lordzarkon
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WELLLLL maybe there just ain't no fixin this.... must be me.. after all I am an Alien from another planet LOL
My theory about not noticed ignores doesn't hold water
Took this screen shot a few minutes before the creation of this message.
Sure nuf, they had content from legit members that I had not seen yet. It only seems to affect that last 2-3 messages I had not read yet.
For sure, not going to worry about it anymore, as you had already indicated, this one sounds like its not just going to jump out nice and easy
AND in the grand scheme of things, not a huge deal.
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If it makes me happy, I can't be holding it wrong
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I may have solved my own NOT problem LOL
I think the threads I had not yet read, actually had earlier posts from someone on my ignore list.
IT just happened now, as I had one last thread that showed active to read, as I was reading the one just before it.
When I came back out to the posting list, it showed already read, and not one for me to look at.
Turns out the last new post was from Tomek, and on my ignore list.
Bravo to you and the cleverness of the coding for this forum to be that clever.
I NOW stand down from RED ALERT
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OK just did it....
i popped into your post about a minute after you sent it.
i was looking at the post just before yours and both posts indicated as not being read yet.
came back to pub, and your post was now all light text indicated it had been read and icon to jump to first unread was gone.
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Well tried from the top a few times, and of course that never happened
But it drove me crazy since some threads get a lot of attention, so it's back and forth all over the place.
Since I pop in once or twice a day, figured starting with the oldest made sense.
AND, this does not happen all the time. Just randomly here and there.
It could just be me. I am the King of having weird shit happening to me everywhere.
After all I am an alien from another planet
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Carlos
I have noticed this happening for a while and not sure if it's important or not.
As we go through reading each post, I always start at the bottom with oldest post and work my way up.
I have noticed that when I get close to the last few I have not read yet, they suddenly show as read and no longer have the nice icon that takes you to the last post read.
Since it has happened often enough, when I get close to the last few, I take note where I am, so I don't forget to check them out.
The only small hassle is that if it has been a good 24 hrs or so since my last visit, I am not quite sure where those threads left off, since the lovely indicator line is no longer there.
NOT a huge issue, but just thought it deserved a heads up the Chief In Charge LOL
And BTW, I and many other appreciate the open policy you maintain that allows some pretty wild discussions.
For sure, nobody ever get bored here
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Interested, but how do I go about finding if I have the 800 or 1900 bands, LTE.
I have AT&T. Also have a neighbor with Verizon.
Never paid much attention to this sort of stuff before, but out here in farm land the carriers are making noise about maybe not taking as good care of us as before.
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Will do. Curious where this goes, as it was something I never considered before.
News at 11
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On 10/11/2021 at 10:58 AM, SwampNut said:
Well shit, it was $35 last time. "Because COVID?"
Well... Ordered my test and just got it back from EverlyWell. Cost was $49...
Came back at 32. As soon as I saw this earlier and right after I sent in the blood test, I started on 20,000 ui.
So we shall see how another test turns out a few months from now.
Thank for the heads up on the details on this. Looking forward to some improvement down the road.
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LOL Well decided it would be a great idea to get a baseline of my D before all of this starts.
WOW, what a circus.
The world told me to go to EverlyWell as the place to go for tests like this, and the cost was $50, free shipping.
But, before I chose that route, figured I would check local Quest and LabCorp as they do offer walk-ins.
Those wackos wanted close to $100 in one lab, and a hair cheaper in another. AND of course NO SHIPPING involved LOL
GGGRRRRR
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On 10/7/2021 at 9:49 PM, SwampNut said:
Damn that is critically low. I'm quite certain, with all my research, that a month on 20k IU would be good. Double check me, but all the evidence I found says that bringing it up quickly that way is totally safe.
Well, since my shipment will arrive Wednesday, I plan on following your recommendation of 20K, so 4 pills a day.
Should that be 4 pills at a pop, or spread out into 2 sets etc...
And does time of day matter. Normally I do any meds at breakfast.
Inquiring minds need to know
Thanks again for that feedback, and looking forward to hopefully some interesting results.
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On 9/12/2021 at 8:55 PM, 02XXCA said:
How many of you have ever been tested for vitamin D levels. I have watched some Youtube videos that says there is definitely some benefit to taking D2 or D3 supplements to raise your levels.
Thanks for posting this.
From the responses and others sharing valuable info, this is something that I appear to be missing.
Zero shared that it was at Sams, and got an order shipping right now.
Granted I would love it to provide better sleep pronto, but if this gets me on track down the road, this will be glorious.
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2 hours ago, superhawk996 said:
I think it’s illegal to sell non-ethanol for “normal” use here. The only non-ethanol I know of is race and aviation gas.
Wow that has to suck, I assume from your stats that you live in Kalifornia LOL
Cannot believe they regulate that too. What got me to switch was trying to get chainsaws to run right.
Now all gas cans have good old fashion gas, and it's in not only chainsaws, but garden tractor and any other handheld gas powered tools.
Easy peasy start all the time.
I am guessing race and aviation gas is likely way more expensive, if not, and the octane rating is compatible for small engines, you might want to give it a try.
All I know is once WAWA came to town and I had access to this, life doing maintenance just got smoother and more relaxing not having to fight to start all these
small damn picky little engines LOL
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On 10/1/2021 at 6:18 PM, superhawk996 said:
Other than AV or race, we have no pure gas options here. If we had the option I might buy it, but not if it was more than 3% above the price of E-10.
Bummer... I just checked, and it appears WAWA seems to love the east coast.
Not sure why, maybe its close to corporate.
Yup... looked into the history and it started up in the northeast and they are just marching down the coast line until they got to us in Florida
No plans to head west at the moment.
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If you happen to have a WAWA station around, they all carry Non ethanol gas
I think the pump has a blue mark on it and the handle is blue as well.
Only on a single island, that of course shares all of the other varieties.
IF not looking for it, you would hardly notice the extra pump handle.
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2 hours ago, superhawk996 said:
If that has happened it implies a charging issue or bad connection.
Nope Already covered that above. When this first happened, tractor went into shop for a full look over
Plus, it's brand new at least in tractor terms. 2018 bought NEW in 2019 and maybe got 300 hrs on it.
IF and when this latest one dies, I know where to go next
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Thanks for those responses, looks like the next beast will be an AGM from Sams and then I can rest easy and not get stuck out in the middle of the field again
WOOHOOO
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On 8/22/2021 at 8:28 AM, blackhawkxx said:
I have been running NAPA batteries in bikes and cars/trucks and have had no issues.
Just took a look at NAPA, looks like some decent choices and prices.
Not familiar with the AGM batteries. Any opinions one way or the other?
If this latest battery dies, I might make a beeline to NAPA. For reference, this last Diehard battery DIED in 2 months LOL I kid you not.
Still need to check out the Wally/Sams as well, just in case.
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18 hours ago, superhawk996 said:
Die Hards were good a very long time ago, then went to shit. Haven't seen one in many years so no idea how they are today. Interstate has a strong following, in my experience they kinda suck. I use Walmart and Oreilly house brand and have had good luck with both.
I don't know why battery love/hate is so mixed. Maybe different areas get different batteries with the same name, or just people's luck and/or prejudice.
Check your tractor's charging system to make sure it's not killing them. If it sits for long periods that could be what's killing them and charging between uses should help.
Thanks for the advice.
Tractor is practically new, 2018 model bought in 2019, and since then, and in the middle of the first battery failure, it went into the shop for its first warranty check over since purchase and all systems checked out green as expected. I had just done the first battery swap a month or 2 before taking into shop and advised them of what happened so they made sure to check charging system more thoroughly.
I have heard stories that the old original style batteries they make are from multiple suppliers, so just not sure if there is a quality control issue, and maybe that is why they offer the unconditional replacement for the first 2 years.
Regardless, trust is gone, so if this 3rd replacement fails, I think Sams Club/Walmart seems like the next place for me.
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Thank you Thank you for this post
You just solved a problem for me and provided the answer I needed.
I have a John Deere tractor, and back about 2 years ago, the original battery died.
I have always loved DieHard batteries, which used to come from Sears long ago.
Now, a local Advance Auto parts store carries them, so got one.
It didn't make it a year, but thankfully it came with an unlimited warranty for 2 years as long as I had the original receipt.
I am NOW on my 3rd DieHard.
The RUB was, every time I went in to have it replaced, the dweeb behind the counter tested it and says it's fine.
I said, don't care. The warranty says, you need to replace no matter what, so they have done so.
Now that I saw the above, I realize they were just doing a normal voltage check and NOT a load test.
Fuckers.... GGGRRRRR
Soon the warranty will expire and if this latest one dies like the others, I will likely move over to InterState, unless anyone here likes a better brand.
Mystery solved WOOHOOO
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+1 on the APC back UPS pro 1300 series
I have one of the newer models as well the 1375 and other older models all over the house and barn
Been using this brand forever, after long enough time in service, I swapped out a new battery etc.
But, recently, when a battery ( well over 10 years old) needed replacing, it wasn't that much more for the 1375
Depending on the model, the battery can be a bit pricey, and if the unit is old enough, it is worth getting a new one with better features.
Best price I found locally was at Sams Club for $150
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8 hours ago, superhawk996 said:
One of the environmental negatives people talk about with the Prius is discarding the traction battery when it goes to shit. I've been babying this one along for quite a while by replacing modules as they fail. The skinny grey things are called modules, a six cell NiMh battery pack, and there's 28 of them in series to make a nominal 202V. In the photo they've been rearranged so I could easily put them in parallel for experimental conditioning. The typical failure is one cell in the module goes bad and that's enough to piss the car off and it becomes super shitty.
After several rounds of module whack-a-mole I decided I was giving up and was about to go buy a new battery, but then I decided to give it one last shot. New modules aren't available other than buying a whole battery so every time one takes a shit I buy a used one on ebay and just stick it in. The 'proper' way is to balance all the modules when one is replaced but that takes special equipment or a fuck load of time with minimally specialized equipment. Ideally the modules would all be cycled a few times, charge and drain at least three times. With what I have available that would take about a month of vigilant work to keep from killing them so I've decided to just hold them all in parallel with a mild charge to possibly balance them. In theory holding them at a fairly high voltage for a long time will let the weaker cells get a better charge and even out to the stronger ones. In normal use they're constantly charging and discharging and are never fully charged or discharged to make them last longer. When one cell gets weak it gets less charge making it weaker and eventually it's just fucked forcing a module replacement or some kind of reconditioning to possibly resurrect it.
When the first one went bad I looked into buying a new factory battery and they were close to $3k. There's a bunch of cheaper options from new aftermarket modules to professionally reconditioned old modules. I re-checked prices a couple days ago and found I can get a new OE battery for $1560, that's what really had me close to pulling the trigger. This is going to be my last effort with this battery. If it works I'll be getting a proper NiMh charger so I can recondition them as maintenance and hopefully keep them alive.
The charger is an old NiCad RC car charger. It's designed to charge for 15 minutes at a time and extended charging makes it overheat, that's what the little fan propped up by the light blue thing is for. Because it has no smarts I'm monitoring the voltage, if it starts dropping it's an indication to stop charging. I'm also checking the module temperatures every 13 minutes before resetting the charger's timer back to 15. The only convenient thing I had around to connect all the modules was some thin stainless rods which aren't great conductors so I rigged a few jumper wires to balance out the current/voltage to the modules, it's quite the mess of wires but it's working. Worst case scen
Here's the most recent dead module, you can make out the division of the 6 cells. During charging/discharging they can swell up which is why I have them clamped in the battery case. You can see two black rods and there's two more on the bottom. They're internally threaded and there's bolts at both ends to squeeze the whole pack and keep them from bulging. Despite the bolts being pretty big (10mm) if the batteries are stressed hard enough their expansion force can snap the bolts.
That is quite the science experiment you got going there
Had no idea all the that was in there, and the sensitivity of those battery packs
Thanks for sharing some cool info
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DITTO did not use a smiley or anything, just 1 line of text and got 403 Forbidden error
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LOL
High Maintenance?????
U have got to be kidding
U got 10 times the posts I have.... AND I am here to let the BOSS know I appreciate taking care of us..
BUT I also know u just like pulling legs
Good Job for you as well.
And stop making my pussy hurt LOL
AND since this forum is for maintenance issues... no more responding here.. be GOOD now 😉
Odd Behavior case closed
in Board Tech Issues & Help
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AND just to add more PROOF
This one just popped just now.
When I came back to the PUB, had about 3 items in the list, and this was at the top, AND i always read from the bottom.
so #3.... great... #2 great... come back out #1 is no longer bolded... and check and see whats in there LOL see BELOW
ahhh the mysteries
If you feel like looking again... great... if NOT.... no biggie.. you got plenty to do
My original goal was just to make sure you knew this in case it ever relates to other issues down the road.
Also thanks for all these cool updates on what you are doing with buying and selling vehicles and other stuff. Learning stuff all the time.