Agreed.
2x Rockville RVL69W speakers
(2) Rockville RVL69W 6x9" 600w Cast Aluminum Car Subwoofers Sub Woofers 613815623625 | eBay
Paid $217.87 AUD with a 5% off coupon.
1x Dynamat Xtreme 9 sheet Bulk pack
from amazon.com.au, paid $210 AUD
And I'm broke again.
2x Rockville RVL69W speakers
(2) Rockville RVL69W 6x9" 600w Cast Aluminum Car Subwoofers Sub Woofers 613815623625 | eBay
Paid $217.87 AUD with a 5% off coupon.
1x Dynamat Xtreme 9 sheet Bulk pack
from amazon.com.au, paid $210 AUD
And I'm broke again.
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A rather nice (I hope) bike light. BR35
oh and Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms: Toole: Amazon.com.au: Books ( I won $100 book prize and decided this was what I wanted to use it on)
Tony.
oh and Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms: Toole: Amazon.com.au: Books ( I won $100 book prize and decided this was what I wanted to use it on)
Tony.
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Yes I suspect I will probably only use the mid or high modes, very rarely the turbo. Most of the places I ride are bike tracks through wooded areas with no lighting so a bright light will be welcome. The one I have at the moment is 200 lumens, which is ok. It shines a reasonable distance but has a fairly narrow beam and also shines in joggers and other bike riders eyes.
The low beam on this one should be better than that and not shine in anyones eyes. For when it is clear I can press the remote button to switch on the high beam! Ever since I was a kid (I used to ride quite a lot at night) I wanted a bright headlight with low and high beam, so I was rather happy when I found this
edit: on the early leds. I remember when the first 200mcd leds came out, and thinking wow that's bright!!
Tony.
The low beam on this one should be better than that and not shine in anyones eyes. For when it is clear I can press the remote button to switch on the high beam! Ever since I was a kid (I used to ride quite a lot at night) I wanted a bright headlight with low and high beam, so I was rather happy when I found this
edit: on the early leds. I remember when the first 200mcd leds came out, and thinking wow that's bright!!
Tony.
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Harmon Kardon Onyx Studio 4 Bluetooth Speaker (also accepts mini input)
Quick A/B between a pair of Nakamichi S-1A bookshelves through a Copland Integrated and a Mac mini- no contest. Obviously speakers were the bottleneck, but it wasn’t a shabby comparison. I now feel stupid even clearing the shelf space for the other stuff.
Retailed at $450, selling from HK for $250 but routinely found online now for ~120. For the going price a no brainer for me for non-critical, ambiance listening. I bought it unheard after a bunch of looking into similar offerings.. glad I did. Especially impressed by the bass clarity in this little guy (about the size of a salad bowl turned on its side).
Now considering getting a second for stereo.
Harman Kardon Onyx Studio 4 | Portable Bluetooth Speaker
Quick A/B between a pair of Nakamichi S-1A bookshelves through a Copland Integrated and a Mac mini- no contest. Obviously speakers were the bottleneck, but it wasn’t a shabby comparison. I now feel stupid even clearing the shelf space for the other stuff.
Retailed at $450, selling from HK for $250 but routinely found online now for ~120. For the going price a no brainer for me for non-critical, ambiance listening. I bought it unheard after a bunch of looking into similar offerings.. glad I did. Especially impressed by the bass clarity in this little guy (about the size of a salad bowl turned on its side).
Now considering getting a second for stereo.
Harman Kardon Onyx Studio 4 | Portable Bluetooth Speaker
...a week later...
AND.... total fail. Their modem kept going offline, forgetting the settings, stalling, and generally acting too cheap to live. Today it woke up dead (reboot loop).
Got a guy out and he agreed the Technicolor was not working, got an Arris out of his truck and also a Wi-Fi router (I like separate boxes anyway).
2 hours so far....
I bought the components for a USB and microphone mixer.
I cheat and buy in the USB audio DAC and wire it into my own mixer.
It can be for general purpose use or used with a laptop for a disco setup.
I also bought components for a speaker DC protection unit.
Slightly novel circuit as it uses a PIC micro input pins to monitor amp out signal.
The signal is split with resistors to reduce input voltage.
A PIC pin changes state at 2 volts and this is used to detect +/- DC.
If the PIC see's DC for 500mS or more it turns off the relay.
I cheat and buy in the USB audio DAC and wire it into my own mixer.
It can be for general purpose use or used with a laptop for a disco setup.
I also bought components for a speaker DC protection unit.
Slightly novel circuit as it uses a PIC micro input pins to monitor amp out signal.
The signal is split with resistors to reduce input voltage.
A PIC pin changes state at 2 volts and this is used to detect +/- DC.
If the PIC see's DC for 500mS or more it turns off the relay.
An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.
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I used to ride home from work at night with 2 X 10 watt crypton bulbs. High powered LED's would have been amazing at that time.
jeff
I purchased an Arris Surfboard back in December for the Comcast Xfinity service I contracted for. So far so good, quite pleased with the performance, I get up to 300mb/sec transfer rates (not a typo). This replaced the unreliable, rickety, slow Verizon DSL we had since we got here way back in the dawn of the new millenium.
Arris bought the Motorola cable box division when the wall street wizards orchestrated a break up of the company. The Surfboard was a Motorola branded modem for a dozen years or so. I believe that Arris selss under the Arris brand and the Motorola brand, and private label for large MSO's like Comcast.
we are a few miles from nowhere on a Comcast system that is about 15 years old. The TV pixelizes all the time, and the phone drops calls, but the internet.....I just ran a Speedtest and got 302.06 download speed. I can stream two 4K videos at the same time without issues.
I spotted one of these nifty little tools on a youtube video while browsing diagnosing fuel injector videos.
Automotive Car Spark Plug Auto tester Indicator Tool | eBay
YouTube
You simply hold it in your hand and tap it to the side of any spark plug lead and it turns a neon light on. Amazing!
I suppose it will give you a nasty bite if you have a leaky lead
Automotive Car Spark Plug Auto tester Indicator Tool | eBay
YouTube
You simply hold it in your hand and tap it to the side of any spark plug lead and it turns a neon light on. Amazing!
I suppose it will give you a nasty bite if you have a leaky lead
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Many years ago you could buy a device that replaced the spark plug and it had a window in it so you could see combustion. You could see if combustion was taking place and what colour it was.
A properly tuned Flexfuel car will get about half the gas mileage from E85 than it gets from gasoline. These facts are documented somewhere in the sales literature, but not always obvious.
Ethanol has a lower BTU / liter ratio than gasoline, so it takes a lot more of it to make the same amount of heat. It also has a much higher octane equivalent (resistance to detonation) than gasoline, so it's an excellent fuel for racing in a properly equipped engine.
Ethanol has a lower BTU / liter ratio than gasoline, so it takes a lot more of it to make the same amount of heat. It also has a much higher octane equivalent (resistance to detonation) than gasoline, so it's an excellent fuel for racing in a properly equipped engine.