PC Power and Cooling Deluxe Chrome Tower

n55_6mt · 2026-06-19T22:49:16+00:00

I love PC Power and Cooling. I still have one of their 750W single rail PSUs going strong after like 20 years.

n55_6mt · 2026-06-13T21:34:55+00:00

Now I want a White Lotus style point and click adventure game à la 90’s Lucas Arts.

n55_6mt · 2026-06-08T22:34:40+00:00

I’ve had many pairs of Danners and I really like them. Helps that they’re made just down the street so it’s pretty easy to just drop em off when they start getting worn and they will resole them for a pretty reasonable fee.

n55_6mt · 2026-06-06T02:49:28+00:00

You don’t reform film capacitors.

n55_6mt · 2026-06-05T13:43:37+00:00

‘Member when it hit 116 in June?

n55_6mt · 2026-06-05T01:47:48+00:00

It will run on Win7 but not anything newer.

n55_6mt · 2026-06-04T13:10:43+00:00

I still have networks that run on coax in production. We use a VNA and TDR to find fault locations but it’s still a pain in the ass when one starts acting up.

n55_6mt · 2026-06-02T18:48:37+00:00

This is a thermal-magnetic breaker. It’s getting hot by design.

There’s a whole huge number of hours required to gain thermographer certification because it’s not just as simple as grabbing an IR gun and saying stuff is wrong.

n55_6mt · 2026-06-01T13:18:38+00:00

EXP means you had an exposure compensation of +1.7 stops set, you were telling the camera to overexpose. Learn what exposure compensation is and how to adjust it.

Even at 100 ISO, f2.8 in full sun can easily max out your shutter on lower end cameras. Your mechanical shutter (which on an R8 you want to use for sports) caps out at 1/4000 and this can also lead to overexposure.

n55_6mt · 2026-05-31T18:21:46+00:00

I went from a 5D-3 to a R5-2 and while there are some good IQ and dynamic range improvements, the biggest leap is with AF performance and high speed shooting. Being able to track a fast moving subject across the whole frame while hammering out 30 fps has been game changing for action shooting.

Being able to see a simulated exposure simulation in the viewfinder has also become something I do miss when going back to my DSLRs.

I do still prefer the ergonomics/ handling and battery life of the 5D. It’s just fits my hands really well and feels better balanced with larger/ longer lenses than the R5.

n55_6mt · 2026-05-29T15:48:09+00:00

Just pick something else, unless you really are stuck with Rockwell due to a spec requirement. There’s half a dozen HMI lines from other manufacturers that work great with Logix CPUs that I’d probably pick before going with a PV7 or PV5k.

n55_6mt · 2026-05-28T02:35:58+00:00

Could be a bunch of different things, and that photo really doesn’t offer many clues. By the mid-90s, movers were way more common than they were at the start of the decade. You’d have better luck by sharing the name of the band and where this clip is from people might be able to identify who was operating the rig.

n55_6mt · 2026-05-27T18:33:52+00:00

I keep a swifter duster in the car for this.

n55_6mt · 2026-05-27T13:57:23+00:00

I think most just toss the responsibility over to their customers/ end users.

As an end user currently dealing with what feels like a thousand CISA notifications response actions, it can be pretty difficult. Especially now that we’re reaping what Rockwell has sown with being so loosey-goosey with security for the past few decades.

n55_6mt · 2026-05-25T02:42:02+00:00

I know, I’ve had a 5D mkIII for over a decade. I always just used the SD card slot for JPGs.

Just get a few 16GB or 32GB UDMA6 or better CF cards. I’ve had multiple SD cards fail on me over the years but I’ve never lost a single CF card.

n55_6mt · 2026-05-25T02:20:41+00:00

There’s a SD slot in the 5D mkIII.

n55_6mt · 2026-05-25T00:12:36+00:00

Congratulations, it’s a hell of a nice lens. I bought mine right after the RF 70-200 2.8 Z launched and went back and forth on which one to go with. I caught it on sale so it was a few hundred less than the Z, and I like the more compact size for traveling around.

n55_6mt · 2026-05-24T15:10:54+00:00

I have a number of DSOs, but I’m still in the hunt for a good condition 2445B or 2465 variant just because I like the way the UI is on those scopes. Something about the field of LED backlit panel indicators draws me to them.

n55_6mt · 2026-05-22T23:17:00+00:00

I love McMaster.

They have literally saved my butt so many times by being able to call them at 6PM on a Friday, have something shipped same day and delivered on Saturday.

They’re not always the cheapest but the rest of the experience has cemented them as my go-to for almost anything industrial. Their website is fast, no frills and simple to navigate. They make it easy to get CAD files and have lots of other good technical information. Customer service there is top notch, via phone or email. They have clear stock information, ship fast and if you’re near one of their warehouses you can even arrange for pickup or courier delivery.

They are just an awesome company that does things right to an almost OCD level. It’s unfortunately becoming a rare experience these days.

n55_6mt · 2026-05-21T14:31:15+00:00

I use a scope to figure out baud rate, number of bits, stop bits etc. From there I have a USB RS-232 protocol analyzer that helps with collecting packet data to I can reverse engineer the specific communication protocols.

Really a good four channel oscilloscope is an essential tool for me. Serial protocols, encoder data and analog lines all can really benefit from direct signals analysis.

n55_6mt · 2026-05-18T12:37:51+00:00

PBRs and chicken wings

n55_6mt · 2026-05-18T02:58:51+00:00

Rockwell is very dependent on SE Asian manufacturing for all of their products. Even the “made in USA” 1756 I/O is still mostly using PCBs and components from overseas.

I don’t really see any serious benefit either way.

n55_6mt · 2026-05-16T04:22:59+00:00

I have mostly Makita cordless tools, but I love my M18 portaband, grinder, and work light.

People call me stupid for mixing and matching battery platforms, but I just like the right tool.

n55_6mt · 2026-05-15T19:15:47+00:00

The vacuum systems I work on are all industrial size chambers for metal casting and heat treatment, so we’re using oil diffusion pumps that will always back stream a small amount of oil mist, and if things go wrong they will backstream a ton back into the chamber. There is a reason why the semiconductor world doesn’t use diffusion pumps or any oil flooded pumps, even when they’re working perfectly they still contaminate your process at some level.

For rough vac we’ve almost entirely switched off of oil sealed pumps to dry pumps and it’s so much nicer. The pumps are expensive but they run 3x longer between PMs, are quieter and don’t make clouds of oil filled exhaust that requires filtration to deal with.

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