Popgadget
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Good Morning.
It’s 10 degrees and clear with a high of 30.
Yesterday was close to the same, so not much ice melting.
I’ve got a glacier at the end of my lane where it meets the road. It’s a down hill slide into the state road if you are not extremely careful.
Yesterday started with a visit from a neighbor that has a vineyard. He bought an expensive looking stainless steel transfer pump for filling wine bottles, and his SIL ordered a 3 phase unit because the single phase ones were out of stock. He wanted me to confirm that he was out of luck without a phase converter, which was road he wanted to avoid. Lucky for him, the pump was driven by a VFD, used for a speed control, and after some research, I determined it would have enough output capacity with a single phase input. A quick rewire, and it fired right up on my single phase 240.
Next up was to add an LED light in the shop controlled by the lift master door opener. They just plug in to 120v and connect wirelessly to the opener. Now I have them in the big shop area with the overhead doors as well as in the adjoining machine shop that I normally use for egress.
Next stop was lunch, followed by another friend coming by to borrow some electrical test tools and a little discussion about theory and the conventions used in residential wiring. He was trying to sort out some 3 and 4 way light switches in his 70 year old house. Later I got a report that he was successful. That pretty much killed the day.
Not sure what’s on tap for today, but I would like to spend some time in the hangar.
Don, I hope that your knee is OK, falling on ice is bad enough when you are not already healing.
We have always had at least one dog, 5 Newfoundlands over the years, and the present big dog is a Landseer ECT, which while similar to a Newfie, is quite different. When my mom passed at 96, we inherited her Norwich Terrier, which at 17 is still like the energizer bunny. When my daughter lived at home, we had her Havanese in the mix as well. For all the comfort and joy that a dog brings, in the back of your mind, you always know that the day will come when they pass on before you. I’m sure the same is true of cats, but we have never really had any inside cats, except for the occasional spoiled barn cat.
It’s 10 degrees and clear with a high of 30.
Yesterday was close to the same, so not much ice melting.
I’ve got a glacier at the end of my lane where it meets the road. It’s a down hill slide into the state road if you are not extremely careful.
Yesterday started with a visit from a neighbor that has a vineyard. He bought an expensive looking stainless steel transfer pump for filling wine bottles, and his SIL ordered a 3 phase unit because the single phase ones were out of stock. He wanted me to confirm that he was out of luck without a phase converter, which was road he wanted to avoid. Lucky for him, the pump was driven by a VFD, used for a speed control, and after some research, I determined it would have enough output capacity with a single phase input. A quick rewire, and it fired right up on my single phase 240.
Next up was to add an LED light in the shop controlled by the lift master door opener. They just plug in to 120v and connect wirelessly to the opener. Now I have them in the big shop area with the overhead doors as well as in the adjoining machine shop that I normally use for egress.
Next stop was lunch, followed by another friend coming by to borrow some electrical test tools and a little discussion about theory and the conventions used in residential wiring. He was trying to sort out some 3 and 4 way light switches in his 70 year old house. Later I got a report that he was successful. That pretty much killed the day.
Not sure what’s on tap for today, but I would like to spend some time in the hangar.
Don, I hope that your knee is OK, falling on ice is bad enough when you are not already healing.
We have always had at least one dog, 5 Newfoundlands over the years, and the present big dog is a Landseer ECT, which while similar to a Newfie, is quite different. When my mom passed at 96, we inherited her Norwich Terrier, which at 17 is still like the energizer bunny. When my daughter lived at home, we had her Havanese in the mix as well. For all the comfort and joy that a dog brings, in the back of your mind, you always know that the day will come when they pass on before you. I’m sure the same is true of cats, but we have never really had any inside cats, except for the occasional spoiled barn cat.
