All quiet? Kind of!
Its been very quiet on the project front, at least what I can report on here. The increasing power bills have seen my enterprise servers go into a perpetual “cold and dark” condition. All primary functions are running on the pair of RPi4’s and a single RPi3. There is a big project a foot. I […]
The end of summer in December
This is how my weather station recorded the temperature this morning, for the day 04/01/2022. What we see here is a cold front tracking south and as it arrived so the winds switched from running in from the West to running down from the North. 7 degrees became 3 degrees in about two hours. We […]
More mucking about with HID lamps
So a few things down with the HID lighting project. Firstly I have gone to electronic ballasts. I picked up four units that are much smaller and lighter than the lump of a unit I bought before. I have set two of these up in the workshop. They work well but there is a big […]
Mucking about with HID lamps
Way back in what I believe was 2006 I was in B&Q in Chippenham. They were feeling their way into the Trade side of business and hadn’t yet established their Trade Counter. As a result there was Trade materials on the shop floor. For me that was too much temptation to Tinker. Passing the light […]
Things are a changing
Well, I’m and engineer so what would you expect? This site is now on my new server platform. A monster enterprise system. It is also driving my weather website. Plus I’m doing a bit of staging stuff on it also. Loads of resource.