Side View Mirror Removal and Gut
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09-13-2010 | 09:14 PM
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You run 3, 4-5v rated LEDs in series... like flash light batteries are. The negitive is at the back of the body of the light and becomes the ground. But the positive of that battery is connected to the negitive of the next battery who's positive terminal is connected to the negitive of the next battery, and so on.
So, + (leg) to - (leg), + to - and + to - = 12-13volts. In the end, you will have 3 (or 4) LEDs in series but only one set of leads to connect to power. The positive from the first LED in the series and the negitive from that 3rd (or 4th.) See what I mean?
By doing it this way, you can scrap the resister idea completely and put as many "groups" (of 3 or 4 LEDs) together as you want to as long as you do mutiples of 3... 4 to be on the safe side.
Not bad for a trailer hitch guy, huh Alex?
Really, it's simple Ohm's law.
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09-14-2010 | 07:39 PM
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I see, I see...
I also see that all the paperwork stuff I learned in what little college I did take was mostly burnt out beeing a "seedsman". And the fact that all I deal with now is 24VDC, which is ran to a PLC. An other than that basic 120/240, and 480 system.
I also see that all the paperwork stuff I learned in what little college I did take was mostly burnt out beeing a "seedsman". And the fact that all I deal with now is 24VDC, which is ran to a PLC. An other than that basic 120/240, and 480 system.
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09-14-2010 | 08:26 PM
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I'm lost, Alex. I don't know what you mean by your last post. Can you explain further?
Are you being facetious (making fun of me,) or serious? I don't know how to read that post?
Also, some of the terminology used (e.g. seedsman? PLC, etc...?) must be specific because it's over my head.
If I offended you in anyway, please rest assured that that was never my intention... though I do have a wicked sense of humor some times.
And for what it's worth, I am a third year drop-out, having only accrued about a year's worth of college credits and was a TERRIBLE student. I feel I have been a much better student of life, hard knocks if you will, than I ever was in the classroom.
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09-16-2010 | 06:16 PM
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Not making fun of you (though it is easy to do with a guy who tows with a mazda 3)
I was in college (for electrician classes) for a year but working 72hrs a week third shift with a baby on the way wasn't working.
So I am currently working at Pioneer Hi-Bred where we condition soybeans and wheat, hence the "seedsman" comment.
I tend to forget all the equations and math involved with electricity now that I don't use them.
Most my knoledge, everything that wasn't from school and my father, is from work experience: motors, solenoids, PLCs (programable logistics controller) for automated systems, and things of that sort.
I was in college (for electrician classes) for a year but working 72hrs a week third shift with a baby on the way wasn't working.
So I am currently working at Pioneer Hi-Bred where we condition soybeans and wheat, hence the "seedsman" comment.
I tend to forget all the equations and math involved with electricity now that I don't use them.
Most my knoledge, everything that wasn't from school and my father, is from work experience: motors, solenoids, PLCs (programable logistics controller) for automated systems, and things of that sort.
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09-16-2010 | 06:28 PM
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NOW I know you're joking, but I was able to read that other post two different ways. I wasn't sure how you meant it and could not figure out what the context of your comments was.
I had 2yrs of electronics in High School (Vo-Tech) and I too have forgotten a lot. Besides, so much has changed since then. There were no home computers and the ones there were took up rooms and rooms and only owned and operated by big business and governments.
Then there was the digital technology that goes along w/that... well, the so called experts were still trying to figure it all out then, let alone a bunch of HS students that most of whom didn't even know there was such a thing coming. I was working at being a hi-fi/stereo/TV repairman... all analog stuff.
At least the basics haven't changed. Ohm's law still applies as do the different types of circuits to control voltage and current.
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#27
09-17-2010 | 08:55 PM
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Probably old enough to be your father, but not too old to kick your ***.
I graduated HS in '75, if that means anything to ya', which also means I was talking about c 1973-1975.
I graduated HS in '75, if that means anything to ya', which also means I was talking about c 1973-1975.
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09-19-2010 | 10:50 AM
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My parents weren't even thinking about me yet in '75. I wasn't born until 13yrs later in '88.
I'll keep my youth though, and even if you could kick my @ss, remember, I'm still faster than you old man.
I'll keep my youth though, and even if you could kick my @ss, remember, I'm still faster than you old man.
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09-19-2010 | 01:21 PM
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'88!!! You are 31 yrs younger than I am, but '57 was a better year to be born in!! NOW I feel old.
'88 was a bad, BAD year for me too. A lot of bad things happened to me that year.
That wouldn't be hard. I've always been a terrible runner, even as a kid. More of a sprinter than long distance.
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