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Hobby

Hobby

Every day, another hobby setup. Reloading bench is back up and running, and my microelectronics lab is setup.

I have a new 6.5CM barrel for one of my Sako TRG22s, but still have yet to get the factory barrel off. I may need a hydraulic vise.

You can tell the electronics stuff is setup for an old dude by the prevalence of optical aids. I just can’t do those 0402 by eye alone.

I also setup my old Flex-5000 radio, which mean I need to figure out what I am doing antenna wise. I still have my HF9V at the old house that needs to be taken down, and I have a couple of wire antennas I might put up here to get me started. Going from the house to one of the trees would work for a G5RV with just enough center element height. It isn’t the most ideal direction (NW), but it will at least have some radiation in E/W direction.

Desk

Desk

My office is getting closer to usable. I’ll go ahead and save everyone the trouble and just say it. Yes, I need more monitors. I’ll work on it. šŸ˜‰

Floor

Floor

Oh.. and the floor is mostly done in the lower garage now too…

Shop

Shop

I got some of the cabinetry from the old shop moved over, which really makes it easier to move stuff. This shop has more vertical space so I need to do some upper cabinetry mounting, plus I need some kind of tire/wheel storage that is up high.

Data

Data

Ok.. I think I have sufficient storage now. 40x 10TB drives, 12x 12TB drives,plus three old arrays that total about 80TBs. I still need to get a bunch of SSDs for the cluster array, plus a second set of 12x 12TB drives, but that can wait until I get other house stuff done.

Audio

Audio

For the house wide audio, intercom, door and gate communications I decided to give HTD a run. They have a great integrated solution that is end user installed and configured, no cloud resources needed, and just enough zones to make it work in the new house. I’ll have 12 zones driving 46 speakers with 14 in wall touch pads.

In a number of locations around the house I will have the wall mounted touch panels that gives you access to music/sound for all zones, plus intercom, front door and gate access, and access paging. All of these functions can also be done from an app on various ipads laying around the house.

When I did the wiring I ran each room speaker wires to a wall box location, and from there back to the media closet along with a cat6. The touch pad uses the cat 6, and the speaker wire path allows me to add local analog volume controls in places I might not put a touch pad.

The only gotcha is the gate control stuff, which I will have to do some ‘enhancements’ to give the distance to the gate. More on that as I dig into it.