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armedoldhippy

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it depends upon your unique hearing loss.
my aids don't help me hear my wife, she still talks while facing away from me. :dunno: it's not like she ever says anything i want to hear though. what i really missed, wanted HAs for, was to be able to hear wild turkeys gobbling. damn things could be under a hundred yards off and i couldn't HEAR them ! i used to be able to hear them over a quarter mile (or farther) away if conditions were right...
 

lumberjack.mr

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I am looking for a movie. From the 80s - 90s I think.

The plot as far as I remember. Consists of a family living in the mountains. The family faces dangers like bears, mountain lions and extreme winters. They build their own snowshoes. :ROFLMAO:

Anyone got in idea what movie i mean?
Robinson family?
 

lumberjack.mr

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After everything I’ve endured, and endeavor still, I grow now more for the beauty of the primal realm. I do t grow more than I personally need, and I don’t “contribute “ to the process. There is something inherently wholesome about planting a seed, putting in the effort to create something that is really extraordinary. It’s not about the game anymore, not the unspoken challenge to have the best in the room with your friends, just personal gratification on a personal level. It’s about knowing when someone offers you a pull off of their best, it’s a step below and smile to yourself. After 40 years of trying and having great results, and some not so great, and the last ten years of warehouses, I’ve seen it come full circle. The awesome, and the appalling. I’m back to being just an old stereotypical, country boy grown up- that loves his smoke.
 

moose eater

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Haha no but thx mate i searched it again and got lucky. :LOL:
The Adventures of the Wilderness Family
I found it and am watching it now. Sort of a Disney genre or such.

Like a slightly more family version of Grizzly Adams in a way. Something to cook oven-fried chicken thighs to. :)

Free on YouTube with ads.

 

Ca++

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My F&D build, was just the F. It failed in minutes, and though I pulled the controller (P&P) and sat it on my table 48h, I could see nothing wrong. Installed again... dead in minutes. The low power relays are so weak, they can't be laid down, or they won't lift the armature many times. Just not a fault I was looking for, until I started turning the things around in my hands, looking at the condition LEDs.
New board ordered, but working for now. I just can't lay it on it's back, which is how I set it all up neatly. £1.50 a board, but hot glued in. Not my best moment.

Pic for reference, if you were to build with such boards. As I have a few times, but perhaps this was a bad batch. These little blue relays are said to have reliability issues. I guess this is it.
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If instead you are new to them, they are sold as optocouplers. There is no optocoupler, but the ridiculously low signal needed to get the relay to move, is ideal for the little reed switch in floats.
I couldn't get a 12v double throw timer, so the individual relay has to do that. The timer tells it to supply the flood board relay, or the drain board. It's always one or the other. These relays then allow that pump to run, or not, based on float position. Really easy tbh.

Edit: Just for those about to copy.. the timer is wired wrong internally. It switches the negative only. The positive is common to both power and switch. Both pos terminals, connected together, which I have taken advantage of. Which would make zero sense, if you applied logic or the timer instructions.

edit2, the front, laid down, how it fails.
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