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drgitlin posted:What a daft thing to say. How else do you get a race car that’s no longer road-legal to the track? You simply don't get to enjoy that hobby, that's all. All hobbies other than my hobbies are stupid and wasteful. Edit: I know the dog tax is just a D&D thing, but it can't hurt. 
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Qwijib0 posted:"but there's an electrical box here" Charging the aquabeam with lightning energy gives double damage against swamp elementals, this is basic magecraft guys
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wooger posted:Money is not what people care about, but hobbies like this impact everyone in other ways: Yes, this perfectly explains why auto-racing is only a thing in the United States. 
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Qwijib0 posted:"but there's an electrical box here" What is that big clump of dirt looking stuff on the wires up at the top? Some sort of insect nest?
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Looks like way too much sealant for a top entrance conduit (Don't do top entrance conduit outdoors)
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The Locator posted:What is that big clump of dirt looking stuff on the wires up at the top? Some sort of insect nest? I'd say wasps. 
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The Locator posted:What is that big clump of dirt looking stuff on the wires up at the top? Some sort of insect nest? Three-Phase posted:wasps.
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There was a photo I think from Sandia labs where they had a padmount transformer, probably something like 4160V to 480V but on the high-voltage connection compartment there was a massive wasps' nest that had almost bridged two of the conductors together. Also photos like that are why I will, God willing, never do anything involving residential electrical systems. Metal Geir Skogul posted:I went to turn off the breaker to investigate, but I had to turn off TWO breakers to disable the outlet. What. Here's an artist's representation of what I found when I opened it up: You can run two separate branch circuits to an outlet, you need to remove the yoke that normally connects the hot side of each individual receptacle together. However, you must use a two-pole circuit breaker. You cannot use two separate, individual circuit breakers. You can have a single neutral wire running back along with the ground. But using the ground as the neutral return... no. Also if there is any break in the "neutral" path, the ground will become LIVE. So if you have something like a metal appliance or a computer plugged in, touching the metal chassis would result in a shock. For several reasons this is a legitimately dangerous setup. Three-Phase fucked around with this message at 00:27 on Apr 29, 2018 |
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Qwijib0 posted:the condenser goes in the utility room, right? I showed this to my father, who was an HVAC tech from 1972 until he retired. He wants to murder the guy that installed that.
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Qwijib0 posted:the condenser goes in the utility room, right? I had a loss at a retail store on thr ground floor of a converted rowhome in Philadelphia. The second-floor rear bedroom (ostensibly used for storage) had a condensor sitting on the floor. When I asked the owner about this, uh, novel code violation, his response was, "welll, we leave the window open!" The same window through which the burglars entered to steal 27-laptops & a ton of other stuff....which is why I was there.
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all heists require them to crawl in through the vents but what if: no vents?
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Tunicate posted:all heists require them to crawl in through the vents “Curses, they have a *ductless* system! Foiled again!”
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PainterofCrap posted:I had a loss at a retail store on thr ground floor of a converted rowhome in Philadelphia.
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Yup, commercial property adjuster. There was a risk report filed.
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 (e: I don't actually think it's crappy but in this instance I would've gone for a hemispherical cup instead of a conical one.)
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Jerry Cotton posted:
The real crappy part is that tiny rear end TV.
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poemdexter posted:The real crappy part is that tiny rear end TV. I feel like your light fixture shouldn't be bigger than your tv.
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Enos Cabell posted:I feel like your light fixture shouldn't be bigger than your tv. This should be law. Also, I just realized there's an open flame next to the TV.
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sooo you dont like ever light some candles around the house? is the tv explosive in some way?
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sneakyfrog posted:sooo you dont like ever light some candles around the house? is the tv explosive in some way? Have you seen star trek? Screens are always explosive. Also filled with rocks.
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poemdexter posted:This should be law. Also, I just realized there's an open flame next to the TV. Candles are open flames in the technical sense but what do you think can happen in this situation? Looks like there's several inches of separation between the candles and the TV.
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Candles are dumb because where does that wax go? Onto the walls. Have you ever had to clean a house after a renter that used candles, even infrequently, moved out? You don't think there's soot until you start moving picture frames.
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buncha joyless weenie non fire likers up in this bitch
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Candles are dumb because where does that wax go? Onto the walls. Have you ever had to clean a house after a renter that used candles, even infrequently, moved out? You don't think there's soot until you start moving picture frames. This, but also onto your lungs.
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sneakyfrog posted:sooo you dont like ever light some candles around the house? is the tv explosive in some way? no grandpa because i have electricity in my hous enow
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The Locator posted:What is that big clump of dirt looking stuff on the wires up at the top? Some sort of insect nest? The ground.
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hey i just read a super old report requesting a thread title change and whatever joke it was is probably over by now so it's Thread Title Tuesday, what should it be
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wait, the answer was 5 posts up all along
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SoundMonkey posted:wait, the answer was 5 posts up all along I approve of your choice.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Candles are dumb because where does that wax go? Onto the walls. Have you ever had to clean a house after a renter that used candles, even infrequently, moved out? You don't think there's soot until you start moving picture frames. When you're the renter, it owns,
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creepy construction tales: buncha joyless weenie non fire likers up in this bitch
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I haven't properly burned anything in decades.
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Qwijib0 posted:the condenser goes in the utility room, right? This reminds me of a thought I've been bouncing around, are there any systems that (intentionally, and with good engineering principles) dump waste A/C heat into a water heater tank? You've got a large thermal mass that you want to heat up, and large quantities of heat that need to be dissipated; seems like a perfect opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, and reduce your overall power bill. Maybe still have a condenser unit to dump heat outside when the water gets saturated, but is this a thing at all?
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Jaded Burnout posted:I haven't properly burned anything in decades.
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Enourmo posted:This reminds me of a thought I've been bouncing around, are there any systems that (intentionally, and with good engineering principles) dump waste A/C heat into a water heater tank? You've got a large thermal mass that you want to heat up, and large quantities of heat that need to be dissipated; seems like a perfect opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, and reduce your overall power bill. Maybe still have a condenser unit to dump heat outside when the water gets saturated, but is this a thing at all? I'm no sciencer but I can't imagine that dropping a few hundred cubic metres of air by 5ºC is going to provide enough energy to raise a couple cubic metres of water by 50ºC and keep it there. Splicer posted:How's your jading though I'm still a little green at it.
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Enourmo posted:This reminds me of a thought I've been bouncing around, are there any systems that (intentionally, and with good engineering principles) dump waste A/C heat into a water heater tank? You've got a large thermal mass that you want to heat up, and large quantities of heat that need to be dissipated; seems like a perfect opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, and reduce your overall power bill. Maybe still have a condenser unit to dump heat outside when the water gets saturated, but is this a thing at all? I have installed these in large facilities like hospitals, but it’s used in chilled water systems, nothing like a home AC system. It’s supplemental to the main chiller system as the capacity was pretty small on the heat recovery system.
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Jaded Burnout posted:I'm no sciencer but I can't imagine that dropping a few hundred cubic metres of air by 5ºC is going to provide enough energy to raise a couple cubic metres of water by 50ºC and keep it there. That’s a big water heater. Squeeze 5 K out of 600 cubic metres of air and dump it into 150 litres (40 U.S. gallons) of water and the water will get about 5 K hotter. Four times the air mass, but a quarter the heat capacity per unit mass, roughly.
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Enourmo posted:This reminds me of a thought I've been bouncing around, are there any systems that (intentionally, and with good engineering principles) dump waste A/C heat into a water heater tank? You've got a large thermal mass that you want to heat up, and large quantities of heat that need to be dissipated; seems like a perfect opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, and reduce your overall power bill. Maybe still have a condenser unit to dump heat outside when the water gets saturated, but is this a thing at all? Given the power expense of the tech, it might not completely heat the water, but make it much more economical seasonally.
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While you're at it, take the incoming scheme water and circulate it through your PV before it hits the heater to both prewarm the water and increase the efficiency of your panels.
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