What’d you work on today?

[kmakar]

My old business partner from 35 years ago had a beer belly and his pants were always down at his ass crack and we were installing a sink for a customer and he was on his knees under the sink hooking up the drain and his ass crack was in full bloom and the lady customer was turning two shades of gray when I said, "Hey Ed, crack kills". He looked up, saw the lady, stood up and pulled his pants up, apologized to the lady who then left the room but not before giving me a smile and a wink. From then on it was a running comment before we went into a clients house reminding him of how crack kills.

 

[kmakar]

Lisa requested the home automation touch screen be mounted (flushed in the wall) before Thanksgiving, so I did it this week and got it done.

This is much like we had in the last house where she (and anyone else) can turn lights on or off, set the ceiling fan speeds (or turn them off), lock all the doors (still have to add the lock for the walk through shop door), and see the status of everything at a glance.

Now on to running the wire for a doorbell so when someone pulls in the driveway the sensor will ring the doorbell.

 

[Shovelrick]

This guy?

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Yep

 

[Chevelle_Nut]

Lisa requested the home automation touch screen be mounted (flushed in the wall) before Thanksgiving, so I did it this week and got it done.

This is much like we had in the last house where she (and anyone else) can turn lights on or off, set the ceiling fan speeds (or turn them off), lock all the doors (still have to add the lock for the walk through shop door), and see the status of everything at a glance.

Now on to running the wire for a doorbell so when someone pulls in the driveway the sensor will ring the doorbell.

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Fancy!!

 

[cheveslakr]

Yeah, that's pretty neat Kevin. I never knew something like that was available, now that I know, it's something I want. The lock alert function and camera would be cool.

 

[kmakar]

Yeah, that's pretty neat Kevin. I never knew something like that was available, now that I know, it's something I want. The lock alert function and camera would be cool.

Even better is it's free software, you just need to program how you want it to look. Also, it's full automation and you can program it to do many things. What you don't see is I built a wireless irrigation controller from an ESP32 and relays and the home automation system controls that too. Part of the programming I've done is it'll shut the fans off and lock the doors automatically if we leave the house and forget, each room is monitored for climate and keeps each room at specific temperatures, the lights turn on automatically at sunset and turn off at night automatically (I have them set to turn off at 11:30pm). There are a host of things it can do as well as local voice control (not using alexa or google), but I don't want that. Pretty much what you can think, you can program it to do.

It's called Home Assistant and I've been using it for years. I had a Control 4 system, but it's insanely expensive and limited, whereas this is open source and free and can do 10x more.

If you get serious about it let me know and I can help.

 

[L78fanatic]

Very long day, but the new batteries are in and online..... I'll take a couple of days to design and build a new rack for the loose batteries, then get those back online reconfigured as 300ah, then I'll take the rest out of the cases and build a rack for those.

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Hmmmmm, looks like you are getting ready to live off the grid! Nice & tidy workmanship!!

 

[kmakar]

Hmmmmm, looks like you are getting ready to live off the grid! Nice & tidy workmanship!!

HA! We've been totally offgrid for 2.5 years. Just adding more battery storage to last much longer, plus I hadn't planned on installing a 3 ton heat pump / A/C in the shop in my original design, so I added more capacity for that.

 

[77cruiser]

Lisa requested the home automation touch screen be mounted (flushed in the wall) before Thanksgiving, so I did it this week and got it done.

This is much like we had in the last house where she (and anyone else) can turn lights on or off, set the ceiling fan speeds (or turn them off), lock all the doors (still have to add the lock for the walk through shop door), and see the status of everything at a glance.

Now on to running the wire for a doorbell so when someone pulls in the driveway the sensor will ring the doorbell.

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Way too high tech for me. I could probably get by without any locks here.

 

[kmakar]

Way too high tech for me. I could probably get by without any locks here.

Same here, but old habits never die. Being a Marine I don't like being caught off guard or anyone sneaking up on me. Even when we go out I always look for exits, always have my back to the wall and am always prepared to come out fighting.

 

[SSuperDave]

Took advantage of the fenders being off to wire in relays for the high and low beam headlamps. I've done this multiple times, and am always amaved at how much brighter the lights are for a minimal outlay of time and $. I recommend it to everyone.

 

[cheveslakr]

First check your voltage at the light while running and all accessories on. With a good harness you should be above 12 volts with halogens. If not, a relay could help.

edit......but if your load doesn't exceed the wire gauge and it's getting proper voltage, a relay isn't necessary.

 

[77cruiser]

Installed a propane line from regulator to where the new furnace is going in the shop.
Burned a couple of brush piles, only have 2 left to go.

 

[Shovelrick]

I replaced a bad 2019 blower motor in a clients sons condo ( client has an all orig 69 Z/28 Ralleye Green with Goldish Green interior, I’ve never seen another one) and since it was a 15 yr old system I rec’d not using another expensive X13 motor so I retro fitted an older type but New motor, fan relay and US made capacitor and saved the guys son over $300, forgot to take a pic of the final result but the son is very happy, then went to John’s house owner of Muscle Machining and put hurricane tie down clips on the 2 units another contractor installed before he knew me and I replaced the detiriated insulation with code approved insul then went to his shop and drooled over a 5.3 LS RE sleeved and stroked to 427 but couldn’t stick around for dyno pull but he sent me a screen shot, he had a SBF ready for a customer to pick up that dynoed 815 NA and it’s getting a 600 nitrous kit Oh and got the atty I know to have an ac company that finances to replace the down stairs ac system, getting done tomorrow Johns going to build my friend Paul a 331 full roller with ported Liberty heads for his 64 Comet vert

 

[Shovelrick]

I forgot to add screen shot of the 427 LS dyno

 

[kmakar]

First thing put up on the big wall separating the house and shop...... much more to add, but I wanted this up now.

 

[kmakar]

Finished the wiring and the install for the driveway alert system and installed the 2 doorbells (in lieu of the electronic beep). Tested and working nicely.

 

[Richard150MPH]

After watching the election last night I was too tired to be around power tools.
I did spend several hours deleting duplicate pics from my computer while searching for a few I needed to find.

 

[Nashville Cat]

his pants were always down at his ass crack and we were installing a sink for a customer and he was on his knees under the sink hooking up the drain and his ass crack was in full bloom and the lady customer was turning two shades of gray when I said, "Hey Ed, crack kills !

 

[kmakar]

That's when SNL was still funny.