Recent content by Darkpower
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CPSC announces recall of Target Halloween flashlights due to burn hazard
I heard this on the TV news and search the internet for this. I thought that it was very unusual that a child's flashlight could be so poorly designed that this could happen. Has anyone seen or used this product? Its a $2.50 flashlight and I presume its an incandescent. Below is the article...- Darkpower
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- Forum: General Flashlight Discussion
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New Star Trek Enterprise 2008 photographs !
Its one of the reasons I was never a big fan of Star Trek. I like my science fiction to have some plausibility otherwise its just 'science fantasy', not 'science fiction'. -
How to check the current on a car battery?
I had a similar problem with my Isuzu Trooper. I went through 3 batteries in the first 3 years believing something was wrong with the battery because it appeared that it couldn't hold a charge and I would get in and try to start it, and the battery was just dead, especially after sitting for a... -
Plasma Vs. LCD TV?
You gotta get the HD reciever. Gotta get it. :popcorn: Its a world of difference. True HD at 16:9 1080 progressive scan is just awesome... almost has a 3D quality because it is so clear that it feels like you're not looking a flat field, but at a stereo-scopic image. My Dad had a large... -
Plasma Vs. LCD TV?
Actually its a miniature neon light, not a fluorescent light. In a fluorescent light , a mercury vapour is excited releasing a very short wavelength light which the phosphor coating absorbs and re-radiates the UV light to visible light. In neon, the gas itself is ionized to a plasma (atoms... -
How much is 700 billion?
I remember that movie. I love it. I actually remember that "smokeless cigarette" back in the 1980's and how big they advertised to push it and how it was just hated by everyone. I think it lasted 3 months on the market and was discontinued. What a joke that cigarette was. -
New 170 lumen Craftsman Flashlight at K-MART! "PICS ADDED with Revised Details!"
Re: New 170 lumen Craftsman Flashlight at K-MART! "PICS ADDED with Revised Details!" Identical to the Dorcy I keep in my Truck in a bright aluminum polish finish... good light.- Darkpower
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- Forum: LED Flashlights
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Large Hadron Collider goes online tonite!
Superconductivity is an amazing thing with real world applications. Years ago, there were many discussions about building high-tension power transmission lines with pipes, cooled with liquid nitrogen to achieve zero resistance over long runs or at least as close to zero resistence. The whole... -
RIP Paul Newman
Re: RIP Paul Neuman I absolutely loved him in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I remember being a kid at a summer camp and they played that for us on the weekend movie theater which was an open air theater on the camp grounds in North Carolina. -
Large Hadron Collider goes online tonite!
Oh darn it Kids! The end of the world has been delayed, this means we really gotta get Congress to hurry up on that Banking Bailout thing with Hank Paulson then!! :nana: -
Master thread for disasters and generators.
Re: Honda EU2000i vs. Yamaha EF2400iS I often thought of making a more permanent housing outside with a slab that can be locked, similar to those beige metal fixed generator set housings that are permanently mounted outside, simply because of the problem of theft, especially during a prolonged...- Darkpower
- Post #240
- Forum: Adventuring, Hiking, Backpacking, Camping, Gear
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Master thread for disasters and generators.
Re: Honda EU2000i vs. Yamaha EF2400iS Separate set up's... Okay that makes sense. On the screwing the cap on, how about detaching first and inserting the tube and clamping it after the cap is screwed on the genie's fuel tank? The thing about the EU2000i is that the inverter technology...- Darkpower
- Post #236
- Forum: Adventuring, Hiking, Backpacking, Camping, Gear
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Master thread for disasters and generators.
Re: Honda EU2000i vs. Yamaha EF2400iS Well then what is the point? That dual-feed system is designed to keep two EU2000i's fed like lightplay22 suggested. If either side develops a leak you'll be able to see the air in the tubes... presumbably before the tanks runs dry and the engine...- Darkpower
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- Forum: Adventuring, Hiking, Backpacking, Camping, Gear
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Master thread for disasters and generators.
Re: Honda EU2000i vs. Yamaha EF2400iS I'm sure one or both legs of the tubes can be fitted with an inline shut-off petcock ball-valve.- Darkpower
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- Forum: Adventuring, Hiking, Backpacking, Camping, Gear
