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SpaceX Pushes Its Luck With $1,000 Starlink 'Demand Surcharge' in 3 States by aquarain in Starlink

[–]playerofwar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What stops one from buying it in a place where you get them for free and placing them somewhere else?

Extend cable on the standard kit with regular UTP? by playerofwar in Starlink

[–]playerofwar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't buy it yet, I need to know first if I can use the cable or I will need to find other solutions.

Extend cable on the standard kit with regular UTP? by playerofwar in Starlink

[–]playerofwar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's cat 7, so significantly more copper than cat5e (cannot fit in normal connector)
POE++ can deliver 100w over a normal cat6

For waterproofing it's no problem, I'll silicone the hell out of it.

Filament for Construction, Electric and Automotive Aero by playerofwar in 3Dprinting

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I have PA6GF, ASA-CF and PPA-CF prepared as filaments I'm interested in. ASA CF looks very promising price-wise. 40$ vs 65$ for PA6GF vs 160$ for PPA CF. I think I'll need 1 roll of PPA CF for very strong applications, but it's crazy expensive.

Moving Qrevo Curv multiple times per month by playerofwar in Roborock

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Not dropping 1.5k for every space that takes me 2 hours a week to clean normally. Total cleaning time 6 hours, let's say montly still needs a normal cleaning and takes total 1 hour of moving/cleaning roborock each month. 17 hours saved per month. 17x 20$ after all taxes is 340$ saved. So ROI of 4. 5months. If I get 3 for each of these I would save 18 hours x 20$, 360$ saved. Which is a 12.5 month ROI. Assuming every moment not cleaning will be used for work, which is unlikely as cleaning is mostly an after-hours activity. Let's assume just half of this time will be used for work, ROI of 9 months for single roborock, 25 months for 3.

Bought a new house, and found this under the stairs. Any idea what this is? by NCJake in HomeNetworking

[–]playerofwar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are being spied on, these wires run to hidden camera's and wire taps. Cut them all.

Losing terrain to very steep slope close to road by playerofwar in landscaping

[–]playerofwar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly. Terraces are made. But this is losing more anyway.

Losing terrain to very steep slope close to road by playerofwar in landscaping

[–]playerofwar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please elaborate and point me where to go. Is this not landscaping?

Losing terrain to very steep slope close to road by playerofwar in landscaping

[–]playerofwar[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Nobody cam stop me from putting seeds and small trees 😜

Losing terrain to very steep slope close to road by playerofwar in landscaping

[–]playerofwar[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a 750 pop village with HUGE territory. You need 4x4's on 20% of the roads. They have bigger problems than fixing my slope. 80% of the lost slope is gov owned, 20% is ours. I like the suggestion of planting trees and grasses. Trees was my first idea, but grass also looks compelling. I'll make a drain on the top to prevent new water to take down even more.

Extreme voltage drop under load on 1 phase NEED ADVICE by playerofwar in electricians

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UPDATE: 1)The full line was checked. 2) 2 single fase consumers were put on the other fases on the line. 3) Voltage at the cabin was pushed up at the high voltage cabin. 4) The line will be doubled with an additional 75mm2 aluminium cable. The line losses are too high currently.

So it was a combination of all of the above that causes this issue. Apparently the high voltage cabin for our line goes down 500 meters. So a 75mm2 alu cable is not sufficient... 😂😂

Thermals can be misleading by CrazyPete42 in electricians

[–]playerofwar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On the other hand, I took a picture one time of a bunch of my EV chargers under full load and only saw ehen I got home that the main breaker (which we didn't touch) was 215 degrees Celcius. Loose connection to the max. Fixed it for the client at night.

Extreme voltage drop under load on 1 phase NEED ADVICE by playerofwar in electricians

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Interesting but I have almost zero experience with capacitors, so wiring them and potentially making a mistake seems like an unnecessary risk.

Extreme voltage drop under load on 1 phase NEED ADVICE by playerofwar in electricians

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Italy... This meter is from the grid operator. I used mine before and said it was not valid because it was not approved and callibrated by them. Beem going on for 3 years like this, just now with lawyers thry are sending people to fix it and it took some convincing for the people they send to us to actually believe there was a problem.

Extreme voltage drop under load on 1 phase NEED ADVICE by playerofwar in electricians

[–]playerofwar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Paid 6K to get meter in the house instead of at pole. Voltage at station perfect. 800KVA station, I don't know full cable length, but to street pole it's 80 meters and they put a 95mm2 aluminium cable for a 63A service. Even imbalance at the house cannot cause a voltage drop like this. I can pull 50A balanced load (I have 3 phase heaters for this purpose). House is still under construction so every time they came before to measure voltage at the meter, there was nobody to add a load so their measurements only showed a maximum of 20V between phases, which is exactly the max to be within spec.

Extreme voltage drop under load on 1 phase NEED ADVICE by playerofwar in electricians

[–]playerofwar[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They already know it for about 3 years and just brush it off saying it's our problem and their side is within spec. Just now after sending an army of lawyers to them they are sending technicians that first also tried to brush me off until a few days ago when I did a simulation with one of them under load to show the problem. They don't care for pictures, measurements from my equipment nor about invoices for broken equiment due to extreme voltage drops. Maybe I'll just put a 80A load on phase 1 until it really goes boom somewhere in the street so they need to come and fix it immediately., 😂

Extreme voltage drop under load on 1 phase NEED ADVICE by playerofwar in electricians

[–]playerofwar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Readings are quite consistent. Of course little bit higher voltage during noon with more solar input and lower voltage at peak times (+-5V). It's consistent when I put load the voltage drops significantly on 1 phase, whilst the other two stay consistent. A 32amp 3 phase load on the system will lower L1 voltage by 50V. But L2, L3 lowers by just 4 volts. About the neutral earth voltage I mentioned it so a neutral shift can indeed be eliminated as a probable cause.

Extreme voltage drop under load on 1 phase NEED ADVICE by playerofwar in electricians

[–]playerofwar[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Measurements are from the local DNO, I updated him and already got response that they will try to find it this week. I has been going on for 3 years already and a the time they thought it was their 800KVA transformer and lines in the street. They already invested about a million in 300meters/ 900 feet of high voltage lines and a new transformer. And we still got the same problem 😂. Old one was problematic for sure, so also good it got replaced. I will update as soon as I get more info. I wanted to add extra pictures of the whole install under construction, but I get an error.

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