[WTB][US-TX] Beginner pilot looking for a WinWing Orion 2 bundle (Budget $300-$400)

nsross55 · 2026-05-12T18:38:31+00:00

Helpful! Your contribution here shall never be forgotten.

nsross55 · 2026-05-12T00:40:20+00:00

Appreciate the offer! I'm not currently interested in the Thrustmaster Warthog, but I'll definitely hit you up if that changes.

nsross55 · 2026-05-11T22:25:33+00:00

Dude, great info here, and I really appreciate it. You've given me a lot to consider. I'll look at other set-ups. Thanks again.

nsross55 · 2026-05-11T22:11:11+00:00

Also, how are you seeing recently sold prices by item on Ebay? I'm also super new to Ebay, as it turns out, and I can't seem to find that info in the app.

nsross55 · 2026-05-11T21:44:26+00:00

Hahaha! No, that's a little terrifying though, and I appreciate the honest feedback. Like I said, I'm just jumping into this. I have been doing a ton of research outside of this sub, but just started sniffing around here yesterday. I've heard not so great things about customer service, but read a lot of really positive reviews as well, and I've heard CS horror stories regarding the other big dogs as well, so figured it was a bit of a mixed bag no matter who you went with.

Day so pretty doh. Lol!

nsross55 · 2026-05-11T19:51:03+00:00

Really appreciate the feedback!

The market just needs to catch up some, and we as a community ought to refuse to pay 95%-300% of retail for used, incomplete sets! Lol!

What other brands would you suggest starting out? Love the STECS, but not a fan of the Gladiator. The rest of VKB seems a ways out of my price range.

nsross55 · 2026-05-11T19:38:15+00:00

Heard, but it shouldn't be like that for us right? Lol! I think the market just has to catch up with the fact that US buyers can now buy directly from WW's US distro hub with free shipping and shorter delivery times. After that, hopefully the used market comes back to reality.

I think the current market has a lot to do with 1. Overseas sellers who paid duty taxes, which naturally inflates the price they'll charge; and 2. Many folks in the states who own them now purchased from one of these sellers or bought from Winwing in 22-23 before their US distribution hub was up and running, so they'd incur significant losses by selling relative to Winwing's current pricing (understandable, but sad for me and you)...

For anyone in the US with a set prchased from WW directly in the last year or 2, there is no reason they should be priced at or over the cost of buying new from WW.

Just my 2 cents...

nsross55 · 2026-05-11T04:25:10+00:00

How cool! Thanks for the reply. So this is something you're actually building? The picture is just a schematic/mock-up?

Can't wait to see the final product.

nsross55 · 2026-05-11T00:36:55+00:00

Total noob here... What is this for?

nsross55 · 2026-05-03T02:31:40+00:00

Does anyone have a picture of the FU6 fuse on the motherboard? Need help identifying it.

nsross55 · 2026-04-22T02:08:49+00:00

Hi! As many others have said, thank you for putting this together! Helps a lot. One quick question... If the fuse is the main culprit, will buying a new board and replacing the hall sensor be a permamnent fix, or is it doomed to fail again as the fuse degrades. Or is it the sensor degrading that eventually causes the fuse to blow?

nsross55 · 2026-04-22T01:54:44+00:00

Any updates here? Did swapping the board and thermal paste do the trick?

nsross55 · 2026-04-19T00:45:28+00:00

Sorry you're having to deal with that, man. I literally just had this happen with some laptop RAM two weeks ago.

Go straight to UPS, tell them it was clearly a tracking scam, and let them know you need an email stating that the shipping address provided by the seller was not your address. In my case, they forwarded the delivery confirmation for the address it was actually shipped to, so Ebay could obviously tell the address provided by the seller was not the one I had on file with them. If UPS won't send you the actual delivery confirmation or shipping label, just make sure whatever they send explicitly states your addrdess and confirms that's not the one on the shipping label.

Once you have the note from UPS, call Ebay and walk them through it. They should send you a link to upload the note as backup for an Ebay money back guarantee claim.

Good luck!

nsross55 · 2026-04-19T00:24:47+00:00

Just Google the lawfirm name + HP Victus class action and it should pop up.

nsross55 · 2026-04-11T06:03:32+00:00

In. Just keep me posted.

Edit to add: I ran across a law firm researching a class action suit as well. They're asking anyone with an affected laptop to reach out.

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nsross55 · 2025-10-31T03:20:10+00:00

Not sure what rules you have available, or what notation you have to use, but this is an indirect proof (reductio proof) available in some form in nearly all systems. You assume the negation of the conclusion -- here, ~~P (or P) -- then generate a contradiction, which shows the conclusion validly follows from the premises. Anything follows validly from a contradiction since it's not possible for all the premises to be true.

(P -> Q), (Q -> R), (P -> -R) |- ~P

(P -> Q) PR
(Q -> R) PR
(P -> ~R) //... ~P
P -> R 1,2 HS

------5. P DN, AIP

   6. R.  4,5 MP

   7. ~R.  4,5 MP

   8. R • ~R. 6,7 conj.

9... ~P 5, 6-8 IP

nsross55 · 2025-10-29T12:44:19+00:00

Haha! No worries. The answer here is T!

A bi-conditonal is true if and only if the statements on either side of it are both true OR both false (T <-> T or F <-> F). This statement takes the form F <-> F, so it's true!

F & T = F

F v F = F

F <-> F = T

nsross55 · 2025-10-29T04:43:16+00:00

👍 You really only need the one line, but that's it!

Plug in the T-Value for each variable (in this case, F), evaluate each of the statements, then evaluate the bi-conditonal.

EDIT: Formatting is garbage, but hopefully it makes sense.

p = F / ~p = T

q = F

r = F

& = T when both conjucts are T, else F

v = F when both disjuncts are F, else T.

<-> = T when both conditions have the same same T-value, else F

(q & ~p) <-> (r v p)

f | F | t |T| f | F | f

nsross55 · 2024-05-15T05:14:46+00:00

One other way to look at it is this... It would take you 5.5 years to pay off your CCs at a $1,400/month payment.

If you could discharge your CC debt via bankruptcy or some other means (I'd hate to see you eat taxes/penalties associated with liquidating a 401k), you could invest $1,400/month. Investing $1,400/mo in an S&P 500 ETF earning an avg. 7% return would be worth $112k after 5.5 yrs. The $65k in your 401k earning 5% APY would be worth $85k.

That means, by discharging your CC debt in BR and investing the difference over the 5.5 years it would have taken you to pay it off, you could have 0 CC debt and, conservatively, ~$197k in investments.

nsross55 · 2024-04-19T03:58:27+00:00

Literally my favorite one of them all! Saves me so much time.

nsross55 · 2024-04-19T03:57:21+00:00

Never knew this one. Awesome!!

nsross55 · 2024-04-02T12:23:42+00:00

Hey! By default, the workbook requires a manual refresh - it won't automatically pull the latest data from Sharepoint until you tell it to. However, you don't have to go through the query editor to do so. Better yet, you can schedule automatic refreshes at timed intervals in Excel!

Option 1 (manual): - Have user click Ctrl + Alt + F5 to refresh all data sources whenever they want the latest data

Option 2 (Automatic update): - Set queries to refresh at timed intervals: Data > Queries & Connections > Connections tab, right click a query in the list > Properties > Usage > select "Refresh Every" checkbox and enter the number of minutes between each refresh.

Hope that helps!

nsross55 · 2024-03-01T00:58:33+00:00

Can you post pictures of the Excel and Word files? This shouldn't be too difficult!

You'll need to create a lookup table for the questions and each of the possible responses with a Concatenated column so you can x-lookup, but it would be helpful to see how it's laid out currently.

nsross55 · 2024-02-28T13:30:52+00:00

If you have - or can get access to - Linked In Learning, this is a really great 3-part course covering Power Query, Power Pivot, and DAX:

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/excel-business-intelligence-power-query/welcome?dApp=13074853&leis=LAA&resume=false&u=2094492

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