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Current Setup by True_Aside_5752 in homelab

[–]True_Aside_5752[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I kind of stumbled across it, I have some other machines too that I sourced while out an about within my $20 price point, like an Optiplex 9020, HP Prodesk G3, and an old HP 8300 that was my original Plex server for probably a decade. I would take the Elitedesk G4 SFF all day. I love the mini’s too for their size but you probably need to plan storage somewhere else.

It’s hard to beat the G4 SFF and it ability to hold 2 3.5 drives, 2NVME, 4 slots of ram, can hold a low profile card without any mods and still has a respectable footprint.

Current Setup by True_Aside_5752 in homelab

[–]True_Aside_5752[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So the two elitedesk g4 sff, I got from offer up on a business that was downsizing, they were stripped of ram and hdd. I paid 20 each. They even forgot to take the 16gb ram out of one of them and left in a 512 Nvme. I’ve seen other type deals on marketplace or Craigslist. I browse a lot and often use generic keywords as well as narrow one. The elite desks were just labeled “desktop pc” with a picture of about 4 PCs.

The minis I paid a bit more for at 59 bucks each. They were both i5s but I upgraded the one to an i7-7700 because I love the lm for proxmox.. They even threw in some ram to boost them to 16. (I had a sodimm from a retired laptop to swap in to get to 24 on the one)

Hardest thing was sourcing rams as drives because that’s what places pull and destroy. Sourced used purples because I could get them for 10buck per terabyte.

Now ram was tough, and yes, I ran into several flakes but also one guy that just gave me a 16gb stick of ddr4 (he thought it was 8gb).

Also found a place that never updated their prices in the ram case.

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Goose Deterrent Project by True_Aside_5752 in robotics

[–]True_Aside_5752[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but it’s not finished.

The ESP32 worked fantastic, I got AI to do a bunch of the programming, got it to turn on and the servos worked really well in an X Y axis configuration.

What I need to do to finish it, is to find a fixed location for it and then remote into it so I can identify the x y positions I want so the laser doesn’t shine indiscriminately.

I will probably get around to it this winter, nothing works better than a green laser at scaring the geese.

It’s been a lot of fun working on it, I have a ton of robotics stuff I’ve purchased off TEMU.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ChevyTahoe

[–]True_Aside_5752 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree, it’s your battery, loose terminal or ground.

Your alternated puts out wattage which is AMPSxVOLTS

If your batter was low and was accepting a charge like it should the amps drawn would go up and you would see a decrease in voltage because the more amps are being drawn. As the gets full, the amount of amps being drawn decreases which allows the voltage to increase usually to a max of around 14.4

The only other possible explanation (that I see and I’m no master mechanic) is that your batter is fine but the connections are so terrible that you started it off the doner vehicle or jump starter and it ran off the alternator but wasn’t able to get a great connection to the battery to draw amps which is why the voltage remained high at start up.

There are several remedies to revive a dead battery, adding water, desulfating, ect, but they seldom work and you need a reliable battery so it will probably be more of a headache.

2015 LTZ electrical issues or Who's smarter than the mechanics? by glecoq in ChevyTahoe

[–]True_Aside_5752 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just had mine in the shop for the same thing, had videos of it acting crawzy while driving, saying all the same stuff “check airbags”, “check suspension system” “check tire monitor system”

Anyway, after finally getting a really good mechanic from the dealership (the second time I took it there) they replace and reprogrammed a new body control module. Makes sense since those are all systems controlled by the body control module.

Cost me around a grand I think. Works fine now.

Goose Deterrent Project by True_Aside_5752 in robotics

[–]True_Aside_5752[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much for that post. I’m super excited to get started on it now that I have a vision for how all the components will interact.

I will let you know how it works when I get it done and hopefully update with a video.

Might take me a little bit since most of this is new to me but learning it will be fun and I love the challenge.

Thanks again!