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"goofball_star_dot_etal" wrote in message ... 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? "There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hand. You seek problems because you need their gifts." Goofball, Those gifts are definitely not free, but they are indeed gifts. =) Regards, JR |
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"goofball_star_dot_etal" wrote in message
... 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). 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 Skip -- Morgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig KI4MPC See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery ! Follow us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog and/or http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog "You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it however." (and) "There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hand. You seek problems because you need their gifts." (Richard Bach, in Illusions - The Reluctant Messiah) --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: --- |
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Free Gifts (was) Bakers Bay (was) How to make FrenchToast on the boat...
On 08/08/2010 17:04, Flying Pig wrote:
w wrote in message ... 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 Skip |
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