/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>773896

>>773897
as long as the power is down at the main switch, this is perfectly safe. Otherwise.... surprise BBQ!

>>773900
the good old "americans are this dumb" bait

>>773900
Did you intentionally choose a low quality image with distorted ratio to hide that it's a European plug?

>>773900
>>773899
Fookin yuros man.

>>773896

sure, it's ugly, but who cares? just don't touch it.

>>773896
How about this anon from a couple days ago

>>774052
Sure, it's not that good, but what's wrong about it?

>>774052
shopped.

>>774062
lurk more.

>>774062
It looks shopped because anon didn't stagger the boards and switched direction when he got to the room.

>>774082
I can't remember where this was posted, but it was cringe worthy. Might have even been in the "Work you're proud of" thread. Can't tell whether the one posted here is shopped though.

Here's some O/C.

Thermostat in my fridge went out. So I rigged it up for FULL BLAST.

>>774057
that hallway is crooked as fuck

>>774168
... this an old ass image.

>>774231
That's not nigger rigging, its a perfect acceptable and widely practised technique to replace rare/no longer manufactured capacitors with modern equivalents without wrecking the aesthetic of the device being repaired. If anything, it's the opposite of a nigger rig.

Also, you could have just bent a nail over or cut a sliver from a tin can instead of using the fork you basic motherfucker.

>>774246
Yes, 2200 = 6800.

>>773899
thats actually quite ingenuitive.

>>774246
IIRC in that particular case it was fraud.

>>774057
>what's wrong about it?
joints in the flooring should be staggered - not in a line across the floor

>>774292
Also: direction should match other floor.

>>774052
Jesus Christ...

>>774301
w-what

>>774319
look

>>774033
i dont get it. how are they not getting shocked

>>774134
haha i saved that one as well

>>774168
what am i looking at

>>774301
>>774320
hmmmmmm

>>774322
they arent touching mains earth so current cant flow through their bodies
i guess

>>774322
maybe its distilled water.

>>774155
Well ain't that something...

>>774246
>That's not nigger rigging

Look closer at the ratings on those two caps. It was straight up chinky fraud.

>>774322
earth in the power box would be less resistance than going through the guys. if a fault were to happen they would be safe, assuming the earthing system is up to scratch. or could be running off an isolated transformer or generator, which has no earth, meaning everything is at the same potential as the "hot" (excluding your neutral of course)

>>774246
I'm not the guy with the fork on the fridge controls. It was pointing out the image of the fork/fridge system has been around for a very long time, I doubt the guy's claims are legitimate. Although I do understand that this could be done for aesthetics, others have pointed out the issue.

>>774320
well isnt that cool!

>>774352

This is fine as long as they are using only class 2 equipment.

>>773896
WHAT
THE
FUCK
MAYNG!?

>>774320
Im not sure what to think about this

>place I rent
>don't own it
>know jack shit about electrics
>afraid some shoddy in-wall connection will come loose if I try anything

>>774052
not that bad

>>774155
kek

>>774411
are those power wires on the top right?

>>774417
AFAIK, yes.

>>774322

Thats actually an advertisement for a power strip that they had made. Somebody showed a pic with the original ad stuff around it once.

>>774293
>>774052
I just see a hallway... what am I missing?

>>774320
This could be an innovative style of power plugs, if only he didn't do because of laziness.

>>774320
fun & games til someone spills a glass of water

>>774445

>>774529
I would have accepted the transition if he was planning to tack a threshold onto it.

>>774537
>planning to tack a threshold onto it
should leave a gap and insert a transition strip

>>774411
eandis
Belgium fag

Here's one of my earliest attempts at building a still ages ago (rather an experiment), needless to say I've made a much better one since then

>>774326

>what am i looking at
>op posted a pic
>op posted whats going on

Not sure if cringe, but it should be a big hole in there.

>>774352

This is stupid, why not connect it to the metal catwalk?

>>774620
is he gonna be alright?

>>774620
did he died?

>>774300
Is that a first aid kit?
I don't get it.

>>774622

i believe that the story was that the protocol for using the gen set mandated the use of a grounding pin. which the workers did to prevent paperwork issues

>>774620
I shouldn't laugh, but I actually did. I'm saving that one for next Caturday.

>>774037
Took me a secomd to figure out what i was looking at then i was like.... wait WHAT

>>774642
Yeah.
Used as a junction box.

>>774339

>>774620
This is awesome because I hate cats.

>>774320
The holes will get clogged up with grit pretty quickly. Needs a cover.

>>774651
So edgy

>>774581
i gotta hand it to you man, that's smart.


Got any update pics?

>>774231
I'm assuming the caps inside the fake caps are also fake, since i can't see anyone making fake caps like that getting actual rubycon caps.

kek

>>774037
extension cord bead wired to outlet?

>>774231
What would happen if you used these components at their "rating"

>>773900
>slipper

>>774766
Depends on the application.
But since they are decent sized caps they are probably used in power filtering.
Smaller capacitance does a poorer job of it, and you'd get higher ripple current.
With the lower voltage rating and higher ripple current it's more likely to fail.

>>773946

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMuJKsUjD_o

>What could possibly be the problem?

>>774744
Yeah, here one I soldered together with copper pipes a few years later, this time with a real reflux cooling system (there's a pump in the bucket and the hose leading outside is connected to a radiator + fan)

>>774790
That's amazing. Stupid, but amazing.
Is there a term for this I can read up on? I would like to know more and how it works.

>>774322
perhaps they didnt plug the power strip in?

>>774830
It's a mast antenna, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mast_radiator

It's just a hugely powerful AM transmitter connected straight to the metal in the mast, putting a pretty big AC voltage into it.

>>774411
I'm no electrician but i think you have a problem.
:P (Just stating the obvious for my own amusement)

>>774858
Thanks m8

>>774581
>>774809
I admire your inventiveness (and the cringeworthiness of #1; #2 is sweet), but if I could offer one suggestion it's that you shouldn't heat your mixture directly. If it's small(ish) scale like you've shown, it's safer (and just as effective) to heat a pot of water on the heater with your distillation flask/vessel in the hot water. This gives you passive, built in temperature control (the water will never get hotter than 100ºC), whereas the temperature of the hot plate can be considerably higher.

>>774744
Well I never evaporate the whole kettle content, I usually stop when I have around 1/4 of the volume as distillate, because at this point almost all of the ethanol will be over. So I don't have the issue of anything getting burned at the bottom
Still this already takes easily half an hour if not more, going via an oil or even water bath will make it take forever

>>774411
>move to a new apartment
>lights are wired weirdly, its hard to explain
>buddy is electrician, I'll invite him over and ask
>he spends about ten minutes poking around outlets and looking around
>gives me a weird look and says I should probably move

Apartments always worry me a bit. After spotting so many flaws or lazy mistakes in basic shit you wonder how well the important stuff was done. Then there is whether your neighbor is going to pass out from a Wednesday night binge with a smoke in their mouth or while trying to cook.

>>774052
I explained why I did that when you commented how it was so cringeworthy. The rest of the floor in the main area was staggered, I didn't stagger that portion of the floor and I may do so later, I just wanted to get it in right now. It looks passable for now and it's a fairly narrow hallway.

I don't know why you're being so autistic like I've made the most grievous of errors.

Just chill, I'll post a pic when I stagger it properly and continue it in the same pattern.

>>774914
Oops, only realise now that I misquoted, was supposed for >>774898

>>774830
One thing to note is the current through their bodies is equal to the current through the plants.

>>774632
He's gonna be all right lil Tommy.........

>>774320
This looks like the electrical outlet version of a glory hole

>>774265
Except for the fact that its not meant to work on that voltage... thats why they are different plugs

>>775029
looks like an iPad or phone charger
>input 100vac - 240vac

>>773896
For fucks sake, whoever did that needs to at least invest in some shrink tubing.

>>775029
phone chargers normally accept both voltages

>>775029
Those things prongs like slide off. You can buy all the diff plugs.

>>774320
Serious fire hazard right there.

>>775090
It's actually a standard figure-eight underneath. You can use a figure-eight lead.

>>775021
lol

>>774037
>Stupid kid
>Trying to steal light switch from wall to use switch on electricity to model rocket fuse
>Switch was for a power outlet
>Touched golden screw
>SCREEEEEEEAM

Ah, this thread again.

Same posts, too.

>>774790
I'm not sure I'd feel comfortable being that close to a broadcasting radio tower.

>>774411
holy shit, this looks like the electrical room at a Vet that my uncle and I wired. we didn't do the electrical, thank god, but we ran all the Cat5 and did all the networking. allegedly the electrician was going to clean up the room, he just threw it together quick so the carpenter(the vet's husband) could start work on the building.

>>775231
diy is a slow board

>>774231

have actually done this with old paper caps on an AO-29 amp

>>775275

nevermind

>dem values

>>774322

trolls dont conduct electricity

>>774620
I is in ur junctionbox fixing ur Megavoltz

>>775291
Smirked

>>775291
My megavoltz iz fine; is jiggawhatz needs fixes.

>>774134
Looks like it was cut to fit an actual indoor catflap, in which case the cut doesn't need to be tidy as the catflap's borders will hide it anyway.

>>774976
Your retarded. Enjoy your floor coming apart in a couple months.

>>776116
>Your retarded.
>Your
>retarded
Judging from the post you're referring to, I'd wager he knows to write "You're retarded"
>now who looks like a retard?

>>776116

>>776160
>>776161
Samefag

>>775269
No, I am not new here (Though, somehow in the last coupe of months, things have gone quite downhill, and many of you assholes are new).

I mean that many of the same images that were in the thread a few months ago (and the one before that) are being discussed. Only new ones seem to be a few first or second-hand ones from recent threads here. There were some better ones back then, too.

>>774155

I feel like any shop that has air piped in should also have a couple pipe taps and dies...

Okay, but then why did you put the ground rod in?!

>>773900
'mericans

>>777490
1/10
Made me reply
Plugs are European
Troll, troll, troll.

>>775251
Lame Metal Boxes they got us keeping our 'Puters in.

>>777492
He should have posted it in the zip tie thread.

>>773899

i mean come on

>>773900

fresh water does not conduct electricity

nothing wrong with this

>>773896
I found out an 360 power brick could power a car amp and proceeded to do it. I don't have pics but it surprising works.

>>777506
>it surprising works.

>>777509
360 powet brick got it's own cooling system and a surge protector, reason it is so massive. Probably could be a power supply for a Custom PC as well. A big TIL for me.

>>777506
it's meant to output 12V @ ~16A. should be able to tweak it to do ~13.8V

>>773896
I just finished building a board to add a fan and panel voltmeter to my power supply. All salvaged components save for the wires. I think it's cringeworthy, as I can't solder SMD onto pads with solder on them worth a shit without two third hands. I also can't ever feed the right amount onto these ever.

>>777527
well the pic isnt exactly clear enough to judge the the circuit..
but I dont see it as cringe worth if its not shorting out.
The only thing going against you is it looks like you ran it through a garbage disposal or found it in the road or something.

But if it works, congrats on being non wasteful.

>ctrl-f
>no mention of Arduino
Literally
L I T E R A L L Y
anything Arduino-powered.

Also the rest of the Instructables.com meme components/techniques: Altoids tins, paracord wrapped, 3d printed, laser cut... I was legit butthurt and careangery when that whole 3d printed AR lower shit started popping off.

>>777527
SMD components are not meant to be soldered with humans hand.
It could have gone worse.

>>777728
>>777703
Yay. That actually made my night. I'm rather new to actually soldering smd stuff onto protoboards and that is very rewarding.
At least to me it doesn't look very sturdy. I have another 8 pin lm317 regulating voltage for indicator LEDs soldered deadbug style, but that's too small to take a good picture of. As for the chipping on the package, I got impatient and used the wrong sized plier to pull of the larger tab as I heated it, the braid wasn't wicking all the solder underneath the heatsink pad when I removed it. then the hunt for the two resistors to set 12V was rather annoying but it saves on size. The protoboard is the a bit I cut off from a larger circuit that I've kept.
>>777728
yeah, I know. I just don't like being complacient with it. If there's any way I could improve it I'd like to know.

>>777713
instructables.com is full of morons these days

>>777768
lots and lots of flux

but not too much

>>777792
>>777793
>>777795
>>777798
>>777799
Oh, this looks like what my life will be like after university.
Sweet.

>>774411
Messy but you got all the stuff there. Just don't touch...any of it

>>777795

...are those door strikeplates being used to anchor copper pipe?

>>777828
so it seems

>>774052
This guy should kill himself
>>774134
That could be salvageable depending on the trim width of the pet door.
>>777795
The steel crash plates will react with the copper pipe and cause them to erode prematurely. One of the 10 things wrong with that picture.

>>777777

>>777792
>>777793
>>777795
>>777798
>>777799
Reminds me of some of the apartments I've fixed for my landlord, especially the bathroom. I'd ask why other college students take such shit care of their living space but I don't give a fuck since when I fix their messes I get deductions off my rent.

>>774037
This guy should work for Glade.

Plug it in, plug it in.

>>774581
proper nigger riggin

>>777795
Fucking strike plates, really?

I do professional flooring and would have HD to buy that job.

>>777527
>>777703
>>777768

Im the guy in the middle that made the garbage disposal comment.

Now that Im not drunk that looks even better, All I was focused on was the chipped silicone edges and I saw a bunch of shiney so it gave me memories of random shit found in the street.

Yea good job on the surface mount stuff, better than I would could do probably.
What the hell inspired you to salvage and use surface mount stuff anyway?

>>778322
>What the hell inspired you to salvage and use surface mount stuff anyway?
Practice.
I want some practice desoldering SMT and since I found some usable things(lm317's, darlington, resistors, etc) on this random board from a scrap projector I decided to have my way with it and actually have a goal to faffing about with SMT and trying different techniques. Better to learn on something in leisure than when you actually have to.

>>775251
That's kind of cool... must be bad for dust though

>>775251
great for temps, shit for dust
was a common practice among altcoin gpu miners until that stopped being profitable

>>777497
yes it does, there's plenty of ions in tap water to conduct electricity. you're thinking of deionized water.

>>777713
What's so bad abOUt arduinos?

>>778504
Nothing, there's just a few butthurt faggots out there who get mad about them because we now have one of the simplest SBC's out there, and they are STILL to dense to be able to do anything meaningful with them.

>>778504
It's fine to begin learning. It's not the end of the road though.
Some of the community feels like a sect sometimes.

>>777776
so close to >>777777

>>774352
>>774622
>>774644

Well, it's grounded anyway since the pin is leaning on the metal railing.

>>777798
Jesus some people..

>>778431
>great for temps
Bullshit. Closed airflow is better.

>>779896

Only if you have proper ductwork for the relevant heat-generating components, which, to my knowledge, no off-the-shelf case does.

>>779896
> a closed box which holds heat (and therefore requires fans to move fresh cool air in) is more efficient than an open box which allows heat to convect away naturally.

/g/ pls go.

>>779907
No. He's saying directed airflow is better than free for all air flow. And it is.
>Roughly stated
Heat just lingers around like that. With an airstream it forces the heat out.

>>779913
>lingers around like that
Lingers around where? Hot air rises, its an open box, there is nowhere for it to get caught. Lrn2thermodynamics.

>>774052
Jesus Christ... I did mine a while back and even I knew to stagger the boards. Yes it involves cutting to fit duh.

>>779979
dat spacing tho *shrug*

>>780042
>*action*

>>779914

Natural convective currents are much slower and less adept at carrying away heat than forced airflow. A fan is always better than a passive heatsink.

Trust me on this one, it's a pain when designing a piece of electronics to decide whether to spend the space/money for a bigger heatsink or use a small one and design to deal with the inevitable failure of the fan.

>>777497
Yes but if you're sat in a pool sweating and spilling beer it becomes conductive, not quite as bad as some people might think but still, would you do it?

This stuff is more horrifying to me than actual gore photos.

>Accuracy
>Can't into spelling

Insert facepalm here. Seriously. Want free caliper? Email them something along the lines of "your site has a serious accuracy-related flaw, but you must send me a free caliper after I point it out..."

Dayum... one of the reasons they teach us spelling lessons as early as grade school. Things like this makes me cringe.

>>780333
>$709 caliper

>>777728
>SMD components are not meant to be soldered with humans hand
but that's the fun part anon.

the smallest i've worked with had inhalation warnings, i wish i took some pictures.

here's a common 0603 ESD suppressor i have to install on the norm

>>779979
cutting is the best part when staggering the boards in my opinion. i like precision work

>>774976
why the fuck would someone put their floor together and PLAN on taking it apart and redoing it? That's even more stupid than just half-assing it and letting it be. What the fuck. I'm mad.

>>773896
Is that a "southern union" splice?