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Utility pole with signal repeater, Raynale Street, Birmingham, Michigan. June 2026
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🌐42°33'18.648" N 83°13'46.0848" W
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◉ HD PENTAX-D FA* 50mm F1.4 SDM AW
📷 Ricoh Pentax K-1 Mark II
🎞️ISO 100
⏱️1/200 sec f/9 (𝑓=50 mm)
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#norwayspruce #clouds #crossarms #daytime #deciduous #electrical #insulators #meteorological #pentax_dfa5014 #pentaxk1mkii #pine tree #powerlines #sky #trees #utility #pole #vehicles #weather #wires #nowherediary #subjectivelyobjective #thisisnthappiness #banalmag #newtopographics

jcr 1d ago

Utility pole with signal repeater, Raynale Street, Birmingham, Michigan. June 2026
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🌐42°33'18.648" N 83°13'46.0848" W
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◉ HD PENTAX-D FA* 50mm F1.4 SDM AW
📷 Ricoh Pentax K-1 Mark II
🎞️ISO 100
⏱️1/200 sec f/9 (𝑓=50 mm)
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#norwayspruce #clouds #crossarms #daytime #deciduous #electrical #insulators #meteorological #pentax_dfa5014 #pentaxk1mkii #pine tree #powerlines #sky #trees #utility #pole #vehicles #weather #wires #nowherediary #subjectivelyobjective #thisisnthappiness #banalmag #newtopographics

𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐃𝐚𝐝 1d ago

Hey so where do I get 6/3 copper wire for a reasonable price? I need at least 50ft, but it looks like it's going to cost more than the EV charger I want to get. #EV #DIY #Electrical #Wiring
https://pixelfed.crimedad.work/p/crimedad/974309587004125601

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Telugu Automation School 2d ago

H1 vs HSE Foundation Fieldbus Communication | Telugu Course
Click here to watch 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JyCeDrgfaw
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#plc #electrical #instrumentation

H1 vs HSE Foundation Fieldbus Communication | Telugu Course

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Hippy Steve 3d ago

Looking for #Electrical advice/recommendations for our #OffGrid #Solar setup.

We have a Homeline Load Center panel in our bathhouse. The electric water heater is on a 2-pole breaker for 240V/50A total. I believe these use Schneider square D standard breakers.

We need to have the water heater be a wi-fi app controlled device, ideally. We've been manually turning the water heater on and off for years. This leads to mistakes like last night, when we forgot to kill the breaker before sunset, and someone took a bath, resulting in the water heater kicking on and crashing the solar system after about 40 minutes. It causes a camp-wide blackout from low battery voltage disconnect. Then we had to run the generator for an hour to get the batteries back up to enough charge to last the rest of the night.

From what I understand, schneider doesn't make wifi breakers. But they do make wifi relays that plug in like a breaker into the panel. then there's an energy monitor that goes in the panel to provide the wifi control. So the breaker output goes to the relay, and the relay output powers the heater.

So... Do we

a. go with the schneider smart relays in the existing panel

b. just wire an external timer between the existing breaker and water heater.

c. ditch the homeline panel and get something like the leviton that allows for wifi enabled breakers.

note: we do not want cloud connectivity. just old fashioned local wifi control.

divVerent 4d ago

Achievement unlocked: had a need to use a "suicide cord". #electricity #electrical

Not for suicide though, don't worry.

Had built together a bathroom cabinet with LED lighting, and wanted to check I had the LEDs connected right.

With a suicide cord, I could actually have tested it quite safely - first plug into the cabinet's outlet, then into a wall outlet, then try out the cabinet's switch. Unplug in opposite order - at wall outlet first, then turn on cabinet's switch to discharge capacitors, then unplug at cabinet.

But, I have none. So I had to go the more dangerous route of using #bananaplug connectors (which fit perfectly into German #Schuko outlets) and alligator clips. I.e. get two of banana plug to alligator clip cords, let the alligator clips bite into the L and N terminals, then stick the banana plugs into a an unplugged extension cord, and finally plug the extension cord in. Then test the switch, and as before, after unplugging mains, turn the switch on to let capacitors discharge, then wait like 30 sec, and finally short out the two banana plugs just in case (there was no charge though). Always hoping the two alligator clips won't suddenly detach and short out each other.

Honestly - this would have been safer with that dangerous cord thing. (Safest way would have been installing the cabinet properly first, though, but the company remodeling the bathroom is gonna do that)

Myk 4d ago

Out with the old and in with the new.
#DIY #electrical #homeMaint

Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar 5d ago

How to get kicked out of the electrician's guild.

On a municipal footbridge with a metal handrail, too. This was not a DIY job, someone got hired and paid to do this.

There's a faint glimmer of hope that the PE is connected through and a working RCD somewhere down the line, but for historical reasons this is often not the case hereabouts.

#Electrician #Electrical #Fail #Moletai

The Return of Kozeshi 6d ago

Please help us get our power systems sorted out for the washing machine and water heater at the #vulpibus
We want to help more than just us get clean bodies and clothes

https://paypal.me/athamanatha
Cashapp @athamanatha
https://ko-fi.com/athakitsune
Other methods on request in DMs

#mutualaid
#electrical
#laundry
#basics
#fedihelp