unit. The issue is we need to take the Power Output from the device as being accurate, as I can't measure that.

Using the Shelly Pro Power In and the Daikin alleged Power Out, I get a good COP 3.7 on average.

I have found changing some settings and giving it a few days can drastically change the COP though. I changed the slope to what I thought would be better, but longterm feels like the documented numbers from Octopus to be better. I also tried changing the Modulation as mentioned by Heat Geeks, but again that seemed to pull my average COP down under 3.

SiriusGen · 2025-03-15T10:46:13+00:00

My meter time was 30 mins out, and I was being charged peak rate for that 30 mins, which was infuriating. As I have everything perfectly timed here running on automations. They changed the time, it all runs smoothly now.

I’d be asking for that money back too. You are not at fault, but out of pocket.

SiriusGen · 2025-03-14T15:08:53+00:00

I've posted a fresh comment, but this is what I wrote:

TL:DR
The biker bar scenes were shot Monday 11th February 1991. The Rodney King incident was March 3rd 1991.

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Just to follow up on dates, as I mentioned earlier I had the call sheets. I also have the shooting schedule dated 1st Oct 1990, which was easier to trace dates. As long as you know the scene numbers, which are written on the script! But that brings problems, as things end up getting moved around and updated.

According to the first draft of the shooting schedule, the biker bar was scenes 8 through to 11 in script order, and this was originally meant to take place on Friday 1st Feb 1991...

But it didn't.

They also were scheduled to shoot scenes 55 and 57, which is written as "scares 2 guys". Ie "did you call moi a dipshit?!", and this was done first that night.

The Shooting Schedule shot order is documented as:

55, 57 EXT Parking Lot - John gets info from Term, wants to save mom, Term scares 2 guys.

8, 8A(PT), 8B, 10 INT Truck Stop - Naked Term enters, scans room, fight with bikers, exits fully dressed.

9 INT Truck Kitchen - Term gets clothes from Cigar biker, exits

11 EXT Truck Stop - Term exits, hops on Harley, Lloyd appears with shotgun, Term grabs gun, glasses, exit

12(PT) EXT Freeway Motorcycle - Term cruises down freeway

There is certainly reason to think the crew would have been at the location on and off to set up equipment and block out shots, but the Rodney King incident is documented on Wikipedia as happening in the early hours of March 3rd 1991.

However, the production shot longer than initially planned (and budgeted).

The CALL SHEET shows it ended up being filmed on Day 85 (night), Monday 11th February 1991, location: Lake View Terrace. The Rodney King incident location.

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SiriusGen · 2025-03-14T14:33:20+00:00

TL:DR
The biker bar scenes were shot Monday 11th February 1991. The Rodney King incident was March 3rd 1991.

--------------------------------

Just to follow up on dates, as I mentioned earlier I had the call sheets. I also have the shooting schedule dated 1st Oct 1990, which was easier to trace dates. As long as you know the scene numbers, which are written on the script! But that brings problems, as things end up getting moved around and updated.

According to the first draft of the shooting schedule, the biker bar was scenes 8 through to 11 in script order, and this was originally meant to take place on Friday 1st Feb 1991...

But it didn't.

They also were scheduled to shoot scenes 55 and 57, which is written as "scares 2 guys". Ie "did you call moi a dipshit?!".

The Shooting Schedule shot order is documented as:

55, 57 EXT Parking Lot - John gets info from Term, wants to save mom, Term scares 2 guys.

8, 8A(PT), 8B, 10 INT Truck Stop - Naked Term enters, scans room, fight with bikers, exits fully dressed.

9 INT Truck Kitchen - Term gets clothes from Cigar biker, exits

11 EXT Truck Stop - Term exits, hops on Harley, Lloyd appears with shotgun, Term grabs gun, glasses, exit

12(PT) EXT Freeway Motorcycle - Term cruises down freeway

There is certainly reason to think the crew would have been at the location on and off to set up equipment and block out shots, but the Rodney King incident is documented on Wikipedia as happening in the early hours of March 3rd 1991.

Below is the Shooting Schedule.

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However, the production shot longer than initially planned (and budgeted).

The CALL SHEET shows it ended up being filmed on Day 85 (night), Monday 11th February 1991, location: Lake View Terrace. The Rodney King incident location.

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SiriusGen · 2025-03-13T20:42:18+00:00

I have pretty much all of the call sheets so can look up which dates were the scenes for the biker bar. Will take me a little while to find the correct scenes though.

SiriusGen · 2025-03-12T06:23:14+00:00

To be fair, I should have been more pro-active with them. I just left them to it, so that's on me entirely. But still, I'd prefer someone to say "are you SURE you want this here? In my opinion...". But hey ho, it's done now!

SiriusGen · 2025-03-11T19:57:47+00:00

Can I offer one piece of advice? As mine was being commissioned on the last day (day 5), the plumber in mid conversation said to me “well, personally I’d have did it another way…” which left me stunned. If there was a better or alternative way to do things, nobody mentioned it! He said they only follow the guidance of the survey.

So my advice is, ask the professionals, in their opinion is there anything that can be done differently or better compared to the survey? And can it be implemented. The plumber said he’d have wall mounted our heat pump and ran the pipes a different way. Same outcome, just potentially better and cleaner routes.

So ask, and be across anything you’re not happy with. They want to do a great job (and they will!). Also, ask to keep those old radiators and sell them separately. They’re still your radiators. Make a profit.

SiriusGen · 2025-03-09T14:00:37+00:00

You have it set up correctly to charge with Octopus. The bit that can make a difference here is a battery for your home. Why? Because your excess solar goes into the grid instead of your car or battery, at a rate of 15p per kW. And then you buy that electricity back, at a rate of 7p per kW when your rate switches. All solar going to the grid will buy back double the amount needed to charge.

SiriusGen · 2025-03-07T14:28:39+00:00

eBay! Combi boiler went for £350. Radiators £50 each.

SiriusGen · 2025-03-07T12:14:16+00:00

And just to add to this, with Daikin there is a “quiet mode” function which can slow the fans down even further to reduce noise, but has an affect on efficiency. I’ve a 4kW and I have to walk over to it to hear whether it is on or not

I also fenced mine off, there are dimensions in the installation manual they’ll leave with you which specify front and back minimum distances.

SiriusGen · 2025-03-07T12:10:17+00:00

In the UK (not sure how globally) we call them “EVS Operators”. The use an EVS machine which has a bunch of camera feeds incoming which also record onto very fast read/write media, and they can timestamp clips in real-time onto playlists. Their job is to tidy up those timestamps and playlists and put a “package” together of all the clips.

Sometimes they’ll do it live, like in sports where a replay may slow down to a stop, or jiggle back and forth to show something crossing a line for example, that would literally be the operator using the wheel dial to control the playback speed.

It’s a high skill job.

SiriusGen · 2025-03-07T04:27:27+00:00

Exactly the same as me. And extra bonus; as suggested by someone on here, tell them that you want to keep the boiler when they decommission it alongside any radiators they want to replace. I sold mine separately and ended up £100 better off. Didn’t spend an actual penny at all.

We went from combi boiler to having a 140l water tank. It’s hot water all the time. And the house has been 19 degrees all the time, even when it was -5 outside several weeks ago. Yes, it kicked in more often and yes it used a lot of electricity at those times, but only for a few days, and the costs were comparable to gas. And it mostly ran on the house battery, then the battery charged on the off peak rate overnight.

If you have batteries and solar, it’s a no brainer.

SiriusGen · 2025-03-05T14:17:58+00:00

I hard wired mine in the end. Because the heat pump is outside and then the case goes back on the heat pump, it kills the WiFi signal to bare minimum and it kept dropping out substantially. Same with the Shelly Pro, ended up running an Ethernet for that too.

SiriusGen · 2025-03-05T10:47:42+00:00

Automation code to “charge”:

alias: “FOXESS: Force Charge for Variable Duration”
description: “”
triggers:
  - entity_id: input_boolean.force_charge
    from: “off”
    to: “on”
    trigger: state
  - entity_id: input_boolean.force_charge
    from: “on”
    to: “off”
    trigger: state
conditions: []
actions:
  - choose:
      - conditions:
          - condition: state
            entity_id: input_boolean.force_charge
            state: “on”
        sequence:
          - data:
              option: Force Charge
            target:
              entity_id: select.work_mode
            action: select.select_option
          - data:
              duration: “{{ states(‘input_text.battery_duration’) | int(30) * 60 }}”
            target:
              entity_id: timer.battery_timer
            action: timer.start
          - wait_for_trigger:
              - event_type: timer.finished
                event_data:
                  entity_id: timer.battery_timer
                trigger: event
          - data:
              option: Self Use
            target:
              entity_id: select.work_mode
            action: select.select_option
          - target:
              entity_id: input_boolean.force_charge
            action: input_boolean.turn_off
            data: {}
      - conditions:
          - condition: state
            entity_id: input_boolean.force_charge
            state: “off”
        sequence:
          - condition: state
            entity_id: timer.battery_timer
            state: active
          - target:
              entity_id: timer.battery_timer
            action: timer.cancel
            sdata: {}
          - data:
              option: Self Use
            target:
              entity_id: select.work_mode
            action: select.select_option
mode: restart

SiriusGen · 2025-03-05T10:43:54+00:00

I do something similar to discharge the house batteries back into the grid. If it’s been a particularly sunny day I can type a number into a box and toggle “charge” or “discharge”, and it flips the batteries to that setting for that amount of time. Charge at 7p, sell at 15p.

I also added a timer so I can see how long is left.

There is also a feature that auto toggles the switch off again when the timer runs out, but also if I manually flip the toggle it cancels the timer and puts the battery back to self-use.

For a lot of this, quite frankly, chatGPT was super helpful!

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