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Old 06-28-2019, 09:07 AM
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^ That's respectably good.

By comparison, I'm fairly certain that this man needs to be killed, to protect the future of personkind*:





* = I do not mean for that to be exclusionary against entities which do not identify as persons. Having a bit of a grammarlock trying to solve that...





EDIT: But in fairness, he's not just some random dipshit. Dude actually builds his own modular synthesizers. Which, for those not paying attention, is exactly how Bob Moog pretty much single-handedly invented the sound of Rock'N'Roll of the 1970s.

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Old 06-28-2019, 09:29 AM
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Ah, the 80's. Reminds me of this character.

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I think I finally found a good workout.

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Originally Posted by sixshooter
(Max Headroom)


True story: until looking it up on Wiki today, I always assumed that Ed Harris played that character.

Why?

I have no idea.





Also, serious question: Since the Sencore TSM1770 has been discontinued, does anyone know of a good ASI transport stream analyzer, with logging and error-detection, for less than $20k?
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Old 06-28-2019, 03:53 PM
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Why indeed. there was a show starring the guy who played him that clearly explained the genesis of the max headroom character came from the guy starring in the show (matt frewer).

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Originally Posted by y8s
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True story: towards the dying days of CBS Radio, a proposal was actually put forth for a 1 second commercial, called a "Shout." Quite literally, it was nothing more than a brand name being shouted out in between songs.

And it was approved and passed into operation.

Without consulting engineering.

This proved to be astonishingly troublesome from the point of view of the on-air playout system. By design, the software waited until the previous element had been triggered before loading the next element (this was to allow for DJs / Program Directors / etc. to make last-second changes), and at the time, the software required about 1.5 seconds to fetch and load the next element.

Which is a problem if the current element is only 1 second long. That, of course, had never happened before.

That was a very stressful time in my life. And, yes, we all acknowledged Max at the time.


Unrelated, but calming:

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Joe, that video was amazing. I did not realize radial engines were still being made. I base my statement due to the modern design queues.

Also, interesting that 7 cylinders, though that may not be out of the ordinary.

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Originally Posted by DNMakinson
Joe, that video was amazing. I did not realize radial engines were still being made. I base my statement due to the modern design queues.

Also, interesting that 7 cylinders, though that may not be out of the ordinary.

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They usually have an odd number.
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Originally Posted by DNMakinson
Joe, that video was amazing. I did not realize radial engines were still being made. I base my statement due to the modern design queues.

Also, interesting that 7 cylinders, though that may not be out of the ordinary.
There are still a few companies making them, though I've no idea if that video was from a manufacturer. More likely just someone who enjoys designing stuff at the hobby level.

And yeah, they almost always used an odd number of cylinder. Somewhat counter intuitively, this is how you get an evenly-timed firing sequence from one.

And some of them are surprisingly large.

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Originally Posted by sixshooter
They usually have an odd number.
That's true, but I thought it was always an odd number that divided evenly into 360*.
360* / 3 = 120*
360* / 5 = 72*
360* / 7 = 51.42857143*
360* / 9 = 40*
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Master and slave rods. Odd number for 4 stroke engines. Firing is then every other piston.

No need for even division of 360*, except for easier layout before digital design work.

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This animation provides a reasonably good visualization:




This one even more so. Skip ahead to 3:30 for a narrated demonstration of how the engine progresses through its phases:

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Have any of you guys had this happen? As usual, I still wake up very early on the weekends since i get up so early during the week. I went to use the 2nd bathroom as to not wake up my better half. Somehow over night the tank cracked and the entire floor was wet.
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I haven't.

In related to broken things. I really didn't want to pull this $20,000 piece of **** at 7am on Sunday. But here we are.

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Originally Posted by z31maniac
Have any of you guys had this happen?
A neighbor back in NH had the same thing happen to them. It was a weekend house and by the time anyone noticed pretty much the entire ground floor was screwed. Carpet + underlayment all had to be replaced. Never knew if the heat shut off and ice formed in the bowl or the bowl just cracked. By the time they arrived the following weekend it was done and the heat was working (baseboard electric, common at the time).

I’m in the habit of shutting off my water supply if leaving the house for more than a couple days after that.
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Originally Posted by z31maniac
(crack)
That's a terrifying failure mode.
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