Roast Grumpy Old Thread II - the grumpiness continues

[Samsquanch]

Been up in the roof. Very hard to navigate. Ducting everywhere.

Can't find the power lead beyond the first couple of metres due to the ducting and insulation but if I short the near end of it and probe through the wire's insulation I can see the short. However, if I short only the far end I can't see the short so the wire has to be cut somewhere. I doubt it's broken as it is actually heavy-ish speaker wire. No way I'd have been able to strip the ends with my teeth!!!

Anyway, I have the camera wires I can use but that's a pain as they only run part way, so it means that I have to make a long trip up into the roof to extend a wire on to reach back to the GPO where the 12V power brick needs to be located.

 

[Samsquanch]

yellow are single mode, they would have had blue connectors on them ,

I think you are right.

 

[Samsquanch]

Anyway, as much as I hate getting up in the roof and especially, I hate cutting wires etc. I found the camera wires, spliced in a power lead, attached the 12v wall wart and connected the USB power adaptor to the other end downstairs. Hooked in the cheapest USB device I could find and voila!! It works...

The service now thing is an isolater that only allows the power through.

 

[andana]

Would you guys like a bigger challenge?

 

[Samsquanch]

Would you guys like a bigger challenge?

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What's the story?

 

[andana]

What's the story?

Some places in Cambodia dont have electric so they use batteries. Then the batteries are charged by that generator on the boat. About 50 cents a charge. Some of those solar panels could be the future. Plenty of sun

 

[Samsquanch]

Some places in Cambodia dont have electric so they use batteries. Then the batteries are charged by that generator on the boat. About 50 cents a charge. Some of those solar panels could be the future. Plenty of sun

Ah ha!

Alternative to the 2 litre Toyota longtail.

 

[koshari]

Anyway, as much as I hate getting up in the roof and especially, I hate cutting wires etc. I found the camera wires, spliced in a power lead, attached the 12v wall wart and connected the USB power adaptor to the other end downstairs. Hooked in the cheapest USB device I could find and voila!! It works...
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The service now thing is an isolater that only allows the power through.

squint and its mint

 

[Samsquanch]

squint and its mint

Tidied it up. Just need to get a very discreet wall mount for the iPad and it's all done. Cool way to keep an oldish 6th gen in service. It had been relegated to being a guitar tuner until recently.

 

[koshari]

Tidied it up. Just need to get a very discreet wall mount for the iPad and it's all done. Cool way to keep an oldish 6th gen in service. It had been relegated to being a guitar tuner until recently.

The wallmount for our android tab in kiosk mode in our barns bar is made from a strip of 6mm blueboard joiner. Probobly should have used the j profile... however i had the other strip on hand, and also after modding it it pretty much was j profile anyway. And likely a bit bronx for indoors.

 

[koshari]

And in situ

 

[Samsquanch]

And in situ

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I was thinking of getting an android tablet as the kiosk app I tried has some cool features like auto-wake using the camera and a couple of other things. I tried it on a resurrected phone but for whatever reason, the airtouch app would lose connection each day in kiosk mode but was fine just running normally.

Anyway, the iPad was hardly being used so I didn't need to buy anything.

 

[Gasometer]

Is it concerning that idgaf about the Melbourne Cup anymore?

 

[Samsquanch]

Is it concerning that idgaf about the Melbourne Cup anymore?

Do you find yourself ngaf about other things or is it just the Melbourne Cup?

Example: Melbourne Show? Moomba?

 

[Gasometer]

Do you find yourself ngaf about other things or is it just the Melbourne Cup?

Example: Melbourne Show? Moomba?

Yes

 

[Samsquanch]

Yes

What about the Dookie Agricultural Expo or the Numurkah Working Dog Show?

 

[Samsquanch]

Some places in Cambodia dont have electric so they use batteries. Then the batteries are charged by that generator on the boat. About 50 cents a charge. Some of those solar panels could be the future. Plenty of sun

Sorry to say, I didn't read your message properly yesterday. I see what you are explaining now. I grew up on a farm and we had only battery power up until 1966. The cow shed was run by a stationary diesel engine which also had a generator to charge the batteries. Obviously, only for lights. Heating, hot water and cooking used a solid fuel stove or fireplace.

I didn't ever make it to Cambodia despite multiple visits to Indo, Malaysia, Vietnam and one time to Burma.

 

[koshari]

Is it concerning that idgaf about the Melbourne Cup anymore?

i never did

 

[Gasometer]

Bob Geldof

Where does he rank on the Blokeometer?