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[biopunk]

Engineer PA-05 wire stripper and crimper for high gauge wires

Will try to crimp some PicoBlade terminals onto 26AWG silver-plated copper wires, it's going to be PITA

 

[AlexTSG]

Engineer PA-05 wire stripper and crimper for high gauge wires

Engineer also makes an excellent pair of PT-02 tweezers that are great for working on little connectors and jumpers.

 

[confusis]

"Made in Japan? All the best stuff's made in Japan!"

 

[Valantar]

I've heard plenty of good thing about Engineer's tools. That name is the least Google friendly brand name ever though.

 

[CC Ricers]

Hakko 503 60W soldering iron. It's basic but a good needed replacement for my 15-year-old Radio Shack one and I could get working on custom battery packs and fixing the soldering spots that broke on my 1st gen HD-PLEX DC board.

 

[Moustache]

Bought a Poweredge R430 recently, looking forward to tinkering with it.

 

[Phuncz]

Awesome, that needs to be shown in pictures

 

[Skripka]

Oh boy. New laptop day. Asus Flow x13. Actually got one...photos

 

[tasen]

My new SFF Hypervisor:

Shuttle XH410G Barebone with a Intel i9-10900T CPU (10 cores / 20 threads), 16GB Ram, Intel X520-T2 10GBe NIC (with new cooler and silent fan). Running ESXi 7.0 Hypervisor, with one local SSD at the moment for VMs.
I have planed to connect the hypervisor via 10GBe to my Truenas Server (also SFF ) for VM Storage.

 

[GuilleAcoustic]

My new SFF Hypervisor:

Shuttle XH410G Barebone with a Intel i9-10900T CPU (10 cores / 20 threads), 16GB Ram, Intel X520-T2 10GBe NIC (with new cooler and silent fan). Running ESXi 7.0 Hypervisor, with one local SSD at the moment for VMs.
I have planed to connect the hypervisor via 10GBe to my Truenas Server (also SFF ) for VM Storage.

Very nice ! Is this passively cooled ? How're your temps ? I have the exact same CPU in my SFF workstation.

 

[tasen]

Very nice ! Is this passively cooled ? How're your temps ? I have the exact same CPU in my SFF workstation.

Thanks
No it's cooled with a heat pipe cooler and 2 x 60mm fans on the right side of the case. Very quiet at the moment but the X520 is generating a lot of heat.
Hmmm, i have no clue how to read the temps in ESXi since system has no IPMI capabilities Have to find a way to get the temps to the ESXi console.

 

[nero626]

took me almost a year of WFH to finally splurge on a good chair coz I can feel my back degrading by the minute
now that I look back I should've gotten it way earlier..

 

[BaK]

Really nice, first time I see a chair with hard tubing watercooling to keep your back cool!

 

[thelaughingman]

took me almost a year of WFH to finally splurge on a good chair coz I can feel my back degrading by the minute
now that I look back I should've gotten it way earlier..

nice splurge! I so want a Herman Miller Cosm but all Herman Miller where I live is at least double the US retail price

 

[Skripka]

nice splurge! I so want a Herman Miller Cosm but all Herman Miller where I live is at least double the US retail price

And Herman Miller's US pricing is already pretty nuts.

For WFH, I got one of the Cooler Master Ergo L chairs last summer. Overall a very good product...and coming from a 'gamer' company, you'd never guess it was from a gamin company and not an office supply store.

 

[Valantar]

Oh, those Embody chairs (as well as anything Herman Miller really) look so nice. Way, way out of my budget though, and frankly I don't even know if you can get them in Sweden. After familiarizing myself with all the adjustments and dialing stuff in I'm very happy with the Autonomous Ergochair 2 I got a few months back, but it's definitely not perfect (the armrests are way too widely spaced, among other things). It'll no doubt keep me happy for quite a few years still. Hope the Embody treats you well though!

 

[nero626]

And Herman Miller's US pricing is already pretty nuts.

For WFH, I got one of the Cooler Master Ergo L chairs last summer. Overall a very good product...and coming from a 'gamer' company, you'd never guess it was from a gamin company and not an office supply store.

oh wow that was totally not what I expected from cooler master.. especially impressed by the tilting mechanism that's not found in most gaming chairs

I think I got a pretty goof deal on my embody for $900 brand new, while $900 isn't cheap by any means seeing many used ones go for $700+ make me confident that I can recoup most of the cost if I do decide to sell it later on.. I guess the counter argument is that I could be buying a cheap chair instead and putting the rest of the money in the market but my back is probably the better investment in the long run

 

[GuilleAcoustic]

I think I got a pretty goof deal on my embody for $900 brand new, while $900 isn't cheap by any means seeing many used ones go for $700+ make me confident that I can recoup most of the cost if I do decide to sell it later on

Great deal indeed, that same model goes for about 1400€ here.

I guess the counter argument is that I could be buying a cheap chair instead and putting the rest of the money in the market but my back is probably the better investment in the long run

You have only one back, better take good care of it. I say that but I've been using a wooden chair for a year now lol.

 

[thelaughingman]

I think I got a pretty goof deal on my embody for $900 brand new, while $900 isn't cheap by any means seeing many used ones go for $700+

that's highway robbery right there! A new Embody is sold for an equivalent of 3,400 USD locally where I live

 

[SiKiaTriK]

So after some time lurking second hand offers I found a pretty good deal on three Starfighters. Some conjugal negotiations were required and I finally pulled the trigger.

There is last weekend's haul, being two sets opened and already built, and the Yoda Starfighter, still sealed. I'm not an scalper nor a holder of legos. I just want to build, play and expose them by myself and with my kids, because that's what lego is about.

There is the complete Haul:

First one, the Yoda Starfighter

And final result

Then is the turn for Anakin's borrowed green Interceptor

Very nice minifigures and iconic scene

And finally the magnificient ARC 170

It's so beautiful!

If any other lego fan is roaming the neighborhood, their contribution will be very welcome (at least by me )

Cheers!