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@gigabecquerel@chaos.social @StripeyYena@chaosfurs.social one of the accelerators grenaded a couple of turbos recently so they were swapped out for the emergency diff spares. Even those don't need LN2 when running santovac 5 oil
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Patrick Herd
@PatrickHerd@aus.social
mastodon 4.7.2Intro! I'm an electrical engineer, I specialise in industrial R&D. I believe everything that can be electric must be. I talk about electrification, disaster management, lots of engineering, and a few cute animal photos here and there. Living rurally in Wairarapa, Aotearoa New Zealand. Same handle on bluesite. 🏳️🌈+🏳️⚧️ ally.
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@nxskok@cupoftea.social @UweHalfHand@norcal.social @roadskater@mastodon.social @Strandjunker@mstdn.social @joshef@mastodon.social xennial is a reasonably accepted age group range now, perhaps we also need xoomer?
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@wavygk@mastodon.nz @withaveeay@mastodon.scot I've seen a few of those, as soon as I see chrome plated hydraulic bar out in the salt I give the design a 0% chance of making parity with the manufacturing energy. Not been wrong yet 😭
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@wavygk@mastodon.nz @withaveeay@mastodon.scot I was on the edge of a wave power project, the sea is... Unkind to anything that wasn't born there.
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@stephen@ephemera.vital.org.nz have a look at hardware that can be reflashed with ESPhome. Source: a friend who's a CISO
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@solar_chase@mastodon.green I do, but being a radionerd of old, the audio sequence of the WWV time station is etched into my memory.
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@stephen 9 years on 32ha here: I have a husqvarna battery saw for de limbing and massacre of blackberry. And an 86cc dinosaw for breaking down firewood. How much cutting are you planning on? And what breed of cordless tools do you have?
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@wordshaper@weatherishappening.network @sundogplanets@mastodon.social I just did some checks on the surge arresters in my main switchboard for some reason 🙃
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@Niall@mastodon.nz have helped a few muso friends build guitar amps that make a statement. An even more entertaining rabbithole of doof.
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@solar_chase@mastodon.green We definitely had issues with fertility and some defects last breeding season. As a minimum need to replace our gander before spring.
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@stephen@ephemera.vital.org.nz have a look at the primo gen24+, can work with or without a batt.
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@stephen@ephemera.vital.org.nz @craftygardennz@mastodon.nz in the case of the EVCS it's a lot harder as they take the old BMS for making a new pack. To me this is somewhat disappointing as there are very simple CAN translators available to interface a leaf pack as is with solar inverters.
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@sundogplanets too many people forgetting the bad old days of small disks and image compression.
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@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz put your 12v charger on the car overnight evedy six months: the leaf 12v charge algorithm is garbage and the battery does sulphate prematurely. I got 9 years out of the last 12v batt in our leaf by doing that.
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@la I've not done any 1.4057 but I have machined a lot of 1.4301, definitely needs one to go ballistic to make the chips break properly in a lathe.
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@aly This evening was my most rambo rat get so far: It ran behind a crate on a shelf so I smacked the crate into the wall
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@sundogplanets @fehlfarbe Living in the Wairarapa dark sky reserve, we can see the clouds from our livingroom fairly regularly.
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@projectgus@aus.social @spudly@social.murf.org I'm hopefully getting a Gen24 next month or so
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@Sustainable2050 Signal are also very open about where all their funding comes from (donations)
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@Niall@mastodon.nz Worth considering, we had some pine trees blown up by lightning that are at almost the lowest point in our plantation
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@sarahtaber@mastodon.online He's good friends with another friend who's a safety officer at UC Berkley: Passing the Phil test is a high bar for safe working practice 🙂
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@gigabecquerel Brushes a little way up the belt means that the lower roller can be conductive and grounded - No isolated supply needed for the motor then. IIRC the charge sprayer runs at around 5kV, will ask.
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@StripeyYena@chaosfurs.social a buddy has central heating vent grilles that are now billet alloy as that particular size stopped being made in plastic 20 years ago. Now they will outlast the house.
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@gigabecquerel the accelerator nearby me is from the 1960s so may well be by HVEC. I'll ask.
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@gigabecquerel HVEC single ended https://www.acceleratortech.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/NIC-Lower-Hutt-Lab-Report.pdf Tandem was scrapped :(