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Anybody knows what kind of electrical circuit this is?
>>939674
Not exactly sure but that seems like a power supply of some sorts. Where did you find that circuit?
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>what kind of potato is this?
- door-coms, alarm, who knows. Try a steady-cam, pull the fuse, see what stops working, or RTFM/instruction sheet bottom left of the mount box.
>>939674
>2 wires in, 2 wires out
At first glance it looks like a low voltage power supply for accent lighting or comm/security equipment. The board reminds me of the power supply I've installed in large fiber converters.
Any othere tradesman on here? My go to hammer is the Hart 25 oz framing hammer. What do you guys use and why?
Leather laminate handle or bust
Dude its a piece of hard material used to hit things. How much money do you really need to spend on one and what the fuck is there to discuss?
>THIS ONE HITS SHIT BETTER THAN THAT ONE
>NO FUCK YOU THIS ONE DOES
>>938775
>I have never actually used a hammer before
Shame that /diy/ is filling with this type of shallow shitposting.
I had a 2000 Excursion that kept getting keyed or broken into. I bought a new car and I want to protect it.
However, I can't move yet and I live in an apt and I think a resident or two is the one keying and breaking into cars.
What can I do to get proof it's the guys I think that's doing it. If I bought a cheap IR security camera to point at my car....is that illegal? To film the whole parking lot? I live in Midwest USA.
I was just going to point it towards where I park zoomed in.
Any other suggestions? The police don't...
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Also I'm not fucking anyone's gf or wife, I don't even talk to my neighbors. They target all cars
My question is what can I do to prevent my car from being keyed or broken into. Preferably a cheap method because I'm not going to be living here much longer
Pics related. My new car 2013 Audi
>>939979
Also this is where I work. Not my apt. There are cameras here and no one has ever bothered my car at work
>lol get a load of this gullible buyfag
>doesn't he know you can design and build your very own build state-of-the-art speakers at home that rival $25,000 ATCs for just a few hundred dollars worth of drivers and miscellaneous parts?
>oh well of course you already need to have a lumberyard, the entire Festool catalog, WinISD, SMD tools, a PCB fab, your own anechoic chamber, $28,000 worth of mics and DSPs, and an advanced EE degree, who doesn't?
Why do DIYers lie to everyone?
>>939380
you're a faggot.
>>939380
>Why do DIYers lie to everyone?
Even with consideration of your green text...
This post is a trolling post and expect it to be deleted.
I'm going to do my first home brew today. I'm using a kit I received for Christmas, and it includes everything I need. The ingredients make an IPA, which is not something I enjoy. I'm planning to change the recipe a bit, and reduce the amount of hops, or leave them out altogether in favor of some lemon zest. I've done some research and I know when and how to do that.
I was wondering if anyone has advice on the hops. The hops included are Columbus and Cascade hops. Which one is the more overpowering bitter hoppy flavor? What other sort of spices might...
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I hate to be That Guy but Google will probably give you more comprehensive answers than most people on here.
I have a couple things to note however.
Considered how much beer you drink in one sitting before bottling.
It is fucked up how much time you save when you use 1litre bottles over the average 340- whatever bottles.
Re sealable "buckle" caps are also save you the money of buying a capper.
>>938048
Bitter flavor comes from boiling the hops, if you want a less bitter beer just cut the hops weight by half or better yet use a IBU calculator.
Research hop schedules, the longer you boil hops the more alpha acids are isomerized which give beer its bitterness but also gets rid of volatile compounds (flavors and aroma). A 60 min boil is called the bittering addition, 30 min are flavor addition and 0 min are aroma addition. Aroma and flavor additions contribute less IBUs to the finished beer but gives it more "palate"...
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>>938149
Also if it's an IPA recipe, it will most likely have a higher OG so you could look up a pale ale recipe and adjust your grist and hop schedule.
I need a do it yourself way to secure my home. I've been having problems keeping people out. It's a long story why and not important. I have about 10 broken phones which I can disconnect the cameras from the mother boards is as far as I have hot in my ideas. I have access to a sauder gun and lots of different cords and electronics laying around my house. Any ideas on how I can get at least one camera in each room (mine, my 6 month old sons, kitchen, living room, two bathrooms) and make it to where only I gave access. I have a webcam and a desktop i will be using for the livingroom.
If you have money, doable. You would need multiple arduino boards and lots of little things like resisters and capacitors. Realistically? Buy some cameras for the house.
Get a dog, a fence and a shotgun. And grow a pair.
Sounds pervy to me.
>want to watch muh kid change clothes and dickbeat.
>want to watch muh wife cuckold me while I dickbeat.
>want to make sure I'm in complete control of what strangers and senpai are doing in the toilet.
>all while sitting in mom's basement.
Ewww
Slight offtopic, but are any of you here also interior designers? I'm trying to find minimalist-style furniture for a mid-century house I'm renovating.
Pic related is $3000 and obviously I dont need quality like that but something similar under 1k would be nice. I dont think places like Walmart or Target carry think kind of thing. I dont want plush or baggy like most typical furniture.
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>>938690
Thrift stores and estate sales yo. Buy the real thing.
>>938690
I've seen shit like that at target and walmart.
But like the other guy said ikea is probably your best bet.
anyone here every build there own time machine? do I absolutely NEED plutonium? also, what the fuck is a flux capacitor?
>>937712
eventually you can get that shit to run on garbage, yo
>>937712
Yes, you need plutonium, but don't worry. You don't need the refined, super dangerous kind. You can actually get away with the regular kind that you can hold in your hand.
>>937712
I made time travel face bags. They allow me to travel forward through time at the speed of regular time.
Anyone know if you can remove the middle post in this type of window?
I have one and one side of the window pops out easy but the other is sealed in and you can carefully remove that but then there's this post and no evidence how it would be removed.
help
>>939927
depends.
is it a sliding window? does it open? is that middle post structural? it probably is. if its structural then you need to cut out that whole window frame and install a lintel before replacing it with a non-standard size of glass.
you'd be better off just getting a window man to hook you up with a new window. better than not having a clue as to what you are doing and wasting money trying to randomly remove pieces from your house only to have the glass crack under stress.
>>939946
The window it's self will not be supporting any weight.
A pic of the actual window would help OP
I'm wanting to have a set of LEDs turn on when I enter a room so I'm going to get a PIR sensor.
Now the part I'm not 100% sure about is how it wires in to my circuit, I'm hoping it works like a button/switch, like I have drawn in my shitty diagram but I doubt I'd be so lucky.
Searching around I can't get a straight answer because I can only seem to find setups for several sets of lights around a house instead of just powering one thing.
So what I want to know is, would my shitty schematic work so that when someone walks in to the room...
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>>940337
PIR modules usually work like switches. They usually have a separate power line and an NO/NC circuit (used mainly for security) or a mains relay. Which one do you have?
>>940349
I have an HC-SR501, it has 3 pins, +,- and something else.
The circuit will be powered by batteries so I don't want a mains relay.
I would try just slapping it together to see if it works but I don't want to accidentally fry the sensor.
so basically a motion sensor? you can get one of those cheap outdoor light fixtures for your yard that turn on when someone walks by... and just rip out the sensor...
but the problem with room sensors is when the motion stops the lights will go out... so if you are sitting watching tv or something the lights will keep going off
or if you are doing your homework or anything that you arent moving around
amateur attempt at restoration of the old axe...
Complete!
DIY, what are some good DIY related youtube channels out there? I currently watch the following:
Ben Heck Show
Colin Furze
Darbin Orvar
Applied Science
I like to make stuff
Clickspring
Nile Red
Anyone else worth adding?
>>939920
Also have watched enough of Diresta to know I've got about all I can get from him. I know you guys are nuts about him
AvE
>>939920
Newborns smiling is an involuntary reaction to stimulus. It was probably more irritating that pleasuring.
Yes, I know I'm posting irrelevant information to an unrelated image. Fuck you.
Beginning Saturday night, my furnace started acting up, repeatedly going thru a start / stop cycle where it will run for 2-3 mins, then stop and about a min later, start up again and run for a min before stopping again, then 20mins later, it goes thru the same cycle again.
Called my hotrodder buddy today and he immediately said the problem was with the flame sensor and I did a bit of on-line searching around and the answer for others with the same problem seems to be the same; bad / dirty flame sensor.
Apparently the flame sensor is not detecting the burners igniting,...
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>>939085
Now the flame sensor doesn’t look dirty to me, the ceramic part has a bit of black crud on it but the bent rod part looks fine (at least as far as I can tell?) and one of the on-line sites mentioned that flame sensors “don’t break”, so I dunno?
I guess my question is; does /diy/ agree with the above and also, how likely is it for a repair tech to try and scam me, claiming the entire burner assembly or whatnot is bad and all kinda stuff needs to be replaced for a bazillion dollars, or that the part...
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>>939086
- get a multimeter ($1.99 HarborFreight will do), and check FS operation yourself. Google/YouTube how to attach meter and check reading, takes 2 minutes. They (FS) also cost fuck all, replacing it as a precautionary / possible solution may be the end of your woes.
You cant cope with that, you deserve to get ripped ;) Ask around for a Tech recommend, they aint all a-holes, and a good heating guy will save you a lot of hassle otherwise. It also sounds like you are not servicing that shit either? Once a year service...
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Inexpensive flame sensor replacement would be a reasonable way to eliminate that part as a fault cause.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6jmzr5HPwE
guys someone have the blueprints for one of this?
searching only find creepy 60s magazine bad guides, i need one actually blueprint.
thank you for after hand.
>>937410
ummm.....
the pic and the video appear to show two different vehicles... ?
the pic looks like a kids' toy built on lawn tractor parts
the video looks like a Jeep CJ5, or maybe a real milsurp Jeep,,,
>>937410
Silly uncle Ron
>>937417
Did you even watch the video?
So this anon wanted to learn to solder and bought a soldering kit. Said silly anon has no idea what these items are.
Any kind individual able to help out?
>>939821
The inside of the solder "injection". Spring loaded with a button on the side.
>>939827
That's a desoldering pump, you use it to suck solder from boards.
Load the spring, heat up the solder, put the nozzle next to the liquid solder and suck it in by pressing the button.
>>939833
Ok cheers, I figured that out with quora. What is the orange substance, and the other wire with in the image beside the keyboard?
