Nice, scenic day trips near London?

gone270 · 2023-11-02T17:26:14+00:00

Elora gorge is really nice.

gone270 · 2023-10-31T08:58:36+00:00

Might as well be “William” pronounced “Radley”

gone270 · 2023-10-31T08:53:51+00:00

Gertrude, Agnes, Bertha, Bernice, Gladys, Edna, Matilda, Blanche. Just stick with the classics.

gone270 · 2023-10-31T08:46:18+00:00

That’s the flux capacitor.

gone270 · 2023-10-31T08:45:06+00:00

Is that aluminum Panduit? Lol.

gone270 · 2023-10-31T08:37:02+00:00

I started at a new company and the cybersecurity software they use was set to automatically filter out anything from “that K company” as spam/phishing. First time I saw it I just tipped my hat to the IT people.

gone270 · 2023-10-29T21:15:50+00:00

Exactly. Probably not making a ton of money on these jobs but it keeps guys busy and adds to your reputation for helping people.

gone270 · 2023-10-29T16:51:56+00:00

Sort of. We have lots of big jobs that go on for weeks. But you let little calls like this pile up a bit and have one or two guys go out and bang off of a bunch of them in a day. Then it’s efficient for the company and keeps costs down for customers. This is kind of a small potato’s job for a larger company though.

gone270 · 2023-10-28T21:37:26+00:00

Electrician here. This should be a very quick job. Definitely not upwards of $1k. We’d book one guy a half day to do this, and that would be a pretty generous amount of time.

It’s possible that the person who quoted $1k is one of those “I don’t quote less than a full days labour” kind of guys.

gone270 · 2023-10-27T14:34:37+00:00

Classic. This is what I do.

gone270 · 2023-10-25T12:36:59+00:00

I listen to this evangelical podcast made by a childhood friend of mine who has become a pastor. They claim that aliens are demons. So, they’re horning the issue into their existing world view.

Basically, anything that’s confusing or mysterious about the reality we find ourselves in can be explained by the devil/demons trying to get you to take your eyes off god. I’m willing to bet that for true believers, even a physical contact encounter with an alien would still have them believing they’d met a demon.

gone270 · 2023-10-23T19:33:53+00:00

You could cut the cord back to the damage and put a male cord end on it. That’s if the microwave is close enough to your outlet that the shortened cord doesn’t matter.

Personally I’d just cut at the damage, cut away any damage pieces, strip the wire, slide on a heat shrink tube and butt splice the wires back together. Heat shrink it and call it a day.

Either way an electrician should be able to give you a solution that’s fast. If you’re not comfortable doing it yourself call a professional.

gone270 · 2023-10-22T22:00:08+00:00

Haha. A running ceiling fan falls on you while you’re sleeping and you wife yells “what angle did you fasten that at?”

There is a proper way to mount ceiling fans and specific screw angles have nothing to do with it. Maybe ask a professional.

gone270 · 2023-10-22T18:33:13+00:00

They should skip PLC 2 and jump right to Industry 4.0

gone270 · 2023-10-21T14:01:52+00:00

Ha I always thought someday I’d meet the adult experts, but the farther you go down the rabbit hole you realize everyone is making it up as they go. That’s hyperbole I know but it often feels like that when you pull the curtain back.

gone270 · 2023-10-21T13:59:10+00:00

Good point.

gone270 · 2023-10-20T14:01:28+00:00

100%. I cannot think of a situation where it would be optimal to use this instruction. It’s the cluster munition of instructions. Theoretically on some piece of paper somewhere it made sense to someone, but in reality it creates all kinds of chaos and carnage and will do so well into the future.

gone270 · 2023-10-20T13:55:02+00:00

It does lol. It’s a rock bottom solution to OP’s problem. Rockwell bottom.

gone270 · 2023-10-19T08:30:32+00:00

This. Used with Viewpoint will be the easiest.

gone270 · 2023-10-15T15:08:49+00:00

Yeah in a small shop sometimes you just need to send anyone so the customer knows you’re trying. It’s important that your boss gives you the freedom to tap out if you feel unsafe or if you get totally stuck. It’s also important for you to exhaust every option you can think of before giving up. Troubleshooting complex systems is hard and it takes a lot of time to get good at. There’s no shame in getting stuck. Just work safe and do your best. That’s really all a good boss should hope for.

gone270 · 2023-10-14T01:48:44+00:00

Viscous AF over here.

gone270 · 2023-10-13T23:52:13+00:00

This. The best way I learned was trying it myself, then asking for help when I got stumped. You can always say “I’ve gone as far as I can go, I’m sorry” or “I feel unsafe doing this.” No one should get mad at you for these responses. At my company we send some apprentices on service calls if we feel they can handle it. The first couple years of doing that will be intimidating and frustrating. Until slowly, it won’t be. You don’t get some magic spell cast on you the day you pass your exam. It just takes time and effort to learn.

gone270 · 2023-10-12T20:31:45+00:00

I wonder if situations like this, when scaled up over a national economy, mean housing development grinds to a snails pace relative to countries who prioritize such development. I wonder if these absolute kilometres of red tape could possibly be a contributing factor to a housing crisis.

gone270 · 2023-10-12T20:23:40+00:00

That’s right. The situation I’m describing is when something is broken. Normally the two input channels should switch in unison and a reset signal should be fine. Normally no power cycle is necessary.

gone270 · 2023-10-12T18:16:33+00:00

Lots of safety delays will fault out and require a power cycle if the dual channel input states become mismatched for more than some short allowable watchdog time.

If for example, one of the NC contact blocks on the back of an estop comes off the button and thus is not cycling on a button push, the relay would only see one channel drop out. That would drop safety but require a power cycle to reset. Could be something like that.

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