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So... one of the reasons I'm spending a lot of time making sure everything is "right" on my daily driver's is that I put a fair amount of miles on my vehicles. Things need to last for a long time, which is why I'm putting in an engine that's good for 500K-miles between rebuilds, a transmission...

Graphic card expansion chassis came today, work's killing me so not a lot of time to "play" in the last 48 hours I've had 5 hours of sleep... I came home to tuck in my kids and relieve my wife for a bit, but then I have to go back to work for a few hours... This should fit on the same...

For all the years I've been digging through "The Code", I've never found anything saying a commercial/industrial connector cannot be used in a residential setting. Remember that the code is a prescribed set of MINIMUMS and BEST PRACTICES. There is nothing saying that you cannot exceed the...

Yeah, I stop short of encouraging stupidity in situ :beer: My position is that it's a free country, and if it's the personal choice of an individual to knowingly violate a rule/law that was put in place because people were too stupid to think for themselves, I'm not a cop or a lawyer... and...

One of my cop friends told me once several years back: "Finding people to pull over is like duck hunting - you can pull over the ones that stick out, and if you don't see one of those, you can just grab anyone out of the crowd..." Having done Loss Prevention in retail myself, I can attest to...

Roto-molded polypropylene, water tight, has an aluminum rack inside on rubber shock isolators (2-per corner, 16-total, the "heavy equipment" configuration). [EDIT:] Just looking at this page, as configured this would be $2164 at retail, not a bad score :) [/EDIT] FAQ for Pelican/Hardigg...

I resemble that remark :) It also pays to realize that we have more first generation drivers in our stat than most others (people didn't get the benefit of watching thier parents drive for decades before giving it a shot themselves). We also just recently got the "move over or slow down" for...

RETRACTED [EDIT:] yeah too quick on the gun from my-end, meaning of your post didn't sink in fast enough...[/EDIT]

9U Hardigg rack came :) Bonus extra parts inside too.

This won't work for incandescent. A filament light bulb is a Positive Temperature Coefficient Resistor, meaning it starts at nearly zero resistance when cool and then climbs in resistance as it gets warmer, until it reaches the designed equilibrium power for the voltage. If it's incandescent...

Rack is coming tomorrow, I ordered the last of the missing parts for the ToughBooks (cosmetic at this point), and a Hardigg medical case to transport the computers and phones.

I purchased the external video card adapter and the rack shelf today - I received the second docking station Monday. This will let me plug everything into the docking station (nearly hardwired) and drop the laptop in and lock it, the only other cable I need to insert for now is the express card...

1TB: about 250,000 MP3s (assume 5MB each) about 1,000,000 JPG images (assume 1.25MB each) 8GB is enough to run 64-bit Win7/Win8.1 well, and more than enough to run any current Linux flavor - if you're running 32-bit, it's twice as much as the system can actually use. IIRC the LEM guidance...

For the record, RustyStud was already interested in buying, I just explained how accessible it was. I did the same for srodocker last night via PM. NO collusion (only a sorted eBay search was shared), just my method for getting a cheap ToughBook which included a general call to pace one's self...

On valid if: YOU (owner) = GOVERNMENT Otherwise you need to register as historic so that you are not forced to modify the engine to meet that year's emissions equipment. If you have plans of modifying your ride and your state doesn't specifically have a FMV exemption on the books you have to...

M1009 GVWR = 6400LBS 6400 is not greater than 8500, the registration guy told you to basically falsify your documents... In California's diesel emissions inspection for older vehicles, we have two parts: Inspection to ensure factory emissions control equipment is in place and functioning...

It free runs internally at 8MHz, data-rate I'm using is 2Mbps (max is 25Mbps), and PWM clock is around 2.5Khz - no spread spectrum on anything. The proximity to RF devices is a key reason to shield this much - CB and HAM bands (160Meter-6Meter) could pick up interference if it's not handled...

What DieselAddict said. Think of it this way, a filament light bulb has a long filament to dissipate heat with, a typical LED die (the actual part that emits the light) is about a millimeter squared. A 1Watt LED thus has a heating effect of 450Watts/square inch. You'd need only 3 square...

Indeed, I'm killing two birds with one stone here - since PWM is the generation of an AC waveform and I'm driving enough current to illuminate power LEDs, a long strip of AC waveform makes an antenna... If not shielded. ;) The 1/2" wide strips come with a 3M VHB clear acrylic tape, this will...

I've ordered the first roll of LED strip to mock-up of the solution I have in mind. I'll post up the strip circuit tonight - I'm going to have it done in flex circuit to help with rolling up.