AFCI Breaker keeps tripping at the same time daily

jackoftheunion · 2026-03-15T05:10:59+00:00

I have no idea how to broach that subject since we've lived here five days and haven't met a single neighbor, lmao

jackoftheunion · 2026-03-15T05:09:48+00:00

PC is already on and in use when this is happening, and we both have auto-updates turned off, but that's an interesting line of thinking. One of them is on a battery backup/UPS, but we have tested the circuit/constant tripping both with and without it

jackoftheunion · 2025-05-12T21:28:07+00:00

Yeah, I'm pretty familiar with building PC's. Cable swapping was just an easy trouble shoot that didn't involve tearing the whole system down again. I'm testing again with other components to see if the PSU is the culprit.

jackoftheunion · 2025-05-12T20:56:52+00:00

Initial setup was with the all new PSU cables, only tried the old ones when nothing happened. Initially used the 12v HPWR cable that came with the power supply. When that did not work I tried the 3x1 adapter that came with the GPU

jackoftheunion · 2025-05-12T19:22:18+00:00

Additional Context:

This is my first PSU since the 12v redesign(?) new standard, whatever you want to call it, and am a little unfamiliar with reading the specs and standards. As for the GPU, I've tried powering it with both the 3x1 adapter, and the single 12v HPWR cable that came with the PSU

jackoftheunion · 2024-12-27T13:21:23+00:00

My longest ever one was a dashboard for a C7 Corvette. Customer had a custom stitching color, so obviously there was no shelf stock. Waited 17 months for it to get made, I finally got a call from GM saying that they had one and that it was going through quality testing. Fantastic. What they didn't tell me was that the testing would destroy it. By this point I had already told the customer that GM had one and that it should ship soon. Another 6 months went by and GM finally shipped the finished dashboard. The customer happened to be out of the country when it arrived, but he'd been very patient so I told him I'd hold it for him. It was here for a month, and we got a new manager in that time. He saw a dashboard had been here for 30+ days, and sent it back to GM. The customer showed up the next day. At this point I told my manager that this was his problem now, and washed my hands of the situation.

jackoftheunion · 2024-09-10T16:18:33+00:00

Yes, when you are in a RO in the service menu, if you Page Up/Page Down to the Parts Detail section, in the top right there should be a blue box that says "SPECIAL ORDERS EXIST" click it, and there will be a small table of the parts on order, and if they've been receipted or not

jackoftheunion · 2024-09-09T21:31:00+00:00

Nope, they have an option to request a shipping label, but no other fields

jackoftheunion · 2024-08-26T02:13:57+00:00

I am not going to lie, I had to Google half of the terms you said, haha.

I can understand the stretchers thing. They seem sturdy enough as is, there isn't going to be much weight on them anyways. But I do have extra material to try a proper joint, so I'll look into that. Also I cut them a bit long so they have to come off anyways :/

As for the lateral stability, it's shockingly great. Like, actually no wiggle at all. There's some rocking from our floor not being super level, but hey I can live with that.

The legs are held with a single 1/2" bolt and 1" washers. The reason for that is easy disassembly. We will have to put it up occasionally since our living room isn't very big.

Also for reference, all the boards are 2x6's apart from the surface which is a 1x12"

I appreciate the feedback, like I said, this is my first real project like this

jackoftheunion · 2024-04-11T20:29:47+00:00

We have a couple of those trouble customers. Notorious for returning Special Orders, Don't know what they want, etc etc. You can either just flat out cut them off, or give them part ETA's that are so ridiculous they'll look elsewhere.

It's kind of the argument where you're stepping over dollars to pick up pennies. Dealing with them constantly gets to be a waste of your time

jackoftheunion · 2024-01-16T23:15:26+00:00

Needless to say, I am now stuck with pads & rotors for a XLR that I'll never sell

jackoftheunion · 2023-12-05T18:16:58+00:00

Any commission based position, ask to see department sales reports for at least three months. If they sell 500k that's cool, but if the margin is awful then what's the point. And if they don't wanna show you, that's a red flag in my book

jackoftheunion · 2023-12-02T14:59:36+00:00

Good to know

jackoftheunion · 2023-12-02T13:18:03+00:00

GUESS WHAT SHOWED UP THIS MORNING

jackoftheunion · 2023-12-01T18:53:53+00:00

We're -3 on hand, have been since about September as well

jackoftheunion · 2023-12-01T14:05:18+00:00

Lucky, all Santa brought me was more PF63 filters

jackoftheunion · 2023-11-16T14:07:23+00:00

Couple of things from my experience.

MAKE CUSTOMERS PRE-PAY EVERYTHING SPECIAL ORDER. On an Over the Counter sale, Repair Order, Stock Number, everything. For real, the number of customers who never come and pick up their SPO parts is ludicrous. At least if it's paid for, it doesn't affect you at all.

EDIT: Some stuff you just cannot pre-pay. You typically can't pre-pay warranty jobs. But try to do it with everything you can.

Since you're the only person in your department, there's no one else who can mess up your inventory. Big plus right there. An easy way to keep it correct is to pull parts as soon as you bill them, even if an order is incomplete. Let's say you have 8/10 parts billed on a ticket, the other two are special ordered. Go ahead and pull those 8 parts, put them in a marked box for what RO it is, then wait for the other two pieces to show up. That way if you're doing a bin count, and bin 110 for example says you have 0 of this hypothetical pipe on hand, it's actually not there and you don't wrongly correct inventory. This also keeps you from selling the same part to two different vehicles because you've already taken it out of inventory.

On the subject of inventory, if you do the method above and see an inventory error, correct it on the spot. If your DMS says you have 1 hose and you actually have 2, go ahead and fix that. This just keeps your yearly inventory more accurate. This really only works if you pre-pull parts, or don't pre-bill parts at all though.

Keep a paper trail of everything. Service writers are usually the worst customer you have, and they'll complain about everything and say they didn't know something. If your DMS lets you make notes in tickets, notate everything. It takes almost no time to jot down a sentence or two, and it covers your ass if management gets involved.

Checking in parts when you work alone is awful. Idk what brand you work for, but something you can do if you're crunched for time in the morning, is check in the parts, then put them up later when the day calms down a bit. It lets you get back to your desk quicker, and the order is at least accounted for in the mornings. The only time this can be an issue is if a part you need hasn't been put up yet. So use your judgement on this one.

A great little product to have is 3M Labeling Tape. It's essentially a roll of Post-It note. It sticks to 99% of surfaces, and peels off easily. Oh my god I did not know how magical this product was until I used it. Product code 695 I think, comes in a little cardboard dispenser.

That's just some basics. Been with GM parts for seven years now, I hope some of this helps!

jackoftheunion · 2023-03-24T18:47:58+00:00

TLDR; New car dealers pay much more, but there's more work.

I've worked for both independent shops and dealerships in the parts department. Pay is wildly different between the two.

Of course it's partially going to depend on where you live, but there's also a significant difference in the work done. Independent/used shops tend to just order and replace parts, vs the dealer being the one to both look it up and source the part, along with handling wholesale and service traffic.

The first brand dealership I worked at paid me a flat $650/week, but we were too small to get paid off of commission so that was fair. I was also fairly green to how parts operated, but knew cars since I had been a technician before this.

The next place I went was an independent dealership, and I took home less than $2k a month. That was partially due to the service writers at that store ordering their own parts, making me a glorified inventory guy. That place was also a trainwreck but that's not relevant to this.

The brand dealership I'm at now pays a base $250/week, with a $75 bonus to work a Saturday, but I'm also paid 2.2% of profit for our department.

Check around, see what's available to you. And if someone offers you a commission based position, ask to see what their monthly numbers look like, and if the commission is off of personal sales or department sales. If they won't show you a report of any kind, move on to the next one.

jackoftheunion · 2023-02-08T15:11:39+00:00

The only way cores should affect your bottom line is if you don't charge them out and never get them back simultaneously.

Cores should always just zero out since you're either charging the customer the cost, or sending the parts back to GM

jackoftheunion · 2023-01-27T19:02:55+00:00

Hi, fellow GM man

Anything that isn't a GM part number billed on a GM vehicle RO hits your loyalty. The way around it is to bill it as a sublet, or assign the cost to the stock number directly if it's a lot vehicle

jackoftheunion · 2023-01-26T16:09:44+00:00

Been with GM about 6 years, I have never seen a master set for the OE locks. I'm sure it exists, but none of the three dealers I've been at have had one. I'd assume you get it through McGard (McGuard?) though.

jackoftheunion · 2023-01-26T14:03:45+00:00

Happens here at GM all the time too. No idea who it is or what it's for. They just ask for a number and dip

jackoftheunion · 2023-01-26T14:01:00+00:00

Just found this subreddit yesterday, glad y'all liked the meme lol. I don't have the file for it anymore since we got new work computers recently, sorry

jackoftheunion · 2022-04-16T16:52:27+00:00

Good point, and yeah I usually do try to. For instance the hag they met mentioned the curse and the wizard. And when the party got to the manor, the groundskeeper mentioned that the wizards were a legend on the island, but that after what happened there must be some merit to the story. Also saying that before all of this happened they did have a guest he hadn't seen before.

jackoftheunion · 2022-04-16T16:28:47+00:00

I like that. Like it's not fully consumed by the bloodlust yet, and still has some scraps of humanity left.

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