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  1. Sorry to all injured HCers, and glad you didn't get injured in the fender bender CD44hi! I guess I am at home for a week or so following a strange week and sucky weekend in the hospital. It started out with me noticing double vision when looking left. Woke up on Saturday with double vision everywhere. Went to urgent care, who ran a CT scan which showed nothing. Then to the hospital where I spent Saturday and most of Sunday. Full head MRI there, again, clean. Diagnosed as 3rd cranial nerve palsy by neurologist, confirmed by ophthalmologist today. Should take care of itself in a couple of weeks, maybe less. I guess at my age, what they find in the scans, etc. could always be bad, so counting my blessings there. Heal up HC!
    9 points
  2. I've thought a lot, today. My wife is genderqueer (she is very open so I don't feel uncomfortable mentioning that) and much more plugged in to things than I am, me at the grand ol' age of 37. She told me the other day that she considers me to be part of the queer community. Some of my friends here, I don't really remember which beyond Shell and Steve, have known for years that I have been, and am, sexually attracted to men. Not every man. Some men. I think I've mentioned it on occasion. I've never acted on it, for a lot of reasons. I'm generally more attracted to women, and I just think that I wasn't part of the right generation to act on a bisexual tendency in a casual way. I don't know if my time has passed, or what. I know that Colie would support me exploring that aspect of my personality, but honestly I don't really feel that strong of an urge. I'm very happily married, and, even when accepted, I would consider that to be cheating, and I'm not real big on infidelity. It's still there, though. I think it has informed other parts of my life, parts that I have acted on in non-sexual ways. I'm not sure I feel comfortable claiming that I'm part of the queer community. I "pass." That's not even the right word. How can you "pass" when nobody even thinks that you aren't whatever you are "passing" for? I'm certainly a fellow traveler, but that's not the same thing. I really don't care what I'm called or considered. I don't really consider this a coming out. It would be a shitty one, if it were. I also know that this is in a public forum, so don't worry that I've put this in the wrong place. I just kinda feel like I should do something, just for myself. Talking openly feels like doing something for myself.
    8 points
  3. She doesn’t think it’s broken, probably just bruised. I’m to come back if it stops getting better.
    7 points
  4. Everyone will feel much better when I find the security footage of you skating into the side of your car. I wish Colin would carry thorn bushes around to throw at you when you crash out.
    5 points
  5. If it makes anyone feel better, I skated into a parked car (mine) 10 days ago and dropped a few hundred on a splint and peace of mind (no break on the x-rays of my thumb) Just after crash Just after doc Just after I told Jeff Sent from my ONEPLUS A3000 using Tapatalk
    5 points
  6. Heal up HCers! As always, I wish doom and unmitigated failure to he who eats biscuits (aka Fat Che).
    5 points
  7. Heal well Colin & Jimmy. On balance, Chris, I gotta agree that that is good news. Hope it clears quickly. Also good Dusty news, Dusty.
    4 points
  8. My amp module is ready. Now I'm working on a second Psu for the amp (dual-mono) and at the same time I work on the unbal/bal preamp (I have the PSU ready). I want to do a three module system.
    3 points
  9. That's looks familiar. I got the ankle and the midpoint of the tibia, too. I hope you heal well and fast!
    3 points
  10. Yeah, all kinds of wonderful, thanks. Now listening to new Fischerspooner, Sir -- electroclash
    2 points
  11. Oh - OK. Geddit. I was thinking about how you could possibly know that I know Paul Messenger and Martin Colloms, or that I was CTO of Wharfedale in the early 90's. I clearly overthought your comment
    2 points
  12. I have heard it. Garbage. It doesn’t provide enough gain for a 007 to play above a whisper at max volume (approximately equivalent to the loudness of a Carbon at 9 o’clock with a 50k volume pot). There is also photographic evidence suggesting its output bias line is electrically unsound and unsafe for electrostatic headphones: https://www.head-case.org/forums/topic/786-the-headcase-stax-thread/?do=findComment&comment=778245
    1 point
  13. Have you checked the rail as described in the link I pointed to above?
    1 point
  14. Nope, didn't know, but had suspicions.........
    1 point
  15. "Fail" of the Month? for countries without universal healthcare?
    1 point
  16. you might find this useful, and be aware that the negative rail is identical to the positive, so the voltage ref 'ground' ref is the negative rail rahter than ground.
    1 point
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  18. Spiral fractures from slipping on ice last week - one near bottom of tibia, the other at top of fibula: Now have a plate & screws inside anchoring everything for healing. I have a feeling my leg looks a little like Colin's underneath the cast, just not as "pretty"
    1 point
  19. Milo and I bought the wood and got all the pieces cut to size for our router table project.
    1 point
  20. Life goal: Have equivalent garage consisting of rally car for actual racing and something ridiculous for during the week.
    1 point
  21. In what universe is 1299$ for a pair of tubes "reasonable"? in Trump's where everybody is rich and beautiful?
    1 point
  22. It's even worse in context -- he says that like it's a good thing. He obviously does not have Grammarly. Or perhaps his sister is hot. Or perhaps it's a Game of Thrones reference.
    1 point
  23. I never had troubles with the HV900's, and haven't had any that blew, so the following is based on what I've found useful troubleshooting/checking the regular Golden Reference HV. Often it can be helpful to work at lower voltages when trouble shooting. Paralleling the high resistor (is it 2x 450kohm in the HV900?) in the probe string to get the circuit in action at a lower output DC. If regulation doesn't work for some reason and things go bad it usually isn't really bad. Parallel the R8(2x 450k) with one ~100k (one across both) will provide some ~100VDC. Initial check: The CCS's Use a lab supply at some ~15-20V, through a DMM at mA: put the (+) at the drain (middle leg) of the 10m90, and the (-) at the bottom of the CSS where R2(100) and R1(4k5) meets ...you should get ~2mA ....if you see much more, try replace the DN2540. Do the same at the other CSS: (+) to drain (middle leg) at the 10m90, and (-) at the bottom (pin 6 at the voltage reference) ...you should get ~1.3mA ...if not the 10m90 is probably damaged. Check the current limiting CSS you added (your drawing) the same way (Kevin suggested 50mA for this) When powering up the supply, hold the variac when you reach some ~40-50VDC output, and check: the pin6 of lt1021 against "ground" (pin4) ....you should see 10V ...if not, the lt1021 has probably gone south Before raising the VARIAC further: Attach a DMM across the 2k at the bottom of the cascoded CSS ... you should see ~0V (when at ~50VDC output) and only before regulation kicks in, the voltage jumps to some ~4V; it happens just before you reach the desired output voltage Attach a DMM across the 3k at the source leg of the output CSS (right most leg) ...should be some steady ~4V
    1 point
  24. I’m at the doctor, too, checking if foot is borked. And yes, it’s the left foot, too.
    0 points
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