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>install dimmer switch on my wall to control a light
>experiment with different things like hair blower and vacuum, feeling the power go up and down
>the dimmer switch gets REALLY hot
Why is this happening? I don't think I did anything wrong.
I 'm using a Leviton Decora sureslide slide dimmer.
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>>1183681
>hook up 500watt vacuum to a device designed for a 75watt lightbulb and wonder why it gets not....
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Maybe it's because you draw ten times the power the switch is rated for.
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Rheostats are designed to only provide enough amperage for lights, not full on appliances. Even something like a hair dryer draws a lot of current. All the current the switch "bleeds off" to dim the light it controls is turned into heat. It can effectively do that for a lightbulb, but not for anything more. Stop doing what you're doing before you burn your house down.
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Can anyone see anything on this board that would make it not function? It's a Ryobi battery charger. The capacitors aren't showing any leakage and everything else seems fine so I'm stumped
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I've just spotted what looks like a spot to put in a transistor labelled P1 in the top right of the picture. Maybe that's it?
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>>1182788
Yeah, you need to populate Q15 and D20 as well..
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>>1182789
Thanks for your help. No idea where they would've gone. Nothing was loose in the case when I opened it
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The Importance Of Shade 2017-05-24 12:53:05 Post No.1182022
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Just stepped out for a smoke and noticed my neighbor’s AC is running, yet according to the Weather Channel, it’s currently 67* outside (metro Detroit ‘burbs here).
But then the neighbors don’t have a single tree on their property and their house has been in the sun all day long, while I’ve got a few large old trees (two maples, a pine and a locust) in my yard that keep my house shaded throughout most of the day and even on actual hot days in the summer, my AC usually doesn’t kick on until the afternoon.
Shade: something to consider when buying a house.
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>Shade: something to consider when buying a house.
Defensible fire space, something to consider when shitposting
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>>1182036
It's a valid diy topic and the savings on the electric bill can be substantial.
The neighbors on the other side of my other neighbors, cut down all their trees last fall (like morons...) and I'm guessing my next-door neighbor is going to see a large spike in his electric bill this summer, as most of the shade was on his house/yard.
Also trees help a bit in the winter, by slowing down the wind and decreasing heating costs.
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>>1182022
>67 outside
>AC on
your neighbors are growing weed. the grow lights are heating up the house so they need to run the AC to offset that
report them
Hey all I just bought a 2006 Ford e350 Type II Ambulance. I was planning to turning it into a camper and wondered if anyone had any advice.
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>>1181555
Who you gonna call?
AUTISM!
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Post anything easy to make but which normies spend tons of money on ITT
>pic related, it and similar light fixtures are 100-250$ and just made of painted pipe with a Chinese $5 COB bulb
>it doesn't come with the bulb
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>>1181297
>normies
Seriously?
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>>1181298
This.
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I want to build a 33' sailboat like this one, but I want to do it for under $30,000. I can save a lot of money buying shit like fiberglass fabric from china, but can the same be said for wood? I need a shit ton of wood, but I don't know if it would be cheaper to buy it from a local lumberyard or import it.
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>>1180131
What other boats have you built?
What boat in particular do you want to build, i.e. what hull construction method?
Do you have the plans already?
Do you have a heated shop?
30k is good, IF you already have all the necessary tools and didn't include sails and motor in that number
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>>1180161
>What other boats have you built?
None.
>What boat in particular do you want to build, i.e. what hull construction method?
A Glen-L Lord Nelson, plywood hull probably fiberglassed over.
>Do you have the plans already?
No
>Do you have a heated shop?
No, but I wouldn't include the cost of renting one in the cost to build.
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>>1180168
May I suggest buildinga small boat first, before you jump to such a large craft?
Do you even know how you're gunna roll the hull after you're done glassing the bottom? Are you a boating enthusist or is this a bug you recently picked up?
I only ask cuz I've built two small boats.
They both came out rough, and I worked hard. You get better with each one. Glenn-l has good plans, but that's a helluva project sir.
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Thinking of making a wooden sword like this... Any tips?
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>>1179689
Full tang or go home
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>>1179689
What purpose shall it serve ?
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>>1179689
>wooden sword like this... Any tips
try using steel
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I've been reading about olde tymie construction methods with heavy timbers, log cabins and suchlike what I keep wondering is how do you move the fucking logs? They look heavy as hell.
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>>1179034
Man, if only there was some kind of online source for videos where you could see a log house being built!
Oh, wait.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3J5wkJFJzE
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Slave labor.
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>>1179034
Pulley on a frame
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Last thread was old.
Just moved into my first house this weekend. Ive got my fridge and washer setup but when I went to install my dryer, the cord that came with my dryer dosent fit into the out. So I went to Home depot and got a cord that matches the outlet. Only problem is, the old cord had 4 wires ( red,white,black and green) the new cord has 3 wires non of which are colord. Ill post pics to better explain.
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And here is the new cord
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>>1178013
Check directions. Ground is likely the middle wire.
Hot two outside wires to red and black. Disregard white wire, but cap it with a wire nut as it is still a live wire.
I am not a professional, just some retard on the internet.
read the directions
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>>1178033
>Disregard white wire, but cap it with a wire nut as it is still a live wire.
never mind. I was looking at the OP image wrong
Connect ground to the middle bar. Disregard the extra connector on that bar.
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Planning to construct a wall - which is stronger? poured concrete or masonry blocks?
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>>1177801
in theory all other things being equal blocks are made out f concrete anyway, one solid pour is going to be stronger than individual parts stuck together.
in practice maybe you didn't mix it right, maybe you take too long to pour and part of it starts to go off, maybe there is salt in the ground and you don't have adequate ground layer and the moisture gets sucked from the slab or dries in the sun too quickly, maybe you don't get all the air pockets out of the form.
but yeah, in theory anyway always a solid single pour.
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>>1177806
Thanks! Yeah, I'm kind of leaning on poured as well. Thought of asking before I go through all the research and reading needed for one method to make sure I do it right.
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>>1177801
Are you building a bunker? Maybe consider some shipping container.
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Settle a dispute that I'm still thinking about 2017-05-09 06:15:27 Post No.1174524
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Settle a dispute that I'm still thinking about
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So I got in an argument with a guy I don't work for anymore.
He hired me to help him redo a roof on a building he purchased for business.
I wasn't a professional so I was paid less, but anyways...
He wanted to use a mop to tar the roof.
I thought it was stupid to use a mop and said it would probably be easier and faster to use a long handled paint roller. A cheap Walmart mop just wouldn't be as good and easy as a long handled paint roller IMO, even I'm uneducated in roofing I think I am right
Which one of us was right?
I am a lazy bastard in the sense that I'm always trying to find the easiest and fastest way to do something.
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Something like this! Pic related.
He was quite a character, too.
He mostly dealt in shady illegal affairs in his past I believe, but I'm proud to say after two felonies hes not wanting a third strike and a life sentace and a car wreck he nearly diednin convinced him there was divine intervention so he decided to go legit and get religion. He mostly hired drug addicts and paid under the table below minimum wage and I guess I freaked him out because I've always made my living in white markets and I don't do drugs anymore. I haven't been a pothead or drug addict for like 10 years. My opinion is you're either addicted to drugs or you've never tried drugs, so I've still got the monster in me.
Sorry for the exposition, just figured I'd liven up the thread a bit. Also sorry for improper sentence structure, grammar, etc. I'm still bad at English even though I'm born and raised American.
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They always use mops to tar roofs.
Think of the roof as a set of ribs and you are coating the fuck out of it, with really hot smelly tar.
I have watched people tar roofs and they always use mops.
...And I secretly loved the smell of hot tar
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>>1174532
>And I secretly loved the smell of hot tar
Smell of hot tar brings backs memories of when I was 6 and walking home from school. One week workmen were fixing a tar roof and had a huge pot of pubbling tar on the sidewalk. We talked to a workman while looking at the bubbling tar. Couldn't have been more then 2 feet from it. He was a nice guy, but asked us to back up as he was about to plonk more tar into the pot. I remember the cold tar being a cylinder. The pot was a large rectangle. Safety back in the 70s wasn't what is now.
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Things that people will see and can appreciate right off the bat, either post your own or others, etc. I'd like to do something interesting to show for after doing jack over break.
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What a funny face the man in the drawing has.
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I dug this hole in the ground and put a garbage can in it for composting.
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hi /diy/, this is probably the wrong section but
i've got an 08 ford focus that won't start. i'm super short on cash right now so i'm fixing it myself. i've had the battery checked and the battery cables, doesn't appear to be the problem although there was a fair amount of corrosion i remove from both.
the vehicle's lights turn on and do no dim, the dash comes on, however the vehicle does not turn over when i turn the ignition. i replaced the starter with a used one from a junkyard and i'm still having the same problem--the vehicle did start up twice with the replaced starter however i had to tap the starter with a hammer to get it to work. the second time i switched the vehicle into neutral and it started after about 15mins of trying.
the vehicle doesn't make an audible clicking when turning the ignition, however you do hear some sort of a mechanical sound like something is trying to work. not sure if that's the starter.
if anyone could point me in the right direction--i suspect i may have purchased a shit starter and may just need a new one--it would mean the world to me.
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>>1181861
There will be a relay for the ignition in the fuse box - replace that if possible, even new, be about $5. Throwing random starter motors at it aint gonna help, if that aint the problem.
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>>1181865
thanks, i'll give that a look
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>>1181861
Pic related costs ~$1
or
make one from a tail light lamp and wire
Use the test light to find out where the 12v stops.
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I'm thinking of building a house made from a couple of 40ft shipping containers and am wondering what would be the best way to attach them together longways?
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>>1180728
crabmeat you fucking faggot.
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>>1180728
>longways
remove doors, align, patch weld
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>>1180728
Just bury them, then the wind won't get into the gap between the containers.
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Camping, Soundproofing 2017-05-20 12:25:43 Post No.1179950
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Going party camping soon. Every time I've done this, the sherrif sticks his snout into our business due to noise. It can't be helped - like 8 to 15 dudes, all drunk and high.
I was thinking of building some kind of sound barrier in a line between the epicenter of our festivities and the rest of the campground.
My first idea is to use a few tarp and somehow build a wall with them. Maybe double layered wall with two inches between the layers. It would have to stand on its own though so it would be driven in the ground, held up by poles I guess?
Looking for ideas.
>Pic related - not from my trip but my group could produce similar (we even had a pair of whores someone paid for one such event)
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>>1179950
>party camping
kys. Somewhat related, once put up a circus tent, for purposes of running raves in, slap in the middle of a city residential area. That went well. Point being, forget 'open-air' soundproofing, you cannot, do shit, it will not. Go innawoods, like real faggots, and stop annoying people.
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There is a lot of rave parties where I live. What they do to avoid disturbing nearby houses is walls of straw (pic related).
>Find nearby farmer, rent the straw, have party, give it back for a small fee
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>>1179959
We used to go to this totally isolated remote campground that you needed to hike a bit to get to. They closed that park down to ruin it by building roads and "improved" campsites.
So now we're at this campground that's relatively uncrowded but even still, more people. There are two sets of sites there - separated by a cove of water. We booked every single site on one side just to avoid having neighbors. Still though, water carries sound somewhat and though we'll be as far from it as we can, we'll probably still bother people. Yeah, I know - we're fucking bastards.
Anyway - wouldn't a wall of tarps like I'm describing at least dampen the sound?