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The picture below shows the schedule I'll be sleeping and working on. The red is when I'm scheduled to sleep and the green is when I'm scheduled to work. I am starting this on Wednesday, April 1; or arguably Thursday April 2, as the 2AM sleep start is the closest to what passes for normal for me otherwise.
I have earplugs and an eyeshade already. I'll add steps here every day or so to track my progress. We will see how it goes!
Step 1: Why?
I have heard vaguely of an experiment with people living clocklessly in caves, where the cycle they slept on tended to be 25 hours rather than 24. It's well known that circadian rhythms are 'about' a day long (thus the name). I think that my innate sleep cycle at least is longer than 24, so now I am testing that. No I haven't really done that much research. If you have ideas for stuff I should read, I'd love a comment about it.
I am nocturnal by nature... I seem to be happiest going to bed around 5 am, and getting up in the afternoon around 1. IF I allowed my body to sleep when I felt the need to and get up when rested....that is the schedule.( I recently broke my arm and was off work for 2.5 months...and that was the schedule I ended up on allowing myself to go with the flow of the rhythm of my body)
I know my ancestors aren't from America entirely...( I am going back a long ways...not just grandparents....but maybe their grandparents grandparents....LONG LONG ago)
It is seen by different people, that children will have tendencies to behave like an ancestor, without training to. Could this be yet another throwback to our roots?
I really hope I explained what I am trying to say here... I don't seem to be as articulate as I normally can be...lol But I wanted to throw this thought out there and get some feedback from everyone!!
Good luck on your study of your own sleep pattern!!
Think it's called fractal memory or something along those lines, but don't know how legit it actually is. If it is though, I think it would fit into your theory of possibilities.
I also read somewhere that most of our genes contain "junk". Science doesn't really know what it is for, one possibility is that it could contain memories in some manner?
The junk chain in the DNA might actually be the most interesting aspects of our ancestry and to understand why we do what we do, what we like, why we behave why we do... and to think we are are playing it forward in our own children and adding our own piece of "junk"....
I would love to know more about all of this... I wonder if it is too late to get into this science for study? At my age, I am not sure I would be able to go back to school and change my life, but it would be wonderful if they broke that coding in my lifetime !
I cannot say, but I love that it provokes thought and serious consideration. WHAT does make us tick the way we do?
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As for the headaches... they are more likely caused by your lack of sleep, not because you aren't getting caffeine. I would try getting at least 8 hours of sleep each night, take a benedryl if you have to. Ask your parents first, but it's a mild allergy and sleep aid and will make you sleepy. When you get a headache you should probably take an advil or something instead rather than caffeine, which can actually make your headache worse. If you REALLY do get migraines then you might want to see a doctor, but natural cures are normally the best first route. :)
The problem is not that the kid is going to bed too late, but that its school is starting too early.
Incidentally, the 28-hour-day is among the more dangerous strategies, so of course I tried it for a while. I have also tried staying up for two days and sleeping fifteen hours every third night (which will make you extremely crazy, to the point of constant hallucinations) and have now settled to simply sleep four or five hours, tops, a night, because that is all my insomnia will allow if I'm not really tired.
It's very confusing on your brain AND body. Even though you get those 9 hours, something still seems off. I can be WIDE awake when I wake up at 4 or 5pm, but by 2am I am tired again and ready for bed. Sometimes my brain even tries to tell me I am tired at 9 or 10PM.
It's quite interesting how our mind and bodies work even though we may try and program them differently. I'm sure though that if my schedule were more consistent that it might be a bit easier. I used to get up at 4am and go to bed at 8-10pm. I seemed to do GREAT with that, but my lifestyle was also very different. There are a lot of factors. In middle school I only slept 3-4 hours a night and I was ALWAYS tired, but I was a nerd who stayed up reading all night, so I guess that's another story. :P
Anyway, it is easy to train yourself to a difficult, lacking sleep schedule, but difficult to train yourself to an easy, plentiful one. Taking sleeping pills actually deprives you of your deep sleep, so therefore doesn't help at all, but can actually exacerbate the situation much of the time.
However, nearly every individual person is somewhere between being a "morning person" or an "evening person." Evening persons typically have lower body temperatures, and eat larger lastmeals and break their fast more lightly, whereas morning persons have higher body temperatures, large breakfasts, and small lastmeals. Morning persons are typically more amiable, and evening persons are typically more distant and rational. Morning persons sleep between six and four, in extreme cases, though typically an hour later, and evening persons between two and nine, though usually about an hour earlier. Most people fall somewhere in between, around ten-six. Most young people, though, are evening persons, and most elderly people are morning persons. This means that high school students, who ought to sleep between one-two and nine-ten, are sleeping between one-two and five, due to bad school hours.
Anyway, in 2 months time I have a big BJJ tournament and so have quit work to train for this. I can sleep whatever hours I like so long as 5 days a week I can get to the gymn any time between 9am and 9pm to train. I would like to do a measures experiment like you, but at the moment, im just effing around.
Since I quit 3 weeks ago, again every night I go to bed upto 2 hours later than the night before and match that to the time I get up, to the point where at the end of the week I force myself not to go to bed and stay up right through till 9 the next night and just sleep 6 nights of the week. I would not recommend this, the day after having no sleep everythings all whurry and everythings quite spaced out. I say I wouldnd recommend this but I do like it, just buying something from a shop or walking down a busy street becomes epic, although I do think theres a much increased chance i'll get run over in this time.
Also I use this as my rest day from training, I get loads of sleep that night and feel fantastic for the new week. Its funny to mess around with your body like this if you can, plus other nights of the week running through the empty streets of London at 3,4 or 5am is quite awesome.
On a more sensible note, in the past, when starting work at 8 or 9am, to avoid the not enough sleep thing, i would always go for a big run at about 6 or 7pm, atleast 10 miles and after food and a shower I would be out like a light at a normal time.
It is my belief that now the majority of people do such little activity, the sleep schedule for many is badly hurt as a result.
That might do the trick. But thanks for posting your results. It was interesting.
Why are you so intent on artificial sleep patterns?
We spent 2.5 million years evolving with 10-14 hours of darkness a day, probably 8-10 of which we would spend sleeping, repeating over a 24 hour cycle. Personally, I think that tampering with evolved biorhythms is a terrible idea.
You also said previously that "Other animals do not necessarily get 8 solid hours, and in fact the idea that people need 8 hours of sleep is only a couple hundred years old - prior to cheap artificial light, all you could really do when the sun was down is sleep so people mostly slept according to the length of the nighttime." IIRC, we most of those 2.5 million years that defined what we became as a species was spent with 8+ hours of darkness a night. Hence, I would think that we, as an evolving species and until the development of cheap artificial lighting, probably slept 8+ hours a night.
I'm not throwing out your hypothesis that you're possibly on a different "innate sleep cycle" than most people, I just find it really hard to believe. With your claims of "developing a nocturnal lifestyle," I'm forced to believe that you spend a lot of time in front of a computer or under artificial lighting after the sun goes down.
"I have heard vaguely of an experiment with people living clocklessly in caves, where the cycle they slept on tended to be 25 hours rather than 24. It's well known that circadian rhythms are 'about' a day long (thus the name). I think that my innate sleep cycle at least is longer than 24"
It's also well known that the duration, length, and intensity of one's exposure(s) to light drastically affects hormonal production -- and primarily those hormones involved with sleep.
So before I dig myself an even bigger hole here, might I ask a few questions?
1. Have you tried limiting (or totally eliminating) your exposure to light for at least half an hour before bedtime?
2. Have you tried exercise as a sleep aid? I find that I never sleep as well as on those nights following a tough workout.
3. Have you tried other sleep aids, such as contrast showers before bed?
I hear this all the time, and though it worked well for me when I was in shape; I have also eaten only 3 meals a day and been the same weight. I fail to see how it's "healthier" other than the fact that every fitness guru on the planet says that it is.
Also take in mind that this aren't full featured meals. An apple, some carrots, a little sandwich, you know things, that you can actually stuff in your pockets :P
Anyway, the following link is a paper about dealing with jet-lag, which is a temporary situation like yours, but not just it: http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1000418


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- Giuseppe De Francesco
- Galway
- Ireland
Owner - Games Designer and Coder, DFT Games
This conversation is closed.
Global economy: how to cope with that?
Here a few facts:
* - There is a huge online market over the Internet with a lot of different escrow websites facilitating clients to meet and hire contractors.
* - Over the last 24 months we have seen an unexpected increasing of excellent professionals from Asia (especially India, Pakistan and Nepal) offering their services online.
* - On those escrow websites the jobs are awarded to the bid providing the best value for money (lowest bid with highest professionalism).
* - Playing the game of lowering the bids, Asian professionals have practically set the price for professional services at a very good level for their countries, but impossible for US and EU people (like 1 month of work for 500USD).
I totally understand the client point of view: why to pay 2,000USD for a service that I can get at the very same level of professionalism for 500USD?
Borderless, free money circulation allows the above phenomenon to rapidly grow, but... what about people that cannot live on 500USD a month?
This is extremely sensitive issue among people working online (like myself) but the extension of this on the actual goods production is also happening here in EU: many companies move the production sites to Asia, winding down EU factories.
What's your take? How do we solve this situation? Is it even possible to think to a solution? Should we go back to put strong money borders with heavy customs fees for sending and receiving money?
Oct 22 2013: Giuseppe, I have been around the world a few times and around the block quite a few. The reason the economy, and I will speak of the USA, but it applies other places as well, locally here has went overseas is obvious. In a talk with Obama Steve Jobs was asked about moving his ops to China. He wanted to stay here but he had problems with unions, state and federal requirements, work force, and other considerations that would cost him millions and delay his production for up to five years. In talks with Chinese he said he needed XXX engineers, XXX workers, XXX buildings with XXX floor space. The Chinese ask if he wanted inland or seaside and would two weeks be soon enough. He moved.
These deals are made in holidays in the Islands and shopping trips to France by corporate and state officials. They ensure all needs are met and the US company greases the right palms. The money saved in paying the work force salaries, benefits, insurance, overtime, cost of facilities, and in general all operating costs ... not even mentioning US state and Federal taxes is billions in profits.
So it is evident that capitalism is every where ... the communist leaders take the money from the capitalists but just do not want to share or allow the citizens to do it. The global economy is about money and power ... the economic health of the country is about politics. The choice of the communist preferred Keynesian or the democratic Austrian economic models. The bottom line is ... greed.
The problem as I see it .... is that you are a nice guy playing by the rules. You are going to lose. The only way I see for you to survive in your line of work is to hitch your wagon to a international player and let him be the SOB and you work under contract. In essence allowing the international player to find the comparative advantage.
I know this is not what you are looking for. But it is my two cents worth.
Good luck in figuring it out.
I wish you well. Bob.Oct 21 2013: You have to find a comparative advantage.
Oct 22 2013: Can't see any, but I'm open to any idea... that's why we're here... right? :)
Oct 22 2013: The hard reality is that you have to find one or find something else to do for a living.
If I were you I would make sure that I understood what business I was in and what the emotional reasons people have for using your services
.DO NOT ASSUME YOU ALREADY KNOW, you do not to the extent you need to. This is one of those FIND OUT moments in life. If you don't find out you did not do what you need to. However it may just be that this problem is unfixable
FWIW the Chinese have kept their currency undervalued for a long time. This forced up their savings and lowered their consumption. This has to end as there has been so much over investment that their economy is in for a rocky road for quite a while along with either an increase in unemploment or the value of their currency.
Oct 22 2013: Dear Pat,
I've been a software developer for 32 years and I've seen a lot. There is no emotional reason to pick a developer that costs 5 times another one, no matter how good he is. BTW, writing software is not rocket science, so the quality of my code can't be that better than any other Indian colleague... this is just a problem of economics... no motivational crap can change a global economy downfall.
Dell moved out from Limerick sending home 600 workers simply because moving the plant to Poland was a better deal. Now they plan to move to Asia. Same goes for so many companies... even historical Irish brands now produce where they pay a few bucks to get excellent workforce .
In Italy the automotive sector is down to 1978 figures and there is no hope to see it back in shape: over 25k workplaces were lost in 3 years just in that sector, not counting the related sectors' losses.
Capitalism can't cope with global economy, so we need a serious change... not motivational speeches. The problem as I see it needs a radical intervention to be solved, but I don't see people moving in the right direction... I see people struggling and becoming isolationist instead of joining forces to change the world... pity.Oct 22 2013: Exactly Pat, I totally agree!
It is very important, that this 'hard reality' aka 'capitalism' appears to be a natural constant, a never changing entity of the universe, something which is beyond any change!
This 'appearance' becomes particularly important in countries in which each citizen has the right to vote and in which each citizen has exactly the same voting power. Democracies for instance, to name one example.
This is very important at times, at which the mechanics of capitalism manage to hurt more and more citizen unless the majority of them is finally cornered.
As we all know, cornered people do funny and illogical things - very difficult to predict - we got to make sure, that none of them gets the idea to use their voting power to change this 'hard reality' in their favor. Especially then, if this favor would serve the majority of the people!
This got to be avoided, at all cost! So how do we do that, that none of those cornered people start to question or even to blame the economical system which corned them?
Well Pat, I think you are on the right track already. People like Giuseppe, who feels cornered in his situation and started to question 'the system' have to insured, that it is their and not 'the systems' fault!
You rightly reminded him, who works in his business for many years, that he actually has no clue about what he was and is doing all this time! Well done! This way you put him into a defense situation! Beautiful! Now he has to explain why he didn't manage to adjust to this 'unchangeable' hard reality, which keeps his mind busy and general system critique low.
Doesn't we all know that keeping a 'competitive edge' against low labour cost markets is a piece of cake? Just do better graphics no one else does for 1/5th of your price! Just make the people want your stuff and your problems are gone, it is that easy! Capitalism got nothing to do with the problem at all! Its just Giuseppe who is complaining for no reason, right?Oct 22 2013: He was just doing 32 years a lousy job in keeping his customers interested, right? He was just exploiting his market all this years by charging high prices for no reasons, right? And it is HIS fault that he can not keep up with foreign programmers to whom $500 a month is a fortune, right? He could adjust to this level as well, correct? Or even lower the prices, to get the other side mixed up a bit in open and fair and good old competition, as this is what healthy markets are about, right? They correct themselves, right?
A 'smell good' Mexican plumber for $5 per hour? No biggy, just smell even better for the difference of 20 bucks. Or start singing to entertain the people to make up for the difference. What about dancing? This will secure a plumbers job for at least 5 years, if not more ...
Let us make the majority of people who are cornered by capitalism chase their tails instead, before they choose to free themselves in voting their way out of their despair, because voting is dangerous, especially for large numbers of voters!
Let us repeat our slogan, that it is THEIR fault why they find themselves cornered. It is THEM, who didn't work hard enough! it is THEM who didn't do good enough at school! It is THEM who choose the wrong profession! It is THEM who are not creative enough! It is THEM who didn't understand their business!
And as more often we repeat that, Pat, as more likely it becomes they will believe what we keep saying and finally end up chasing their own tails in the corner we put them!
Once this is done, we again saved this 'hard reality' against the danger of the majority vote,
which really is just a pain in the but in our 'political reality', right? Maybe we can get this changed as well one time, what do you think?
So lets cheer our capitalism, as for certain, this truly is a natural and unchangeable constant in all THEIR lives. And in the meanwhile, we may check how our investments in China, India and elsewhere are doing and if we did well .. :o)Oct 22 2013: You miss my point. People have an emotional reason for buying anything. I come from the commercial construction industry which you might say is as cutthroat as it gets. But this still applies.
You asked for ideas yet you whine when you did not hear what you wanted to. Good luck, with that attitude you are going to need it.
Oct 22 2013: So you are stating that there are emotional states that can make a client pay $5,000 for something that they can get for $900 at the same level of quality? Can you make any real life example? I can't pinpoint anything that fits this picture, and it's not about attitude... maybe I'm too stupid...Oct 22 2013: I'm not saying your situation is fixable.
It might be that there are software customers who do not view programming as you do (a commodity) and get quite emotional when the vendor they used is late or delivers a beta version, making them look bad to their boss.
Another one is a local plumber who advertises as the smell good plumber because people get emotional about plumbers who smell bad.
People pay considerably for an apple because it is friendlier and not a problem.
People pay more for a Cadillac. What business is Cadillac in? They are in the vanity business, this is emotional reasoning.
Like I said this is one of those times in life that you need to FIND OUT, cuz if you don't find out you are going to be looking for a new careerOct 22 2013: Oh, yes Pat, 'looking for a new career' thats a classic! I almost forgot! Well done, Giuseppe is almost there!
What do we need our expertise for, right? Who likes what ones does anyway, correct? If Giuseppe manages to create computer programs and games, why shouldn't he be able to flip burgers at Burgerking, right? Or what else one can do after a 32 year career of specialization, correct?
Market regulations are no option anyway. We don't want governments to tinker with that one, do we?
What did Giuseppe say? Governments are representatives of the people in democracies? Naah ... he must have understand something wrong to have said that, right? We don't want a nanny state, do we?
We all know that markets have to be free and that it is not their intention to serve the people, right? People have to serve the markets, as otherwise, who on earth is doing all this plain boring work for the revenue of the ruling class?
No Giuseppe, you got to be kidding! It is your fault that you can not compete anymore, so get yourself another job! Don't blame anyone else! It is you who is the looser here, not the capitalist system! The system is fine! It got us off the trees and cages and keeps increasing our wealth ever since! You as anybody else had the same chance to participate, so don't cry if you can't keep up! Right, Pat?
You got to accept Giuseppe, that it is YOU and nothing else who brought you in that very corner you are in right now, so stop complaining and look for another job! Right, Pat?
And don't you dare to question the system, Giuseppe! It got nothing to do whit it! Its a natural constant, remember? A 'hard reality' you got to face. Grow up, get yourself another job and shut up dammit!
Giuseppe, I hope you understand my intention. I am not certain about Pat though ... ;o)
Oct 22 2013: Lejan
You digress into a sea of conjecture which is it's own trap, the consensus which is irrelevant, mass agreement that it is all hopeless.
I don't normally respond to your chatter, but since you went to so much trouble to covince
Giuseppe that he can't possibly do anything for himself, I thought I better say what you blame on capitalism is really the product of government.
Now I suppose that you will release endless amounts of conjecture, don't flatter yourself I will not waste my time responding
Oct 22 2013: Pat,
I am on your side, really! And of course we have to blame the government that capitalism can not show its natural beauty! Thats what I meant in saying:
'Market regulations are no option anyway. We don't want governments to tinker with that one, do we?'
So what makes you think I just chatter while supporting your very standpoint?
I didn't convince Giuseppe in any other way than yours. I even encouraged him not only to 'smell' better yet also to dance and sing on top of it to bridge this market driven gap in prices.
And as you, and final consequence, I was suggesting that he rather get another job but to complain about the given situation.
Complaining doesn't do anything. I agree with you and made this point even clearer in saying:
'Grow up, get yourself another job and shut up dammit! '
So don't you believe in your own views anymore, Pat? Or what makes you feel uncomfortable the moment someone supports them?
I refuse you believe that you see your understanding of the world just as another conjecture.
This would not resonate with how you appear.
Anyway, I just tried to be supportive towards some untouchable subjects and to keep them as such just as you prefer to do, yet instead you feel to waste your time on it.
Strange, yet now I will never know what motivates this your decision.
Well, I guess 'a sea of conjecture' to some is just a puddle of facts to others and likewise, which may have caused this terrible misunderstanding of ours.
:o)Oct 22 2013: The genie is out of the box and we have to live with the changes. Even those in India and Pakistan will face some major changes. US corporations are slowly moving both software and manufacturing back to the US. They found that in sw they lost control of IP and with the ability of robots growing, labor costs for many products is not the major cost factor.Oct 22 2013: Hi Giuseppe,
I read most of the comments and I felt they were off the topic (Sorry); I think this topic should have been under Question heading for answers rather than in Debate heading as people like to debate and you don't get solution sometime.
Practical solution is in order to survive in global economy one have to become global citizen.
Like trying every new thing scare; this will also, but look around you, how Indians and other ethnic groups are getting adaptable to new customs, culture, language and place. Most of the Indians Work abroad send Money back to home and due to exchange rates they get benefited that too Tax free income, now the question arise can you do it, the answer is maybe no, age and many other factor's So how can you use your skills in which you are best like others. I think labelling will help in your case as you are a owner, you can search someone in India or other place who can work for you in comparative price then start a institution that teaches and provide Your country's Certification etc grow in this sector. Basically start business in this new destination and remain in business.
and most important make younger generation adaptable to change send them to India, China etc after all these are developing beautiful countries, but there will be competition.Oct 22 2013: I am old enough to remember a time before this free trade stuff when most Western Nations had vibrant, sound economies with low unemployment and decent wages for most. All gone now.
I doubt we could return to those times but, for me, that is where all the fiscal problems we see occurring around the world today stem from.Oct 21 2013: this argument was already alive 150 years ago. it was refuted 150 years ago.
in 1845, bastiat wrote his "economic sophisms" in which he recommended (sarcastically) to destroy the railroads to protect local producers from cheap foreign goods. or even better, build broken railways in the first place.
in another essay around the same time, he called for cargo ships throwing their cargo into the sea to restore positive trade balance with america.
in fact adam smith described the correct theory in his "wealth of nations" in 1776. in this book, he correctly identified international trade as a source of wealth for both parties.
so it seems we are struggling with this concept for 250 years, and we have learned not a single thing.
Oct 21 2013: I really don't see how the two things are related.
You have a quite straight and simple problem here: the online market is being leveled to the costs of work in the Asian countries (see Elance, Freelancer, Guru and so on) and that is a simple and hard fact.
On the other hand who lives in EU/US/JP (and similar western economies) needs to earn ten times that just to survive. This is another simple and hard fact.
So we have two hard facts that bring to one result: western economies will either fall or find a way to balance the huge gap imposed by competing with people that can live off pennies.
I can't see a way out and I'm among those that work online, so I'm banging my head on a wall... I'm currently planning to move to India with the family to be able to survive, but I'm quite sure that Indian govnmt will soon close the borders when realises what's happening...
Oct 22 2013: and you don't think that in 19th century france, very similar statements were made by french people about they can not compete with some cheap german product, and how would they make a living now?
it seems to me that the real problem is not that you don't understand the parallel, but just don't want to.
Oct 22 2013: Maybe you should just give another example. Maybe one which dates back more than just 250 years. This usually helps, because as longer the distance, time-wise, to the 'now' an example is chosen, as more intuitive it becomes. I mean, we all know this, right?
What about 586 years? Thats seems a good period! And 1427 was a perfect year too.
I am soooo curious now ...
:o)Oct 21 2013: Welcome to the mechanics of capitalism!
How to cope with that? Reboot into a more stable system!
Oct 21 2013: Sure, like ParEcon, but people don't seem to get it, so I feel that we live in a catch-22 situation here.Oct 21 2013: Is there something you can offer in quality or service that would make your offering of greater value than what your professional competitors offer?
Oct 21 2013: Not to justify a price 4 or 5 times higher, that's the problem... this is not ordinary competition :/
Oct 21 2013: I do not know whether there are manufacturers of cars in Ireland. If there were, would you buy the car made in Ireland at five times the price over the same quality car made in Asia? Let's say the car made in Asia costs whatever cars cost now from Asia, but the Irish cars cost five times that much. Would you want your country to prevent you from buying cars not made in Ireland?
Many people are happy to buy some things locally even when they are a little more expensive, but the willingness to do this depends on how much extra they have to pay and how big a purchase it is.


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I have been a cabinetmaker my whole life and now I am wanting to add furniture pieces with metal incorporated.
I also have a demo project coming up where I have to cut apart 2 huge boilers.
I also have a gate I need to add a piece of expanded metal to, so I need to cut it and then weld it on to the gate.
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Well i may be able to help you. What kind of metal is your gate made of. You can't just grab and weld whatever you want with any metal, it does not work that way! If you use the welding process your going to ruin your gate.
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Hypertherm seems to be the hands-down winner as far as plasma cutters go. It's been discussed time and time again on this forum.
I use a Miller Spectrum 625. I like it but I have nothing to compare it to. As far as size, what material are you going to cut?
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I have a spoolmatic 30a hooked up to a miller 350 welder. The problem i am having is that the wire speed keeps turning itself down. I have it at a certain setting, then after about 10 minutes of welding, i'll look over at the machine and the wire feed speed is slowly dropping. Then, if you kind of give the gun a little love tap, the wire speed comes right back up! I am pretty much a welding novice, I am actually welding on my fishing boat. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I really don't even know where to start.
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Problem with Spoolmatic 30a: Wire speed turns itself down
Too many variables, but I'd go with a near busted wire in the gun itslf.


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I am a hobbiest/garage welder and I picked up a pair of +3 cheater glasses from CVS and used them for the first time this weekend.
All I have to say is HOLY CRAP I can't believe what I can now see and what I was missing before. Magnification should be included standard in the helmet lenses.
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You don't have to sell me. I use a #2 reading glassed over a #2 mag insert in the hood.Nothing welded, Nothing gained
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**** of a difference isn't it? I had the same experience. A whole new world opened up after I stuck a 1.5 in my Digital Elite.==============
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Hi all, one thing you have to be carefull with, the lenses in off the shelf reading specs are both the same strength which means if your eyes are at different focuses due to eye deterioration from age or whatever, you'll get eye strain and at worst one eye will stop seeing the job and make the other eye work overtime.
Before you indulge in any $5 reading specs, have your eyes tested for deterioration and if you want to go cheap you can always then get cheap reading specs from the bargain shops.
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Adrian Sutil has blamed cold tyres for his crash during Thursday's running at the Jerez circuit...
Adrian Sutil has blamed cold tyres for his crash during Thursday's running at the Jerez circuit.
Putting in the laps in his new Sauber C33, the German lost control and crashed into the barrier at Turn 7.
The impact damaged the car's nose and front suspension, bringing a premature end to his day's work.
"Towards the end of the session we did a few installation laps," the German said.
"On the last one the tyres lost a lot of temperature, it caught me by surprise when I accelerated out of the corner, shifting up from third to fourth on a straight line, and suddenly the car snapped and I went off."
It was an inauspicious start to Sutil's Sauber career as the day marked his first out on track with his new team.
But despite his crash, the former Force India driver reckons his team is on the right track with the C33.
"It was nice to be back in a car, as well as in a different team for the first time.
"It was a pleasure, and the team has done a fantastic job to get the C33 ready. It is very different to drive, as it has much more torque and sounds different.
"It's very quiet, but the power is definitely there. It's early on, so the systems are not always working exactly as they should. But we did a few decent runs.
"Our biggest issue was the brake-by-wire system, so we still need to work on that. Also to get a feeling for the tyres is quite tricky. The hard tyre is very hard, so it is going to be a big challenge to make them work."


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Definitely didn't see this one coming. I wonder what the Thunder were thinking. There's probably more behind this deal.
Definitely didn't see this one coming. I wonder what the Thunder were thinking. There's probably more behind this deal.
There's money behind the deal.....sad that they break up a championship contender over a few million. Better hope Martin returns to form or Lamb is some star in waiting or they're going to get crucified for this trade.
For only 4.5 million more, there's no reason why they shouldn't have gotten a deal done, but I don't see this trade being that bad for the Thunder.
Biggest reason being I'm a fan of Jeremy Lamb. I think he can be a solid scorer, but I think he has huge defensive potential. Offensively, there isn't much of a drop off between Martin and Harden. Aside from last year, Martin has always been an efficient scorer. As the 3rd option on the Thunder, I can see his efficiency going back up. Obviously he's not the passer that Harden is. Or the defender, but Lamb should make up for that, eventually becoming a better Sefolosha for the Thunder.
The draft picks they got are rather worthless though if I'm reading right. Lakers first round pick, worthless. Lottery protected Raptors pick isn't all that great either. Like I said though, no reason why they shouldn't have gotten Harden locked up though.
traded him because they didn't have the money to keep Harden while also improving the team. Pretty much everybody said they had to make a decision on either Harden or Ibaka.
Funny how 78 mil was a completely reasonable payroll but that last mil and a half was just completely out of the question. What a miserable owner Bennett is......I hope Durant tells him where to stick it 3 yrs from now and he spends the next decade thinking of the hundreds of millions hes flushed down the drain.
At least it should be entertaining watching Durant go down the same path of Kobe, Lebron, Howard and 'Melo. Maybe Westbrook develops into that superstar sidekick.....I just don't see it happening.


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|GoogolBar is my idea of a replacement for the Google Toolbar for Windows. It does not contain anything questionable, unethical, shady, sneaky, privacy invading, etc.
|Supported OSes
|32-bit versions of Windows: 98/ME/2K/XP with IE 5 or newer
|Setup File
|System Requirements
|Windows 98/ME/2K/XP with IE 5 or newer
|Author Info
|app103 - App's Apps | LaKraven - Reinvent The Wheel
|Nice, clean, and simple. It is a deskbar that integrates with your taskbar to provide convenient searching of various Google services (20 in total) right from the desktop in your default browser.
It will work with all major browsers and most obscure ones, too. It will work with both horizontal and vertical taskbars.
It will not store a search history, not phone home, not report statistics, no automatic installation of updates without the user's knowledge or consent, no tracking of personally identifiable surfing activities, no tracking of "anonymous" statistics, no changes to your default search engine, no changes to your default "new tab" page, no changes to any web page you view, no collection and storage of personally identifiable information, no loading of dynamic content from the web, no advertising, no 3rd party bundled software, no BS.
And for those that really care about privacy, there is an option to search using Scroogle.
|Services supported: Web, Image, Maps, News, Groups, Shopping, Video, Mail, Books, Finance, Scholar, Blogs, Youtube. Calendar, Reader, Documents, Patents, Android market, G+, Scroogle
|As displayed on a vertical taskbar:
|Just run the GoogolBarSetup.msi file by double clicking it.
After installing, right click your taskbar and on the menu, under Toolbars, select "GoogolBar". If you do not see it listed there, wait a few seconds and check again.
|Using the application
|Just type in one or more search terms into the box, select the type of search you want to perform from the drop down list, and click the Search button. Your search will be opened in your default browser.
|Close the GoogolBar deskbar first by right clicking the toolbar and selecting "Close toolbar". Then restart your computer. Failure to skip this may cause uninstallation to fail.
It can then be removed from Add/Remove programs by finding and uninstalling the entry called "GoogolBar".
|Known Issues
|Vista/Win7 x86:
Current version may not work but there will be a version that will, coming soon.
x64 versions of Windows:
Current version will not work but there will be a version that will, coming soon.
Internet Explorer:
This isn't meant to be an Internet Explorer toolbar, even though it does appear on the Internet Explorer toolbars menu.
I had to add it to that menu to get it to show up in the Explorer toolbars menu.
You can use it with Internet Explorer, but it will not open searches and pages in the open instance of Internet Explorer. It will open them in a new instance of your default browser, which in some cases might be a different browser than Internet Explorer.
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"This recipe has only seven ingredients, so it's easy to memorize and share. It's my most requested salad! I love to just have this and some rustic Italian bread for a light lunch!"
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1 (6 ounce) package
baby spinach leaves
1/3 cup
cubed Cheddar cheese
Fuji apple - peeled, cored and diced
1/3 cup
finely chopped red onion
1/4 cup
sweetened dried cranberries
1/3 cup
blanched slivered almonds
3 tablespoons
poppy seed salad dressing
This is a fantastic recipe! The combinations are endless. For fruit we use fresh local and in season (we've tried peaches, blueberries, nectarines, kiwi, and apricots) and for nuts we use what catches our fancy(pecans, walnuts, almonds, or hazelnuts), and for cheese we've used blue, havarti, cheddar, swiss, jack, colby - all were great - we've never been disappointed. Rarely does my husband request a salad for dinner - but since I discovered this recipe last year he requests it on a regular basis now. Tonite were having it with apple, walnut, blue cheese, dried cranberries, and thinned blue cheese dressing.
I would say this was an average type salad. I think the dressing would make or break it.
88 Ratings
I made this up because I had most of the ingredients on hand and had only remebered the dinner a few hours before. I had never heard of a Fuji apple either. There were raves at the dinner party. All the flavours and colours were terrific.
This was very good. I left the skin on the apple...used a corer to core and divide it into wedges and then just chopped them. I made the Tangy Poppy Seed Dressing on this site and it was perfect with this salad. Hubster loved it too.
Nice recipe that is versatile enough to accommodate a multitude of taste buds. I followed the recipe but added crisp bacon that was just begging to be used in something and thought "why not"? Loved the mix of sweet and salty. Definitely a winner Holly 214!
I was on my own for dinner last night, so I decided to have leftover mac & cheese and this salad. It was quite good. I used shredded cheddar, an unpeeled gala apple and I toasted my almonds (spread on cookie sheet, bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes or until fragrant). Toasting nuts of any kind really enhances their flavor. I didn't toss this, I just layered the ingredients on a salad plate and drizzled with dressing, which was Poppy Seed Salad Dressing by Gay Nell Nicholas, also on this site. All in all a nice flavor combination.
This was really good. It was a good combination of flavors! Thank you!
Once again a HIT with the tantalizing combination of flavors: the apple complements the red onion complements the cranberries complements the almonds...Well, you get the picture. And the poppy seed dressing and spinach base pull it all together. I even omitted the cheddar and it was still killer.
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I want to thank everyone - over 100 commenters on my original project - for their input and knowledge as well as their questions that lead me further in my pursuit. Thanks Guys!
I will try to take an approach on this project where I will give steps first and explanations of why following. You will also be able to download, as I did on the original project, a pdf with the whole process. Most of the document is the original with additional information that was not in the original. http://www.spinpower.org/DIY/My_Savonius_DIY.php (This is php to force the download instead of trying to open in your browser.) My website is http://www.spinpower.org if that wasnt clear above. I also have the following website name pointed to the same place http://www.smart-turbine.com .
If the point is "DIY!", I get it. But if you're advocating for more home wind-power to make everyone less dependent on the system, Reduce-Reuse-Recycle is the mantra that points towards grabbing an old motor from a junkyard.
Regardless, this is a great 'ible!
There are many places even, in the USA, where on can't go to the junkyard and find a used Permanent Magnet DC motor that's suitable for a practical duty cycle when used in a wind turbine. I understand there are issues as "cogging" that come up when using motors as generator or automotive alternators.
Having Resource Conservation Coordinator as my professional title I really appreciate the mantra and definitely share it. Its thinking outside the box and consideration for all possibilities before we give up that will help change things for the better. Keep it up.
PS - Thanks for the compliment. :)
A regular permanent magnet motor is designed to perform at a specific RPM and specific electrical frequency - house current. Typically the motor RPM rating is 600 or higher - there are exceptions. A vertical turbine may never go over 100 RPMs in its useful life, so you have to gear up, adding mechanical losses. Also, the wiring inside the motor as I mentioned is optimized for a particular electrical frequency or Hz which will rarely be attained as wind speed changes all of the time - changing the Hz as RPM changes. Also, the magnets used in a motor are complimentary to the need of the motor -as a motor- and are typically much too weak to be very useful in the other direction. In the case of a stepper motor you add severe cogging, (magnetic grabbyness <- not the technical definition), as well.
There's still a lot more than this, but I'm trying to keep it simple as you requested. :)
Gonna have to think about this a bit.
I wanted to thank you for taking the time and effort to share you ideas, especially in a way that helps facilitate people of any background to build one themselves. Thank You!
I have been interested and have read and learned for 3 years on wind turbines. The very first time I 'googled' wind turbines, it was with intention to build one of my own. However I quickly learned that the options and methods varied so widely that I had a lot to learn before I would make my choice for a build. Always in fear that I would begin purchasing and building only to result in failure due to lack of education and preparation. Always on the edge, and ready to dive in, I came across your instructable while browsing after my weekly newsletter update. Immediately i begain reading your website and instructable, researching the pro's and cons of a savonious, and understanding the practicality. I said outloud "I found my first Wind Turbine, this is it".
That was about 2 weeks ago, and in a few days I had my turbine up in the air. On a budget, my first mount failed quite quicklyl, but I was kind of expecting it. I thought maybe you would be interested in my progress so far, and have been posting videos to share with my out of town friends and family: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQH8i5YGBQY
Again, I wanted say THANK YOU!
Great video, and great build! :) I'm glad to help. Those magnets and wire are the most costly part of this build, but you know first hand how much energy you are collecting from simply trying to stop the turbine.
You are very welcome.
Where can I get a look at your patent, google was not my friend :(
I thought your rotor method is just like using a stepper motor as a generator, been done for many years??
A stepper motor would be like a distant cousin. What I have done here is very similar to a stepper motor in that we use permanent magnets and wire to generate power. 7 of the specifics in my patent pertain directly to autonomous adaptation for electrical pathways, voltage stabilization, rpm stabilization and output wattage maximizing output power based on wind condition and without adding any additional moving parts. All facets of the patent have design specifics to attain an optimum balance for these specifics to work properly. This is why the patent was filed with the option to remain hidden. Its kind of like the kernels secret recipe, we all know something similar but the magic is hard to reproduce. I'm sharing enough here to help a DIYer build a powerful and useful machine like the first one I built. Where it can go from there is only limited to the skills and imagination of the builder.
Two questions:
1) looking at your drawings you have the two pieces of opened out ducting or chimney facing in opposite directions and between the two there appears to be a two inch tube. This tube doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere?
2) If one made a two-tier version with the top and bottom sections going in opposite directions, could one attach the magnets to the base of the top section and the coils to the top of the bottom section? In this way the magnets and coils would be passing each other at double the speed as in your existing model. Whether this would be more efficient I don't know. True there would need to be some way of having a rotating electrical connection, but that is done all the time.
1) There is no tube, the pipe sections support the structure once they are cemented in the wood.
2) This is a nice idea that was brought up many times when I published the first version several years ago. The problem is simple - We want to convert the force of the wind to electricity. Speed over the wire will have a direct relationship with the voltage as well as the mass of the wire having a relationship to Amperage. When you start factoring the added complexity of what you suggest, you may also realize that using wire half the gage and twice as long would also double the voltage for the same rotational speed. However, consider that voltage is like pressure and will actually play directly into the amount of force required to start the turbine spinning. These variables are all intertwined and are a very interesting set to play with as I have done for several years now.
2b) a rotating electrical connection will most likely require an electrical brush or some point of contact which will add to maintenance. Not out of the question, but I prefer to make a machine I can just look at for 20 or more years without needing to change brushes or service mechanical parts.
re 1) OK, so what is that little circle in the middle of your drawing? I tried to add a picture but it wouldn't work but it is the same as your little icon on every one of your comments.
This is the email that is used after filling the form in.
I have several questions:
1. Do you have a good photo of the entire wind turbine so that you can see how the stator coils are mounted? How close are the coils to the magnets?
2. What should be the inside diameter of the coils? i guess this would be the distance of the two screws around which the wire winds.
3. Do you have a video of the turbine in action?
4. What is the difference between magnetic wire and regular wire of the same gauge? Can regular electronic hookup wire be substituted?
1. I don't think any of the overall photos would do a better job than the one already included in the alternator step. Coils are as close to the magnets as you can get them without making any contact during rotation. You have to leave some extra space for turbulent or storm winds that may twist and rock the frame.
2. Inside diameter should be as small as you can get it. And you are correct about the two screws. :)
3. I will try to find some video of the turbine, most of what I have now is the commercial build and there are some significant differences, however this project was the first generation.
4. Magnet wire is solid core wire with an enamel coating that is very thin vs a PVC or similar sheath that is considerably thicker. Hookup wire can be substituted if it is solid core, like individual lines from inside of Cat5.


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Finn And Jake Get Super Intense About Fishing In 'Adventure Time' #9 [Preview]
There's unwinding while fishing and then there's unwinding by way of super intense fishing. Can you guess which method Finn and Jake prefer in the Adventure Time #9 backup story by brothers Chris and Shane Houghton? I think you can! Joining a main story by Ryan North and artists Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb, the Houghton brothers (also collaborators on the all-ages Reed Gunther) show what happens when a friendly competition takes on a life of its own, Land of Ooo style. Boom Studios has provided us with a first-look at the fishy backup