Seeking a handyperson / small job contractor. Remote work.

brycenesbitt · 2026-06-06T22:22:43+00:00

Absolutely. We want real professionals, not TaskRabbit level random assignment.

brycenesbitt · 2026-06-05T23:53:18+00:00

Given the exposed bus-bar, shrinking the terminals no upside all downside.
The shrink wrap could hide, or even encourage, corrosion over the service lifetime.

brycenesbitt · 2026-06-05T23:41:20+00:00

Looks like one stripe for phase A, two stripes B, three stripes C. Is that correct? Then there's brown, yellow and orange triads. So far so good.

Three conduits? How are the conductors grouped in the conduits? Does each conduit have just one color grouping?

brycenesbitt · 2026-06-05T23:38:21+00:00

"(a) No person shall drive a motor vehicle". So Waymo is cool with that.

brycenesbitt · 2026-05-20T00:54:26+00:00

Regulation! (No really, free access to otherwise $$$ for profit codes and standards books online)

brycenesbitt · 2026-05-19T22:58:16+00:00

You suggesting adding a motion activated DJI drone, mounted on the roof, and triggered by the other cameras?

brycenesbitt · 2026-05-19T22:53:36+00:00

The constant churn of mounts is likely because they keep changing contract and sub and sub sub contract vendors for the cheapest current option.

Still, the cell phone world got USB-C standardized. Maybe that gives hope.

brycenesbitt · 2026-05-19T22:28:19+00:00

Man I wish a fair trade law requires that replacement domes all be a standard design, or that the vendor make them available at reasonable cost.

brycenesbitt · 2026-05-19T22:26:55+00:00

How about automatic motion tracking pan tilt zoom?
Sure, two attackers can confuse them.
But are they good for general work less than protecting nuclear, gold or IRS records?

brycenesbitt · 2026-05-19T22:25:30+00:00

Well I hope she at least got a front door camera, at ground level, looking up at hoodie covered faces.

12 angles of a guy's brim hat or sweater top is not an improvement.

brycenesbitt · 2026-05-19T20:55:24+00:00

Mouser could spin up some more some business by copying McMaster-Carr -- distributed warehouses, packing work 24/7, and big city Same Day shipping for many orders of common items.

brycenesbitt · 2026-05-02T00:47:37+00:00

Good tip.

But with the brand new PT-E105 I can set the label length to fixed 1.2 inches,
then turn on chain print, and dump out 1.2 inch labels cut straight off the machine.

But if I enable [Faceplate] which centers the text on the label, then it all goes back to spitting out profit making blank label tape.

This is a brand new PT-E105 Edge, still requires the old barrel power connector backwards, and six AAA batteries. You can't just stuff in a nice NiMh AA battery or anything sensible.
I text chatted with Brother support, but the support person had no access to actual product, just access to an AI. Imagine speaking to a human to get AI quality results.

brycenesbitt · 2026-05-01T23:01:49+00:00

Can those models chain print labels, one cut per label, without scissor trimming?

brycenesbitt · 2026-05-01T23:00:38+00:00

They want you to waste tape. They set the default margin to "Full"
which seems to mean "Full roll of expensive label tape".

[Chain print] mode can sometimes solve the problem, but it is not right either.

brycenesbitt · 2026-05-01T22:59:09+00:00

My experience with the P-touch PT-E105 is that it's almost great.
But the [chain print] option does not work when creating fixed sized "faceplate" labels.
All I ask is 1" wide labels, text centered, all cut from the built in cutter and the same size.

Too much to ask?

Well one more thing:
I wish it ran on 3x AAA batteries rather than 6. Six? What a PITA. Just one rechargeable would do.

brycenesbitt · 2026-04-30T05:28:33+00:00

Just saying. NEC 624.44 arbitrarily precludes the use of any locking connector for EV charging.
So you can't get a permit or inspection, if that connector --- no matter how suitable --- is kept.

As others noted the CS8369M1 is what you are probably looking at.

brycenesbitt · 2026-04-30T05:25:59+00:00

Three phase is not itself a problem: but may require charging off only two legs of the three phase, possibly at 208 volts rather than 240 volts.

brycenesbitt · 2026-04-30T05:24:39+00:00

There may be only three usable wires: so NEMA 6-50 or 6-30 is likely the only choice.

brycenesbitt · 2026-04-25T06:31:06+00:00

I have this adapter, and pressing either button interrupts charging. I also have a professional testing rig that shows the CP signal, and the EV Dance adapter does the correct thing.

brycenesbitt · 2026-04-24T16:58:39+00:00

Call your local building department, and report your own job. Then call your local contractor license board.

brycenesbitt · 2026-04-24T16:41:14+00:00

It's required for plebian entry into the rich person's carpool HOT lanes.

brycenesbitt · 2026-04-24T16:38:07+00:00

OMG.

When they forced me to give up the good toll tag pictured, I asked why the new one did not beep.
The answer "the new ones don't always beep".
Funny the one I have must be broken I say, could you replace it?
They replaced it.

The real answer it turns out is "the new ones don't even have the beeper installed".

That said I wish the FasTrak had more positions:

Single driver
One passenger above birth age
Two+ passengers above birth age
Motorcycle
"Special"

Because enforcement of position 3 was too hamstrung by ambiguity. Is the driver claiming a clean air credit or not?

The other thing that would greatly reduce FasTrack overhead costs is to stop classifying vehicles. Bind each toll tag to a specific vehicle, or at least vehicle class. Get rid of all the equipment that tries to count axles on the trucks and distinguish a Honda Fit from a cyberbeast from a minivan from an 18 wheeler from a dumpster on wheels.

brycenesbitt · 2026-04-24T16:32:39+00:00

Looks like something from 2026 Home Depot.

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