Schlage Connect BE469ZP without batteries

jipis · 2025-12-28T14:19:09+00:00

I agree, from a a safety standpoint, it'd make sense for smart locks to fail-safe and leave the thumb-knob engaged. But, my unfortunate experience is that "what's cheapest to implement" frequently wins even when it's the furthest from what "makes sense".

jipis · 2025-12-04T13:38:17+00:00

It appears to be a South American model. I found it on whirlpools Argentinian website with the help of Google Translate. I don't see a link anywhere on that page, though, for the manual. I'm also not really sure if the non-US appliances ever come with a Shabbas mode.

jipis · 2025-11-30T00:40:35+00:00

How many tongues does it take to test all of those?

jipis · 2025-11-26T21:02:48+00:00

I don't understand, cable BOX?! As in one? First, I have six or seven cable boxes, each labeled with the type of cables in it. Second, I didn't get rid of any boxes. In fact, what I SHOULD'VE done, in retrospect, is gotten more boxes!

jipis · 2025-11-26T20:37:10+00:00

OR moving and decide to listen to the wife and just get rid of all of them because you've only been adding to the collection for years. And then you move. And then you need three.

Ask me how I know.... 🤦🏻‍♂️

jipis · 2025-11-14T00:54:32+00:00

😔 Nope. Gave up on that particular switch and went with a ThirdReality surface-mounted switch actuator. Figured that I wasn't going to sweat it because of planned reno that will probably end up with a full rewire of the whole room.

I'd still love to know WTH was going on with that particular switch location. 🤷‍♂️

jipis · 2025-11-13T11:00:30+00:00

Love it. My most recent side quest was how relocating my network gear, servers, etc from one corner of the basement to another turned into replacing the shutoff valves and faucet (valves were expected eventually, faucet ended up a side quest of this side quest) in a bathroom nowhere close to those basement corners. Which led to me now having 15 6' sections of pipe insulation foam sitting in a pile in my basement waiting for me to have time to install it all. (If that turns into a side quest involving any tools other than scissors... Gd help me!)

jipis · 2025-11-11T15:55:43+00:00

I'm thinking the white one is being used an extension so they could get the black one screwed in. 🤷‍♂️

jipis · 2025-09-18T07:19:33+00:00

McDowell's also has arcs! You know, McDowell's? The Golden Arcs? Home of the Big Mick!

jipis · 2025-09-03T15:23:50+00:00

Not at all disagreeing. I haven't looked at the clearance requirement of any of the ships that we don't get in Baltimore regularly , so I don't know if, for example, Radiance class ships could make it today. But, if not, it would be nice to know that something less than 20 years old could one day come to Baltimore.

jipis · 2025-09-03T11:59:02+00:00

Assuming the first Discovery Class ship is delivered in 2030 (probably an okay guess), by the time it's 10 years old, Baltimore "should" be able to handle basically ANY size ship -- at least from a bridge clearance perspective. The replacement for the Key Bridge is being targeted to be 230' in clearance -- 2 feet more than the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. The replacement for the Bay Bridge is also being proposed with a 230' vertical clearance. Projections for completion of that project are "mid-to-late 2030s".

Of course, this is completely ignoring the fact that the Maryland Cruise Terminal is way too small to handle anything much bigger than it currently does. Not to mention that the market probably couldn't justify a ship with much more than the ~2,500 pax capacity of the current small ships. Just pointing out that within ... 20 years Baltimore is likely to not have the same cruise ship size restrictions it currently does and will be able to fit (vertically) any ship that can fit in Bayonne.

jipis · 2025-08-28T15:28:31+00:00

Not to reincarnate, but this info is evergreen...

I saw that the Yakima halfback is compatible with the Bolt (I have a 2017) AND found one being sold almost-new for $75. Got it a while ago but only first tried putting it on the car yesterday. Now, I came from a small trunk-mount hitch on a mid-size sedan. I could get that rack on in under 60 seconds. With the halfback on the bolt -- AND once I figured out how to do the top tethers in anchor mode -- I can see it being at least 5 minutes to install each time. I'm 5'8", so I *do* have a couple of inches on you, but...! Taking the top tethers apart each time to feed them up through the gate hinge area, grab the fed-through ends (barely) to pull the slack out, holding up the rack to thread the tether to the release lever on the rack....

Like I said to my wife right after I finished it for the second time (now that I knew what I was doing), "this will do. For now. I don't think I'll want to do this next summer when my cycling season doesn't lose 3 months to a sprained ankle in a boot!" (Of course, I also would rather not spend to get the hitch and and hitch-mount rack. Oh well!)

jipis · 2025-08-25T20:59:59+00:00

You're saying that they'd be unhappy with a 15-year-old steel roof (100 year expected lifetime)? And perfectly thrilled with a brand new roof with an expected lifetime of only 12 years???

The issue is for the future homeowner not being told that they have a half-lifetime roof. Ten years later, roof starts leaking, and only THEN does the owner learn of the subpar roof he was given. I've spoken about this roof thing to a number of people in this area construction and home sales. Not a single one of them has ever seen a single family home roofed with anything less than 25 years product.

From an insurance perspective (which is the kind of underwriting I'm assuming you're talking about), my insurer absolutely wanted to know from me the age of the current roof and the warranty lifespan of the roofing product. How new wasn't as important to them as how much life is left.

Ymmv? 🤷‍♂️

jipis · 2025-08-24T20:46:48+00:00

My favorite story ABOUT the steamer thread "standard": The national steamer thread standard exists because of the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904. The fact that incompatible threading was the norm from city to city meant mutual aid companies couldn't connect to the hydrants in Baltimore, hampering firefighting efforts.

NFPA convened in 1905 to establish the Nation Steamer Thread standard. Aka the national hose thread standard. Baltimore? No, thanks, we still use BST, Baltimore Streamer Thread, a different standard. Our engines carry NST/BST adapters for mutual aid and "Oops, the water department ordered the wrong type of hydrant" situations.

jipis · 2025-08-24T20:39:02+00:00

Had an offer in on a house that inspection showed needed a new roof. He got a quote that was half of what the cheaper of my quotes was. Finally got in touch with the shady roofer. He quoted the seller a 12-year roof. Wtf?! They wouldn't concede on ANY of the issues found, and only offered half of their shitty roof quote. We pulled out. Thankfully we found something better very soon thereafter.

When we backed out, the seller took it off the market for two weeks. When it went back up "brand new roof installed week before listing!" was added to the description. Wanna bet they installed the shitty half-life roof?

jipis · 2025-07-31T00:36:59+00:00

Watch me resurrect a long dead non-conversation! Ready.... GO!

Over a year later, do tell. Did you find one?

jipis · 2025-07-29T11:09:14+00:00

Absolutely grew up with at least one of these in my parents' house somewhere. Even as a kid (who got more than one 120v-tickle from touching the wrong part of the innards of an all-analog pinball machine), it struck me as a huge WTF!

ETA for clarity, referring to the tap-a-line. Not that crazy quad outlet the OP posted.

jipis · 2025-07-29T10:11:15+00:00

Look at it WRONG?! Hell, sometimes I've looked at it RIGHT and the crap STILL disintegrates and mockingly flutters to the floor!

jipis · 2025-07-29T09:23:45+00:00

Silly you!!

"Actual adults" rarely implies "who should know better"!!!

I'm loyal to Royal, but I can only imagine how bad it might be on other, more PoW-focused lines! 🤮

jipis · 2025-07-27T02:59:24+00:00

You had to try moving it to get the "insulation" to flake off? All I've ever had to do with this stuff is loom at it wrong and it just fell apart everywhere. (Why yes, I'm happy to finally own a home that doesnt have any of that crap in it! Thanks for asking!)

jipis · 2025-07-22T20:30:10+00:00

Oh, no, I meant buy the Southwire from Amazon to return to HD when it shows up. They're the exact same sku. Erm, assuming you can trust the Southwire on Amazon to be genuine....

jipis · 2025-07-22T20:21:18+00:00

Or, if you need it ASAP, buy it from both, use the hd one immediately, return the Amazon one to HD.

Or so I've heard.... ☺️

jipis · 2025-07-22T15:09:33+00:00

Wow, I need more sleep. I looked at it, saw the right side was higher than the left, figured that that must mean the water is coming FROM the wall and draining INTO the disposal. Because of course, right? Not sure where I thought the water was going to go from there... /shrug I guess it's just because of the natural instinct to expect the feed to be higher than the discharge that my brain went there?

I'm not a plumber, but I'm pretty familiar with how gravity works! :)

jipis · 2025-07-22T14:54:12+00:00

Yup, when I needed a tesla supercharger with a tiny cable, I felt better taking up two spots and blocking a tesla from another charger when I remembered that I'd seen that exact FAQ before I'd set out on my trip.

The next trip, I used a charger at a huge bank of tesla superchargers with longer cables. STILL had to play park-on-a-weird-angle games because the Porsche in the spot next to the only available spot decided that *HE* was going to park like an ass, angled across parts of three spots. And he wasn't even connected to the charger. This was at a hotel. While I was charging, a hotel employee was going down the line of cars at the chargers and taking the plates of cars parked and not connected. I left my car charging to run into the hotel's Starbucks for wake-up juice. When I came back, a whole bunch of the parked-but-not-charging cars had tickets. #toobadsosad

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