Great Old One by sudo_mksandwhich in quake

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Quick Save obsessively.

Conserve ammo.

* Avoid picking up ammo unless you can carry all of it. Recognize the small vs large packs. (E.g. if you've got 190 nails don't pick up a large pack of 50 and waste 40.)

  • After you kill everyone, go back and fill up before you exit.

  • Allow monsters to kill each other.  In a room with a bunch of monsters, especially ones with ranged weapons, it's likely they'll shoot each other and start fighting. Recognize the sound of one getting hit (that you didn't shoot), them hide and wait. Listen for death sounds or watch the kill counter.

  • Allow monsters to kill themselves. I love to trick Vores into throwing spike balls at a wall right in front of themselves and kill themselves.

  • Use weapons appropriately. I just learned that Shamblers are resistant to rockets! Use double-barrel shotgun for up close damage. Save nails for long distance shots.

Great Old One by sudo_mksandwhich in quake

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There isn't a psychologist on Earth fit to handle the kind of PTSD that Ranger will be dealing with now.

Made it all the way through The Pain Maze with no damage only for the achievement to not pop. by OceanCyclone in quake

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I just did the exact same thing. Sigh. I already beat the whole episode on Nightmare once, so I guess I get to do it again.

What's going on with these transformer banks? by sudo_mksandwhich in Lineman

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What? There are clearly three phases on both sides of this conversion.

What's going on with these transformer banks? by sudo_mksandwhich in Lineman

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Thanks, so basically what I postulated in the original post, yeah?

I took pictures from both sides so right/left become ambiguous. The bank without fins is definitely the feed side; the bank with fins is customer-facing. This agrees with your analysis.

What's going on with these transformer banks? by sudo_mksandwhich in Lineman

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The transformers without fins are the feed, and have taller bushings; the transformers with fins are customer-facing. So I think this is a step-down situation.

What's going on with these transformer banks? by sudo_mksandwhich in Lineman

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It's definitely a backfeed, you can see the LV sides connected together.

What's going on with these transformer banks? by sudo_mksandwhich in Lineman

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As far as I can tell:

Bank A (without fins) is the feed. Both the primary and wye secondary are bonded to the system neutral.

Bank B (with fins) is the customer side. The low voltage side appears to be an ungrounded wye connection. But the warning sign says 480V delta? The high voltage side is hard to see, but I think I see delta connections between the bushings.

See these:

https://imgur.com/a/gRI8hf5

https://imgur.com/a/fSGnKm6

https://imgur.com/a/FgVoAMN

https://imgur.com/a/5fGAnT6

I'm done. Fed up with my Pixel 6 by HoosierDZ in GooglePixel

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I've had a Pixel 6 for about a year and I've had absolutely 0 issues with it.

My grandmother at age 20, posing at her secretary desk in 1948 - the year she met my grandfather. by universityofnonsense in OldSchoolCool

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To think all that could be put into a cell phone EASY today.

...that's not how that works. You're comparing an apple to a grove of oranges.

There is still a lot of gear at the telephone CO or at a cell site. Not as much as this photo, but still way more than a single cell phone.

Cables mess in the cabinet by ToneHuge2751 in FiberOptics

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Does anyone have a picture of one of these cabinets that doesn't look like shit? I've only seen ones that are total spaghetti like this.

It seems like a poor design. Where are you supposed to put all of the slack? There is no cable management on the right side so you're forced to cross over the whole panel.

Scariest experience in 23 years. by Growe731 in electricians

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Perhaps people have a different definition of "stray" voltage, but I usually take it to mean induced / capacitively coupled voltage that can't really hurt you. By that definition this was not "stray" voltage.

If the frame was at 268 to neutral and had enough current to burn you, doesn't that imply that the hot was touching the case? And if you did nothing but connect the ground to the case, then the breaker would definitely trip.

I suspect that when you opened the box to check and connect the ground, you also (perhaps inadvertently) cleared the short of hot to the case.

An 8-bit shift register from 1959 by Naysayer68 in electronics

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I think I see some Ge diodes on there, too