On 08/08/2010 17:04, Flying Pig wrote:
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On 07/08/2010 15:53, Flying Pig wrote:
Update to my last; when we were anchored last night, the lights at the
marina were very prominent, so apparently there's lots of activity. Last
year, when we thought we saw a way through to the Atlantic side, we
unknowingly came out of there on the Abaco side, turning left, and made
it
well past settlement harbor when/before I noticed that the sun was in the
wrong place for our direction of travel!#

Did you get a free gift?


Yes, in fact - it was a very enjoyable ride, exposing us to near-shore
sights we'd have never seeen.

It's tough to beat a nice day on the water...

Today it's drizzling all day, cancelling the Sailaway charitable event at
the beach just north of us, for this afternoon, and it's a bit bouncy, due
to the 8-15SE we've been seeing for the last 12 hours or so, to do the
bottom, so we're playing on the internet and doing little boat chores.

My next-up is to redo our external hard drives, replacing the 220, 300 and
400G drives with the 1T, and 2x2T drives, all 12V, to go along with the
prior 500G, also 12V. I was having difficulty getting the smaller drives to
come up, and my only conclusion had to be that the 5V PS I had wasn't up to
the task (those had DIN connectors with 5 and 12V; the newer ones accomplish
all that's needed with just 12V), and, our burgeoning storage (the 3 and 400
were full, of, respectively, music and movies, and we've added lots more on
the 500 - all those now reside on one of the 2T drives, with room for more,
of course).

It might be worth looking into some of these hacks, if you have not
already done so.
http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/hacks-and-howto


As all of those are controlled from DPDT switches at my nav, I'll have to do
some rewiring, both of the pigtails to the HDs and the reconfiguring of the
5/12V outputs of those switches, all through terminal strips currently
hidden in a panel box I built under the settee. I'll still have to have the
5V for the powered hub to which they're all fed, so I can't cheat and use
the prior 5V legs as I was before. No biggie, I'll just make a hub switch
off my Vonage router, also 5V, one for Vonage alone (usually up) and the
other including the hub, both minimal power draw; that second one will
replace what used to be the 220G drive on my DPDT switch...

We're awash in free gifts; the problem with the other drives yields an
upgrade and system simplification :{))

L8R

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