Friday, January 27, 2012
Banking with the BDO
While travelling it would be nice to use Internet banking to check things are all in order. Asking the helpful teller she informed me i must print a form from the website to enable online access. I'm sure their is 2 options but she is very sure about printing the form and bringing it back into the bank is the only option.
Going online to print the form i have 2 options "print the form" or a much easier option to enter a number at any atm to confirm my online request.
Know your products, it makes you look good.
Friday, January 20, 2012
90 10 theory @ mactan shrine
10% selling what only 10% have.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Sunday, January 15, 2012
The magic earth cable. 2pin to 3 pin 220v
Devices often use an earth pin for safety and interference reasons but many houses only have the 2 pin power connection. No trouble! This type of cable is available in your local grocery store! Very illegal in some country but very handy in the Philippines ;)
old RG59 tv coax used to bridge a 220volt 40AMP circuit breaker!
If you had the choice of using a piece of fig8 power lead from an extension cable or an old piece of tv cable, what one would you use to bridge the terminals of a faulty house circuit breaker. The cable was rated at 220v 8Amps and the coax is well not rated for any real current at all... It's for signal and maybe a small amount of current to power a masthead amp (milliamperes).
The centre core is very fine compared to most other tv or radio coax let alone a cable used for power.
The outer-diameter is larger than the other cables due to insulation and an outer shield of foil and even finer wire.
This seems a little odd to me lucky this guy was an engineer!
After feeling the cable get warm i replaced it with the available power cable. Why things couldn't wait until the next day is the fridge full of food and the power was already out all day.
I replaced the circuit breaker the following day, yes its dangerous working with live power. It does hurt but does not kill as often as you think, you much more likely to be hit by a car while walking. In this case the house might have burned down, risking the life's of my family... Yea leave it to the experts! Let them kill you!
Pacific Ocean located between North and South America
Ability to read maps isn't a requirement for people to write school science books.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Sun Cellular Tower Location In Cebu | YugaTech | Philippines, Tech
Searching for sun cell tower locations in Cebu, as i have no signal and would like to know where
to stand or jump around to get signal. Trying a few different search terms in good-ol-google i get this at the top of the page.
Sun Cellular Tower Location In Cebu | YugaTech | Philippines, Tech ...
www.yugatech.com/.../sun-cellular-tower-loca... - Isalin ang pahinang ito
Our friends from Western Digital in the region is holding another contest and I'd like to invite our readers here to join in. Prizes include Western Digital HDDs and ...
2 (na) beses mong binisita ang pahinang ito. Huling binisita noong: 1/12/12
Looks good, Description is off but the title is exactly what i want. Not one item relating to Sun or Tower locations. Just a large amount of advertising. Maybe there was once content here, maybe a code error or i wonder how many page titles they have matching common search terms that lead to not just advertising but unrelated advertising.
Looking at the rest of the site they have some decent articles and some as short as mine.
Rather interesting stuff from a dodgy link!
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
A flat tyre in the pouring rain!
My 2nd flat tyre in as many weeks. Rather i'm very lucky or the very cheap repair cost of the tyres original hole was of quality matching the cost!
So it's pouring rain and i can hear the air rushing out of the tyre, with the rain getting worse its change or get stuck time. Change! Nothing wrong with a bit of mud and rain.
Just like the last time a passing local stops to help. Putting down his banana leaf that he was using as an umbrella without words he helps find timber to put under the jack. On a main road in the middle of no-where i wonder if anyone would stop and help back in Australia.
So it's pouring rain and i can hear the air rushing out of the tyre, with the rain getting worse its change or get stuck time. Change! Nothing wrong with a bit of mud and rain.
Just like the last time a passing local stops to help. Putting down his banana leaf that he was using as an umbrella without words he helps find timber to put under the jack. On a main road in the middle of no-where i wonder if anyone would stop and help back in Australia.
Monday, January 9, 2012
Diatabs Antimotility
When travelling it's good to have a bag full of these ;)
Loperamide
Diatabs
2mg Capsule
Antimotility
Not always working but any help is good when desperate.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Australian Schilling at the GPC MONEY CHANGER
You might be really old if you know what a Schilling is!
OUTDOOR HIGH POWER WiFi USB
Above we have a photo of the antenna and the radio under the antenna.
I was expecting maybe a bi-quad for the antenna, known for easy design, good gain and directional. This thing has a large reflector with the coax entering via the middle to the above antenna. The shielding is connected to the reflector and only the centre of the coax comes through to the this antenna that is fed from the centre.
Given the wavelength we are working with is only just over 12cm, the track length for the driven element is huge. The coax has no shield once it passes the reflector so i gather from that point we have the active part of the antenna. In the first part of the vertical part that leaves the middle we have almost half a wavelength distance up and down and almost a full wavelength in the rest of the track to those little squares.
The antenna is directional and does appear to give some gain over a dipole i compared with. So it must be a good design just wish i knew the name of it.
The radio uses a realtek RTL-8187L and we have what appears to be a pair of amps on board! That and we have a sticker with 1W/OK on it looks good. Not taking it as gospel as claims don't have to be proven in this country to be written on a product. You can have a car with a sticker say "1million miles an hour guaranteed!" yea why not. Just to be on the safe side i'm not going to stand near it when connected.
OUTDOOR HIGH POWER WIRELESS USB ADAPTER
| (LP-9387) |
| OUTDOOR HIGH POWER WIRELESS USB ADAPTER |
| Php 2,380.00 from cd-r king |
Weather proof case against rugged environment (mmmm ok)• Up to 54Mbps high data-rate and 1W high output power
• USB 2.0 interface and UPnP
• Supports 64/128-bit WEP encryption, advanced WPA/WPA2/802.1x for WLAN security
• Support SoftAP function - allows user to create AP function at your computer
With all the usual stuff from 2 years ago (pre 802.11n). I find the output rating and antenna design interesting. 16db from the radio (40mw?) and a 14db antenna gives the theoretical 1WATT!
A 1w radio connected to a 14db antenna would be a respectable amount of power.
Comparing the performance to an old Netgear WG111v1 it was a good improvement on signal stability to a distant AP (2km). My best distance with the WG111v1 was 16km using a reflector. Reason for using the old old v1 and not the v2 is the radio sensitivity. The v2 was deaf.
With this unit the external enclosure is not perfect but it's great for the price.
More antenna photos and radio info coming soon!
Friday, January 6, 2012
Coido 12V DC 300PSI Tire Inflator FAIL
Fail or epic fail. But for a little over 1000PHP one would be silly to think this would be any better than a bike pump...
I'm not sure what the 300PSI on the unit stands for it has nothing to do with pressure as the unit fails to pump around 30psi. Not that its easy to tell the exact pressure as the LCD pressure display is constantly jumping between 12psi and 55psi.
This 300PSI pump is clearly for air mattresses and balloons, not tyres of any pressure. Picture on the front of the box might show a car tyre but in my experience i lost more air from the tyre.
Perhaps the unit requires a little more voltage so i started the car then plugged the unit back into the lighter and attempted to inflate the tyre that is now lower in pressure after my first attempt.
Same kind of result, i have to start the pump before connecting to the tyre or the motor will just not pump. Now the LCD screen is blank and showing nothing but guessing from the state of the tyre it's not doing much. 5 Minutes later the unit is noticeably hot and the tyre looks the same. Removing the unit i checked the pressure to find it has once again lost pressure.
Data:
I'm not sure what the 300PSI on the unit stands for it has nothing to do with pressure as the unit fails to pump around 30psi. Not that its easy to tell the exact pressure as the LCD pressure display is constantly jumping between 12psi and 55psi.
This 300PSI pump is clearly for air mattresses and balloons, not tyres of any pressure. Picture on the front of the box might show a car tyre but in my experience i lost more air from the tyre.
Perhaps the unit requires a little more voltage so i started the car then plugged the unit back into the lighter and attempted to inflate the tyre that is now lower in pressure after my first attempt.
Same kind of result, i have to start the pump before connecting to the tyre or the motor will just not pump. Now the LCD screen is blank and showing nothing but guessing from the state of the tyre it's not doing much. 5 Minutes later the unit is noticeably hot and the tyre looks the same. Removing the unit i checked the pressure to find it has once again lost pressure.
Data:
- Original test voltage 12.5v voltage drop after pump started was only .3.
- Engine running voltage was 13.7 with no voltage drop after starting the pump.
- Start pressure was 28psi, then 27psi, then just under 27psi respectively.
27.500.0MHz Cebu
I have noticed in two hotels the spec graph with 27.5mhz as the centre freq on one of the lower channels. Why would this be broadcast for all to see? I'm very interested in why!
Just stabbing in the dark and guessing the high spikes are people chatting using only 6khz wide carrier than the span of the graph is only around 1mhz (27-28mhz) ?
Maybe someone is a keep DXer and is watching for the band to open up? The spec is noticeable more noisy or more sensitive at the lower end of the band as the average noise level is higher.
Any extra info on this one please do leave a comment!
Just stabbing in the dark and guessing the high spikes are people chatting using only 6khz wide carrier than the span of the graph is only around 1mhz (27-28mhz) ?
Maybe someone is a keep DXer and is watching for the band to open up? The spec is noticeable more noisy or more sensitive at the lower end of the band as the average noise level is higher.
Any extra info on this one please do leave a comment!
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