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Jump to new posts Re: Wireless gate switch? by Ernie @ 05/21/13 01:44 PM

Originally Posted By: JasonBIt'd be on a switch loop for the light. I'm thinking hard-wired, 120vac... Hopefully the sensor can be placed on the house, with a view of the gate/path.... J On a different thought.. I installed two solar powere
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Jump to new posts Re: Hmm...intersting when you get to the details by mommapup. @ 05/21/13 01:37 PM

That's an easy answer... 47% of Americans don't pay Income taxes, 47 million on food stamps, welfare, WIC, SSI, Obama phones. If you get free stuff, you keep voting for the administration that hands it out. On another note, Re your link. Quote:Th
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Jump to new posts Re: Remember when aircraft were aluminum? by Uncle_Alvah @ 05/21/13 01:36 PM

AC-47, The original Viet Nam gunship AKA "Spooky"! IIRC "Puff the Magic Dragon" was an adopted name because of the rain of fire from its miniguns. I would suggest that its "greatest airplane" designation has perhaps bee
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Jump to new posts Re: Wireless gate switch? by code_ceis @ 05/21/13 01:11 PM

A door switch from a car door wired to a 12 volt battery wired to an electric air horn. You asked.
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Jump to new posts Re: Hmm...intersting when you get to the details by JimTheTinkerer @ 05/21/13 12:43 PM

Looks like some kind of poached-phrase political speech to me. It's interesting to study for psy-war and agitprop. If the public is all stunned and shocked it's hard to understand the polls: http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2013/05/20/obama-cnn
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Jump to new posts Re: Remember when aircraft were aluminum? by Able_Dog @ 05/21/13 12:41 PM

Originally Posted By: JimTheTinkererIncredibly rugged plane, the DC-3. And light enough to pay. They say units were money-makers all the way into the 2000's. My BIL flew one for several years for Agape Ministries. Flew regularly from Sarasota to Ha
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Jump to new posts Re: small concrete slab by billfaith @ 05/21/13 12:18 PM

I dont know I guess we just are not good at getting them level and keeping them level. Noted on the concrete. My wife has to have it!
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Jump to new posts Re: IOU a TON by Able_Dog @ 05/21/13 12:14 PM

The answer: Quote:The National Bank Act, first adopted in 1863, provides for the establishment and regulation of national banks. For more than 100 years, that law was interpreted to require that even national banks can only charge interest at the ra
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Jump to new posts IOU a TON by Able_Dog @ 05/21/13 12:11 PM

TV ad for Western Sky Financial offered loans of up to $5000.00. Small print: APR 116.73%! So, if you take $5000 for seven years you have 84 payments of$486.58 ($40,872.72). So it cost you $35,872 to borrow $5000. What ever happened to usury laws
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Jump to new posts Re: Whirlpool Dryer not spinning by cpedrich @ 05/21/13 12:05 PM

Thanks Jeff...I plan on taking it apart tonight. Will keep you informed.
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Jump to new posts Re: Remember when aircraft were aluminum? by JimTheTinkerer @ 05/21/13 12:05 PM

Incredibly rugged plane, the DC-3. And light enough to pay. They say units were money-makers all the way into the 2000's.
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Jump to new posts Re: Hmm...intersting when you get to the details by grizzly @ 05/21/13 12:04 PM

...they all spin. some more than others. it's all in who you trust.
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Jump to new posts Re: Low voltage landscape lights problem by wsommariva @ 05/21/13 11:54 AM

Lights work on on mode. Malibu 45 watt transformer. Doesn't work on any photocell mode. I'll buy a new one and let you know if it works.
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Jump to new posts Re: Wireless gate switch? by JasonB @ 05/21/13 11:50 AM

It'd be on a switch loop for the light. I'm thinking hard-wired, 120vac... Hopefully the sensor can be placed on the house, with a view of the gate/path.... J
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Jump to new posts Re: Hmm...intersting when you get to the details by JimTheTinkerer @ 05/21/13 11:48 AM

Originally Posted By: grizzly ...great sources there. NY times, CNN, gimme a break! Let's go with your implied put-down of CNN ans NY Times and WAshington POST (It's up there too), Grizz.. .. You're putting down the phrases that Breitbart sample
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Jump to new posts Re: Wireless gate switch? by Uncle_Alvah @ 05/21/13 11:46 AM

What would power the sensor? Other problem might be the plethora of feral cats we are plagued with. I'd prefer something that only triggered when the gate was actually opened. It is held shut by a couple rare earth magnets, so while there is no latc
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Jump to new posts Re: Wireless gate switch? by JasonB @ 05/21/13 11:44 AM

Consider a motion sensor light with the light remote from the sensor? J
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Jump to new posts Re: Hmm...intersting when you get to the details by grizzly @ 05/21/13 11:43 AM

...great sources there. NY times, CNN, gimme a break!
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Jump to new posts Re: Hmm...intersting when you get to the details by JimTheTinkerer @ 05/21/13 11:42 AM

Originally Posted By: grizzly Fox doesn't understand (or care to understand) that game. ...they're a regular low information outfit. dang them! So you're all in favor of serving the North Koreans intel. on Fox News, grizz? Here I was thinking
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Jump to new posts Re: karaoke by TheBrit @ 05/21/13 11:41 AM

I've never tried this so the links are the only help I can offer you 1. strip the vocals out (mostly) using Audacity Sound Editor (free). There are some tips on use here. 2. add the vocals graphics using AV Video Karaoke Maker (free).
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Jump to new posts Re: Hmm...intersting when you get to the details by JimTheTinkerer @ 05/21/13 11:40 AM

The quote comes from breitbart 19 hours ago.. Hah... some phraseology comes from a things on Romney on 2012! http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/31/politics/romney-trip and in a 2005 article re bush http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25347-200
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Jump to new posts Re: Remember when aircraft were aluminum? by JasonB @ 05/21/13 11:39 AM

There are alot of DC-3's still in service. Buffalo Air (Ice Pilots NWT) comes to mind. Beautiful plane. J
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Jump to new posts Re: Hmm...intersting when you get to the details by grizzly @ 05/21/13 11:34 AM

Fox doesn't understand (or care to understand) that game. ...they're a regular low information outfit. dang them!
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Jump to new posts Re: May Long Weekend camping by Uncle_Alvah @ 05/21/13 11:34 AM

Quote:but one wonders at the resoursefullness of the native peoples Indeed! The natives of NYS did not spend much time in the Adirondacks, the surrounding country was much richer. The name "Adirondack" is derived from the natives meaning
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Jump to new posts Wireless gate switch? by Uncle_Alvah @ 05/21/13 11:29 AM

To get right to the rat killin', I want to rig up something simple that will alert me when the walk through gate to our yard is opened. Something simple, perhaps, wireless hopefully that would turn on a light somewhere inside when and while the gate
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