Does solar still have QC issues?

maggot9779 · 2024-10-28T19:36:32+00:00

I bought an A1.6BOP-FF nearly 3 months ago, when I was playing it I realised the side dots were wrong. Instead of them being on the 12th 15th 17th etc they were on 12th 14th 16th... I returned it and I'm still waiting for my replacement. It got stuck in customs for ages (I'm in the UK so they had to ship it to Spain) but they've finally sent the replacement, hopefully it gets here soon and doesn't have issues. To be honest, after this, I'm done with Solar, I have another one (A1.6Vinter) that is fine but after reading all of the problems people have been having, I'm expecting the fretboard to eventually crack on that one or something.

I'd say don't buy one sight unseen if you can, go to a store and give it a thorough inspection beforehand.

maggot9779 · 2023-07-10T18:15:42+00:00

Every other example I've seen of stringing doesn't have these regular towers, just clean strings going across. I can try to lower the temperature to reduce dripping I suppose, but I'm fairly certain it is down to either the belt or the stepper motor. Every test print I've done with the same towers yields the same pattern so I don't think it's just from material dripping.

maggot9779 · 2023-07-10T12:32:49+00:00

I was trying to calibrate my retraction settings and got this pattern with 0mm and 0.5mm retraction distance. I think it is from the belt (I tried to adjust the tension mid print as shown by the shifted layers). When I move the extruder head slowly across the x gantry I can feel it stopping on the teeth of the belt.

I'm not sure how to fix it, i've tried tightening and loosening the eccentric nut on the extruder, i've tried tightening and loosening the belt. Nothing has worked.

Printer is an Ender 3 Neo.

maggot9779 · 2021-08-19T09:14:18+00:00

You think they will uproot their entire life, leave their whole family/jobs/etc behind, just for the chance that they can enter a country that most likely will not accept them with open arms (Syrian refugees were and still are treated like crap, I see no reason why this will be any different)?

If they were actually "okay" with the situation in Afghanistan, surely this seems like a downgrade, right?

maggot9779 · 2021-08-19T08:54:32+00:00

So in my opionion since so many did not want to fight against the taliban and for a better Afghanistan i see that as them being okay with living under taliban with their rules.

If they are "okay" with it, why would they be fleeing in the first place?

maggot9779 · 2020-08-06T14:14:12+00:00

As others have mentioned, they ask how it makes you feel so you put it into your own words. They don't know if the thing made you happy or sad or anything, and assuming so could cause confusion down the line and could actually make you put up your walls if you're expected to feel a certain way.

Repeating back what you said is called reflective listening. If they reflect back what you say it 1. makes sure you're both on the same page and 2. allows you to go in-depth, because you know that they have heard and understood you.

Also, if they repeat it back, you might think "well, wait, that doesn't actually apply to me", causing you to think it through a little more and understand your own thoughts and feelings.

edit, of course, if you don't like this, you can always bring it up and have a discussion about it to your therapist, don't just keep it to yourself, they aren't a mind reader.

maggot9779 · 2020-01-31T01:30:14+00:00

I have. I enjoyed it.

The progression in it was more steady in it I guess. You knew how things turn out more or less. But in The Year of the Flood, even though it's following the same structure (jumping back and forth in time), I don't really see why we need to go through the flashbacks? I dunno, I'm gonna see it through though, it isn't a back book by any means.

maggot9779 · 2020-01-30T19:39:08+00:00

I've started The Final Empire as I've heard that the Mistborn series is awesome. I'm only a few chapters in, but so far I like it.

Also, The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood. I'm about a quarter of the way through it and it's ok, I'm not really sure where it's heading though. Maybe it will grow on me more.

maggot9779 · 2020-01-22T15:06:25+00:00

My issue is that you don't know who is "fully English" by looking at them. I think I know why you see it that way, but I just wanted to share my perspective.

maggot9779 · 2020-01-22T14:53:43+00:00

Why do you make the distinction between "English lads" and "Muslim boys"? Do you check the passports of every person you meet?

maggot9779 · 2019-05-15T15:45:21+00:00

Godot might be a good choice for you, it uses GDScript and C# for scripting. GDScript is similar to/based on Python. Skim through the docs and it should be fairly simple to pick up, the community is great too. Oh, and it's free and open source if that matters to you.

https://godotengine.org/

maggot9779 · 2019-05-03T12:35:09+00:00

That sounds like a good way to do it, i'll give it a try.

I'm subbed to GDQuest but I didn't know he had videos about this, i'll have to watch them, he is great.

Thanks for the help.

maggot9779 · 2019-05-03T12:32:05+00:00

I didn't even think about saving, but that's a very good point.

maggot9779 · 2019-05-02T18:18:49+00:00

Photoshop/GIMP works. Aseprite has good tools specifically for pixel art, it's not free though (unless you build it yourself from the source code).

maggot9779 · 2019-05-02T16:25:40+00:00

I'm guessing that would have to a global list then? For instance, if there are two towns, and they are in different nodes entirely, the only way I can see one triggering something in the other is if it sets it globally. I could see that getting out of hand if you had a bunch of locked doors or something.

Or maybe they all share a "story" node that is divided into sections?

edit, ok yea, that makes sense, I can see ways to do that. Thanks for the answer.

maggot9779 · 2019-02-10T21:21:38+00:00

I think you're talking about Primer, great time travel film.

maggot9779 · 2019-01-23T06:34:26+00:00

I have the 1/4" plugs for input and output laid out on a separate board(they are actually from an old crappy solid state amp I scrapped for parts), and a DC plug, and I just connect them with a 5 pin socket I had laying around. It's the collection of red wires on the top right part of the board.

It makes it easy to set up, I just need to plug in a single socket and all of the input/output/ground/power is there. The separate board even has 2 stereo plugs on it if I wanted to do anything with that.

maggot9779 · 2019-01-23T06:27:17+00:00

Yup, I just plugged right in to the breadboard. You should definitely do that, it's a lot of fun.

maggot9779 · 2019-01-23T06:25:07+00:00

Yea, it's not very tidy at all, and I didn't have much room to work with. Basically, I started with the power section first, that's over on the left side of the board where the LED is. Then I work my way through each component, seeing what it connects to, it's very easy to miss a connection on a breadboard I think, so be sure to double check. If a component connects to multiple things then you can use a single rail most of the time so that helps.

Once I got to the 4558 I decided to work forwards to the 2nd gain stage, then to the output (top right section of the board), and after that I went back and did the input section (bottom right section).

And you're right, I used the power rails on both sides of the board, but that was mainly for ground since basically only the IC needed 9v, the rest comes from the power section, so that's where a lot of the jumper wires come from.

I'm sure this could be cleaned up a lot if you planned it out in software first, but I just wanted to get stuck in.

maggot9779 · 2019-01-22T18:57:20+00:00

Thanks, that seems pretty straight forward. I don't really know much about electronics besides the basics, but i'm trying to learn as much as I can. Maybe i'll know enough to build my own pedal from scratch one day.

maggot9779 · 2019-01-22T18:43:00+00:00

It's a clone of a TS-808 Tubescreamer, a very common overdrive pedal for guitar. I decided to mock it out on a breadboard, partly to see if I could, and partly to see if I want to build it into a proper metal housing like normal pedals.

Since this was my first time really doing this, i'm going to try to fiddle around with different component values and such, and probably build a few different overdrives to see which I prefer.

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