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Please tell me that's a DIY hack job like that hydra-fied power cord.
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Cojawfee posted:Please tell me that's a DIY hack job like that hydra-fied power cord. thats a bendy light. its 100% manufactured.
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Jun 21, 2020 18:33
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Could be worse, when I worked at Maplin (think a crappier UK version of Radio Shack) I had a guy ask for the opposite. Something you could plug into a light fitting to get a socket you could then plug appliances into. Turns out that people on the local markets would make them as you had to pay to get a mains plug but the lighting was free so they'd make adaptors to get free power for their market stall.
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Jun 21, 2020 19:15
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$7 for a two pack. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EHAE56S/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_yE67Eb1HEYFW7
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Jun 21, 2020 19:32
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That goes back to the early days of electricity. Where I grew up there's Riordan Mansion, a huge house built in 1904 that was one of the first (if not the first) house in the city with electric lights inside. There were a few small electric appliances, and they all used the plug-in-socket adapter as there were no outlets wired into the house, just electric lighting. A lot of the house is original and they had a few of those still around to demonstrate how they plugged stuff in.
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PirateDentist posted:That goes back to the early days of electricity. Where I grew up there's Riordan Mansion, a huge house built in 1904 that was one of the first (if not the first) house in the city with electric lights inside. There were a few small electric appliances, and they all used the plug-in-socket adapter as there were no outlets wired into the house, just electric lighting. A lot of the house is original and they had a few of those still around to demonstrate how they plugged stuff in. I've seen old homes in galveston that just have a cord with a 2 prong female plug on the end, coming out of the baseboard. So you don't get an outlet, or a grounded outlet, just this old brittle braided extension cord.
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PirateDentist posted:That goes back to the early days of electricity. Where I grew up there's Riordan Mansion, a huge house built in 1904 that was one of the first (if not the first) house in the city with electric lights inside. There were a few small electric appliances, and they all used the plug-in-socket adapter as there were no outlets wired into the house, just electric lighting. A lot of the house is original and they had a few of those still around to demonstrate how they plugged stuff in. Thats basically down the street from me and I have always been meaning to check it out.
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Jun 21, 2020 21:21
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Platystemon posted:Looks like a toy. There's too much weight to it unless it's one of those insanely detailed five-figure RC cars with delicately machined springs and a six sig-fig weight balance that's intended to perfectly simulate the real thing.
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Bertha the Toaster posted:Could be worse, when I worked at Maplin (think a crappier UK version of Radio Shack) I had a guy ask for the opposite. Something you could plug into a light fitting to get a socket you could then plug appliances into. I know people who have every bit of outdoor power from those adapters. They're commonly available at pretty much every home goods store in the states.
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Jun 21, 2020 22:07
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iwentdoodie posted:I know people who have every bit of outdoor power from those adapters. They're commonly available at pretty much every home goods store in the states. Yeah, I think they're especially common for running Christmas lights. Of course I'm sure there are people out there running way more current through them than they should. 
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Kith posted:There's too much weight to it unless it's one of those insanely detailed five-figure RC cars with delicately machined springs and a six sig-fig weight balance that's intended to perfectly simulate the real thing. Platystemon posted:Looks like a toy. It an custom built RC jeep per word of video taker. Its also fairly obvious if you look at the lights and the supposed "arm" because the arm is pretty darn plastic looking. Telsa Cola fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Jun 21, 2020 |
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Jun 21, 2020 22:38
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Kith posted:There's too much weight to it unless it's one of those insanely detailed five-figure RC cars with delicately machined springs and a six sig-fig weight balance that's intended to perfectly simulate the real thing. JohnnyQ90 checking in
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It just felt off to the degree I thought a hand was going to come down and pick it up on the first watch through. It’s pretty well done, but the rocks look like they came out of a bottle, the foliage is too springy for its scale, and the windscreen is too clean, and possibly made of polycarbonate. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Jun 22, 2020 |
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Jun 22, 2020 00:09
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Telsa Cola posted:It an custom built RC jeep per word of video taker. I'm impressed, the suspension was enough to fool me.
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If you work a day in the film or live event industry you'll get a lot less scared of electricity than is advisable.  here's the 220v, 100A bates cable. I never liked the exposed pins with no clear labeling from a distance, and the fit is tight so the hubs like to stick together which leads to yanking on them to seperate. These things need generators or two phases to get up to 220v obviously. They weigh 1lb per foot of cable. Some lights need one of these cables to just run, say a 20,000 watt tungsten unit, and laying out the cable run for a shot and then rolling up the run two hours later can be backbreaking work.  then there's camlock, these things can deliver up to 400A, much better design. Laying these out takes time, since unlike bates cable, each phase, neutral, and ground will have its own cable. So of course if you forget the mantra 'pins towards power' and run 150' the wrong direction, there are suicide plugs we in the industry call 'gender benders' to help you. At a pound / foot of cable and potentially 5 cables to run, it's worth the added risk.  There's basically no end to filmmakers making tools to get power or gear to where they need it.  What does this do? Well, the metal part is a standard pin that you can hang a light from. The thread down there just happens to fight a lightbulb socket perfectly. Unfortunately it does not also provide power to the lamp, so you'll have to run power from somewhere else that's potentially out of phase with the socket. 
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You saved the most horrifying for last. I can’t say that I’ve ever looked up the load rating of Edison screw base sockets, but I am confident that this exceeds it many fold. e: NEC posted:Luminaires and lampholders shall be securely supported. A luminaire that weighs more than 3 kg (6 lb) or exceeds 400 mm (16 in.) in any dimension shall not be supported by the screw shell of a lampholder. They may hold substantially more before catastrophic failure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF0K4Dj3J3U Platystemon fucked around with this message at 03:34 on Jun 22, 2020 |
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Splode posted:I'm impressed, the suspension was enough to fool me. Theres an instagram page with a bunch of other rc cars and photos. The folks who do it are called Rivas concepts.
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One more, mildly less dangerous but still surprised me when I learned about it. Say you want 5 small LED lights spaced about 3' apart and for some reason there's no easy way to break the edison plug out into several outlets or run several cables. You can always make your own wiring with add-a-tap.  Buy some lamp cord and these add-a-tap fixtures. They bite through the cord and give you a female edison outlet.  Kind of hard to understand but you can plug into this. You can also add male ends.  The nice thing is that lamp cable will fry after about 10A so you're not plugging too much into this. Hope you know how to keep track of polarity. Antonymous fucked around with this message at 03:38 on Jun 22, 2020 |
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More wonders possible with preschooler‐designed U.S. electrical standards:
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I banned people from using drop ceiling hangers when I was ME in an event space but that is even worse my god.
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Platystemon posted:More wonders possible with preschooler‐designed U.S. electrical standards: I saw some of these a couple years back in Canada while looking for a house. They were all over the underside of kitchen cabinets.
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corgski posted:I banned people from using drop ceiling hangers when I was ME in an event space but that is even worse my god. yeah i thought the babypins attached to the clamps for drop ceilings were bad but that is way more fun Stanky Bean fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Jun 22, 2020 |
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Telsa Cola posted:It an custom built RC jeep per word of video taker. Huh, you're right. Welp. insta posted:JohnnyQ90 checking in I don't get the reference. 
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:I saw some of these a couple years back in Canada while looking for a house. They were all over the underside of kitchen cabinets. Yeah my house has something kind of similar for the under cabinet lighting. Basically there's a solid insulated line attached to the underside of all the cabinets and then you take these little low power light fixtures that clamp onto the line and they've got a couple blades that pierce the insulation as you push the fixture onto it and the blades going into the line power the light.
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my kinda ape posted:Yeah my house has something kind of similar for the under cabinet lighting. Basically there's a solid insulated line attached to the underside of all the cabinets and then you take these little low power light fixtures that clamp onto the line and they've got a couple blades that pierce the insulation as you push the fixture onto it and the blades going into the line power the light. You know the original picture is a full 120V, ungrounded gang bang of an outlet right? I vividly remember seeing a few as a kid. I can't for the life of me remember where but I remember thinking, even as a child, "this seems unsafe".
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it's a really genius idea as long as you don't think about safety. most power strips have 5 or 6 outlets on them, this one lets you shove as many two prong plugs as will fit.
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Cojawfee posted:it's a really genius idea as long as you don't think about safety. most power strips have 5 or 6 outlets on them, this one lets you shove as many two prong plugs as will fit. Doesn't this describe quite a few things in this thread? The stupid still reigns supreme, though.
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Lurking Haro posted:Doesn't this describe quite a few things in this thread? I think words to that effect have been the thread title more than once.
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That literal power strip makes a good thread icon
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are there any osha guidelines about lava https://i.imgur.com/wSIWxNF.mp4
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Kith posted:are there any osha guidelines about lava You can usually outrun it, and if you can't, your best bet is to put your film into your backpack and lie down on it in the hope your pictures will be saved because you won't be. Pictured, from the last thread: the 2018 Kilauea eruption lava flows, with USGS volcanologists for size. 
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Kith posted:are there any osha guidelines about lava Practise 'floor is lava' at all times and you will be prepared!
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^^^^ There's a show on Netflix for training for thatKith posted:are there any osha guidelines about lava Turn around, don't
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Cojawfee posted:^^^^ There's a show on Netflix for training for that dont asphyxiate
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Re. edison screw bulbs and polarized plugs Back in the day power was mostly distributed using IT grounding, so in principle touching a single conductor is safe unless you have a ground fault (and you almost always have a ground fault or enough leakage that it's painful). I think this is why the german/norwegian plugs aren't polarized, since there's no live/neutral in a system with 230V delta wired 3-phase it doesn't matter which way you plug things in. It is absolutely a safety issue that grounded plugs fit in non grounded outlets, but I haven't heard of anyone being injured by it (which does not mean it hasn't happened). One issue we don't have a much is people using neutral as a ground return or going to chassis, since there's usually no neutral to do that with. Instead in old houses we usually find old 3-core cables with the ground lead cut off at each end, as a little gently caress you from the past. At least in anything built in the last ~15 years or so you'll usually have all grounded outlets with GFCIs on all circuits, so things are slowly improving.
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This is kinda sad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4ldpyIE5t4 Guy has a hive of overly-aggressive bees, decides to go Ripley on the queen, then makes the decision to euthanise the whole hive. An interesting watch to see attacking bees in action. Thanks to HD cameras, you can see just how scary it is.
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Moo the cow posted:This is kinda sad Yeah this is something you learn about when you take up beekeeping. Step 1 is requeening the hive and see if that fixes it but if not you just have to destroy the hive. Normally you have to wear the bee suit to prevent accidental strings but when they're flying at your face and bouncing off the mask then it's really hard to work. There will be 50,000-60,000 bees in a hive and once they drop the alarm signal and start stinging more and more bees will come at you. On the flip side of that I collected a swarm the other day and although I wore a suit because I always do I could pick up the ball of bees with my hands and no attempts to sting. Edit: he's running double deeps there so could easily be a lot more bees than that. Aramoro fucked around with this message at 11:02 on Jun 22, 2020 |
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Kith posted:are there any osha guidelines about lava Kinda lovely of R2 to just chill out watching someone's car burn like that.
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Moo the cow posted:This is kinda sad I am viscerally terrified of bees -- intellectually I know they are chill and will leave you alone, but if I see one flying around I go straight to panic. I watched this whole video attempting a sort of safe exposure therapy. Welp that didn't work, now I itch all over and am shaking with adrenaline. At least now I'm awake!
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Cthulu Carl posted:Kinda lovely of R2 to just chill out watching someone's car burn like that. Well R2 is more of a destroyer robot than a savior one https://twitter.com/oijcbrown/status/1153935048342724608 Related (sound on) https://i.imgur.com/mCpI5qT.mp4
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