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I am thinking conceptually, of course it would need to be scaled down, and made of appropriate wire.

IDK, with a clamp deck it's possible to mount something that big. I'm surprised no one has even tried that yet.

I wish I had the skills, knowledge, and time to make some of the really amazing complex coils, but I lack all three.
 

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I feel for you, Willie. I just finished a "major" project myself. Ran about 15 yards of piled, old, leaves through the shredder. Some of it was three or four years old. The yield is about three yards of really nice, rich, loam. Today is clean the gutters day, heavy rain coming tomorrow night and Monday, fix the lawn tractor and trim some evergreens and run the trimmings through the chipper.

Next week I've got to dig about 200 feet of trench to bury some flex conduit for the security cameras. I'm only going down about two feet, flex conduit and low voltage cable, but lots of tree roots to work around/through. They're currently wired and strung above ground on tree trunks. As the trees grow, and sway in the wind, the pinching and constant flexing eventually breaks the wire plus the wiring is visible. I'm not looking forward to that project

EEEEK Thats what "spoon goons" are for. We did a job like that a few years back, but we only went a foot down. Tek cable used for ac and pvc pipe for LV. Now with IP cameras I think I would just stick with the AC and use powerline adapters or set up a small wifi network. Ubiquiti is great for that. If yer CCTV is still analogue you may what to consider switching to HD the cost is really not that much. A mixture of TVI cameras for existing coax runs and cat5e/wifi for new run. JMHO I sort of live this $#!T these days.
 

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Actually, I have always wondered if a braided coil of very fine wire, would work. Think of the solder wick we use for solder removal, made from SS or something. Its made to wick!

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It certainly does do a fine job wicking eliquid.
(Unintended consequences of using it for the positive conductor to a split BF 510 center pin like the Reo has)


The rosin embedded in it might be a bit harsh till it was burned off. :lol:
 

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EEEEK Thats what "spoon goons" are for. We did a job like that a few years back, but we only went a foot down. Tek cable used for ac and pvc pipe for LV. Now with IP cameras I think I would just stick with the AC and use powerline adapters or set up a small wifi network. Ubiquiti is great for that. If yer CCTV is still analogue you may what to consider switching to HD the cost is really not that much. A mixture of TVI cameras for existing coax runs and cat5e/wifi for new run. JMHO I sort of live this $#!T these days.

The cameras are PoE and are a little far from the house. I tried WiFi cameras and was not at all satisfied, plus there is the added security problem. Also included is the lack of AC out where those cameras are so trenching, to code, for AC would mean three feet down rather than the two feet my trenching/planting shovel provides. Plus, I might get back below 180 doing it :)
 

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The cameras are PoE and are a little far from the house. I tried WiFi cameras and was not at all satisfied, plus there is the added security problem. Also included is the lack of AC out where those cameras are so trenching, to code, for AC would mean three feet down rather than the two feet my trenching/planting shovel provides. Plus, I might get back below 180 doing it :)
Understood
 

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The cameras are PoE and are a little far from the house. I tried WiFi cameras and was not at all satisfied, plus there is the added security problem. Also included is the lack of AC out where those cameras are so trenching, to code, for AC would mean three feet down rather than the two feet my trenching/planting shovel provides. Plus, I might get back below 180 doing it :)
If residential 1 or 2 family dwelling the NEC calls for 12 inches cover if it is no more than 120V 20A and GFCI protected, otherwise 18 inches of cover for over 120V and less than 600V and or over 20A and or not GFCI protected.
 

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Thanks, Alexander. I like to try staying below the frost line, or at least deep enough to avoid the worst of it, and not have to worry about a vibratory blade putting in sprinkler lines cutting it. Once is enough. Could have sworn it was three feet...maybe it's changed since the early 60's, haven't really kept up or my mind has gone completely to pot.
 

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I'm gonna have to get another cheap DVR for my cheap security camera system, I just can't use this thing as a stand alone without having it connected to my computer but because it keeps trying to connect to the internet through my network I had to disconnect it from my network. As I posted about a week ago when Mike pointed me to these being used as a Denial of Service attacks on post here According to the logs about a month it started connecting to the net and rebooting on it's own. I found logs where someone was logging in and out under the preset admin and a second limited "user" account I set up about a month ago, I had changed the admin password but that didn't stop them. Now that it's disconnected from the net it's acting wonky, video recording had suddenly become jumpy, skipping sometimes 1-5 seconds and the color settings for day and night won't hold. This is the one I bought https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JVI069C
I went back to Amazon where I bought it and for giggles looked to see if anyone else has had the same problem, and found this feedback
"Device Sends VIDEO & CONFIGURATION data to servers in China
ByJames Harrison June 18, 2017

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This product does not disclose that is sends usage, access, configuration, and video data back to several servers registered to Beijing Kingsoft Cloud Internet Technology Co., Ltd.
I installed this system to monitor my workshop. Last week while configuring some network equipment, I noticed a lot of network traffic originating from the camera system to an IP address I didn't recognize (120.131.2.234). A little digging shows this IP address belongs to Beijing Kingsoft Cloud Internet Technology Co., Ltd, who's principal place of business is Kingsoft Tower,No.33 Xiao Ying West Road,Haidian District,Beijing 100085.
I recorded the network traffic for a while to see if I could decrypt it and see exactly what was being sent to our friends in China, but I don't have the skills to dig that deeply, but I could see that some of the traffic included the username & password I had set up on the device. If I had used a password that I use on other services, that would now be in someone else's hands. I have no doubt that the device also monitors network traffic and sends usage information as well.
I HIGHLY recommend that you weigh your desire for low price against this information before you consider this purchase. As for me - I've blocked all outbound traffic from this device at my router and will monitor for attempts to connect to it from the outside world and see what I catch."

Anyone have recommendations for a different CHEAP DVR? I have five camera's, I don't need a high resolution lic plate grabbing system, I'm using cheap $25 camera's, it more for deterrence for the folks who live out back and have a right to use part of my driveway and a bad drunken neighbor on the same side of the house who likes to throw garbage & beer bottles on my lawn and urinates in the front yard 30 feet from the sidewalk and within eyesight of my family and grand kids. Since putting up the camera's it's slowed down the speeding cars in the driveway and stopped 95% of the crap from the bad neighbor, it's serving it purpose. I do keep videos if I see something just in case I should ever have to take one of them to court, even though the video isn't HD you can still identify people and cars easily, not looking to spend more then another $100 max on this system.
 

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So who else is a netflix fan and what are your favorite netflix "Originals" ? Surprisingly my daughter got my wife into it a year ago, she's not one for anything other then the cable lineup, I was the same until I started watching it and found I'm now watching nexflix almost as much as cable now. They have a decent lineup of reruns from tv but I'm really surprised how well their own productions are. So far there has only been one of their own series I haven't cared for, Black Mirror, while I enjoyed the plot the main actor stinks and it's a little to cheesy. Currently I'm watching The Blacklist, good series. I'm also watching Hell on Wheels from the beginning, I really liked that show and I watched the entire Son's of Anarchy over the summer, that was another great show. When ever I can't find something on cable that interests me I jump over to nextflix, between the two I always have something I like to watch. :thumb:
 

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