Progress on the house is slow but steady. All of the foundation gravel backfill is complete, and the concrete guys are back for the 4th pour, the floors. This last pour should be about 80 yards. There are still 4-5 more days of steel rebar installation, then if the weather allows it 1 or 2 days of pour.
Next up after that is structural steel installation.
Since I am build a new shop, I figure I will put the compressed air lines inside the walls. I am considering using 3/4″ PEX-AL-PEX, which is a variety of PEX that has an aluminum layer. You can buy kits from Rapidair that use PEX-AL-PEX, and those include aluminum mounting blocks for putting on walls. It will be nice to have it routed inside the walls, with drops at different locations.
Anyone used this technique?
Sometimes the car work is fun, and sometimes it is necessary. The starter died on my Yukon Denali XL a few weeks ago, but by luck this evening it worked, so I quickly drove it into the shop and onto the lift. GM made the space you can remove it through just a tad smaller than the starter itself. Always thinking ahead those guys.
I am working on the internal wiring plan for the new house. On the networking side, I am leaning towards using Cat6A F/UTP cabling (as contrasted to U/UTP or F/FTP). It seems like F/UTP is a good compromise as the shielding provides better alien (NEXT/FEXT) protection compared to U/UTP. Any comments on this thinking?
It looks like I will have 52 Camera drops, 21 AP drops, 140 data drops (2 drops per location), and 38 speaker drops, plus all of the normal security wiring, etc.
While I don’t need that many APs right now, over time as APs evolve to higher frequency line-of-sight speeds those wires will help, especially if they can support 10G.
The camera drops could be simple Cat6, as I doubt I will need 10Gig for security cameras. Every drop will have 2 cables for redundancy. In total that should be something around 500 cable runs. I would guess average length would be around 20 meters, so about 10km (6.2 miles) of Cat6 or 6A.
For the dedicated locations that have TVs I would probably due 4 Cat6A for video, plus a few extra for control and network.
Anything obvious I am missing?
Huh Paul Yaw.. Not sure what this means yet.
Alright.. dual widebands installed in the TTGTO, and wired to the HPTuners MPVI. As James Ballenger said, these do get slightly warm during calibration. (330F). I ended up adding some DT connectors in the middle just in case I decided to relocate the boxes in the future.
I’m putting those two Ballenger AFRV2s with the production grade NTK sensors in the GTO. When I replaced the fuel pump setup a while back I noticed while cruising the STFTs on the right bank were +25% while the other side was close to zero. (and this was a new behavior) I had a wideband in only the other side, so I couldn’t tell if it was a sensor problem or not. Since I replaced both narrowband sensor and it didn’t make a difference, I suspect there might be a problem with one of those old Deka 60lb injectors. Once I get the two widebands installed I’ll confirm the fueling is as I suspect, and disable each injector in sequence and see if one of them is the problem. It is really just a curiosity, as I have brand new ID1050Xs to put in, plus a real nice fuel filter.
The 16″ mirror in my dob was damaged by some hard water a while back, but I finally got a new replacement mirror for it. The old mirror can be refigured and recoated and then I will have a spare.
Unfortunately there is no center spot on the new mirror, so I need to add one to aid in collimation.
A new catalytic converter, new O2 sensor, and new spark plugs and now the good old Integra GSR passes emissions.
Progress continues with rain drain system and significant rock backfill. So far 60 trucks of rock, which is about 1.6 million pounds of rock. Once that tree garden is filled it should be a tad over 2 million pound of rock. The excavator crew thinks I should have invested in a quarry.
The conduit is for the service entrance. 3x 4″ conduits for primary power, and that should support 600 amps with no difficulty, and could grow to 800 or 1000amps.