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Post by calnorth on Mar 2, 2016 11:23:20 GMT
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Post by calnorth on Mar 2, 2016 11:14:32 GMT
oops..snowing in Worcs now. Got a bit blustery and now is in snow and rain mode. Just need the sun up as well.
Think its 3 years since snow here...just don't want that ice stuff hanging about.
Affixing shorts!
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Post by calnorth on Mar 2, 2016 10:51:22 GMT
And is...about minus 90C and wind of 100 mph out of Siberia? Thats a day for shorts for us hardy fifer pups  I've been to Aberdour plenty of times...seen it m8 |
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Post by calnorth on Mar 2, 2016 10:39:58 GMT
And is...about minus 90C and wind of 100 mph out of Siberia? |
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Post by calnorth on Mar 2, 2016 10:11:13 GMT
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Post by calnorth on Mar 2, 2016 7:42:29 GMT
I considered refurbing a Lenovo (Thinkpad) batt pack to assess the ease of doing a batt change. An original pack is about £120 +p&p or any similar dreamboat figure. Others of the style/fake type are about £40.
I can't open the case without destroying it. If I did get to change the batts its possible the sensing circuit won't perform and TBH I am not sure what its senses in total. Low volts certainly. Don't think this is a protection circuit in the normal cut off sense..dunno? Heat sense?
As I understand it these batteries are not tagged by the manufacturer(s), which is a worry of sorts. I have soldered to 18650's with a temp controlled iron and the solder spread and join is wide and very fast. Thats a flux cored solder..not a dab of flux as in plumbing. It is very easy to solder to them and surprised me.
I'm going to buy a new laptop I think as this game is a right ars* about.
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Post by calnorth on Mar 1, 2016 15:53:28 GMT
Clive Bates nails it as usual (in a reply to the link in post #3) Think Cameron has lost on 40 odd votes in the council of ministers. Or every time he's voted. Farage says its a waste of time voting in the parliament even if you are having a common sense moment or three. The Federalists are advancing...pay up or simply leave. |
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Post by calnorth on Mar 1, 2016 12:31:02 GMT
The science isn't settled on e-fags it appears. Its not settled (97% of 5% causes false premise) on the other dumb issue of CC either. Don't let any of it get in the way of a good old tax wack though.
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Post by calnorth on Mar 1, 2016 12:15:15 GMT
what are they blocking that for?
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Post by calnorth on Mar 1, 2016 12:06:16 GMT
First delivery arrived, Evic Mini, OK but what were they thinking with the scroll speed on adjustment, it must only be a second to go from min to max temp or Watts  I'm finding this with a lot of the new mods and new chipsets that it is very fast, but get it close and the tap to get the correct setting. Wondering if it's because of the increase in power to 200-300 watts in some mods? Think that might be to do with the firmware control of timers and/or counters. The QA thing fails periodically? Or like modern car manufacturers they suddenly forget how to make certain important things? |
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Post by calnorth on Feb 29, 2016 9:33:05 GMT
1955 VW Beetle (1200 with sun roof). That car was turned into a beach buggy and if in original good nick now would likely be worth £10K..in the US anyway, because it was LHD
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Post by calnorth on Feb 28, 2016 15:44:17 GMT
I didn't notice too much about the 60's or 70's for that matter as I ran away to the air force in 61. Some big old Lanchesters and Buicks a couple our lads clapped hands on. Loadsa beer in lovely old country pubs. However, quality skirt was high on the requirements list..as always! And I could well see those blokes on Top of the Pops were well up their own ar*es along with the BBC. Camera's too low boys! Anyway, the cold light of day brought the nursing of these things mostly on cliff tops, but always close to the sea:  |
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Post by calnorth on Feb 27, 2016 20:03:48 GMT
Another little dashcam problem...when looking thru the front windscreen. All cars have wide vent plastic on the dash top. That manifests itself as a reflection up and back to the camera via the windscreen. So that piece of plastic vent figures significantly in your nice 1080p/720p vids.
Polarizing filters can correct that (and the scene) significantly as with any camera. Trouble is they are not available for most mini cams like these.
Early days!
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Post by calnorth on Feb 27, 2016 19:08:15 GMT
ive been tempted to get a cam for a while but ive been looking for a front/rear camera set up without cables so i guess running on wifi or bluetooth. ive only found one out there about a month ago which was £400 which i dont mind paying but there were a lot of complaints on review sites so i held off. that gps version posted by decoy does look good but i want the camera on the back window as ive looked at so many videos of night time driving and the rear cameras recording the cabin as well dont see much outside the back. I haven't taken my cam out at night and which is forward only. I suspect a camera looking rearwards at night is going to see very little and a car following it won't be too good. Wireless (BT) to a dash display I would never trust from what I've seen on eBay (China). Hardwired is likely the only way and I've seen that done on a Ford forum. He took a lot of the internal stuff off to hide cables...I think that was for a reversing camera? I've spent £60 on forward view and limiting at £100 -ish for anything else. Its early days really for this stuff. I followed this bloke for demos of various cams...likely a bit out of date now..Techmoan www.youtube.com/channel/UC5I2hjZYiW9gZPVkvzM8_Cw |
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Post by calnorth on Feb 27, 2016 18:26:35 GMT
I have fitted a Mobius heli cam to my wifes Focus which I can configure for motion detection. When it wasn't configured for that I left it on in the car for 2 days and it took the car batt down. We'll fix it somehow...the internal batt and temperature is the one thats a bother. The Fords camera has a high capacity slab capacitor in it instead of a battery and largely to keep the realtime clock going. No GPS or G sensor though. I worked for vision for 12 years and never had a dash cam go thermal but understand why the concern could you not fit a separate batt pack for the Mobius and have the car charge that when its running and the cam only take power from the batt pack so your not left with a flat car batt it goes along those lines and the concern covers places that seriously hot for cars. In uk I lay a towel over the steering wheel and part dash in summer. Thats a habit from the M. East where the steering wheels would burn yr hands and fry the plastic dash...in slow-ish time Trouble is with this stuff, the requirements keep expanding. The motion detect has relieved the problem to some extent...I've left it on about half a day and main batt has not suffered....enough? Think in the cam configuration it needs a timeout select, say after an hour, which likely needs me to signal the designers for a change. New camera spec! Anyway thx for your interest and advice decoy |
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