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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 9,374
    edited January 2
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    Salk SoundScape 8's * Audio Research Reference 3 * Bottlehead Eros Phono * Park's Audio Budgie SUT * Krell KSA-250 * Harmonic Technology Pro 9+ * Signature Series Sonore Music Server w/Deux PS * Roon * Gustard R26 DAC / Singxer SU-6 DDC * Heavy Plinth Lenco L75 Idler Drive * AA MG-1 Linear Air Bearing Arm * AT33PTG/II & Denon 103R * Richard Gray 600S * NHT B-12d subs * GIK Acoustic Treatments * Sennheiser HD650 *
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  • maxward
    maxward Posts: 1,742
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    A very good point!
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,550
    edited January 2
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    skipshot12 wrote: »

    What's FUD?
    The internet runs on it! Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt.
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    If anyone gets a chance to see some of the UHVDC Substations do it, they look like something out of the movie Forbidden Planet.

    UHVDC
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    UHVDC
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    mmmmmmmm...

    I am thinking the future of DC is local: PVs, batteries, and inverters.
    I am (we are), however, still resisting batteries here. :blush:

    54011105772_4cf6e0162a_b.jpgDSC_0431 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

    We did chicken out on installing a tracker system in 2024 and opted to re-do the original system on the roof (the one on the main roof). I couldn't quite rationalize the cost... but we came really close.


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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,550
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    maxward wrote: »
    A very good point!

    Ol' Charles Rodrigues had a way with words. B)
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  • aprazer402
    aprazer402 Posts: 3,459
    edited January 2
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    In the 70's I worked for a guy that had a purple AMC Pacer. I drove it sometimes. It really was a good running little bubble. He never had any problems with it. He traded it in for a Datsun pickup.
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  • daddyjt
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    “Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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  • daddyjt
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    “Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,550
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    from those fun-loving engineers @ ASR...
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    This nicely illustrates the symmetry principle of physics. It's not a universal physical law, but symmetry is pretty widespread in the universe. B)
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,550
    edited January 3
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    So... the 1910 duck story I posted in the "doing it wrong" thread got me to thinking about canards (where storytelling, ducks, and French all intersect)... which, of course*, led me to the XB-70 Valkyrie.
    ... and I learned something I didn't know until today! Whoda thunk it?**
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    source: https://www.reddit.com/r/WarplanePorn/comments/10ioghs/did_you_know_that_the_north_american_xb70/
    ______________
    * of course
    ** Who, indeed? Virtually all of the educators saddled with me would exclaim, sooner or later: There' no teachin' that boy! :blush:
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  • aprazer402
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,550
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    (seen at ASR, of all places ;))
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  • skipshot12
    skipshot12 Posts: 2,140
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    When cars actually had style.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,550
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    I guess, depending on one's sensibilities, I could also put this in the You're Doing it Wrong thread... but I think it's kinda cool... so I am putting it here. :blush:
    55025310266_b3b1410210_b.jpgBLACK PICKUP TRUCK by J.Paul, on Flickr
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  • motorstereo
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,800
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    Get to the Chopin!

    Hasta la vista, Beethoven.

    It is not a Wagner!

    You can't Handel the truth! (Okay, I cheated.)
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  • billbillw
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    See profile for rigs. Nothing else here.
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  • xschop
    xschop Posts: 5,790
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    Testing....

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    Don't take experimental gene therapies from known eugenicists.
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  • Gardenstater
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    Holy Midrange Batman!
    George / NJ

    Polk 7B main speakers, std. mods+ (1979, orig owner)
    Martin Logan Dynamo sub w/6ft 14awg Power Cord
    Onkyo A-8017 integrated
    Logitech Squeezebox Touch Streamer w/EDO applet
    iFi nano iDSD DAC
    iPurifier3
    iDefender w/ iPower PS
    Custom Steve Wilson 1m UPOCC Interconnect
    iFi Mercury 0.5m OFHC continuous cast copper USB cable
    Custom Ribbon Speaker Cables, 5ft long, 4N Copper, 14awg, ultra low inductance
    Custom Vibration Isolation Speaker Stands and Sub Platform
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  • xschop
    xschop Posts: 5,790
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    Topped off for $20.

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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 27,874
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    xschop wrote: »
    Topped off for $20.

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    If I had access to non-ethanol 87 gas it would be all I used.
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  • xschop
    xschop Posts: 5,790
    edited January 8
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    Why?

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    When I get back to the house I add 8oz. of pure acetone to the full tank.
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  • daddyjt
    daddyjt Posts: 3,238
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    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    xschop wrote: »
    Topped off for $20.

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    If I had access to non-ethanol 87 gas it would be all I used.

    Agreed Ivan - we have 88 octane at most stations here in UT, but it’s 40-50 cents more than regular 85 octane. They call it “clear gas” (blue pump handle), and I use it exclusively in all my small engine power equipment, and I put it in my truck that sits for long stretches now that I have a company car.
    “Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
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  • Gardenstater
    Gardenstater Posts: 4,918
    edited January 8
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    Wow! 30% more expensive to get 2 to 4% better mpg. No thanks. I would buy it for my mower and snowblower though.
    George / NJ

    Polk 7B main speakers, std. mods+ (1979, orig owner)
    Martin Logan Dynamo sub w/6ft 14awg Power Cord
    Onkyo A-8017 integrated
    Logitech Squeezebox Touch Streamer w/EDO applet
    iFi nano iDSD DAC
    iPurifier3
    iDefender w/ iPower PS
    Custom Steve Wilson 1m UPOCC Interconnect
    iFi Mercury 0.5m OFHC continuous cast copper USB cable
    Custom Ribbon Speaker Cables, 5ft long, 4N Copper, 14awg, ultra low inductance
    Custom Vibration Isolation Speaker Stands and Sub Platform
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 27,874
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    xschop wrote: »
    Why?

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    When I get back to the house I add 8oz. of pure acetone to the full tank.

    What does that do?
    xschop wrote: »
    Why?
    Many of my most trusted mechanics over the years have insisted it does not do an engine good. My vehicles have gotten better fuel mileage with 100% gas.

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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 27,874
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    daddyjt wrote: »
    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    xschop wrote: »
    Topped off for $20.

    ptju1135a5jq.jpg

    If I had access to non-ethanol 87 gas it would be all I used.

    Agreed Ivan - we have 88 octane at most stations here in UT, but it’s 40-50 cents more than regular 85 octane. They call it “clear gas” (blue pump handle), and I use it exclusively in all my small engine power equipment, and I put it in my truck that sits for long stretches now that I have a company car.

    All my small motors get 93 octane 100% gas here. Until a few years ago I was unaware that the mountain region had way different octane ratings in their gas due to altitude.
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  • bcwsrt
    bcwsrt Posts: 2,670
    edited January 8
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    I haven’t found 93 around here. Best near me is 91.

    Brian

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