Comment Re:Build your own... (Score 1) 248
He probably can, what he can't do is sell that to normal folks cheap...
He probably can, what he can't do is sell that to normal folks cheap...
Police? There in minutes when seconds count - if you're lucky. What thieves don't want is attention. People looking, people noting license tags, people calling the cops. If an alarm sounds in my home the very last thing I'm thinking is going to save me is the police but I will have been warned of trouble. Screw monitoring, I want NOISE and I want LIGHT! If you were a thief would you be robbing the home with the motion sensed lights and alarm warnings or the dark home with no signs or intrusion detection? Low hanging fruit is what scum look for.
Watch the video I linked - he tests several bulbs for power, heat, RF, and for light output. I think he may disassemble them at the end too but I ran out of time to watch earlier. There ARE good bulbs out there and he found at least one brighter than an equal incandescent as I recall...
I still have a small number of CFL around. I hate them and I really hate that when I flip the switch I can see a lag before I have light but they do work. I have a small number of outside lights that are CFL too and I too leave them on. Flipping them on and off is a PITA, seems to shorten their life, and the cold gets to them as well. I had a timer on the front porch lights but it's apparently died so they simply stay on - the replacement timer refused to work and with the old timer they flickered even when off
Closer to $10 but sure for something you'll never have to replace why not?
You aren't looking at the same LED I am then. I've got some 60watt Cree bulbs and ended up having to go back for some 40 watt bulbs because they were too bright! All of the Phillips bulbs with the phosphor in them I have are also nice and bright, I love them! I've yet to try and 100watt replacements other than my flood lights but so far the floods provide more light than I need so I'm happy. Those 60watt Cree bulbs use about 12watts BTW.
All you have to do is look at the luman rating of the bulb to see what you're getting. There's a guy on YouTube who tests bulbs too who can give you additional insight as well. Here's one of them -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-m5Nu6N5-g
Bingo! They were flashed to be dumb controllers. If they fail I won't have some weird striping and odd weird file system to try and recover. unRAID uses ReiserFS so if need be I can yank a drive and slap it into another machine to recover it. I trust the software RAID like FreeNAS much more so than I do a used SAS card I got off of FleaBay nice and cheap
Heat is the bane of LED, they overheat and then they go POP! I don't know just how cold you could make them before they aren't happy but they do produce heat so they ought to be able to brighten up fairly quickly if the cold dimmed them. Auto manufacturers are moving to them bigtime, that and lasers for headlights. They're more reliable for sure unless solder joints or power supply go bad.
Yes, I was agreeing with you
Wow aren't you the entitled little prick? These guys are working their asses off well over a normal work week full of hours to try and fulfill a larger than predicted volume of demand doing physical work and THIS is your attitude? This doesn't sound to me like the guy is sucking at his job but rather being asked to do a good bit more than should be expected. It's a Christmas holiday, a time for people to be together with loved ones, and you're angry at people who gave that up to deliver packages for everyone else? Don't you get that it's not about gifts? Be happy you have someone to spend it with who will surely understand if something is late due to circumstances you don't control. Just wow....
Check your tracking info on the precious package that has you so excited. As others have pointed out, when you make the order companies print out a shipping label which produces a tracking number - even if they don't HAVE the item. It now shows up as being tracked but has often never left their premises and may not even be in stock. I see this nearly every time I order from NewEgg for instance. Then after a day or so (maybe because I never spend the extra for their "rush" processing) the thing shows up on a truck on it's way. I won't be surprised if your's has yet to show up on a truck and is instead just a label awaiting stock to go out.
That does sound like volume to me. It went on a delivery truck along with a zillion other packages and the guy simply couldn't make it to all of the stops before he was forced to end his day - so it was returned to go out the next day on another delivery truck. Does that not sound like a volume issue?
I too ordered some things late and I had no great expectation they would arrive despite my promised date. To my surprise they did manage to show up and except for one package that's supposed to show up today (and was predicted that way too) all went well. I think overall these guys did an awesome job and while I understand for some it could be pretty frustrating were it not for these services we wouldn't have ANY expectation of being able to shop so late. Heaven forbid we're all forced to go back to the hell that is a mall just days before Christmas!
On my server? I have 3 SAS cards. Two of them are passed through to a VM along with a USB bridge so that it can see it's license key and run it's NAS software just as if it was on a standalone machine. That software is unRAID and it works well for mass storage that need not be fast and saves power by sleeping drives when not in use. Been using it for years on standalone hardware with a cat and dog collection of drives totaling about 30TB..
The 3rd SAS card is passed through to another VM running FreeNAS. FreeNAS is higher performance and can do iSCSI, ZFS, and other things. Currently I have a few drives hooked to it providing an NFS mount to the ESXi software for VM storage. It's also SMB shared for easy access.
The system boots from a USB stick into ESXi and a small SSD provides storage for the PLOP boot disk for unRAID (long story) and for FreeNAS. I also store some ISO on it for easy access. I may setup some additional storage to play with iSCSI on something I can afford to wipe and may do some ZFS on FreeNAS or OpenSolaris sometime soon - still deciding. Currently the ESXi server runs multipe Linux, Turn-key Linux, and one Win7 VM. I've gotten OSX to boot on it but the mods made the whole thing quirky and I gave up on that one.
Hardware passthru is normally used for things like USB, RAID cards, weird peripherals via ports etc. but some do use video cards for some reason like say a VM for password cracking. I think some people load multiple cards for central video distribution too via various VM but I've never tried it.
Hope that helps
Ya because how smart would it be to make a replacement bulb for billions of devices that OBTW ran so much hotter it was a hazard? Any chance they would've thought of that? Yeesh! Double envelope has got to be what's keeping them cooler if indeed the capsule is somehow smaller.
What exactly is making the LED dim? CFL are indeed crap unless you buy quickstart and those are likely only available in tubes. But LED? NO reason why they shouldn't be plenty bright in the cold. No gas in them, solid state electronics too. An issue can be the electronic connects maybe but otherwise? No issue should be had...
http://www.coastportland.com/blog/led-flashlights-and-cold-temperatures-effects-on-performance/
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca9ZP8mDQJ8
My comment related to BS is the sheer bucketfulls of crap I hear people repeating word of mouth about LED which is what it sounded like you were repeating. Yeah, really cold weather where you're at causes problems guys down South don't see but this shouldn't be one of them. LED are pretty much solid state and with the cold they might even last longer.
Hardware passthru, I already do this for RAID cards on my ESX setup. I know others who do it with GPU, no biggie.
One man's constant is another man's variable. -- A.J. Perlis
