#garfield Logs

Nov 07 2018

12:39 AM rue_mohr: its loads a dxf!
12:43 AM rue_mohr: and displays it
12:43 AM rue_mohr: and I can zoom and select entities
05:43 PM Tom_L: https://www.3ders.org/articles/20140917-flx-arm-low-cost-scara-robotic-arm-for-3d-printing.html
06:59 PM rue_mohr: low cost, yea, its about $300 in palstic
09:06 PM zhanx: ugh
09:07 PM zhanx: friday I have to train people on how to use a photo printer
09:08 PM rue_mohr: hehe
09:09 PM zhanx: Its one of those big 4 layer canvas frame ones, pita
09:10 PM zhanx: Hopefully the wife's car is done tomorrrow
09:10 PM zhanx: tired of sitting at home cleaning
09:12 PM rue_mohr: if you were running network cabls at home, she might help expeciate the leaving process for you
09:13 PM zhanx: I ran them already :(
09:13 PM zhanx: and new phone lines and cable for the dish
09:13 PM zhanx: I have neat and tidy wiring in the whole house now
09:13 PM rue_mohr: hmm
09:14 PM zhanx: I also wired zones for heat
09:15 PM rue_mohr: hmm
09:16 PM rue_mohr: today I got the ground wire from the solar panels to the breaker panel, and spliced the tray cable to the lumex
09:16 PM rue_mohr: so, its just a matter of mounting the panels, hooking in the ground and the breaker
09:16 PM zhanx: I want solar
09:17 PM rue_mohr: I'll tell you how it goes, but were starting in winter :/
09:17 PM rue_mohr: I kept getting put off
09:17 PM zhanx: this is real test of it
09:17 PM zhanx: my lawn has a nice area that is south facing with no trees to block it
09:18 PM rue_mohr: :( I cant find my flights of fantasy book
09:19 PM zhanx: ?
09:22 PM furrywolf: I have lots of solar.
09:27 PM rue_mohr: in storage?
09:27 PM furrywolf: on the roof, on racks in the yard.
09:34 PM rue_mohr: oh good
09:34 PM rue_mohr: do they do much for ya?
09:34 PM furrywolf: MX port 3, chg 0.0A, pv 0.0A, batt 24.2V, pv 0.0V, daily 6.8kWh 260.0Ah, aux 3, error 0x00, charger 0. 0 watts out, 0 watts in, -nan eff.
09:34 PM furrywolf: MX port 4, chg 0.0A, pv 0.0A, batt 24.4V, pv 1.0V, daily 4.8kWh 182.0Ah, aux 3, error 0x00, charger 0. 0 watts out, 0 watts in, 0 eff.
09:35 PM furrywolf: sunny winter day today, 11.6kWh... not bad.
09:43 PM rue_mohr: oh battery
09:43 PM rue_mohr: min is grid-tie
09:43 PM rue_mohr: wind the meter backwards
09:44 PM furrywolf: I wrote a little program that pulls data from the solar system...
09:44 PM furrywolf: FX port 1, inv 0.0A, chg 0.0A, buy 0.0A, sell 0.0A, load 0.0A, in 0.0V, out 124.0V, batt 24.2V, mode 2, ac 0, error 0x00, warning 0x00, misc 0x08.
09:44 PM furrywolf: FX port 2, inv 3.0A, chg 0.0A, buy 0.0A, sell 0.0A, load 3.0A, in 0.0V, out 122.0V, batt 24.2V, mode 2, ac 0, error 0x00, warning 0x00, misc 0x08.
09:44 PM furrywolf: MX port 3, chg 0.0A, pv 0.0A, batt 24.2V, pv 0.0V, daily 6.8kWh 260.0Ah, aux 3, error 0x00, charger 0. 0 watts out, 0 watts in, -nan eff.
09:44 PM furrywolf: MX port 4, chg 0.0A, pv 0.0A, batt 24.4V, pv 1.0V, daily 4.8kWh 182.0Ah, aux 3, error 0x00, charger 0. 0 watts out, 0 watts in, 0 eff.
09:44 PM furrywolf: FN port 5, A 0.0A (enabled), B -15.8A (enabled), C -4.8A (enabled), Total -20.6A, batt 24.2V, btemp 22.0C, SOC 81.0%, flags 0x30, extra id 0, data 3249.00 (Ah shunt A).
09:44 PM furrywolf: its full output currently.
09:44 PM rue_mohr: good show, whats the interface?
09:44 PM rue_mohr: usb? network?
09:44 PM furrywolf: rs232
09:44 PM rue_mohr: k
09:59 PM Tom_L: rue_mohr get your heatplant back online?
09:59 PM rue_mohr: no rads, I cant get the rad sections I ahve interplumbed
09:59 PM rue_mohr: the bends are too tight
09:59 PM Tom_L: you know winter is coming right?
09:59 PM rue_mohr: if I make a 1/2 U bender
10:00 PM zhanx: winter is here
10:00 PM rue_mohr: yea I have the ga$$$ heat
10:00 PM rue_mohr: its not helping me build a new house
10:00 PM Tom_L: that cuts into your robotics build budget
10:00 PM zhanx: Tom_L, how did your state do in mid terms over all
10:00 PM rue_mohr: new house budget
10:01 PM Tom_L: i'm not real sure, i just try to avoid it
10:01 PM Tom_L: i think the house went democrat and a democrat governour
10:01 PM zhanx: really the parties don't matter, its the thing they want that do
10:02 PM Tom_L: and a he/she took office somewhere
10:02 PM zhanx: a what?
10:02 PM zhanx: in Ny nothing changed
10:04 PM Tom_L: what they say and what they do don't generally go hand in hand
10:05 PM Tom_L: i'm just hoping rue_mohr keeps a cot ready
10:05 PM zhanx: Canada won't let you stay fyi
10:06 PM zhanx: either way I am surprised my brother called me, Michigan legalized weed
10:10 PM Tom_L: may as well, they can't get a handle on the drug problem anyway
10:11 PM zhanx: its the hard drugs that are killing people
10:11 PM zhanx: and no i don't think weed is a gateway drug
10:11 PM Tom_L: they can't seem to manage that either
10:12 PM Tom_L: they raided my neighbor's house and they're back at it again
10:12 PM zhanx: darn, that sucks
10:12 PM Tom_L: a while back
10:12 PM Tom_L: but now it's business as usual
10:12 PM zhanx: I personally don't care if people smoke or drink, just work and drive sober
10:12 PM Tom_L: but they don't
10:13 PM zhanx: which i am against
10:13 PM Tom_L: and i don't want my family to die because of some stupid SOB that doesn't care
10:13 PM Tom_L: already lost my mom that way
10:13 PM zhanx: I trust no one driving anymore
10:14 PM zhanx: NY is a meth and fent capital
10:14 PM Tom_L: it's bad everywhere you go
10:14 PM furrywolf: marijuana really isn't much better... marijuana was popular here before most other areas, and it ruins both people and society.
10:15 PM zhanx: the army sheltered me from that really
10:15 PM furrywolf: other than marijuana, meth and black tar are also very popular here.
10:15 PM zhanx: black tar?
10:15 PM Tom_L: i've heard of it but don't know what it is
10:16 PM zhanx: hash?
10:16 PM Tom_L: heroine
10:17 PM furrywolf: black tar is how heroin comes from mexico, which is what you find on the west side of the country, as opposite to china white, that you find on the east side.
10:18 PM furrywolf: it's less refined, has a lot more impurities, and is a black tar-like glop.
10:19 PM zhanx: everyone says legalize drugs and tax them
10:19 PM furrywolf: black tar is the "candle and a spoon" heroin.
10:19 PM Tom_L: they're obviously fighting a losing battle
10:20 PM zhanx: NY did that with cigarettes now everyone buys off the blackmarket as the taxes are too high
10:21 PM Tom_L: crime would go up
10:22 PM zhanx: i dont have a solution for it
10:22 PM Tom_L: i don't think anybody does
10:24 PM zhanx: well i try to educate my kids, will see if that works
10:25 PM Tom_L: mine are just about on their own
10:25 PM zhanx: i have 5 years really
10:26 PM zhanx: then the oldest is 15 and you couldn't tell him anything
10:26 PM Tom_L: hopefully i can see them thru college and get a start in life
10:27 PM Tom_L: i've really got no complaints with them
10:28 PM Tom_L: anyway, time to sleep
10:29 PM furrywolf: no kids here, probably never will be