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- Tue Oct 27, 2020 8:46 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Rewiring a battery charger
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13466
Re: Rewiring a battery charger
Yes, you've made the right choice, it's better to go for a dedicated 24v charger, as as gerty said, the result of a conversion would be unreliable (and potentially dangerous, as with every unstable electric appliance). I mean, not earlier than a year ago, I was accompanying as an interpreter a comme...
- Mon Oct 26, 2020 8:25 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: My Toshiba is dying help...
- Replies: 22
- Views: 19073
Re: My Toshiba is dying help...
Thanks for the tips, I'm not the one who asked but I had a good scare due to a ransomware a dozen years ago, when I was still new to the Internet, and have been wary of them since then, so I'll make sure to follow your advice in case it happens. dacflyer, best of luck to you, I hope you'll manage to...
- Mon Oct 26, 2020 8:08 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: How Do you Clean A Deep Fryer?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 103280
Re: How Do you Clean A Deep Fryer?
I've grown up in Belgium, where fries are a religion. As a kid, I'd scrub the fryer's basket with a brush that has metallic hair, but that's a long and demanding job... Until I found out that burning the grease off the basket by putting it for a short time over an open flame will shorten the scrubbi...
- Mon Oct 26, 2020 6:51 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Is Nuts and Volts dead ?
- Replies: 114
- Views: 3870574
Re: Is Nuts and Volts dead ?
Well, the forum isn't dead, I've recently registered on it because lots of info I gathered for my personal project was found on there, or in the publications.
- Mon Oct 26, 2020 5:47 am
- Forum: Reader Projects
- Topic: boosting an electric fence
- Replies: 2
- Views: 19200
Re: boosting an electric fence
I can confirm that the HV transformer mod makes electric fences extremely effective, when I was a kid, many farmers in the village I lived in did that to ward off wild boars, and it worked, even if boars are big, strong beasts. ... you may well have to check how legal it is to do so, though. These f...
Re: Drones
I'm not working on one... yet. I've joined the forums because it's a gold mine of info for my project (basically, a R/C plane, but instead of just getting a controller, you have a full "flight sim" suite with live feed from a camera in the cockpit, altitude, speed etc data from on board se...