TOTALLY RANDOM POST II

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House is triple-grounded with long grounding rods and clamps to 3 different areas of the foundation and plumbing. (It's a warm but 'plain' 6-star home on which I was the general contractor, with the reason for the 6-star rating being thermal efficiency).

My electrician in the distant neighborhood, who was one of several who helped wire my house, recommended whole-house surge protection, either outside at our own power supply pole, where my master panel is, or in the basement in the 200-amp QO panel down there.

We have surges, etc. throughout the Winter, often as a result of outages from trees falling, wind, snow, etc. Often times when their main power line fuses are in between tripped and not, the power flickers (a brown out), and that's when less than ideal electricity can cook (especially) digital appliances.

It doesn't help the matter a lot that the local power co. tends to use more resistant/stout fuses on their primary poles, resulting in the flickering in between having a good supply of 'clean power' and the moment when it goes out altogether being extended, which is all the more problematic on numerous devices.

I once, in the middle of a midnight storm, watched a large spruce tree kitty-corner to our land, land on the power lines, and the thing threw sparks for hours, literally, like a giant steel grinder, until it finally fully tripped. It's irresponsible on their part to run such equipment (and I've told them so, including the greater likelihood of their sparks from stout fuses burning down someone's home in the dry months of Summer), but it reduces their trips out to the field, paying union line workers in the middle of the night. And the electric co. takes no responsibility here for toasted equipment that result from uncleared right-of-way lines, or using overly rated fuses on their poles.

Reminds me of my adult children at times; making sure not to be accountable for issues they helped to generate.

I bow to his local knowledge. I had a brown-out take out a prized possession quite recently. A little voltage regulator that was down stream from 4 or 5 others. Just the weakest link I guess. A neighbours oven also needed fixing. The power company told us both they had no record of a bad disconnect, or any other complaints. Denying the neighbour had rang. The fault was easy to spot, it opened up the pavement. It took a few days to fix it, then a number of local transformers failed in the next few weeks. As is the way. Yet they still stood their (shovel in hand) saying it was all fine.
Most big local rings are opened and closed with pneumatic breakers, that will keep trying again.

 

[skmatzwonk]

A brownout is an intentional or unintentional drop in voltage in an electrical power supply system. Intentional brownouts are used for load reduction in an emergency. The term brownout comes from the dimming of incandescent lighting when the voltage reduces.

Brownout (electricity) - Wikipedia


That is also a possibility.

 

[f-e]

It's not quite a blackout, but is under the supplies allowed deviation. Here, we allow a 6% drop from 230v, before we consider it as unacceptable.

I have 170v rattling around inside my head, but I have to look it up. I think that's to do with equipment manufacture, and about where we would be talking of brown-outs as about half the power has gone. Is it a standard.. I'm not actually sure

Edit: Brownouts as low as 170v can usually be accommodated

 

[f-e]

https://tcec-chess.com/ Allows programmers to take there chess engines to battle. 24 hours a day. The engines each run on four high-end Intel Xeon processors with eighty-eight cores. Competing in tournaments that last months.
It was around 2010 when computer programs really started to thrash us at chess, and now play about 80% better than us.

Random enough

 

[moose eater]

There's a pomegranate growing near the compost pile here. Fruit ripens mid-August. Bring a big bucket.

August?! In Florida?! That'd probably kill me, buzz. The heat!! Humidity!! Poisonous stuff!! Aggressive reptiles in the swimming holes!! Confused retirees who've been baking in the Sun too long, driving slow-moving Mercedes Benz's and clogging up the produce aisles at the store (especially the eggplant and artichoke areas!)!! I thought we were friends, buzz!!

 

[moose eater]

https://tcec-chess.com/ Allows programmers to take there chess engines to battle. 24 hours a day. The engines each run on four high-end Intel Xeon processors with eighty-eight cores. Competing in tournaments that last months.
It was around 2010 when computer programs really started to thrash us at chess, and now play about 80% better than us.

Random enough

But when do the computers take over the world and kill us?

 

[Weezard]

April 2nd 2023.

 

[buzzmobile]

August?! In Florida?! That'd probably kill me, buzz. The heat!! Humidity!! Poisonous stuff!! Aggressive reptiles in the swimming holes!! Confused retirees who've been baking in the Sun too long, driving slow-moving Mercedes Benz's and clogging up the produce aisles at the store (especially the eggplant and artichoke areas!)!! I thought we were friends, buzz!!

And you thought Alaska was tough!? LOL Little do you realize that the slow moving Mercedes is in the left lane with a left turn signal blinking for miles. Then the Mercedes makes an abrupt lane change to the right.

Florida natives are able to handle humidity due to 'evolutionary gills'.

A lot of tourists have adapted to the August humidity with one of these:

The only problem is when September arrives. 550 ml capacity is not enough.
Let me know when 80F arrives at your house and I'll be there.

 

[f-e]

What do they do with that dehu? Break up the tank to make some safety shades, keeping bugs out the air holes they will develop in their ears to stand the RH ?
The only way that will ever fill its tank, is if you drop it in the bath.

meh.

 

[buzzmobile]

What do they do with that dehu? Break up the tank to make some safety shades, keeping bugs out the air holes they will develop in their ears to stand the RH ?
The only way that will ever fill its tank, is if you drop it in the bath.

meh.

Engineers are working on those issues.

 

[armedoldhippy]

August?! In Florida?! That'd probably kill me, buzz. The heat!! Humidity!! Poisonous stuff!! Aggressive reptiles in the swimming holes!! Confused retirees who've been baking in the Sun too long, driving slow-moving Mercedes Benz's and clogging up the produce aisles at the store (especially the eggplant and artichoke areas!)!! I thought we were friends, buzz!!

you left out all of the senile citizens riding around in golf carts & riding "liquor cycles" in traffic because their doctor pulled their drivers licenses. are there any venomous reptiles in Alaska? i've never heard of rattlers up there...

 

[moose eater]

you left out all of the senile citizens riding around in golf carts & riding "liquor cycles" in traffic because their doctor pulled their drivers licenses. are there any venomous reptiles in Alaska? i've never heard of rattlers up there...

Toads/frogs in warmer parts of the State, but otherwise no reptiles I'm aware of.

Scariest things I know of in the water/ocean include wolf eels and some varieties of sharks, and jellyfish.

One or 2 varieties of small poisonous spiders (brown recluse and hobo spiders; got bit by one or the other on my lower leg, while working in my shop, tending my plants a bunch of years ago. Didn't know it had happened until a purplish small-ish crater formed on my leg. We beat it back, successfully killing any infection/toxin with VERY hot water bottles.. My wife's idea, and it seemed to work).

Disgruntled moose, especially cows with calves, tend to be our greatest risk... Or running into 1 on the highway. A distant second place for risk factor here goes to bears.

 

[armedoldhippy]

Toads/frogs in warmer parts of the State, but otherwise no reptiles I'm aware of.

Scariest things I know of in the water/ocean include wolf eels and some varieties of sharks, and jellyfish.

One or 2 varieties of small poisonous spiders (brown recluse and hobo spiders; got bit by one or the other on my lower leg, while working in my shop, tending my plants a bunch of years ago. Didn't know it had happened until a purplish small-ish crater formed on my leg. We beat it back, successfully killing any infection/toxin with VERY hot water bottles.. My wife's idea, and it seemed to work).

Disgruntled moose, especially cows with calves, tend to be our greatest risk... Or running into 1 on the highway. A distant second place for risk factor here goes to bears.

was planning a trip to flyfish there for salmon and trout years ago. then, this little voice in my head whispered "grizzly bears!" i had never considered moose as a danger until i saw a few videos of cows doing their very best to stomp some fool for getting too close to their calves, lol. after watching how non-aggressive the bears are (normally, lol) at the falls while catching salmon, i think i should have just come on up....and kept an eye out for moose.

 

[moose eater]

was planning a trip to flyfish there for salmon and trout years ago. then, this little voice in my head whispered "grizzly bears!" i had never considered moose as a danger until i saw a few videos of cows doing their very best to stomp some fool for getting too close to their calves, lol. after watching how non-aggressive the bears are (normally, lol) at the falls while catching salmon, i think i should have just come on up....and kept an eye out for moose.

Good to be wary at all times in the woods. We're graced with having dangerous critters that are usually big enough to spot at a good distance, providing you're not in tight brush and being intentionally stalked. Which has happened a time or 4.

I've been charged by moose a few times over the years, and about the only place I like to see moose now-days is either out in the bush, or in little white wrappers in the freezer.

Got word earlier today that the 4 remaining parts my massive parts order is waiting on, are at a freight facility that's more or less next door to the fertilizer plant fire in Winston-Salem N.C. Murphy strikes again; the parts likely won't be available to the source until the evacuation near the fertilizer plant (a 1-mile radius I'm told) is vacated, and folks return to that area.

Which goes hand-in-hand with Murphy's other play in my day, last night, late, speaking with a fellow about my last batch of chaga I'll be getting from hm, I told him his son was going to be doing some work on a vehicle of mine in their garage. He informed me his son had lost privileges to put other vehicles in the garage (likely some boundary violation of one sort or another), so now I need to find a warm place for him to work, unless his father changes his mind for one reason or another. Otherwise, at the moment, I have one last option for space where it might be done, and I'm not looking forward to the asking phase.

Murphy, Murphy, Murphy.... Can't lose the guy.

 

[armedoldhippy]

the fire in NC is the same stuff that blew up Beirut in Lebanon. if enough of it burns, it releases a gas ...which explodes. there is a fuckton of it involved. they'll be damned lucky if it doesn't blow. one mile radius aint gonna be enough if that happens...what did you do to ol' Murph to piss him off like that? damn, dude...

 

[moose eater]

the fire in NC is the same stuff that blew up Beirut in Lebanon. if enough of it burns, it releases a gas ...which explodes. there is a fuckton of it involved. they'll be damned lucky if it doesn't blow. one mile radius aint gonna be enough if that happens...what did you do to ol' Murph to piss him off like that? damn, dude...

Yep, they're dealing with lots of potential POOF there.

No idea about Murphy? Maybe a past life's sins? This life's sins? He certainly seems to have my name, address and phone number, though.

 

[CosmicGiggle]

up in smoke, but luckily it's been raining cats 'n dogs since last night while Murphy's been sleeping.

 

[armedoldhippy]

up in smoke, but luckily it's been raining cats 'n dogs since last night while Murphy's been sleeping.

i'm glad to hear that he sleeps. sometimes it seems as if he doesn't even BLINK...

 

[big315smooth]

was cleaning the hut yesterday scrubbing shit down seen my reflection off the glass on the hood n thought to myself damn thats a handsome sob

 

[f-e]

What sort of hood. Was it a cool tube style