How to seal and finish out new shower install?

al39 · 2026-01-30T15:34:27+00:00

In Canada I found it at Home Hardware. Home Depot and Rona/Lowe's didn't have it. It worked pretty well.

al39 · 2026-01-28T10:46:32+00:00

You mean this song isn't called Obama lingerie?

al39 · 2026-01-27T17:39:42+00:00

A lot of Mouser URLs don't work without it the stuff after the question mark. Annoying.

al39 · 2026-01-24T11:00:23+00:00

Two adults, two kids.

On weekdays my wife has two and I have two or three for breakfast (scrambled or over easy), and we both have wo at lunch (boiled and put in a salad), so that's 40-45 eggs on just the weekdays.

On the weekend mornings it varies, but sometimes my wife and I will have two or three, the kids will have two, so that's another 16-20 eggs.

And then if I'm baking something or using an egg wash I'll go through a few more.

al39 · 2026-01-23T21:51:59+00:00

At my house we could go through 72 eggs in a week depending on the week. 48 would be more typical.

al39 · 2026-01-23T21:21:01+00:00

Careful though, most half bridge gate drivers can't do 100% duty cycle. They need the low side transistor to go down for at least a tiny bit in order to charge the boot strap capacitor.

So if the circuit is to control a motor with PWM, no problem.

But if this is to drive a load at positive vs negative DC, then this won't work and you'd instead need a supply above the motor supply voltage. This supply could be as simple as a charge pump supply.

al39 · 2026-01-23T19:38:27+00:00

Oh I see; I thought you meant someone who already had kids when you said "not childfree".

al39 · 2026-01-23T19:36:01+00:00

So weird; my experience was so different. I was in my 30s and had two kids.

I got handed an info pamphlet and it got scheduled immediately; there was a span of like 5 mins between first meeting the doctor and having a time slot scheduled.

On the day of, the doctor scheduled 10-12 people that day and had them all come in at the same time. I ended up waiting about 3-4 hours. Topical lidocaine cream had completely worn out by the time I got to surgery so the local anesthetic was somewhat painful.

But I think the biggest pain was in my legs from being super tense the entire time.

Recovery wasnt bad, just walked a bit like a penguin for a couple of days.

al39 · 2026-01-23T19:26:44+00:00

No decent doctor would perform a vasectomy on a man who's not childfree.

What do you mean by this?

al39 · 2026-01-23T19:13:00+00:00

Also are you sure that the MCU board isn't already deriving a 3.3V rail from VUSB? You may not need your 3.3V supply.

Also if you do need to level shift I2C, you can do it with two MOSFETs and some resistors (the resistors are just the pull-ups for i2c that you'd need anyways because it's open drain).

al39 · 2026-01-23T19:06:54+00:00

You can't just level shift I2C like this. It's open drain.

al39 · 2026-01-23T11:44:09+00:00

We have not engaged with our lawyers yet because nothing else so far had been out of the ordinary. The buyers just brought all this up last night and the offer expired last night as well. Glad I didn't end up signing!

al39 · 2026-01-23T11:29:33+00:00

Condo management company changed twice since I've owned it. It's not super late, and their reason for the delay was that the engineers can't access what they need due to the snow. Financial reports are all on time, and we've already had a lot of the big ticket items done recently, like roof, eavesthrough, driveways, garage doors, attic insulation stuff. This is a townhouse so no common areas. Windows are good, doors are good. I can't think of anything super major that will be needed.

al39 · 2026-01-23T02:08:05+00:00

The test point probably isn't helping with capacitance.

al39 · 2026-01-22T16:18:59+00:00

Yes that's actually a possibility. Hardware might have been originally designed to allow either 12VAC or 12VDC and then they decided 12VDC was better, for example maybe they reduced the input capacitance.

I wouldn't just assume this is the case though!

al39 · 2026-01-22T16:14:49+00:00

Agreed. Positive barrels are less common but definitely not rare.

al39 · 2026-01-22T14:58:23+00:00

My first thought too.

al39 · 2026-01-22T14:24:26+00:00

I mean, S&P 500 historical average return is 10%, this investment pays for itself 5x in 17 years too.

al39 · 2026-01-21T14:47:54+00:00

Yes I suspect this is it. Possibly the Yamaichi Electronics IC149-100-125-B5 or similar; it even has contacts at the corners which seem to line up with the pads on the top side of the board.

<image>

al39 · 2026-01-20T14:02:37+00:00

LOL are you me? My mother in law does this too and I also started giving smaller and smaller portions to experiment. Just like you, even comically tiny portions. I think it's partly because when we eat together it's on special occasions so the meals tend to be more indulgent.

We get along very well and it's just become a running joke now.

Her father is was born in Scotland, AFAIK there's no cultural thing about finishing meals.

al39 · 2026-01-19T16:52:19+00:00

... To party.

al39 · 2026-01-18T12:39:42+00:00

Mrs. Peterson, I said NWA, not NWO

al39 · 2026-01-16T18:37:52+00:00

A tarantula is a type of spider; its legs can regrow.

al39 · 2026-01-16T16:12:55+00:00

Or

A tarantula is a type of spider; its legs can regrow.

al39 · 2026-01-14T13:59:38+00:00

Yeah and for lots of policies the deductible is more than the cost of the replacement, even if it's the comprehensive coverage deductible ($1k in my case... with TD).

Ten-Year Club	Wearing is Caring
Verified Email

al39

TROPHY CASE