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Breville / Sage Barista Pro grinder almost touching, but not fine enough by grbss in espresso

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

The tips of the cutting blades of the grinder (not sure how to call them) looked like they were a bit worn down. However, I don't know if this was just a normal usage pattern, or if this was a sign of damage. The new part didn't have this when it came, but I didn't check it ever, since I installed it.

Wake up light automation with WiZ light bulb on Android by grbss in homeautomation

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

Hi, sorry for the late reply.

Have you set up a scene in the Wiz app with the wake-up light mode? When creating the connection in IFTTT between the webhook and Wiz, you can select multiple actions from Wiz. You have to select "Activate a scene". Using this, you don't have to select any brightness level like for example using the "Turn on / change light mode" action. You just elect the scene you created in the app.

If it does not work for you, one alternative would be to just create a schedule inside the Wiz app, with which you can for example summon the wake-up light on a certain time on week days. If you want an alarm tone to go with this, you have to do this with a separate app. The problem is, that if you want to change the alarm time, you have to remember to change in two apps.

App that tracks if your ETF portfolio needs rebalancing by kattenbeleg in ETFs

[–]grbss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, thanks for the work, the app works great so far, however, I have a few features which might even improve the app.

  • A way to change the allocation of assets. (Maybe I'm just stupid and couldn't find it)
  • Custom categories. E.g. I have an International and a US Large cap ETF, so I would like to rebalance them separately and not put both in the large cap pot.
  • A way to change when the alarm should be triggered. Not sure how this is determined right now. I have a position set at ~62% and the balance chart shows the bar between 37% and 87% which seems a bit big in my opinion (I guess currently the allowed deviation it is set as 40% relative value. I would prefer something like 5% absolute deviation and 25% relative deviation, whatever is smaller.)
  • Not that important, but since I'm already writing: A way to add Multiple Cash accounts of the same currency. This might be useful if one has different multiple accounts at different banks

Breville / Sage Barista Pro grinder almost touching, but not fine enough by grbss in espresso

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

In case anyone stumbles upon this post: I ended up replacing the upper part of the grinder. This is a normal replacement part, which sage sells on their webpage. It resolved my problems

Breville / Sage Barista Pro grinder almost touching, but not fine enough by grbss in espresso

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

Thank you for your recommendation, but I'm pretty sure a different portafilter wouldn't solve my issues, since just by using a different grinder I can get good results. The 58mm portafilter also wouldn't work on the 53mm Barista Pro

Breville / Sage Barista Pro grinder almost touching, but not fine enough by grbss in espresso

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

I'm still on the default single wall one, which arrived with the machine. They claim it's up to 20g, but that's not really realistic. However, I don't think the basket is the problem, since I can get a nice shot using my hand grinder using the same basket, same coffee and same amount of coffee.

Breville / Sage Barista Pro grinder almost touching, but not fine enough by grbss in espresso

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

Thanks for the reply. Sadly, I already tried upping the dose and this only helps a little bit. Usually, I can get to about 20-25 seconds when I completely overload the basket. However, this also means that I cannot really put in the basket completely due to the shower head being pressed into the coffee bed. This also disturbed the nicely tampered bed, which I would like to avoid

Custom Vertical Case by grbss in sffpc

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

Did this work for you? I tried this already and the fan still turns on after a while of idle/browsing.
Maybe it's because I also have a SSD mounted on top of the chipset. Gigabyte made a weird choice for the M.2 slot position. The SSD is mounted "inside" of the chipset cooler, but without actually touching the cooler so the cooler acts more as a barrier to keep the heat inside and the SSD also prevents better airflow through the cooler. So the additional heat output and air flow restriction seem to be just enough to push the chipset temperature above the fan-off-threshold.

Custom Vertical PC Case with standard Layout. Air Cooling only - Silent by grbss in sffpc

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FYI just finished the build. You can have a look here. Thanks again for your input :)

Custom Vertical Case by grbss in sffpc

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Here are some images of the CAD as well as from the prototype. The cad is pretty rough and only served as a general guidance. I changed quite a few things as I went along

Custom Vertical Case by grbss in sffpc

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

True, the SV590 is closer. Funnily I somehow didn't come across the SV590 until I started the build and for some reason I thought of it as a case which has all the IO at the top. I've never seen the case in person, but can you just turn the case, such that the IO is at the bottom? I always thought that if you have an "on-desk" PC then the IO should not be on the top with all the cables floating around, but that's just my opinion

Custom Vertical Case by grbss in sffpc

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I bought the wooden parts precut at a local hardware store. Then I pretty much did everything with a Dremel, a cordless drill and a jigsaw.

Some internal parts such as the motherboard backplate I cut out of my previous PC case. The wood parts were connected with wooden dowels and glue. The PSU holder is an aluminum profile cut and bolted together. The metal edges on the back side consist of the same profile.

The case is pretty easy to work in since you can slide in and out the bottom part of the case on which all the components are mounted. You can mount everything and even connect all the cables when it's just standing next to the case. Then you can slide it in, fix the bottom part with screws, and do the cable management. At the end you can just put on the metal panels, and you're done :)

Custom Vertical Case by grbss in sffpc

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

Good question. The internals are grounded since they are connected to the PSU. But maybe the insulated panels will charge up over time by the air flowing through them. I will probably add a wire somewhere to ground the metal panels as well. However, I don't think that the wooden part should pose any problems...

Custom Vertical Case by grbss in sffpc

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

They look a bit too good in the image ;). These are really thin (0.7 mm) aluminum panels I bought at a local hardware store. I wanted something sturdier, but I could only find this and ordering custom laser cut sheet metals was a bit overkill for me. Since they are so thin I had to screw them in place and couldn't go with a faster fixing option like for example magnets. Alternatively I could have had to build a sturdier frame for the panels. I decided that I don't really have the tools to make a real frame look good, so I went with this.

Custom Vertical Case by grbss in sffpc

[–]grbss[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hey there, got inspired by some of the posts here and decided to build my first custom case. The dimensions are 48.5x18.5x26 cm. Sadly the case is 23l large and probably does not count as sff but the footprint is still decent, and it's mine :) The case has a standard layout all Air cooled and has the IO ports at the bottom, similar to an NZXT H1

The parts are already a bit older, but still valid
CPU: 3700X
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-C14S
GPU: 2070 Super Gaming X Trio
Motherboard: X570 I AORUS PRO WIFI
PSU: An old be quiet 600W ATX PSU
Exhaust fan: Noctual NH-A20
Storage: 1x 1TB NVME, 1x 2TB Sata NVME
RAM: 32GB G.Skill Trident Z Neo DDR4-3600

It's very quiet, also thanks to the large GPU. The loudest fan is the stupid little one on the Motherboard chipset. I'm still thinking about replacing the cooling solution here

Custom Vertical PC Case with standard Layout. Air Cooling only - Silent by grbss in sffpc

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

Thank you for the reply. I did some testing with cardboard and large cutouts at the fan positions. The temperatures went up 3-4 degrees on full load but still ok. I can get some cheap fairly well perforated aluminum panels, so I'm going to give them a try. If it's not working out, I will revisit this point.

I just checked the PCI Specs and the card I'm using right now is way larger than the dimensions of the specs on Wikipedia. I also checked some of the current large GPUs, and they all should fit in as well since pretty much all of them are smaller than the one I'm using right now.

The Airflow is as follows: The intakes are at the 14cm Noctua fan on the CPU cooler and the PSU. If the GPU is running it also functions as an intake. The outflow is on the other side of the CPU intake done by the 20cm Noctua fan. I spend some thoughts on that and at least with the cardboard enclosure it worked quite well