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Dashcat2 Build

cj3waker said:
If you were coming over donner pass right before new years you had horrible timing, we havent had any snow, until a few inches today, since then. Whereabouts in norcal were you looking?
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Figured as much with Donner Pass. Just my luck. As for location, Orland/Chico and Livermore.
 
chicos a rad town, lived there for a bit and have fam and loads of friends there. would definitely be a good place to settle
 
Today, I helped my father-in-law clean out his garage. He let the family take a bunch of stuff and I ended up with a great many tools and a full, brand new 13lb Halon fire extinguisher for my supercomputer shed.

As for my father-in-law, as some may recall, he was diagnosed with Leukemia last year. Well, he was given some shots that were supposed to fix his cells and they worked. I don't know what that means other than his blood tests coming back normal, but it's good news. The reason for giving away the gear, however, is he's going in for back surgery soon and won't be able to do all that much while recovering. And recovery is going to take a while.
 
That is great to hear about your father. Well not the back surgery part but the fact that his leukemia is doing so well that they think it is a good idea for him to go through back surgery.
 
The weather forecast shows most of the week isn't going to suck as badly with highs in the 40s and overnight temps above freezing. I did some test digging yesterday and found the dirt would actually budge now. It's time.

My wife and I did some painting on Friday and Saturday, changing one wall in our kitchen from a color I can only classify as "1990s computer case Beige" to a very interesting sky blue shade. I had to do some minor drywall work to get a piece of trim to line up properly and that gave me the confidence I need to rip out the drywall panel that's covering the electrical lines leading to the load center in the house. With that panel out of the way, it will be a lot easier to drill the hole needed for the main feeder to the shop.

I learned something kind of funny about the feeder run, too. When you're running conduit under a mobile home, you don't have to bury it if you secure the pipe to the frame of the house. The requirement is you have to have room for thermal expansion. I wondered why there were no specialized clamps for that and found that heavy zip ties are the normal approach and 36" ties with a 175lb tensile strength are really quite cheap. They should easily last a lot longer than the next decade.
 
Clearing dirt with a shovel is rather difficult when it's frozen. I can only imagine how bad it must be in Alaska with permafrost. I've almost got the trenches cleared out again for what I hope is the last time. It's 52 degrees right now and I'm not wasting it.
 
I can only imagine how bad it must be in Alaska with permafrost
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Easy as pie. Gimme some charcoal and gas and the 'perma' comes right on out of the equation, as does the 'frost'.


Lots of digging gets done during the summer though, yes. :)
 
I'm working on reinforcing the shop to allow the conduit holes to be drilled. I'm not using the miter saw I bought a while back. I'm using the one my father-in-law gave me two weekends ago.

Now here's why:

My father-in-law is going in for back surgery today. It's a four hour surgery that starts a little over an hour from now as I write this. This is a really big deal. He has received an official blessing from the authorities of his LDS faith and prayers all around. My own system is a bit different. Basically, Energy(Motive Force) is God. Worship happens through creating stuff and just plain fighting entropy instead of doing nothing. I believe Energy protects the ability to create. My father-in-law has created quite a bit and for his surgery to be unsuccessful would severely weaken his ability to build and create at his current level. I further believe flow of energy is protected and neuro-electrical signals meet that set of criteria.

I believe that using the same saw my father-in-law used for a whole bunch of projects connects me to him at some level and I will be using this saw for most of the day.

I'd like to ask my fellow [H] members to do one thing today: Let this message spur you to make something. Harness energy to create anything at all.

May the surgical staff be well-rested, well-fed, hydrated, clear-of-mind, alert and accurate today. May the tools and implant be precise in all aspects. May the ability to create be preserved. In the honor of creation: Launch.
 
My thoughts are with you and your family today. Hope all goes extremely smoothly for your father-in-law and he has a speedy recovery.
 
Best wishes for your father-in-law. You've motivated me to work on some projects that I've been putting off for awhile as well.
 
I'll be in the garage tonight fighting entropy through welding and cleanliness, in his honor.
 
Dad's surgery went well. He was actually leaking cerebro-spinal fluid from a hole in the membrane. The damage was fixed and there are screws and a clamp preventing the same thing from happening again. However, he's now stuck in a back brace for three months and isn't too happy about it.

I completed the reinforcement and drilled the big 1 7/8" hole for the main power link to the house and the two 1 1/4" hole for the power link conduits to the computer shed. After buying a new charger for my drill because I couldn't find the original one, the big hole was the easiest to finish because I had the right tools in the form of a rather versatile hole saw where you pull back the spring lock on the arbor and twist the saw off. Unfortunately, the 1 1/4" saw is in an awkward spot since the arbor is 1 1/2" in diameter. I could go the whole 6" depth with the big saw, but the arbor stopped me at 2" with the smaller one. I ended up having to use an odd $10 tri-flute bit and burn out an extension just to get those holes done.

The really annoying thing is the smaller hole saws from the same company use a smaller arbor, but that one is limited to a saw diameter of 1 3/16" and that's too small for the bell end of the 3/4" conduit I'm using.

I've got a lot more work to do. There are more holes to be drilled, a 1/4" plywood sheet needed to shim up the load center to the proper depth, a hole in the wall behind the load center that needs to be plugged and more nasty weather on the way. I really want to get this finished this week.

And to top it all off, I've got to send a bunch of SGI machines out. It's times like these I wish I could take time off work.

Thank you for your support and kindness and, please, keep creating.
 
Glad to hear your father in-law is on the mend.

Looks like a mammoth project you have going on, amongst all the other stuff that seems to work it's way into your daily chores.
 
Properly mounted loadcenter on a 1/4" plywood shim for correct mounting depth with 5/8" drywall.
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Holes.
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Deep holes.
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It's a start.
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Pretty clean, really.
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Outside view. Notice the pipes on the left cross over top of the AC feeder conduit. The feeder is buried at 21" deep while the pipes crossing over it are buried 18" deep.
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Nice way to keep proper spacing.
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A view of the corner.
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Nice build!

What is the size of the pipes you are using, and how many UTP cables are you able to get through them?

Thx
 
Dj-Visto said:
Nice build!

What is the size of the pipes you are using, and how many UTP cables are you able to get through them?

Thx
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The big ones are 1 1/4" inside diameter and the small ones are 3/4" inside diameter. I don't know what the maximum is, but I'm running four STP Cat6 and one Cat7 in one.
 
The holes for the data cables plus a spare hole that will stay capped until needed.
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Main power, spare from shed, spare from workshop, Coaxial cable, Data
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Trench elbow before pipes between shop and shed were added
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Shop to shed trench taken just after the photo above
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Inside of shop with shop to shed pipes started
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Shop to shed pipes stopped short of completion due to running out of couplers. When I took the photo, we had just started to get rained on from the approaching storm.
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Completed links two days later. There was actually about twice as much snow right after the storm, but with spring coming it doesn't stick around anywhere near as long.
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Another angle of the completed links.
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Three ground rods marked with yellow arrows. Code says you're supposed to have two rods six feet apart. Mine were two feet apart and I can't pull one up so I just drove a third rod. All of them will be connected. I also bought a fourth rod that will be driven later as grounding for an antenna.
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...and with that, the project just cost me my marriage.

Looks like the writing was on the wall anyway there. It sucked, I cried, but now I'm starting to accept it.

The practice house is going up for sale with the shed project in case there's interest there.
 
All: So far... it's so.

I wonder if I can sell the render farm since I really don't need it if my source of inspiration is gone.
 
MisterDNA said:
...and with that, the project just cost me my marriage.
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Oh man...
I'll tell you I've been there though. My wife hit the road when I got sidetracked for 6 months building my hotrod. It wasn't the reason, but more of the straw that broke the camel's back, it had been going downhill slowly for sometime.

Good luck with everything.
 
turbogeek said:
Oh man...
I'll tell you I've been there though. My wife hit the road when I got sidetracked for 6 months building my hotrod. It wasn't the reason, but more of the straw that broke the camel's back, it had been going downhill slowly for sometime.

Good luck with everything.
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It looks like that's the case here, too. Did the two of you get back together? And do you have kids?
 
MisterDNA said:
Yes. Why continue?
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I have no clue to your exact situation but....

You said you were doing this to work more on a video game you have been working on for quite some time, and to make it more than just a pipe dream. Wouldn't that be atleast some motivation to continue on? To keep you busy and not just sit around to think about this?

Why stop working on something you've been working on for so long?
 
yeah, like he said, we don't know exactly what happened but if anything this would motivate me to finish it even more. but i can be a stubborn irish prick. sounds like more free time ... if something cost me a marriage i would make damn sure i finished it and it kicks ass.

i dunno, i love this thread. my friend and i just built the start of what we hope to be a great server farm someday. definitely got some inspiration from this thread
 
That's terrible news, although like the previous two guys have said, when all communication and reasoning hasn't worked, I wouldn't want to think about what happened and finish the project I started, or relocate it and then finish it.

First things first though, deal with your personal life as that's more important than keeping the forum followers pleased, we can wait for any projects you may start or continue.
 
As bad as the internet can be, I'm often humbled by the fact that the [H] forums in general are pretty respectful and often times supportive of the members.

At the end of the day, even if you feel you've got little motivation I recommend pulling out a picture of your "Little Dinosaur". That by itself is all the motivation you need to shoot for your dreams.
 
Sinister_kid said:
I have no clue to your exact situation but....

You said you were doing this to work more on a video game you have been working on for quite some time, and to make it more than just a pipe dream. Wouldn't that be atleast some motivation to continue on? To keep you busy and not just sit around to think about this?

Why stop working on something you've been working on for so long?
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There's really no reason for the game. Between the game and my wife and kid, if I can't have both, I choose the love of my eternity and my little miracle. Screw the game.

My wife hasn't gone so far as to unfriend me on Facebook or anything like that so... oh shit..

Stream GO.

She wanted to be quick as hell about the divorce. I thought it was because she hated me and wanted to leave ASAP. Now, looking back from shifted perspective, she is acting more like she doesn't feel worthy of me and I did nothing actively to indicate otherwise. Shit. Shit. Shit.

Reality was the exact opposite where I felt like I wasn't worthy of her. She's an angel, as proven by her putting up with my weirdness for seven years of marriage and basically running the house while I was chasing shit that doesn't matter.

Today I sent her flowers. A big $100 arrangement. She loves flowers and I thought she thought they were pointless because they die so fast. I think I did a good thing by that. I want to give her time and space, but I also want to let her know that I care. I think I may need to bump up the care part with this new revelation.

In the honor of creation... Launch!
 
MisterDNA said:
There's really no reason for the game. Between the game and my wife and kid, if I can't have both, I choose the love of my eternity and my little miracle. Screw the game.

My wife hasn't gone so far as to unfriend me on Facebook or anything like that so... oh shit..

Stream GO.

She wanted to be quick as hell about the divorce. I thought it was because she hated me and wanted to leave ASAP. Now, looking back from shifted perspective, she is acting more like she doesn't feel worthy of me and I did nothing actively to indicate otherwise. Shit. Shit. Shit.

Reality was the exact opposite where I felt like I wasn't worthy of her. She's an angel, as proven by her putting up with my weirdness for seven years of marriage and basically running the house while I was chasing shit that doesn't matter.

Today I sent her flowers. A big $100 arrangement. She loves flowers and I thought she thought they were pointless because they die so fast. I think I did a good thing by that. I want to give her time and space, but I also want to let her know that I care. I think I may need to bump up the care part with this new revelation.

In the honor of creation... Launch!
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No offense, but it seems like you are beating yourself up more about this than you need to.
 
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