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Through the years I’ve had hoses leak, orings fail, compressor shaft seals fail, and compressors eat themselves for lunch. One thing I have learned is that more often than not, adding refrigerant when you aren’t sure what is wrong is more often than not going to move things the wrong direction...

It sounds like at leas initially, the customer equipment is pizza box sized. Will see how that evolves.

I grew up on the opposite corner of Washington state. Seattle weekend traffic was crazy enough to visit when I moved to Texas 30 years ago. My parents moved to Texas a few years later and thought they might move back in retirement. But a few months back there assisting their elderly parents...

Most smart people have realized that the more they learn, the more they are aware of that they still don’t know. But you still find some narrow gauge experts who think their specific skillet somehow translates to everything else in life.

I was rather tongue in cheek with that one. And I’m going to guess most people who do claim they come out ahead, don’t actually use the time they save otherwise occupied enhancing their brain.

Avoiding the Internet and social media?

So many options, combinations and possibilities. You can’t beat a dirt or gravel floor pole barn for cost per SF of mostly weather protected, lockable space. And you can’t beat the comfort of a well constructed, concrete floor, climate controlled workshop. My parents have a modern wood framed...

The problem is that a run out core probably has enough in service tolerance parts that can go into racing or industrial power applications to keep the prices up as spare parts donors.

looks like that is just a start cart engine. :D

Does the level of the static change considerably when you connect/disconnect the antenna from the coax?

Check your coax. Center pin to center pin should be shorted, bayonet to bayonet should be shorted, and center pin to bayonet should be open. There are faults this won’t find, but this will find most of them. If you happen to know an amateur radio op, they often own gear that can find the more...

When using extension cords, by definition, you are temporary use, and in typical practice, you are monitoring if voltage drop is causing problems for your tools. You ease the load on your skill saw, or turn off the compressor that won’t hot start and feels overheated. You won’t be providing...

My thought has always been that the battery disconnect switch should isolate the battery from everything else. It is to isolate the battery from potentially damaged wiring, so the battery doesn’t cook off and explode on top of everything else.

Solid vs stranded does not matter electrically. Stranded wire is actually a larger diameter to make up for the lost cross section between strands, so they have the same cross sectional area. 8 ga solid would be very difficult to work, and you would be at risk of it work hardening, and...

Nice to see someone protect the bitting of their keys.

I may be reading too much into someone asking if the generators breaker would kick out if it back fed the grid. In other forums, questions like that are often precursors to people planning to do stupid things. And while the general case would be for the breaker to kick out, the two OSHA cases...

Yes, but what if between the point he tests, and the point he finishes work, somebody fires up that generator, trying to figure out why it only runs 3 seconds before kicking out? Or fires it up to run the refrigerator for an hour before shutting it down? What if there is switchgear between the...

The really funny observation is that we are in a forum where we should understand that fatalities are often the result of a series of low odds, preventable errors or omissions, and the need for a legally required interlock is being questioned.

Stolen from the inter webs, and I haven’t validated, these look like possibly some of the best documented evidence that backfeeding can kill: a couple of OSHA documented deaths.... 90-05 Lineman electrocuted while attaching a 2400V powerline to a pole-mounted insulator. Victimassured by...

It isn’t about how you perceive it now, or if you perceive it then, it is about how the relatives or friends are handling the loss and trying to be sensitive about it, especially if kids are involved. Or even in forums like this, as various people, often including relatives may be googling in...