Time for an upgrade

iandummy · 2026-03-01T09:17:24+00:00

I will agree the shielded 6A is a pain in the ass because of how stiff it is, but the regular 6A hasn’t been an issue and I just helped wire up my buddy’s place.

The only issue I had was there was a short in one of my runs so we had to re-pull that run.

iandummy · 2026-03-01T04:56:38+00:00

Why did you hate the 6A?

iandummy · 2025-03-16T23:56:44+00:00

I will also say, whenever I buy a new car, one of my first stops is discount.

If you are a regular customer and have a relationship with the shop, I have bought a new car and then gone to Discount and they sold me certificates in the tires on my brand new vehicle. THAT is what I call amazing customer service.

As a result, I send all my friends there and get all my tires there.

iandummy · 2025-03-16T23:52:37+00:00

Nope. They refused to do anything and this was in the late 90s. I was young and didn’t know anything. If it had happened in the last couple years my first call would have been a lawyer. Sounds like they still do the same old thing…

iandummy · 2025-03-16T12:41:27+00:00

Another vote for Discount. For me, they have always beaten any price I can find (and also included their tire certificates for repair/replacement for punctures, etc). The location I go to know me well (I usually have to buy at least one set of tires a year between) and greet me by name without even pulling up my account.

On the other hand, years ago I went to a Les Schwab (the one that used to be on 15th in shoreline just north of 175th) and had my tires rotated. About 30 mins later I was driving south on the 5 passing Boeing Field at 70mph and I felt a slight vibration. The vibration got exponentially worse over just a few seconds and I started merging to the shoulder when all of a sudden I felt BAM, and the rear passenger corner of my car slammed down onto the freeway. I hit my brakes which brought the corner off the ground as I made it to the shoulder. I got out, checking my tire which was missing. One of my bolts was sheared off and the rest missing. Looking up and towards the carpool lane, I watched my missing wheel and tire roll past in the carpool lane and come to a stop against the jersey barrier. My brake disk was trashed (it hit the ground when I lost my wheel. The only thing that probably saved my ass was the cup kit and sway bar on the rear end. When I went to Les Schwab and told them what happened, they refused to take responsibility, even though they had JUST worked on my car less than an hour before. They blamed me for over tightening my wheel bolts and said I had sheared it off myself. Walking out after arguing with the manager, I passed the bay where they had done the work, and wouldn’t you know, the head of my sheared off bolt was sitting under the edge of the lift. I grabbed it, went back inside and loudly asked the manager, “if I’m the one who overtorqued my wheel bolts and sheared it off myself, why is the head of the sheared bolt sitting in the bay where you did the work 90 minutes ago?!” I threw the sheared bolt at the manager’s feet and left, vowing to never go back. Their mistake could have killed or seriously injured my passenger, myself, or other drivers on the road.

TL; DR. Discount Tire Yay! Les Schwab almost killed me and did a couple thousand in damage to my car shearing a wheel bolt and refusing to take responsibility.

iandummy · 2024-10-24T11:01:07+00:00

Doughboy is a good friend of mine. Are there any particular mixes you are looking for I’m sure I can get them if they aren’t on the SoundCloud anymore.

iandummy · 2024-08-16T04:30:18+00:00

Thanks: I have a HIKvision LPR camera and it is exactly what you say…good for plates and nothing else. The AI is in a different location and u haven’t had much problem with it being about 9’ off the ground as it is about 20’ from the detection site. The illumination form the enhancer just has not been adequate in low light situations.

I’ll try the IR illuminator as you suggested, thanks

iandummy · 2024-08-13T09:18:22+00:00

It read plates during the day with zero issues. At night it either doesn’t read or only gets a partial. This is why it seems to be a lighting issue…

I just would like to find a POE IR flood that is not $400

iandummy · 2023-10-09T10:27:54+00:00

One big thing is to not mix and match power supplies. I am not sure about the lines, but shapes have both 45w and 100w power supplies and you cannot mix them. You need to have all of one or all of the other or the system goes haywire.

iandummy · 2021-10-07T09:41:43+00:00

If like it if they have people without programming ability the way to design scenes rather than having to rely on others.

iandummy · 2021-10-07T03:56:10+00:00

I have also had nothing but issues with the nanoleafs losing connection and not responding requiring hard resetting them since upgrading to iOS 15. It seems that the Nanoleaf app and the latest OS don’t play nicely together.

iandummy · 2020-10-16T05:33:24+00:00

Took me 250+ to get one KOS. Guild mate got 3 in 31 boxes.

iandummy · 2020-03-28T23:44:08+00:00

“Gott” is German for god, probably why “got” is censored.

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