Given the weather today, rain changing to snow and howling winds, I decided to stay inside and migrate my desktop PC from an old, about 10 years old, mid-tower into a Corsair Obsidian full tower case. As usual, not much went as planned from a hang at shutdown on the mid-tower, to some confusion with USB connections on the back of the Obsidian (I plugged into the wrong port on the MB back plate). I had anticipated about two hours and it took four which is pretty much normal, I guess.
I will say I like the Obsidian case. Filters on all the intakes, massive room inside for CPU cooling and large video cards. The best part is the wiring for everything goes behind the chassis, out of sight, and makes for a much neater, cleaner, installation and probably improved air flow/cooling. I added two 140mm fans on top for intake air and a 120mm on the bottom for exhaust air. That's my only real complaint, the air flow is sort of top to bottom which means it fights the tendency of hot air to rise, but with the amount of fans running, there's two 140mm intakes on the front and another 140mm on the rear for exhaust plus the power supply fans, it seems to be running a little cooler than the mid-tower was.
I will say I like the Obsidian case. Filters on all the intakes, massive room inside for CPU cooling and large video cards. The best part is the wiring for everything goes behind the chassis, out of sight, and makes for a much neater, cleaner, installation and probably improved air flow/cooling. I added two 140mm fans on top for intake air and a 120mm on the bottom for exhaust air. That's my only real complaint, the air flow is sort of top to bottom which means it fights the tendency of hot air to rise, but with the amount of fans running, there's two 140mm intakes on the front and another 140mm on the rear for exhaust plus the power supply fans, it seems to be running a little cooler than the mid-tower was.
I'll have to look into one of those, the next time I update my computer I need to update the case as well. I've been using the case from the computer I bought for the business I had years ago, it's gone through five upgrades since and the only remaining original part is the case itself.
I spent first half of the day in the shop, some house cleaning, then putting the snow blower, weights and chains back on the tractor then outside to "play" in the snow. The ground had thawed last week, the snow was heavy and wet, heavy wet snow and soft ground made the snow blower was almost useless, the chains were digging in and making a mess of the driveway, the scraper blade kept digging into the gravel, it was slow going trying to move snow and not do damage. Finally gave up and just shoveled 100 feet of the driveway, killed my back and neck, I just couldn't finish the rest. Around 2:30 I came in, got the heating pad, took a morphine and passed out, slept till 6, didn't even hear the dogs barking when Mama came back home. I missed the freshly fried haddock and chips she brought home for me, reheated just isn't as good.
But the rest was needed and I was glad she made the choice to let me sleep.Have I mentioned I hate winter?
Maybe this has been disscussed already?
https://vaping.com/blog/news/leading-doctor-questions-metals-found-in-vaping-research
Quoted from link above;
"Leading Doctor Questions ‘Metals Found in Vaping’ research
ALI ANDERSON / FEBRUARY 26, 2018 / NEWS & MEDIA
A LEADING doctor has poured cold water on a report which claims e-cigarette users are inhaling significant amounts of lead and toxic metals.
Dr Konstantinos Farsalinos, a research fellow and cardiologist who has published over 50 studies and articles on smoking, tobacco harm and e-cigarettes, has questioned the findings by John Hopkins University which claimed dangerous levels of toxins - including lead, chromium and arsenic – are being inhaled by vapers.
The study published last week triggered a wealth of media reports, which went on to claim absorbing toxic metals could be linked to heart and brain damage.
But Dr Farsalinos says having looked at the research by the American university the level of metals actually found in the body were so low that in some cases you would have to vape more than 100ml of vape juice a day (with 15ml being an amount used by a heavy vaper per day) to exceed the limits set by the US Food and Drugs Administration.
Dr Farsalinos said: “The "significant amount" of metals the authors reported they found were measured in ug/kg. In fact they are so low that for some cases (chromium and lead) I calculated that you need to vape more than 100 ml per day in order to exceed the FDA limits for daily intake from inhalational medications.”
Researchers at John Hopkins University had examined the health effects of the heating coils that power e-cigarettes in its new study published in Environmental Health Perspectives by testing the smokeless devices of 56 people who vaped daily.
While it found the levels of metals in the dispensers - where the e-liquid is kept before it is heated - were nominal and of little concern, the report claimed that when the liquid reached the tank, where it was exposed to the heating coil, levels spiked significantly, with the vapor reading “high” levels of lead, chromium, nickel and manganese.
"These were median levels only," senior study author Dr Ana María Rule explained. "The actual levels of these metals varied greatly from sample to sample, and often were much higher than safe limits."
"It's important for the FDA, the e-cigarette companies and vapers themselves to know that these heating coils, as currently made, seem to be leaking toxic metals, which then get into the aerosols that vapers inhale," Dr Rule added.
"We've established with this study that there are exposures to these metals, which is the first step, but we need also to determine the actual health effects,'"she added.
While Dr Farsalinos doesn't deny the vapers are exposed to certain metals through using e-cigarettes, the amounts are so small, he questions if they would have any real health implications.
He added of the research report: “The authors once again confuse themselves and everyone else by using environmental safety limits related to exposure with every single breath, and apply them to vaping.
“However, humans take more than 17,000 (thousand) breaths per day but only 400-600 puffs per day from an e-cigarette.” "
https://vaping.com/blog/news/leading-doctor-questions-metals-found-in-vaping-research
Quoted from link above;
"Leading Doctor Questions ‘Metals Found in Vaping’ research
ALI ANDERSON / FEBRUARY 26, 2018 / NEWS & MEDIA
A LEADING doctor has poured cold water on a report which claims e-cigarette users are inhaling significant amounts of lead and toxic metals.
Dr Konstantinos Farsalinos, a research fellow and cardiologist who has published over 50 studies and articles on smoking, tobacco harm and e-cigarettes, has questioned the findings by John Hopkins University which claimed dangerous levels of toxins - including lead, chromium and arsenic – are being inhaled by vapers.
The study published last week triggered a wealth of media reports, which went on to claim absorbing toxic metals could be linked to heart and brain damage.
But Dr Farsalinos says having looked at the research by the American university the level of metals actually found in the body were so low that in some cases you would have to vape more than 100ml of vape juice a day (with 15ml being an amount used by a heavy vaper per day) to exceed the limits set by the US Food and Drugs Administration.
Dr Farsalinos said: “The "significant amount" of metals the authors reported they found were measured in ug/kg. In fact they are so low that for some cases (chromium and lead) I calculated that you need to vape more than 100 ml per day in order to exceed the FDA limits for daily intake from inhalational medications.”
Researchers at John Hopkins University had examined the health effects of the heating coils that power e-cigarettes in its new study published in Environmental Health Perspectives by testing the smokeless devices of 56 people who vaped daily.
While it found the levels of metals in the dispensers - where the e-liquid is kept before it is heated - were nominal and of little concern, the report claimed that when the liquid reached the tank, where it was exposed to the heating coil, levels spiked significantly, with the vapor reading “high” levels of lead, chromium, nickel and manganese.
"These were median levels only," senior study author Dr Ana María Rule explained. "The actual levels of these metals varied greatly from sample to sample, and often were much higher than safe limits."
"It's important for the FDA, the e-cigarette companies and vapers themselves to know that these heating coils, as currently made, seem to be leaking toxic metals, which then get into the aerosols that vapers inhale," Dr Rule added.
"We've established with this study that there are exposures to these metals, which is the first step, but we need also to determine the actual health effects,'"she added.
While Dr Farsalinos doesn't deny the vapers are exposed to certain metals through using e-cigarettes, the amounts are so small, he questions if they would have any real health implications.
He added of the research report: “The authors once again confuse themselves and everyone else by using environmental safety limits related to exposure with every single breath, and apply them to vaping.
“However, humans take more than 17,000 (thousand) breaths per day but only 400-600 puffs per day from an e-cigarette.” "
Just went out to get some fresh air, a walk around and I see the half driveway is filled back in from drifting, deeper then it was today. Nice... If the ground was frozen I wouldn't care, hopefully it will harden up enough overnight so I'll be able to use the tractor tomorrow.
The condo unit I live in is in between 2 units & was untouched but the condo unit next to ours which is on the outside towards the entrance had some of the siding ripped off by 70mph winds, which were blowing around the parking lot when I woke up & smashing into cars. There was also a peice blowing around near our new trane a/c condenser so I put that in the dumpster... The panel for the upstairs neighbor a/c fuse was slapping open/closed all night & we were actually annoyed bc we didn't know it was windy & my gf had me convinced it was them (elderly couple) getting freaky for like 8 hours on a crappy bed frame, lol...
You can see the siding for the roof literally peeled off, it's all cinder blocks underneath that siding though so I wasn't really concerned about trees or anything. Our condo fees are extremely low I just hope they don't go up, & Could be worse, my dad's house had a tree fall onto the a/c condenser & my uncle (who we used to rent his upstairs before we bought the condo) woke up to the entire gutter & siding ripped off on one side of his house with insulation exposed.
This one just barely missed that truck
I also love corsair cases, I use an air 540 in my office & my gf's one year old rig uses probably the same one as you... Obsidian 500D. They're great cases I love all the wire management & mounting options for the radiators. All my wires & psu are hidden behind in its own compartment. If corsair ever designed one for crypto miners I'd transfer my crypto mining rig into one as well.
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lucky here, i think
littered with downed branches but nothing too big i found so far and i got to see the new generator in action 
All three of those are elements. Elements can't be created through chemical or heating processes so that means they were present in the eliquid, atomizer or coil material. Chromium is present in Kanthal and Stainless heating wire but shouldn't have any arsenic or lead present. I suppose chromium could outgas from the wire if heated stupid hot. Lead is present in brass but I don't think many folks are vaping on unplated brass attys these days. I'm calling BS on the study unless they were using Chinesium wired coils, a brass atty or some wicking with residual chemicals, no one knows what's in that stuff.
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What do you bet most of the devices sampled were using some sort of pre-built coils?
We didn't get winds much above 30mph here, or enough snow to amount to anything. The snow was wet, heavy and sticky so now it's raining ice chunks from the trees as the temperatures come up with the sun. We lost power twice. The first time it just came right back within 30 seconds or so. The second time was different. It went down, tried to come back but only we only got dim lights for a second or so then they went out. So, I fired up the generator at about 8:30PM, need heat, refrigeration and water.
I got a text from the power company saying power would be restored around 2:45AM so we went to bed. About 1AM Leo decided he needed to go outside and do his thing. He was nervous with all the generators running. Ours is out in the shed, about 100 feet from the house so it's pretty quiet, but my neighbors is, basically, right across the driveway, and even though it's a fancy one it's still kind of loud.
I was up, again, at about 3AM when the text came telling me power was back so I got up and shut down the generator. Ours isn't so fancy, manual transfer, but it does have electric start. So we didn't get a whole lot of sleep. I'm still working on my first cup and foresee a third cup during the day.
We did have some minor damage. Three panels of the fence on the east side of the house, that encloses the back yard, blew down. It's a lattice fence I built myself and I used landscape ties for the posts. I bought them on sale, so they aren't the greatest quality. Even with heavy coats of protectant and paint they rot out right at ground level, plus I bumped into one with the mower cleaning up leaves and got the whole thing started. I'll have to fix that before it gets any worse. Lots of small and medium branches down so yet another pick-up trip followed by the shredder duties.
The worse thing is it looks like that power failure toasted one of the video cards in my desktop, which I just migrated to the new case. I haven't checked it out yet, still having starter coffee and I need breakfast, too. I sure hope it isn't toasted, just glitched, because it is a fairly expensive card.
I got a text from the power company saying power would be restored around 2:45AM so we went to bed. About 1AM Leo decided he needed to go outside and do his thing. He was nervous with all the generators running. Ours is out in the shed, about 100 feet from the house so it's pretty quiet, but my neighbors is, basically, right across the driveway, and even though it's a fancy one it's still kind of loud.
I was up, again, at about 3AM when the text came telling me power was back so I got up and shut down the generator. Ours isn't so fancy, manual transfer, but it does have electric start. So we didn't get a whole lot of sleep. I'm still working on my first cup and foresee a third cup during the day.
We did have some minor damage. Three panels of the fence on the east side of the house, that encloses the back yard, blew down. It's a lattice fence I built myself and I used landscape ties for the posts. I bought them on sale, so they aren't the greatest quality. Even with heavy coats of protectant and paint they rot out right at ground level, plus I bumped into one with the mower cleaning up leaves and got the whole thing started. I'll have to fix that before it gets any worse. Lots of small and medium branches down so yet another pick-up trip followed by the shredder duties.
The worse thing is it looks like that power failure toasted one of the video cards in my desktop, which I just migrated to the new case. I haven't checked it out yet, still having starter coffee and I need breakfast, too. I sure hope it isn't toasted, just glitched, because it is a fairly expensive card.
What comes out of China is anybody's guess what's in the alloy, unless someone is checking some of the products as they come in. Back in the day when China started flooding the market here with cheap disc brake rotor's they were a nightmare, it's wasn't uncommon to open the box and find air bubble voids right in the machined face where the pads mate. They would also warp like crazy in a short time, that was because they had soft spots in the metal. I also seen a few that developed cracked cooling veins after getting hot during braking, those slots between the inner and outer face. They were using junk scrap, tossing it all in the smelting pot and doing a poor job during the process of casting, the machining looked OK but the metal was just junk. Those problems are uncommon now, they've gotten better but for a few years it was bad and we refused to use them on customer's vehicles because of the high come back rate.
We don't produce much metal here anymore and a lot of our scrap metal is shipped to China. If it was like that during WWII we would have lost the war, just saying.
We don't produce much metal here anymore and a lot of our scrap metal is shipped to China. If it was like that during WWII we would have lost the war, just saying.
OH, I forgot to add, I had a Fogger clone I bought years ago, back when all I vape was flavorless juice. That Fogger had a funky taste, like oil that I could never get rid of. You could draw through it cleaned without any juice or build (wire and cotton) and still taste it, more so when vaping on it. I completely stripped it down, checked all air holes for machining chips or crud (I have found machining chips in air holes before), cleaned it with different grease cutting solvents and soaps, boiled it and ran it through my ultra sonic cleaner, replaced the screws and o-rings. It wouldn't go away, I came to the conclusion it was something in the stainless and threw it away.
That's what happens when you "bring in the clones", Willie I still, occasionally, use OEM Foggers, V4.1 or V6, with no problems. If you want one, slightly used with no funky taste, send me a PM. I'm pretty sure I have a spare or two. My biggest problem with them is the negative posts snap off in the V6. Maybe I over do tightening the coil wires?
I just did a quick boot of my desktop and it looks like the GTX1060 bit the dust in that power failure. That hurts! I've been rolling the dice with my UPS. The batteries needed replacing a few years ago and I never found the round tuit to buy/install new batteries. Guess my roll was craps. So now, besides a new video card, waffling between a 1060 and 1070, I'll be ordering new batteries for the UPS or a new UPS instead depending on prices.
I shut the machine back down, walked out into the kitchen and the power dropped AGAIN! No heavy winds so maybe they're still fixing what broke yesterday in the storm. All of our snow has disappeared, but it's still kind of windy.
I still, occasionally, use OEM Foggers, V4.1 or V6, with no problems. If you want one, slightly used with no funky taste, send me a PM. I'm pretty sure I have a spare or two. My biggest problem with them is the negative posts snap off in the V6. Maybe I over do tightening the coil wires?I just did a quick boot of my desktop and it looks like the GTX1060 bit the dust in that power failure. That hurts! I've been rolling the dice with my UPS. The batteries needed replacing a few years ago and I never found the round tuit to buy/install new batteries. Guess my roll was craps. So now, besides a new video card, waffling between a 1060 and 1070, I'll be ordering new batteries for the UPS or a new UPS instead depending on prices.
I shut the machine back down, walked out into the kitchen and the power dropped AGAIN! No heavy winds so maybe they're still fixing what broke yesterday in the storm. All of our snow has disappeared, but it's still kind of windy.
I think you're right, chrome plated brass and probably with way more lead added to the alloy than US regulations allow for in potable water fixtures. Maybe they use arsenic in the wick mfg process too, who knows.
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