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- Comment on Bawitdaba 1 week ago:
Kid rock makes music for people who smoke newports through a hole in their neck.
- Comment on It may be true but doesn't help me today 1 week ago:
You still can. My dad bought a 2010 F150 for $400 a couple years ago. Sure it used to be a salt truck and therefore had more rust than metal left on its body. Sure it had 4 bald flat tires on it. Sure you have to disconnect the battery every time you park it or it dies. Sure the CD player ocasionally makes grinding noises and starts smelling like smoke every once in a while until you whack the dash hard enough to make it stop. Sure it has no shocks left whatsoever and it feels like you’re driving a trampoline. But who cares about minor things like all that?
- Comment on How do I shrink heatshrink in an explosion proof room? 2 weeks ago:
Of course! I’ve actually used those for marine connections before. For some reason I just forgot those existed. Thank you.
- Comment on How do I shrink heatshrink in an explosion proof room? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’ll have to bring some of that along next time. We have it at the shop. I just didn’t consider bringing it last time because it hadn’t occured to me that heat shrink would be impossible to use in there until I was nearly done.
- Comment on How do I shrink heatshrink in an explosion proof room? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think a soldering iron would retain enough heat. I had considered warming something else up with a torch but any hot work anywhere in that site requires all sorts of permitting even where it’s possible.
- Comment on How do I shrink heatshrink in an explosion proof room? 2 weeks ago:
I had never heard of that. Definitely going to look into it now though.
- Comment on How do I shrink heatshrink in an explosion proof room? 2 weeks ago:
In this situation it was butt splices. We almost never solder anything. We just need the butt splices sealed in case of condensation or dirt.
- Comment on How do I shrink heatshrink in an explosion proof room? 2 weeks ago:
There’s an idea. As long as I’m using boiling water there will never be an ignition hazard because it will never go much above 100C. I could probably do something with a bit of water and quicklime to have an instant ignition free hotplate.
I’d need to figure out specifics and test it elsewhere of course but that is probably workable. The real question is if it’s practical in the field. Either way it’s something I’ll probably try out at home just for fun.
- Comment on How do I shrink heatshrink in an explosion proof room? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, tape is fine here and logically I know noone will complain but it still rubs me the wrong way so I was hoping there was an alternative. If not then oh well, tape it is.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to askelectronics@discuss.tchncs.de | 26 comments
- Comment on Do snakes prefer to drink warm or cool water? 3 weeks ago:
Overthinking has to be my favorite hobby.
- Comment on Do snakes prefer to drink warm or cool water? 3 weeks ago:
Mine is a ball python. They seem to prefer basking under the heat lamp after eating. Also they haven’t ever pooped in their water dish that I can remember, but I have had them horf up a partially digested rat in there before. That incident was made even more pleasant by the fact that I had their heat lamp positioned over the water dish at the time (to try and keep humidity up) and it happened while I was sleeping so I didn’t catch it for several hours. So I awoke to my entire house being filled with the miasma of a partially digested rat which had been stewing under a heat lamp for several hours. The smell was indescribable and beyond the imagination of any sane individual.
- Comment on Do snakes prefer to drink warm or cool water? 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately I don’t think the $20 I have in the bank right now will cover the cost of the test rig.
- Comment on Do snakes prefer to drink warm or cool water? 3 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, basically the easiest way to do it would to pump water out of each basin, through a heat exchanger, and then back into the basin. That way you could have your whole temp control aparatus located outside of the terrarium. Plus that would also easily enable automatic water level management to keep the water levels identical. For your heat exchanger you could just use a CPU water block and a peltier device. You regulate the power going to the peltier device by monitoring a temp sensor in your water return pipe and just pulsing the peltier device on and off at different rates to control the heating or cooling rate. Plus with the peltier device you can just reverse the polarity to switch from heating to cooling to enable the shuffling of the basins. All of this would be controlled and charted in a csv file by a raspberry pi. Additionally you could connect a simple motion sensor so the pi could flag the times the snake was using one of the basins to make it easier to read the data.
Rather than monitoring ambient temp or humidity you would probably be better off just keeping them tightly controlled and constant via other systems. That would further reduce variables for the initial test.
- Comment on Do snakes prefer to drink warm or cool water? 3 weeks ago:
Snake tax. Here’s the little turd the one time they decided to get stuck in my couch. They were perfectly fine but I had to partially dismantle my couch to get them out.
- Comment on Do snakes prefer to drink warm or cool water? 3 weeks ago:
I have been thinking that all day. But to do it properly I need a bigger terrarium and some more supplies. You can’t have the dishes be different sizes or that’s an additional variable. But I also want to keep a big enough dish that they can soak in it. The never actually do because I keep the humidity high enough but they chould still have the option.
So I need to have a large terrarium with several identical water basins all in the same area. 3 basins would work (warm, room temp, and cool) but ideally I would have several set to various specific temps. Each basin should be able to be heated and cooled to reach a set water temp and which basin has which temp of water needs to be shuffled ocasionally to eliminate selection based on exact basin location or similar variables. That heating and cooling could easily be acheived with a peltier module and a temp sensor on each basin linked to a controller. You would also need a camera to view which basin the snake actually uses.
Of course I already know what would happen. I would spend a couple hundred dollars setting all that up only to learn that my single braincell possessing snake would only ever use the closest basin.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 38 comments
- Comment on Choosing pink is chaotic evil? 2 months ago:
Piss harder.
- Comment on Demanding a pronoun is like demanding a burkas. 2 months ago:
You say that, but I have had a pet snake since I was a child and because I was a boy child I assumed they were male. But once I got older it occured to me that I have no idea if they’re actually male or female (because sexing a snake isn’t as easy as with mammals) and it seems more likely that they’re actually female. But I’m not certain either way and I genuinely don’t care. So I’ve since started refering to them as they/them. My dad still points it out every time I do it. “Oh, you have multiple snakes?” It’s kinda weird considering he’s so progressive in every other way.
- Comment on Australia | Sydney trains hit by serious delays after last-minute court ruling blocks industrial action 2 months ago:
I’m always confused when this crap happens. How can a court even block a strike? It isn’t like the can force people to go to work. If they decided to just not show up for work anyways what would the court do?
- Comment on Scientists develop the world’s first carbon-14 diamond battery, offering a 5,000-year lifespan — the device uses radioactive decay to generate low power levels 2 months ago:
It’s just a betavoltaic cell using carbon-14. The science here isn’t really anything new outside of isolating that much carbon-14 and turning it into a diamond. Also it’s going to produce next to no power. With betavoltaics the more active the radiation source, the more power you get and the faster it depletes. Carbon-14 is radioactive but only barely. Considering even shortlived betavoltaics only produce microamps at less than 3 volts even when brand new, I’m guessing they had some really sensitive sensors in use here to even detect any power being output by the carbon-14 cells.
