Sunday, September 27, 2015

Power board breaker tripping?

From last week one of the 10A breakers has been tripping in the power board ?

 

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Above: Went looking in the carport area and found the culprit, old weatherproof power point that I pressed into service when wiring the driveway lights to a sensor switch.

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

New ALDI store for Knox

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We live in Monash with ALDI/Brandon Park only a few minutes drive but still very interested that another ALDI will be opening at 800 Stud Rd, Scoresby.

Monday, September 21, 2015

Car black box recorders – finish off

Car black box recorders are now finally cabled for power, in both cars I've managed to tuck away and hide the cables. Camera automatically starts recording with IGN/ACC on and stops a couple of minutes after IGN is turned off – all good.

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Thursday, September 10, 2015

USB 3.0 PCI card

Computer playtime morning - waiting for the USB 3.0 card to arrive (ETA today) so decided to clean up the corner where Balcony PC sits on a cardboard box to the left of the desk - so pulled everything out to vacuum the area. Also took the side panel off the box and gave it a good vac as well, and double check that the sole PCIe x1 slot is vacant - it is. Not long after courier arrived so we installed the card and included drivers - all OK.

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Sunday, August 30, 2015

Windows 10 upgrades

After upgrading two of my Win 7 Pro desktops about 2 weeks ago found this email in my junk folder. No end to it, this is a new one !

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Friday, August 28, 2015

Maginon - Wireless Rear View Mirror

This has been lying on the dining room table while I've been playing around with the car black box recorders. However...my main priority is to keep moving with the tree pruning, lost a day yesterday with the rain but I should be OK to have it all done by next week when council collection starts.

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Windows 10 update killed my GPU driver

Checking today's weather and screen went blank, then spinning circle followed by pop-up that GPU driver failed to start. Win10 is using generic - check for updates. Ran the Nvidia updater which offered to install the latest driver which is the same version as the one installed - that was replaced with a generic by Windows update !!!

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Another new toy for kitties.