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It was just a matter of time.
I did the math myself (I use compatible capsules) and found out I pay 64€/Kg (38.4$/pound), way less than 50$/pound as the original.
If I buy the same brand’s coffe in bulk, I pay 17,84€/Kg (10,70$/pound).
That’s why I’m going to buy a COFFEDUCK (14.95€, 4 reusable capsules): payback in 65 coffees..
This woofer is from my parish, it simply stopped working, no sound at all..
In detail it’s a 180W RMS (EIAJ), active; nothing to say, it does (did) its job.
Let’s start wander around a little..
The back has many screws, only six holding the case together.
DO NOT REMOVE THE INNER SCREWS: they are holding other internal components.
(Remove the circled screws)
When opening, take care, there are wires connecting to the speaker.
First, I checked if the speaker was fine simply connecting the speaker to my mp3 player. I used an adapter as you can see:
To check the speaker grab one of the coaxial from the player and connect it to the speaker wires: one wire to the inner pin, the other to the outer ring.
Rocket science method…
SOUND! MUSIC! And very loud, my old mp3 player made me proud of it..
So.. the speaker was good, I was hoping in just a broken wire, easy to fix, but this was not the case.
Time to look closer to the board, starting from connectors, switches an sockets (anything that can be messed up from the outside).
It wasn’t a long search, the soldering between the board and the level knob was broken:
Noobs mishandling the woofer I bet…
A few minutes of soldering and the problem was solved:
Good thing my grandma teached me how to solder at the age of 10 :D
Cheers!
Bonus pictures of big heavy coil and heat sink:
Problem:
I need to download many files like these
http://www.site.com/page.php?id=101
http://www.site.com/page.php?id=102
http://www.site.com/page.php?id=103
the page is the same, the content is dinamic, depending on the id passed.
I don’t want to download any unnecessary software to do a simple task like this, so I search a little…
Preparation:
I wrote all the links in a text file, one per line. (A list is always usefull)
Let’s say the file is filelist.txt
Solution for Windows 7:
I can use the built-in Powershell !!
There is the link in Start->All Programs->Accessories->Windows Powershell->Windows Powershell
Btw, I managed to reach the powershell guessing I had to type “powershell” in the console.
First I need to import the module for the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) with:
PS C:> Import-Module bitstransfer
Then I must provide the list of files formatted as this:
Source, Destination
http://www.url.of/your/source.file, c:\path\where\to\save\my_file_with.extension
http://www.url.of/your/source2.file, c:\path\where\to\save\other_file.extension
(Remember that “Source, Destination” is the actual first line of filelist.txt)
Once I have the file formatted correctly I can use
PS C:> Import-CSV filelist.txt | Start-BitsTransfer
to read the input file and download all the file.. Good!
…
NOT GOOD! Bits doesn’t support dynamic content!
BITS supports HTTP and HTTPS downloads and uploads and requires that the server supports the HTTP/1.1 protocol. For downloads, the HTTP server’s Head method must return the file size and its Get method must support the Content-Range and Content-Length headers. As a result, BITS only transfers static file content and generates an error if you try to transfer dynamic content, unless the ASP, ISAPI, or CGI script supports the Content-Range and Content-Length headers.
I couldn’t download the files with a batch, I just made an html file with many links pointing to the URLs and downloaded by hand (Save link as..).
Solution for Linux:
Open a console
Type “wget -i filelist.txt”
Anything to say?
Today’s fix: Braun 3773
It’s an electric shaver with internal battery.
The battery, a good Ni-Mh AA, avoid the need for the deadweight as used to be in the previous model and it last very long.
The problem is a broken clip that should hang the head, so I need to keep it in place with a finger while shaving.
You can see the broken clip doesn’t come out in the “lock” position (right photo).
Here’s how i fixed it:
1 - I took the head off
2 - Unscrew the 3 screws: 2 under the head, 1 at the bottom
3 - I forgot to unhook the rubber protection between the two sides of the shaver, here how to do it correctly.
Here’s the broken pin. The spring cannot work.
There is some space for the clip to go back when it’s pushed, that’s where I put some filler to keep it hooking the head.
4 - I cut a foam peanut for the filler (it’s not a peanut, it’s a cube, but you get the idea)
5 - A little glue to keep it in place.
6 - Here we go! I’m going to shave now!
Before/After:
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Needed:
- Cardboard bottle spacer soon-to-be-trashed
- Scissors
Isn’t meant to be great, just functional.
I like it.
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Too much hassle installing wordpress on my altervista site, here I am on Tumblr!