Colby: That was being discussed on my forum around 2 weeks ago and is listed in the GE board.
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I had to replace the AC unit in my trailer yesterday. The old one was starting to act really wierd. It would work fantastic at night but wouldn't cool worth a flip during the day. The old unit is a 8,000 btu. I decided that as long as I was changing it out, I might as well upgrade and got a 10,000 btu unit. It has a safety plug on it that has a circuit breaker built in to it. If I have to reset the breaker on that plug every time the power goes out, guess how fast that plug will get lost and a regular plug substituted.
Good Morning.
Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 6/11/2007
Sundown Fire Dept., Station 23 Heat Index: 78°FHumidity: 92%Dew Point: 71°F So Far TodayHigh: 75°FLow: 73°FRain: 0.00"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 0mph NNE Today High: 95 Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the morning...then chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Light and variable winds. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
Tonight Low: 72 Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. Light and variable winds.
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*yawn* can't sleep really. Got Pirates of the Carribean At World's End playing in my head, and my dreams of the Maine Central keep going bulrry on me.
BTW have any of you heard that GE has come out with a Hybrid Loco?
http://www.getransportation.com/na/en/hybrid.html
Evening, folks, just another run-through (on foot - left the car outside)
Guess once I get my wiring hooked up, I might need to go by local R.Shack and get one of those meters (unless I can find what happened to the little cheap one I used to have...)
Haven't heard from Ryan much today - must be really pampering Monique for her birthday, doing the dishes, laundry and who knows what else? Maybe he has a LHS trip planned for the next week or so (after her birthday)?
Well, news is over, so time to hit the sack before it's tomorrow and time for w**k. Though it sounds like our retarded gents were busier today than I was...
No major rain today, though some might be coming through tonight, from the weather radars. Take care and see you in the morning!
Blessings and a good week ahead,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
PAUL: For mosquitos, those Propane traps really work!! My son has one, and it has a suction fan on it as well as a light which between the Co2 emission, and the light, it sucks those pesky critters right into the trap. He gets thousands of them every night and they can sit in comfort outside after dark.
Ok, time for bed, see you guys tomorrow,
Evening Gang: I worked out in the shop on the trucks for my 4" scale narrow gauge trucks. Those are in 7.5 inch gauge. They are now ready for another meet I hope. I didn't put in the new wheels. I really didn't have the time to make the axles and fit the wheels and then modify the journel boxes for the new bearings. I will make two new sets of trucks with new design journal boxes and put them under the cars. Then I'll take the old trucks and rebuild them properly for the new cars. I just hope that the old trucks last the meet.
Colby: Dick is right about the need for a volt,ohm meter. They are between $10 and $20 for a simple one that will do what you want.
I'm covered with off and it's smell is beginning to get to me. We were over at our sons house and the mesquitos were thick as molassas. So I'll say Good Night and go take a shower.
Good Night All
Good evening gents......a sunny day today but cool......did some work in the garden to keep the weeds at bay...
SUE: I heard from Lisa, she answered in the Whistle Stop, they are NOT moving to CT, she had some PC issues, finally back on line.
JEFF: If you look online, Xp is selling for $89 ( Home Edition ) and as low as $116 for Professional version. Even Vista home basic is around $120, but I would not buy that one....the next version UP is far better. But Xp would be a good buy for you now Jeff, check it out.
COLBY: Radio or Sears has some inexpensive Multimeters that can measure current, volts, and ohms , that won't break your expense account....I would invest in one of those as soon as you can. It really is a "must have" IMHO for any MRR'r.
DER JOHN: I need the recipe for the Banana/Rhubarb bread, muffins, etc. The Rhubarb is now ready to pick in the garden.
Der- Maybe, well I gess if it is fried I could salvage the plug, or keep using it untill it
1. blows up
2. overheats
3. starts to smoke
4. trains won't go even at full throttle
and finally does all of the above, I gess the same happend to the first power pack Jeff gave me. Now all trains run at full speed without even turning the throttle from 0% to 100%.
BWT check out this new thread I started today. http://www.trains.com/trccs/forums/1138320/ShowPost.aspx
grayfox1119 wrote: JEFF: It might be a good time to at least get Xp on your system, I found it much more stable than 98, and MS no longer supports 98 or ME as an added incentive. The Seta drive will work fine with Xp, and with Vista now out, you should be able to get a copy of Xp at a good price.
JEFF: It might be a good time to at least get Xp on your system, I found it much more stable than 98, and MS no longer supports 98 or ME as an added incentive. The Seta drive will work fine with Xp, and with Vista now out, you should be able to get a copy of Xp at a good price.
Good afternoon Diners: It’s way past tea-time, and when I came in there was no sign of any-one else having been here since Colby at 11:13. Anyway I brought a fresh batch of banana/rhubarb muffins so maybe that will entice a few more visitors.
Wet today, I haven’t tried to get the whipper snipper going. It wouldn’t fire at all yesterday, I’d drained out the old gas and replaced with new. Maybe tomorrow it will be in a better mood.
Ryan: Please wish Monique a very from us.
Dick:
I don't have any trouble with photos that others send in email, why AOL ?? Have any of you experienced this problem?
ED: glad the ’puter is back to normal. Send up some bananas please, the things we are getting are pretty tasteless unless the skins are brown!
Garry:
Well, I've been up late moving the layout to the upstairs and............
Colby: You may be able to tell if the pack is shot even without an ammeter. It depends on how it’s made inside. If you can get hold of a volt meter and put it across the Track Power terminals, watch the voltage reading as you turn up the power. My guess is that nothing much of anything will happen until you are way up the power scale, then suddenly the voltage will spike, and hold steady at pretty much full. If this is the case, then the pack is a variable resistor type, and is indeed probably toast. Sad to say that your video caused my Netscape to crash as soon as I clicked on Play. Oh well, one day we will have High Speed, and maybe we can join the real world….
TTFN.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
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Trains anyone?
Just stopping in for a cup to go, Janie. That, and to bump us up...
grayfox1119 wrote: COLBY: The power supply is highly suspect from what you described. If you have an ammeter and a voltmeter, you can run some tests. Connect ammeter in series with the + lead from the power supply to the track, and a voltmeter across the power supply. Take one of your locos that you know is OK, and place it on the track. Start increasing the voltage on the power supply and note the readings on the ammeter. If the power supply is good, and you know that the loco is good, the current should start to increase on the ammeter as you increase the voltage. Let me know what happens.
COLBY: The power supply is highly suspect from what you described. If you have an ammeter and a voltmeter, you can run some tests. Connect ammeter in series with the + lead from the power supply to the track, and a voltmeter across the power supply. Take one of your locos that you know is OK, and place it on the track. Start increasing the voltage on the power supply and note the readings on the ammeter. If the power supply is good, and you know that the loco is good, the current should start to increase on the ammeter as you increase the voltage. Let me know what happens.
ok but one problem I don't currently have one.
grayfox1119 wrote: PC: The photos are real clear, nice job.....what is in those blue container cars?
PC: The photos are real clear, nice job.....what is in those blue container cars?
I think there's some air in there, but other then that, I don't have a clue!
Guess I'll grab the tab for this page!
COME AND GET IT!!!!!
Good morning ! from Indiana.
06-10-07
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
I think I'll just go to bed and worry about it in the morning......
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Thought I would stop in the Diner before hitting the sack.....
ED: Good to see you on board again. I have had some strange problems over the years with Norton. Now that I have Vista OS on my computer ( the wife still has Xp and Norton ), I am using Microsoft's anti virus that came with Vista. I figure it will play nicely with their own OS. So far, Vista has been great, the only issues have been with 3rd party software that hasn't tightened up their own security issues, so Vista says " no go". But the bigger 3rd party guys are onboard pretty well, so I have not experienced any issues so far.
Here's hoping the the hurricanes stay away from your orchards, and you receive just enough rainfall for a great harvest. So far, the Tavarez is pitching a great game.
10-4
jeffrey-wimberly wrote:The AD was in Sue's original post.
Am I really that clueless?
Guess so!
Evening Gang: I spent the day over at the track getting ready for the meet. I didn't get to do much raliroading, I spent most of the time picking up trash, rebagging trash that the local dogs had scatered, and generally tidying up the battlefield as the Brits would say. Several people have come in already. A couple are the usual early arrivals and one newbe. Actually he was here last year but since I was still imployed I didn't get to spend that much time there and mised meeting him. The guys got the temporary sidings in and the two sun kinks were worked out. We won't get everything done. We never do, but we're way head of where we are usually. The meet will have one sad note. Our good friend Jack Lucks passed away a couple of months ago. He will be missed. The shop building is being dedicated to him.
I'm watching the Blue Man speical on PBS as I write this. It's a very interesting show.
Ed it's good to see that you have your puter problems cleared up. By the way everyone my E-mail address changed. If I hadn't mentioned it before it's " thebeverungs@gmail.com".
Well I'm going to hit the sack. The heat and very high humidity really took it out of me.
Good Evening Coffee Clubbers,
Finally I can report that I have resolved most of the problems with the computer here at home. Managed to locate a decent computer guru who came out and looked at the machine on Monday afternoon. The blockage problem that I had with a lot of sites (like not being able to get to the login screen for this forum) was traced to a malfunctioning Norton program. But it also appeared that the file register was corrupted, and the hard drive needed to be reformatted. So I suppose it's a question of whether the Norton problem was related to the file register problem or not. After heading back to the shop with the machine, turned out that the hard drive itself was slightly damaged and recommended to be replaced. At least it doesn't appear that I have lost any significant amount of data. I finally got the computer back last night.
So, email functioning again, and I can login to Trains.com (only necessary when the computer forgets who I am) and post here. Wow, that was a long struggle to finally get things straightened out. One of the problems with living in a small out of the way place like this.
Things are going well out at the orange grove. We're probably 4 months away from starting to harvest the first of next season's crop. But meanwhile we're bringing home some bananas, papayas, the first mangos from our new trees, and lots of chile pequin (small, hot).
Dick - yup, that must have been some game. The pitching has been holding up pretty well so far. Good effort last night by Beckett too. We'll see how it goes tonight with Tavarez.
Hasta luego
Ed
Good evening to all.....a very slow moving front stalled over us this morning and rained at the rate of 2.3" per hour for short bursts. It has been cloudy, foggy at times, rain at times, and a cool 59F all day. No clearing until tomorrow afternoon. So this was a perfect day to organize the train room a bit, get rid of all the old computer programs that were for win 95, 98, ME, or outdated by newer revs.
I tried to get some train photos that someone sent me in email, into Adobe Photoshop, but they had sent the photos from their AOL account, and for some doggone reason, the program doesn't recognize them. I can save them into a folder in "My Photos" in Xp or Vista OK, but when I try to download in Adobe..no go. This only seems to happen with emails from AOL with photo attachments. They have a >jpeg extension too. I don't have any trouble with photos that others send in email, why AOL ?? Have any of you experienced this problem?
jeffrey-wimberly wrote: pcarrell wrote: BTW, I have no idea where the smilies ad in this post came from. It's not in the post when you veiw it in the preview mode. It looks like the forum software just decided to add it in. It also decided that I had "non-matching quotes" when I went to post, but I checked and it was set up PERFECTLY. This happens to me from time to time. Do you guys get this too?That will happen if there's an "&" in the '[ quote user = "name"]' whether they're lined up perfectly or not.
pcarrell wrote: BTW, I have no idea where the smilies ad in this post came from. It's not in the post when you veiw it in the preview mode. It looks like the forum software just decided to add it in. It also decided that I had "non-matching quotes" when I went to post, but I checked and it was set up PERFECTLY. This happens to me from time to time. Do you guys get this too?
BTW, I have no idea where the smilies ad in this post came from. It's not in the post when you veiw it in the preview mode. It looks like the forum software just decided to add it in. It also decided that I had "non-matching quotes" when I went to post, but I checked and it was set up PERFECTLY. This happens to me from time to time. Do you guys get this too?
Well how about that! Learn something new every day!
So where'd the ad come from?
JimRCGMO wrote: Colby - I guess I shouldn't tell you that our schools down here in Missouri have been off for about two weeks so far, should I? Good that you're about to be off for the summer - do you usually have very many snow days off there?Jim in Cape Girardeau
Colby - I guess I shouldn't tell you that our schools down here in Missouri have been off for about two weeks so far, should I? Good that you're about to be off for the summer - do you usually have very many snow days off there?
actually this year there was only 2 snowdays. one in december or January. the other was on Valintines Day.
Jeff- it's happend with ALL my engines, my 0-6-0 (Bachman), 0-4-0 (modelpower), NYC (unknown), Santa Fe F7 (Life-Like), Santa Fe FA7 can't use cause of the motor trouble. Needs new motor.
I'll get a video on so you can see whats going on.