Question for Ender 3 owners, which upgrade do you consider mandatory ? Other than the glass bed.
I might have a 3d printer incoming
The aluminium extruder upgrade is the only other upgrade I would consider manditory. The original extruder is made of something softer than PLA and will wear away pretty quickly. All the other filament guides etc seem to be useless and make changing the filament much more difficult. Tried them all, binned them all. I have the Pro version that has the fan on the bottom. If you have ordered the standard version (with fan on top) the fan shroud might be useful to stop bits of plastic falling in.
McBryce.
Thanks for the recommendation. just ordered the aluminium extruder. I got the Ender 3X so the glass bed is coming with the printer.
Yeah, I hear ya; it's a PITA of multiple flavors. Either the PITA of figuring out mounting hardware (already done with the T9 blub) or the PITA of disassembly so you can can mod it. The PITA of building a civilized power supply for it is of course just the chocolatey coating on top of that PITA...![]()
In ALL HONESTY... to me it's not worth the hassle unless you're retrofitting a swingarm magnifier; for "just a light" I'd scour eBay for a decent old swingarm lamp and put a nice, quiet 70w Halogen blub in it.
mnem
Unfortunately, this little experiment demonstrates why trying to use an amateur band radio in my dense urban neighborhood is increasingly frustrating. My neighbors, wishing to save money and do their bit to fight climate change are installing lights like the one I just tested in bulb and ring and strip form by the hundreds. The street lights are LEDs. The stop lights are LEDs. And every single one of them has a noisy, unfiltered and unshielded SMPS built into them, adding to the background noise level. It is a losing battle. I imagine that, in another four or five years, the bands under 30MHz will be unusable.
It is a lot like what's happened to the night sky in so many of my favorite haunts over the last twenty years and it makes me sad.
Yeah, I hear ya; it's a PITA of multiple flavors. Either the PITA of figuring out mounting hardware (already done with the T9 blub) or the PITA of disassembly so you can can mod it. The PITA of building a civilized power supply for it is of course just the chocolatey coating on top of that PITA...![]()
In ALL HONESTY... to me it's not worth the hassle unless you're retrofitting a swingarm magnifier; for "just a light" I'd scour eBay for a decent old swingarm lamp and put a nice, quiet 70w Halogen blub in it.
mnem
Unfortunately, this little experiment demonstrates why trying to use an amateur band radio in my dense urban neighborhood is increasingly frustrating. My neighbors, wishing to save money and do their bit to fight climate change are installing lights like the one I just tested in bulb and ring and strip form by the hundreds. The street lights are LEDs. The stop lights are LEDs. And every single one of them has a noisy, unfiltered and unshielded SMPS built into them, adding to the background noise level. It is a losing battle. I imagine that, in another four or five years, the bands under 30MHz will be unusable.
It is a lot like what's happened to the night sky in so many of my favorite haunts over the last twenty years and it makes me sad.
This is possibly controversial I know but I suspect this is a function of a poorly designed receivers and antenna choice more than the band conditions and noise as such.
I can get a tidy copy on a below S1 CW signal like its in the next room after spending two years arguing with noise in the middle of London which is rammed with the worst kind of RFI all in one place. The only things I changed were my antenna, RX and power source.
I'd call it a good price - but I wouldn't go so far as to say it was a bargain. Maybe I'm just too cheap - a criticism which I am prepared to admit.
Anyway, it would have been a far higher spec'd unit than my needs demand at this time - and the foreseeable future.Nothing wrong in being a cheapskate if you can afford to wait awhile you'll get what you want. Was there a specific function on that 34401A that you wanted that don't appear on other 6.5 digit meters? There are often 6.5 digit meters on evil bay for far less than that.
Need had little to do with itCasual mention of a 6.5 digit meter by @Brumby so I helped out with evilbay foo
Fucks sake. They sent my package to the second wrong depot
When someone asks me for network access in my home, he/she gets handed a Cat5 cable.
Fucks sake. They sent my package to the second wrong depot
Found a video of what happened.
Yeah, I hear ya; it's a PITA of multiple flavors. Either the PITA of figuring out mounting hardware (already done with the T9 blub) or the PITA of disassembly so you can can mod it. The PITA of building a civilized power supply for it is of course just the chocolatey coating on top of that PITA...![]()
In ALL HONESTY... to me it's not worth the hassle unless you're retrofitting a swingarm magnifier; for "just a light" I'd scour eBay for a decent old swingarm lamp and put a nice, quiet 70w Halogen blub in it.
mnem
Unfortunately, this little experiment demonstrates why trying to use an amateur band radio in my dense urban neighborhood is increasingly frustrating. My neighbors, wishing to save money and do their bit to fight climate change are installing lights like the one I just tested in bulb and ring and strip form by the hundreds. The street lights are LEDs. The stop lights are LEDs. And every single one of them has a noisy, unfiltered and unshielded SMPS built into them, adding to the background noise level. It is a losing battle. I imagine that, in another four or five years, the bands under 30MHz will be unusable.
It is a lot like what's happened to the night sky in so many of my favorite haunts over the last twenty years and it makes me sad.
This is possibly controversial I know but I suspect this is a function of a poorly designed receivers and antenna choice more than the band conditions and noise as such.
I can get a tidy copy on a below S1 CW signal like its in the next room after spending two years arguing with noise in the middle of London which is rammed with the worst kind of RFI all in one place. The only things I changed were my antenna, RX and power source.
If it were only my own incompetence or cheap gear, rather than conditions, BD, if only. But given the radios I am using, and the several years invested in tracking down, examining, and removing internal and external noise sources, building and installing chokes and filters, and hardening my operating position, it probably isn't.
edit: I realized that the above sounds defensive or snarkish or both. I actually do mean what I said... When something doesn't work the way I expect it to work, I assume some combination of (a) I am using the wrong method, (b) I am using the wrong equipment, (c) I don't understand what is actually happening, (d) I have introduced the problem into an otherwise working system.
It is obvious that humanity's tech addiction has resulted in a real increase of the noise floor across the spectrum; and due to their overweaning hunger to connect EVERYTHING, the US may very well have a much more exaggerated rise than almost anyplace else on earth. This was, after all, the market for which WiFi-connected picture frames, light bulbs, toasters and sneakers were invented.And of course, along with the 2.4/5GHz noisemakers, each of these devices comes with one or more noisy SMPS as well operating at Ifni-knows-what frequencies.
mnem
What hell have I unleashed......
I secured the space for my 12U rack case. It now occupies that space and I am still alive to tell the tale. I have fitted the 8656 in the top spot, then started looking at the placement of other bits of kit - and there is not going to be enough room for what I would like to set out.(My aspirations outgrew my planning ...
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My casual reference to modification of the hob on my desk is now an official necessity and my ideas on setting out a storage solution for tools that will allow easy access has now become a critical design and construction project.
I've stepped in a puddle and sunk down to my eyeballs. Someone toss me a snorkel.
It’s not over until you have a 42U next to it
It’s not over until you have a 42U next to it
It’s not over until you have a 42U next to it
Achievement unlocked. Although I had to put it on slightly elevated feet directly on the floor and have it protrude up through sawn-to-measure cutouts in the raised flooring, because it would not fit height-wise if sat on the raised flooring. (Yes, the TE cave^H^H^Helectronics workshop/computer machine room has raised flooring. Because.)
The living room only needs a 32HE cabinet, and has it, which got me the comment "It looks much nicer than I thought it would."
Upper floor has a 3HE wall box with a CAT5 panel and a small PoE switch. That's hidden inside a linen cabinet, so uncontroversial.
Finally, workbench has 6HE custom-build. That's not controversial, in the bigger picture.
What hell have I unleashed......
I secured the space for my 12U rack case. It now occupies that space and I am still alive to tell the tale. I have fitted the 8656 in the top spot, then started looking at the placement of other bits of kit - and there is not going to be enough room for what I would like to set out.(My aspirations outgrew my planning ...
)
My casual reference to modification of the hob on my desk is now an official necessity and my ideas on setting out a storage solution for tools that will allow easy access has now become a critical design and construction project.
I've stepped in a puddle and sunk down to my eyeballs. Someone toss me a snorkel.
What hell have I unleashed......
I secured the space for my 12U rack case. It now occupies that space and I am still alive to tell the tale. I have fitted the 8656 in the top spot, then started looking at the placement of other bits of kit - and there is not going to be enough room for what I would like to set out.(My aspirations outgrew my planning ...
)
My casual reference to modification of the hob on my desk is now an official necessity and my ideas on setting out a storage solution for tools that will allow easy access has now become a critical design and construction project.
I've stepped in a puddle and sunk down to my eyeballs. Someone toss me a snorkel.
A snorkel...![]()
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Snort... Someone toss him an 8566B!
-Pat