#garfield Logs

Mar 26 2013

00:11 rue_mohr cant find it in the backlog, but I'll look at some motors tommorow
00:25 rue_mohr Lola8088, ok I got one more printer stripped, I moved the tv in
00:26 Lola8088 Nice. i got one and a half kids to bed. argh.
00:26 rue_mohr there is just enough room on the deck
00:26 rue_mohr heh
00:26 Lola8088 railing side or other?
00:27 rue_mohr railing side
00:27 rue_mohr if the table and a shelf are shuffled around, there is about 6 feet
00:28 Lola8088 Okie Dokie. So i don't know when Doug will be bringing it... can it be delivered while you are at work?
00:28 Lola8088 oh, wait... \i do know\
00:28 Lola8088 it's later, you'll be home
00:28 rue_mohr http://www.beechhillartisans.com/Soap%20Mold%20Kits.html
00:29 rue_mohr http://www.cumberlandacoustic.com/id9.html
00:29 rue_mohr http://www.soap-making-resource.com/wooden-soap-molds.html
00:29 rue_mohr http://www.soaphutch.com/
00:30 rue_mohr bah, firefox has overeaten memory again
00:31 Lola8088 it wants Braaaaaiiins.
00:33 Lola8088 i'm partial to loaf molds however... the thought of making a loaf larger than the 16bl is kindof daunting because it's hard to slice already.
00:36 rue_mohr yea!
00:38 Lola8088 why are you still awake?
00:41 rue_mohr rice cooker...
00:41 Lola8088 ahhhh.
00:48 rue_mohr eating now
07:44 jennie hi
09:04 M0TRN_th1 hi
09:15 jennie su
09:16 jennie sup
09:42 rue_mohr I have a new schematic but the fet still overheats
09:42 rue_mohr there is just a bit of a ring in the switching, I'm working on it
10:02 jennie give me new schematic
10:02 jennie i will make it in software
10:02 jennie are there new parts in schematic ?
11:09 M0TRN_th1 how about making true sine waves using soft-PWM
11:09 M0TRN_th1 instead of on/off?
11:09 M0TRN_th1 that will not work with bipolar transistors
11:09 M0TRN_th1 but FET's?
11:10 M0TRN_th1 PWM sine waves from PIC with low pass filters
11:20 jennie rue_ is not here
11:20 jennie may be work
12:17 M0TRN_th1 yeah he is in Canada
12:17 M0TRN_th1 so its work time there
12:17 M0TRN_th1 here it's 5pm
12:17 M0TRN_th1 just finished last meeting
12:24 any21069381 rue is pwm'ing the fets in this case as a current limiting function, and to limit heat they need to be turned on/off as fast as possible, not with a slow sine wave
12:24 jennie cool
12:24 M0TRN_th1 yeah because he wants them fully on or fully off
12:24 any21069381 what i figure he'll run into is the gate charge current being a lot of watts
12:26 any21069381 people say a mosfet gate is megohms of resistance, but i have driven several amps of ac into gates before, and at 12v, 1 amp is 12 watts, it's going to get hot
12:26 any21069381 1 amp into a bipolar base is often only one watt
12:27 any21069381 but a TO-220 will still get hot at 1 watt
12:27 M0TRN_th1 so how to solve this and drive the motor?
12:29 any21069381 if i had a motor to hook up to, i'd prolly just build the circuit
12:31 any21069381 i have IRFZ44's, TIP41's, and etc, but i don't have a spare harddrive motor
14:45 rue_mohr kat, makea working 1.2A pwm current limiter
14:45 rue_mohr mine still overheats
15:49 any21069381 no wonder i heard the wind blowing the other day, i went to town, saw: one house with no roof, many brick or concrete blockwalls blown down, 100's of trees snapped off, lots of new firewood piles
15:57 rue_mohr and they laughed at you
15:58 rue_mohr "strapping down a roof is a silly idea"
15:59 any21069381 and i used a lot of strapping on the ridge of this place, and rebar from the 2' wide concrete footers to the top plate of the highest walls
16:00 any21069381 they asked me what wind the house shoulld sustain, i told them i figured by running the numbers of a C130 transport plane at takeoff
16:00 rue_mohr I'm ill, going to bed
16:00 any21069381 ok
16:00 any21069381 eat VitC
16:01 rue_bed mom bought beads from a seller in china
16:01 rue_bed they sent the package 3 times
16:01 any21069381 that's wierd
16:01 any21069381 must have been running linux on a P1 cpu
16:01 rue_bed when we recieved the second package, I wrote to them to tell them about the error, and they said there was no problem and they were sorry
16:02 rue_bed when I recieved the third package I said again, and offered to pay them for hte 2 extra packages, they said ok and I did,
16:02 any21069381 they were sorryier after the 3rd package, and will be REAL sorry after the 4th package?
16:02 rue_bed but they didn't accept the money and I just got it back
16:02 rue_bed I give up
16:03 rue_bed :/ they are cutting down a tree right outside my bedroom
16:03 any21069381 maybe there was small print about it being a lifetime monthly subscription
16:03 rue_bed and this trailer has really thin walls
16:03 any21069381 why are they right outside your bedroom?!?
16:03 rue_bed only 3 arrived, only paid $1 for hte first one
16:03 rue_bed tree just outside the house
16:04 any21069381 but you own that land right outside the house
16:04 rue_bed its about 15 feet away, its over the line
16:04 any21069381 oh
16:04 rue_bed its on their side
16:04 rue_bed maybe I should wait for htem to finish
16:04 y21069381 can't imagine living that close to neighbors, knowing what neighbors are
16:04 rue_bed if they screw up I'm right in line
16:05 any21069381 i'd keep an eye on them
16:05 rue_mohr I was helping them take down their rotted fence on the weekend
16:05 any21069381 they should have chain/rope/etc to the tree to clue it in on which way to fall
16:05 any21069381 rotted fence = firewood
16:06 rue_mohr I think their converting it to firewood from the top down
16:06 any21069381 oh
16:06 rue_mohr or their branching it
16:06 rue_mohr not sure
16:06 rue_mohr but the chipper has a hefty rumble to it
16:06 any21069381 chippers do not make firewood
16:07 rue_mohr depends what kinda boiler you have
16:07 rue_mohr its a small tree, about 20", bit too big for the chipper
16:07 any21069381 oh
16:08 any21069381 wow, made it up to 41F today!
16:08 rue_mohr is that above freezing?
16:08 any21069381 yeas
16:09 any21069381 i think it's 728C
16:09 y21069381 blinks at the calcul
16:09 rue_mohr you maelting down aluminum in the driveway?
16:10 rue_mohr you should be carefull of the combustion temp of your roof...
16:10 any21069381 5c
16:10 rue_mohr oh dats cold
16:10 any21069381 the roof is galvanised steel
16:10 any21069381 well, the flat part is latex over tar
16:11 rue_mohr at 728c the galvanization might drip off
16:11 y21069381 will stay in the shade somewhere else
16:14 rue_mohr ok
16:15 any21069381 my tooth filling from last week is missing
16:15 rue_mohr go ask for warranty
16:16 any21069381 like everything else around here, i can't find anything
16:16 rue_mohr tell them if they want it back your gonna give them sh**
16:16 any21069381 went and got a mirror i could cram into my mough to see the back side of the tooth, no filling there, it's been gone for days
16:16 any21069381 i called thisafternoon, they were closed
16:17 rue_mohr how convienient for them!, I wonder if they took their fillings an skipped town
16:18 any21069381 i think the dentist didn't like that i told his nurse i wasn't 90 yrs old and frail, and didn't need to be carried anywhere, or asked nonstop if i needed her help
16:18 any21069381 their responce was "but we have people like that in here"
16:18 rue_mohr the way you move must amaze people
16:19 any21069381 my responce was "but i am not one of those people!!"
16:19 any21069381 humans are nuts here
16:19 rue_mohr dont tell me you just noticed,.....
16:20 any21069381 ok, i won't
16:20 any21069381 is there a trade name for "mirror on a stick" ?
16:20 rue_mohr I'm not gonna be abel to sleep for awhile
16:21 rue_mohr dental mirror?
16:21 rue_mohr or automotive mirror
16:21 rue_mohr mechanics mirror?
16:21 any21069381 turns out mechanics mirrors are huge
16:21 rue_mohr (the mechanics ones are better they come with a magnet grabber)
16:21 rue_mohr oh
16:22 any21069381 yeas, $5 for one mirror i can bearely cram into my mouth, and 2 other tools i have no need to cram into my mouth
16:22 rue_mohr http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Dental-Mouth-Tooth-Mirror-Healthy-Tool-Glimpse-Mouth-Oral-Care-Instrument-Set-/140634621605
16:23 rue_mohr http://www.ebay.ca/itm/1-PC-COPPER-MOUTH-MIRROR-HANDLE-DENTAL-INSTRUMENT-FREE-SHIPPING-/180982570566
16:23 any21069381 wtf, who would look into the mouth of such a deadly snake?? : 1 PC HIGH QUALITY DENTAL COPPER MOUTH MIRROR HANDLE DENTAL INSTRUMENT
16:24 any21069381 coppermouths are worse than rattlers
16:24 rue_mohr dunno, we only have garder snakes here
16:24 any21069381 rattelrs will warn first, coppermouths just bite and kill ya
16:25 rue_mohr anyhow thats prolly the cheap -> quality scale
16:26 rue_mohr optioanlly, a small piece of ground mirror, about 10" of 1/8" stainless filler rod, and some hot glue...
16:27 any21069381 apparently dental mirrors are not adjustable
16:29 any21069381 the flosser i made : http://designerthinking.com/images/misc/IMG_0350m.jpg
16:30 any21069381 the small dia tines are nails, i grooved them with dremel by hand to route the floss up and across the tines
16:31 y21069381 ponders showing the dentist and pointing out she doesn't *need* his help with fillings either, if he can't do it r
16:33 rue_mohr huh
16:33 rue_mohr my teeth are too tight for that stuff
16:35 y21069381 ponders a pcb etchant to remove the FR4 and leave the co
16:35 rue_mohr heh
16:38 any21069381 The new fishing vessel Katmai departed Mobile, Alabama on Febuary 18, 1972. The Katmai was brand new .... this year the research vessel Falkor sent down its ROV to investigate and found the sunken Katmai in 8,920 feet of water some 200 miles off the shore of Alabama.
17:07 any21069381 maybe your neighbors are trying to fill : Jiangsu New Yangzijiang Shipbuilding has delivered a new 69,300dwt woodchip carrier to Shandong Asia Pacific SSYMB Pulp & Paper
18:35 rue_mohr kat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1NWH6G1f0
18:35 rue_mohr some entertainment for ya, even with no sound
21:59 jennie hiiii
22:26 rue_mohr Morias robot is great, I love smelly pens!
22:27 rue_mohr my head is throbbing, dont know if I should take a pain killer
22:48 telunus rue, how do I check where a linux executable is installed?
22:53 rue_mohr from the command line, which tail
22:54 rue_mohr also be aware of dpkg -L diff
22:55 rue_mohr er dpkg -L diffutils
22:55 rue_mohr I wish they would stop making pointless package namechanges
22:56 rue_mohr telunus,
22:56 telunus I found it
22:56 telunus I just did echo $PATH and then used tab completion on each of the listed paths
22:56 rue_mohr ugh
22:57 rue_mohr try those other commands too
22:57 rue_mohr so you know
22:57 telunus K.
23:02 rue_mohr iamturni1, any chance you could take me some photos of your typewriter that I can see where the lever pins are positioned for the keys?
23:05 rue_mohr kat http://www.ebay.ca/itm/ABC-Elameno-Alphabet-Button-SB4572-/390467983959 a funny for you
23:14 rue_mohr not a word was spoken, all the church bells were broken.
23:20 any21069381 re http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1NWH6G1f0 , they'll never compete with Bouncy, i hope
23:20 any21069381 err, Beoncy
23:20 any21069381 Beyoncey
23:20 any21069381 whatever
23:21 any21069381 that's $25,000 of mini-robots?
23:24 rue_mohr probably
23:34 any21069381 it's already past 11pm, shheeeeshh
23:44 telunus After much hair-pulling I just installed emerald (a window decorator for Compiz (an X11 window manager)) from git. However now when I go to run it it gives me an error.
23:48 telunus emerald: error while loading shared libraries: libemeraldengine.so.0: cannot open shared object file or directory