Month: June 2010

Digitech 2.4Ghz Wireless AV Sender/Receiver


The AR-1830 is a high quality Wireless Audio & Video transmitter and receiver.
It delivers clear video and stereo audio at distances up to 100 metres in open areas.

Features:

  • Watch FOXTEL Digital Cable TV, DVD’s or Optus Cable TV in any room in the house, even outside, without expensive wiring.
  • This powerful 2.4GHz audio/video sender, with a built-in IR remote control extender, has a powerful 10mW signal that enables crystal clear reception of cable TV in a room away from the cable TV set top box!
  • You can even use your cable TV remote control in another room as the unit’s remote control extender transmits the signals from your remote back to the cable TV box or DVD player.
  • Connection cables and power adaptors are included.
  • Additional receivers are available for more TV’s.

DIGITECH Additional Receiver

This unit is designed for expanding the functionality of the AR-1830 Wireless A/V sender by allowing you to receive the signal sent by the transmitter to another locations. Transmitter can feed as many receivers as you like as long as they are in the transmission range.

Purchased a set for Foxtel to transmit to the kitchen/meals area and an additional receiver for the balcony area.
The younger kid NJ has her own Foxtel STB in her study so need to transmit there.
They have worked well for many years and yes they are effected by the microwave oven.

Cleaning horse rugs

Now that it’s winter horse rugs start appearing on the front porch, they are left there for my attention – to clean.

   
I use a small GMC pressure cleaner connected to the water tank.

   
My favourite cleaning spot is the sloping front driveway.

   
Laying down the rug attracts plenty of attention – Pixie having a good sniff.
Use the suds bottle to lather up. You should not do this with canvas rugs.

  If you do you will need to reproof the canvas. We use a product called Wet-a-Way.

 

 
You can see the difference. Both sides need to be done.

  Hang it somewhere to rinse off and dry. I use the two seater garden swing thing.

 

 
While were here we may as well do ET’s car, it travels on dirt roads everyday.
As before apply suds and then switch to the lance to wash off – done.

Panasonic 26″ CRT TV

 
Purchased this in 2005 and its still going well.
Was moved from the lounge room down to the rumpus room (junk room) where it sat in a corner when it was replaced with a Panasonic 42" plasma.
found a new lease of life when it was lugged back up the stairs and into NJ’s study to replace the Tevion 51cm CRT. Nothing wrong with the Tevion, the kid needed more AV inputs for all her entertainment stuff (Tevion only has one AV) which the Pana has.
 
 

Makita battery pack – continued

 Basically we want to end up with a modified battery pack physically the same as before but with a decent figure 8 flex running from the bottom (offset to allow clip to close) and about 2mtrs long with battery terminal size alligator clips at the end.

 

To drop the voltage down from 12 to 9.6 we can use a few diodes.

We need to loose about 2.4V (12 – 9.6 = 2.4V)

 

Voltage drop across a silicon junction is 0.7 volts so:

3 diodes = 2.1V

4 diodes = 2.8V 

 

However, we need to make some practical measurements…a full charged lead acid battery in good condition stands at 12.6V but most likely we are going to be using an old 2nd hand one with a lower terminal voltage.

Ideas for Spaces categories

Jasper

2/13/2009 1:39:12 AM

Been thinking about the Spaces categories and modules.  With no surprise to some thinking from the mobile point of view.  At the moment you can post blog entries to Live Space, via email publishing.  Which is a very handy system for blogging from anywhere, eg mobile device, with just an simple email message sent to your email publishing address.  However it’s not possible to set a category for the blog entry if posted via email publishing. 

So an idea/wish for spaces email publishing would be.  In the same way you can email publish pictures to each of your live photo albums.  Via a email publishing address for each of the photo albums, that you have created in your photos.  Could we have a email publishing address for each of the categories that have been created, within your Live Space?  As currently any email published blog entries, just get posted without any category selected.

That also got me thinking.  Within your space you can click on a category.  Which will then list the posted entries with that category, no surprise there.  However would it be possible to have modules that can be added to your Live Space.  Which you can select the category, and the contents of the module are the blog entries for that category?  This would make your space more customisable and help organise your Live Space.  With your important categories in there own modules, up top on the main page.  So possibly you could have a micro-blog category on your Live Space.  Which you can email in frequent micro-blog updates ;)