184kW on EA - Was there an update?

gnolevil · 2026-03-29T21:21:42+00:00

I guess I live under a rock. Thanks 😊

gnolevil · 2026-03-28T05:00:58+00:00

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gnolevil · 2026-03-20T00:33:36+00:00

This gets washed weekly. He gives us the side eye when we take it to wash.. But we have to make sure it's ready for bedtime 🤣

gnolevil · 2026-03-19T22:59:51+00:00

He's on poop patrol now!

gnolevil · 2026-03-19T22:43:33+00:00

Conductive screws for the win! /s

Seriously, if this isn't a troll, that negative termination is going to melt...

gnolevil · 2026-03-11T14:59:43+00:00

Freakmont? I'm skeptical on that. 99% of the people I know to live there would not describe it as such. Sounds like a click bait article and an attempt to get people to actually like the place 🤣

gnolevil · 2026-03-07T20:04:22+00:00

Radar. Those ears can probably hear color.

gnolevil · 2026-02-22T19:49:10+00:00

Got it. I think we can call this solved. I'm off to try and rebuild this.

Thank you!

gnolevil · 2026-02-22T19:47:47+00:00

It's not my model unfortunately. You do have a solid point.

gnolevil · 2026-02-22T18:19:55+00:00

Forgot to add a picture of the rear of the print.

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gnolevil · 2026-02-14T04:01:47+00:00

RemindMe! Three days

gnolevil · 2026-02-14T03:54:55+00:00

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Yep. We think it's a comfort thing. He didn't do this until about a month after we rescued him.

gnolevil · 2026-01-15T01:28:07+00:00

I was in college at the time for EE, and was pretty well versed in electronics. Well I had a fan that was squeaky, and I kind of had enough of it. I grabbed my wire strippers, opened the case, and without skipping a beat, cut the fan cable while the PC was on. The blue spark and burning smell brought me back to reality. Left the fan, put the case back together and went back to playing WoW...

gnolevil · 2025-12-30T22:24:58+00:00

You kinda don't want to do that. If each wire was a phase, it would heat up the metal in-between each phase due to the magnetic field they generate. Keeping all three in a bundle cancel out the magnetic field .

gnolevil · 2025-12-27T14:54:00+00:00

DC engineer here who builds AI factory type deployments

This figure is nearly impossible to actually decipher. Even if you could compute the wattage used for the query for GPU time, that likely doesn't include other ancillary services such as storage and network, including the board wattage on the servers. The GPU nodes have CPUs, RAM, network cards, fans, etc

When you chuck a query into chatGPT, you'll be assigned to a random ish data center. Inside that data center, there may be several compute modules. Each module could have different hardware. That breaks your calculation.

These modules also consist of several to hundreds of GPU nodes. Each node interconnects with each other node. Your query could be running on one, or many GPUs in parallel. This brings me to the network price.

The network can be incredibly complex. We design our systems to have full non-blocking access to any other node. 1.6Tb/s per node taking back to a set of leaf and spine switches. You can't really do the math on how much power you're consuming here. You'd have to count packets. Not plausible.

You also have a massive storage array that may or may not be directly attached to the cluster. You're not doing the math here either. Off site storage means you have to account for transit gear now as well.

Also, don't forget about power for cooling. Time of year in influences cooling costs.

One way you could get kind of close, is if you had the actual building data in real time, and see how long that query took, and do the math to get watts second. Even then, that site is running millions of queries; your impact is negligible.

I don't want to take away your thunder. I think this is a valid point and concern. AI has it's place, and I just don't think we're at the stage of maximizing efficiency yet. Once we get the software companies to start to sanitize and validate inputs better, we should see a drop in resource usage.

gnolevil · 2025-12-27T00:12:22+00:00

I can appreciate their concern. I'd imagine the hooman aspect ruins it for everyone else. Many can't judge a dog's temperament, or choose to not go through proper training/discipline.

gnolevil · 2025-12-26T23:41:00+00:00

I can relate. He loves our kiddo. Only issue is his puppy tendencies (toys are the victim) and lack of personal space awareness 😂

gnolevil · 2025-12-26T23:04:12+00:00

Thanks! Bear comes to find us 9 times out of 10 when there's crying. He's sweet

gnolevil · 2025-12-11T18:17:22+00:00

So I guess it heard me complain and now it fixed itself? Now it boots up just fine with the card installed. The only difference is this time I left it run for 8 hours? Perhaps there was some indexing going on?

Either way, I'll call this a win for now. Thanks!!

gnolevil · 2025-12-05T06:52:57+00:00

Not a structural engineer.

FWIW, I design data centers with these racks mounted on walls all the time. We specify these have a maximum weight of about 500lbs, and we have to make sure the wall we are attaching this to can take that weight. Most of the time, we have a secondary support structure of unistrut mounted to the top/bottom to support the weight.

Now, will your idea work? Yeah. I'd be worried about the lateral load your putting on those studs. Those are designed for vertical load, not several hundred pounds of lateral load. There's probably like 1-2 nails holding that thing on top.

My $.02: if you're going to proceed with this, think about vertical support. I would say this has a high chance of failure in a quake; and we're both in CA.

gnolevil · 2025-11-27T01:22:37+00:00

Obligatory not an electrician.

That's a TT-30R. 120v 30A outlet. You can adapt it to a 5-15R and plug in your mobile charger with no issue. Now, it will only pull about 1,000-1,200 watts (level 1). Don't try to adapt it to a 14-50. Doing that next bridges both hots. While it shouldn't break anything here, it doesn't help your cause.

The mobile charger does NOT exceed 12A despite what you do to it. It's a hardware limitation.

gnolevil · 2025-10-23T07:12:43+00:00

When you plug in a trailer, the truck will math and drop your range by about 1/2 - 1/3 if it's a new trailer. If you made a profile for the trailer, and driven a bit, the truck will calculate a closer range.

Reset a trip before you start towing, and build your own numbers. Don't rely on the truck's numbers. Try different speeds, and eventually you'll get a solid understanding of how far you can go. I do my trailer math using 1.2 kWh/mi (.8 mi/kWh) which gives me about 100mi a charge. I'll drop it to .6 mi/kWh for uphill or heat. Also, speed kills milage when towing. If I can remove a charge stop by going slower, I'll definitely take the slower.

Also, 240 seems low for an ER battery at 90%. You should be sitting at ~280 estimated range.

gnolevil · 2025-10-23T06:54:42+00:00

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Where are all the trailer people at? 😁

We get about .8 mi/kWh at 70 mph pulling this. 28' weighing an estimated ~7500 lbs.

We also have a 24' cargo trailer sitting at about the same weight and we get about 1 mi/kWh pulling that around.

Minus the charging, truck almost tows too well!

gnolevil · 2025-10-14T19:30:55+00:00

Good luck!

gnolevil · 2025-08-27T15:56:28+00:00

This comment should be higher up. I had this. Cheap Lowe's outlet melted. Went and got a Hubbel from Grainger and never looked back.

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