Ken Hill wrote:
Well guess what? I rarely post photos but i do look every day snd l ”like” what I see.
Last Monday i was jogging along my road where the “brilliant” HOA had “ripple strips” installed on the road for pedestrian safety. They do not slow down speeders at all. However, I did manage to trip and fall while negotiating the strips. Broke my left hip. Had to hitch hike home. I was up and walking the day after surgery.
I need instruction from Curtiss how to behave like a country gent!
Busy week but must have been trying to make up for it, came back with 150 pictures today. Nippi pictures incoming, well in a couple hours as I review and decide which ones to post. Prob about 20 of them were with the 20 3.5 UD, the rest all are Nippi's doing.
Good to see your market pics again Leighton.
Lovely colours, such vibrancy especially the 2nd pic.
The arrangement, Fuji colours and your skills combine beautifully in these.
leighton w wrote:
A few from the market this morning with the 55/2.8 ais and Fuji X-S10.
Why do I get the feeling that Ken was running in the road ? 🤔🙄😁
Care to comment Ken ? Enquiring minds and all that ?
James Markus wrote:
Ken, I hope you heal fast. Maybe a buzz around mobility scooter for getting around - and sue the HOA. There is no reason to have those strips where pedestrians walk - IMO.
Jim
Hope you are healing well, look after yourself mate !
Andy
Ken Hill wrote:
Well guess what? I rarely post photos but i do look every day snd l ”like” what I see.
Last Monday i was jogging along my road where the “brilliant” HOA had “ripple strips” installed on the road for pedestrian safety. They do not slow down speeders at all. However, I did manage to trip and fall while negotiating the strips. Broke my left hip. Had to hitch hike home. I was up and walking the day after surgery.
I need instruction from Curtiss how to behave like a country gent!
And an American Kestrel. A group of folks that take care of birds of prey in western Maryland and Pennsylvania had brought in several hawks and owls. I have never come across a kestrel before.
leighton w wrote:
APC backups are great. I have them on our desktops and router and I should get one for the entertainment center.
At the risk of hijacking, I have my own pro-APC story to tell. I have multiple APC backups on multiple PC, as well as on the entertainment gear, all of which worked flawlessly. When we had a nearby lightning strike to a tree just outside of the house, I had a stereo amplifier and speakers destroyed by the lightning. Interestingly the lightning surge did not come through the power line, which was APC-protected. The wires going to the speakers that ran along an outside wall acted to induct current from the nearby strike, and the amplifier's output section was toasted when the power surge came in from the back end of the amplifier.
In that case the APC device did it's job to protect the power input, but it was those long speaker cables picked up an inductive current from the lightning strike and fried the amp. Examination of the power amp showed that the current got picked up through induction via the speaker wires, flowed backwards to the amp's output, smoked the relay that disconnects the amp from the speakers when powered off, and spread backwards to take out a few output transistors, a power meter, and some support electronics in the power amp section. The amp was a constructive total but an electronics repair hobbyist was able to get it working again (without the meters that are unobtainium).
If you plan to protect your home entertainment system, you can mitigate damage by unplugging any long runs of cabling during storms, especially if you have wiring that runs along an outside wall. Having an AC-powered relay that is controlled by the amp's on-off switch, that disconnects the speaker terminals from the amp , might also be helpful to mitigate the extent of damage in the rare case of a nearby lightning strike. It may seem like overkill, but if you have high end electronics it's worth it.
cadman342001 wrote:
Good to see your market pics again Leighton.
Lovely colours, such vibrancy especially the 2nd pic.
The arrangement, Fuji colours and your skills combine beautifully in these.
coralnut wrote:
At the risk of hijacking, I have my own pro-APC story to tell. I have multiple APC backups on multiple PC, as well as on the entertainment gear, all of which worked flawlessly. When we had a nearby lightning strike to a tree just outside of the house, I had a stereo amplifier and speakers destroyed by the lightning. Interestingly the lightning surge did not come through the power line, which was APC-protected. The wires going to the speakers that ran along an outside wall acted to induct current from the nearby strike, and the amplifier's output section was toasted when the power surge came in from the back end of the amplifier.
In that case the APC device did it's job to protect the power input, but it was those long speaker cables picked up an inductive current from the lightning strike and fried the amp. Examination of the power amp showed that the current got picked up through induction via the speaker wires, flowed backwards to the amp's output, smoked the relay that disconnects the amp from the speakers when powered off, and spread backwards to take out a few output transistors, a power meter, and some support electronics in the power amp section. The amp was a constructive total but an electronics repair hobbyist was able to get it working again (without the meters that are unobtainium).
If you plan to protect your home entertainment system, you can mitigate damage by unplugging any long runs of cabling during storms, especially if you have wiring that runs along an outside wall. Having an AC-powered relay that is controlled by the amp's on-off switch, that disconnects the speaker terminals from the amp , might also be helpful to mitigate the extent of damage in the rare case of a nearby lightning strike. It may seem like overkill, but if you have high end electronics it's worth it.
You are absolutely correct about the ultimate protection from lightning damage by unplugging.
The one thing I learned about lightning in my 20 year career with the power company, is that lightning does what it wants too. I have seen damage that one would never guess came from lightning.
The rumble strip doesn't need to go edge to edge on the road. Water run off, walking (jogging) pedestrians, and migrating flightless birds should be afforded that consideration.
cadman342001 wrote:
Why do I get the feeling that Ken was running in the road ? 🤔🙄😁
Care to comment Ken ? Enquiring minds and all that ?
And an American Kestrel. A group of folks that take care of birds of prey in western Maryland and Pennsylvania had brought in several hawks and owls. I have never come across a kestrel before.
And an American Kestrel. A group of folks that take care of birds of prey in western Maryland and Pennsylvania had brought in several hawks and owls. I have never come across a kestrel before.
