My soldering irons and myself have become very familiar with one another. I've gotten involved in a very large soldering project.

Basically I've purchased 200 solar cells (3 inch by 6 inch) and am building 4 solar panels with them. I intend to wire them up in such a way to get about a 50 volt output DC of course and a bit less than 350 watts. I will ( Read more... )

Anyone know how taxation on imported goods works? I want to import a product from Australia that I would purchase online and it does say they do international shipping to the world, not just Australia and New Zealand. It is a pure sine wave power inverter that converts 12V DC to 240V AC @ 50-60Hz with less than 3% total harmonic distortion though ( Read more... )

So I've always had from around 120 to 125 volts at my house, usually about 122ish. I don't really check it on a regular basis but I usually end up doing it every few weeks or so because of something that I am doing ( Read more... )

So my 21st birthday is on Saturday. I'm not really looking forward to it or anything but whatever, that is when it is. I have to make sure I go and get a new drivers license by then too since mine expires then because I'll be turning 21 and that's when I have to get a true adult drivers license and not have that dumb looking kids license anymore ( Read more... )

Sorry people, this is for a post on another website so that people can look at what I'm talking about, I can't figure out how to get the LJ cut thing to work so it's very long, I spent like 30 minutes messing with it and then figured the hell with it. You can delete me if it's too long to show in your friends list as I don't really use LJ that much ( Read more... )

I have a bunch of hard drives in my desktop computer. They are my 160 gig system drive and then a 40 gig Linux drive and then I've also got a 120 and 250 gig drive packed full to the brim with various data of mine for storage with the data on the 250 gig drive the most valuable to me then anything else ( Read more... )

I'm pissed off that I spent over 4 hours working on my generator trying to get it to work properly and failed to accomplish getting it to work properly when I needed it the most. I even changed the oil half way through working on it in the cold snow because the breather was outputting considerable amounts of steam that one might think I was ( Read more... )

So the front right wheel on my car has been making a variety of abnormal noises the past month or so and they just recently got much more noticible and changed in tone. It feels like a branch is stuck between the tire and the car but there isn't one. I emailed my grandfather in Colorado about it who knows quite a bit about cars and he said that the ( Read more... )

This weened I decided to fire up my steam engine. I took it to my friends house and fired it up twice there, once for my friend and then again later for his dad when he got home from work. Then the next day I fired it up at home for my mom and her friend. I have not run it ever since I got it so I figured I should start it up and have some fun with ( Read more... )

My LJ account is going to expire soon, I don't know if I should renew it again but if I don't it will probably delete all my pictures and stuff that I have on it. It sent me a message saying it will expire in 5 days from now.