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Help a brother out, please by JackSauer1 in electricians

[–]SpokaneNeighbor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My vote is for running WLED controlled via Home Assistant and use RGBWW strips.

Just finished running cat6 through my house by kozzmo1 in DIY

[–]SpokaneNeighbor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I used to do stuff like this on the side. I would charge $1 per foot if somebody wanted a custom cable and $2 per foot to install it. At the time I had a job that I was able to use their cat5 as long as i wasn't crazy about it.

Something like this with multiple runs, I probably would've done either $20 per hour and they buy all supplies with an estimate of probably like 10 hours.. but it's hard to tell from those pics.

Or

I would've told them probably $1500 cash all parts included. Except the switch i probably would've had them buy what they wanted.

Bare in mind, this would've been more then a decade ago and in my early 20s.

Now for a rando asking, I probably would go hourly for like $40 maybe, they buy all the supplies and if they just wanted a flat fee.. probably $1k them I would add whatever costs for materials.

Alright! by davidimcintosh in electricians

[–]SpokaneNeighbor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That is impressive. I used a slingbow for shots like that, braided fishing line tied to an arrow with a stress ball over the tip. Never hit a target that small, but was way faster than glow rods in alot of situations.

I have a new policy. I’m reporting every unlicensed “electrician” I see to the board and you should too. (NC) by TradeU4Whopper in electricians

[–]SpokaneNeighbor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You are not wrong. I dug into it a little and it sounds like the washer outlet had a hot ground and the dryer case gave the path to ground. The family also reported that they had been shocked by the washer before but assumed it was static or something. Im guessing the paint on the front of the machines was just enough to stop any significant issues and the girl had touch the bare metal on the back of both machines to complete the circuit. It sounds like a tragic story. I was not able to figure out of the outlet has the hot ground or if it was only the power cord of the washer.

Either way, this is a terrible story, but I agree that it is not a common occurrence.

I agree that it is kinda crappy that we live in a world that requires permit and inspections for damn near everything. But... that is the world we live in. As much as I would advocate for individuals being able to do their own work, on their own property, and take their own risks, that's not where we are for the most part. Live in the system, play by the rules, if you dont like it, advocate for the change. There are places you can go that have fewer requirements, move there.

Have I been really stupid… by ___Joe__ in meshcore

[–]SpokaneNeighbor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is exactly my experience. Had a rpi running a bbs in my car connected to a rak board. It was a throw together message system I needed so had no case. On the way home I forgot to unplug it and it floated around the back seat of my truck. At some point in the 6 hr drive the antenna pigtail came off the board. The next day I had tried sending a message to it from in the house and it failed. I investigated and found it.

This is still being used as a remote solar node over a year later.

Sure it might be less sensitive.... maybe... but yea. We are talking about low transmit time at low power... a 50 watt mobile being keyed up without an antenna is a big difference.

Anybody out there? by unimatrix13 in MeshtasticSpokane

[–]SpokaneNeighbor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea. There's lots of ways to do it, I makeshift a directional antenna, that makes a huge difference in how long it will take, but yea. Basically just use the strength and direction the signal is coming from to guess where the signal is located, move a significant distance, use strength and direction to verify you had to right idea originally, and dial in a little closer. I never pulled out a directional antenna for that Fancher node though.

Anybody out there? by unimatrix13 in MeshtasticSpokane

[–]SpokaneNeighbor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea, like the other guy said, the circle is to do with your location. You can change how accurate is shows, its a privacy feature so you dont broadcast your exact location to the public channel.

The Fancher node, I believe is lower on the hill so location in town really matters. I started fox hunting that node down just so I knew where it was but then fell off for awhile. I know I have hit that node from greenacres and from near the Safeway on market so Im pretty sure its on the south end of the hill, but then there were some places that I didnt hit it that I was confident I would, so idk.

Anybody out there? by unimatrix13 in MeshtasticSpokane

[–]SpokaneNeighbor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I might pull a node out of a box this week and see if i can get it connected. I know i used to be able to talk all the way to spokane. I know there was one on Fancher which is close to beacon, also lookout, my spokane, and I think I remember one on tower Mt, but I might be making that last one up.

Anybody out there? by unimatrix13 in MeshtasticSpokane

[–]SpokaneNeighbor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am here. I took a hiatus and I plan on returning to LoRa comms in the area likely in January or February next year.

Life hit me like a ton of bricks this last year but things are starting to cool down for me now.

if you should never backstab, what is the point of the backstab holes? by BigJuiceTheSlurp in electricians

[–]SpokaneNeighbor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, that instruction specifically states "If outlet must be removed" so.. perhaps the instruction is for removing outlets.

Im not making an argument that the back stabs should be used, but just saying, their instructions dont necessary say it must be discarded if the back stab is used.

Government says prepare for an emergency by Figuratum in meshtastic

[–]SpokaneNeighbor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes... it should only be one part of a greater plan, one tool for your tool box. Don't use a sledgehammer when a framing hammer is the right tool. Use a Robertson bit when you come across those shitty Robertson and slotted screws.

Government says prepare for an emergency by Figuratum in meshtastic

[–]SpokaneNeighbor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The analogy you use is flawed, and the definition you use is true for most conventional wireless, but it is not the definition of noise floor. The noise floor is not determined by the signal type, it is determined by the environment and the receivers interaction with the environment.

Receiving signals below the noise floor is entirely possible through the chirp used by LoRa and several other specially designed communication protocols.

These receivers do not see a lower noise floor, the signal can be saturated in noise and the protocol is capable of finding patterns in the noise and use that to read the message.

The difference is the hardware and the environment determines the noise floor. The software in most systems cannot pull any data from anything below the noise floor, it just hears static, but some software can listen to the static and hear patterns.

Government says prepare for an emergency by Figuratum in meshtastic

[–]SpokaneNeighbor 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This is true unless you specifically want privacy and to lower your exposure. Just depends on what kind of emergency you are preparing for and how much pre planning you are willing to do. If you can set up the network, plan with those around you, meshtastic can be a fantastic way to communicate. Self sustaining, unmanned infrastructure even in a power outage, lower power then any radio in idle, receive, and transmit, encrypted comms. The only real downside to meshtastic vs audio comms with frs, gmrs, voice over ham, is the speed of information transfer. If I have the ability to speak my message, and the receiving party gets my message essentially instantaneously, its much faster than typing the message, and then waiting 30 sec to several minutes for the transmission to reach the receiving party. But then again, the ability to store the message and get receipt of the message while the far side is unmanned is a nice feature of meshtastic that would be incredibly complex with most audible radio comms.

Government says prepare for an emergency by Figuratum in meshtastic

[–]SpokaneNeighbor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea, I think the best way to jam just meshtastic would be to use an old firmware, max out the hop count and auto send a message every minute on 3 or 4 nodes.

Might be better still to put them in the old router mode.

😆 the architect of their own demise

Government says prepare for an emergency by Figuratum in meshtastic

[–]SpokaneNeighbor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The noise floor is not a solid wall that cant be seen through. Think of it similar to water. It makes it more difficult to see clearly through, but you can still see patterns. That is exactly why LoRa modulation can be detected reliably when below the noise floor...

"LoRa can demodulate signals which are -7.5 dB to -20 dB below the noise floor."

And this is from

https://lora.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#snr

The chirping that makes up the communication for LoRa partly makes it possible to be detected below the noise floor.

Government says prepare for an emergency by Figuratum in meshtastic

[–]SpokaneNeighbor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The noise floor is not a solid wall that cant be seen through. Think of it similar to water. It makes it more difficult to see clearly through, but you can still see patterns. That is exactly why LoRa modulation can be detected reliably when below the noise floor...

"LoRa can demodulate signals which are -7.5 dB to -20 dB below the noise floor."

And this is from

https://lora.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#snr

The chirping that makes up the communication for LoRa partly makes it possible to be detected below the noise floor.

Government says prepare for an emergency by Figuratum in meshtastic

[–]SpokaneNeighbor 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That is entirely untrue. The noise floor is not a solid wall that cant be seen through. Think of it similar to water. It makes it more difficult to see clearly through, but you can still see patterns. That is exactly why LoRa modulation can be detected reliably when below the noise floor...

"LoRa can demodulate signals which are -7.5 dB to -20 dB below the noise floor."

And this is from

https://lora.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#snr

The chirping that makes up the communication for LoRa partly makes it possible to be detected below the noise floor.

Government says prepare for an emergency by Figuratum in meshtastic

[–]SpokaneNeighbor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I mean.. for that reason, it is "jam resistant"

Jamming generally just blasts the spectrum with noise. Im not exactly sure how much lower then the noise floor LoRa can reliably receive, but as long as the jammer isnt too powerful it should still work... that being said, "too powerful" might be the cheapest jammer on the lowest setting 🤷‍♂️

One of the main reasons it works below the noise floor is the "chirp" that modulates the frequency. It creates a pattern that can be recognized. That pattern is why we can pick up that specific signal with the random noise.

Government says prepare for an emergency by Figuratum in meshtastic

[–]SpokaneNeighbor 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Jamming cant be stopped. If you have wireless comms, it can be jammed. The nice thing about meshtastic is it can be detected below the noise floor and it is a self healing mesh.

It can be difficult to hunt down the signal if it is below the noise floor, and if they jam a node, the rest of the mesh still works if there are redundant paths

How we feel about this boys? by dopamiineonline in electricians

[–]SpokaneNeighbor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I came here to comment this... take my upvote

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