Steering wheel led's replacement
Anyone can give some hints for how to replace the blowout Steering wheel led's for a 2006 Chevrolet Avalanche? Thanks.
reson for shorting the dc capacitor in UPS 160KVA(IGBT 12-PWM)
Dear,
I have one UPS with 160kva (IGBT 12 PWM) along with DC capacitors parallelley connected to DC bus bar with IGBT section.
when, i switched ON the rectifier, some capacitors have shorted (blown out) ,I/P 400Vac(5%),O/P-400vac(3%),Battery voltage 380vdc.
What may be the
Gas-Fired Paste Heaters
I work for a company called Stelter & Brinck. We've just announced a new product to the steel mill industry, and I want to get feedback on it.
The product: Gas-Fired Paste Heater
Where it's used: Electric Arc Furnace
Takes the place of: Electric Paste Heaters
Benefits over Electric H
Disabled Explorers In the World’s Most Badass Short Bus [Profile]
Lance Blair was 18 when a truck blew a red light and removed his lower leg. "There was about a pinky-width of meat holding it on." So Lance did the obvious thing: He built a diesel-powered wheelchair-accessible 4x4 adventure truck. More »
Trading Digital Privacy for Convenience
From CNN.com - Technology:
It only takes the touch of a finger to locate the nearest bank, purchase tickets for a movie or find directions to just about anywhere in the world. The digital revolution has changed the way the current generation carries out everyday tasks. But some
High-Tech Cat@Log System Announces When Your Cat Is Scratching Himself | Discoblog
Many cat owners worry/wonder about what their buddies are up to while the humans are away at work. Are they eating the houseplants? Sleeping on the kitchen counter? Prowling next door to bother the neighbors’ pet bird?
Now, researchers in Japan hope to bridge the gap between humans and their pets by rigging cats with sensing devices that help owners track their felines’ activities.
Cat@Log, one such sensing device, allows you to snoop on your cat as he goes about his daily schedule.
You can track his movements, map his territory, and even see what he sees thanks to a bulky device that can be strapped on your kitty’s collar. The tech site Recombu says that Cat@Log comes loaded with a camera, microphone, microSD card, an accelerometer, Bluetooth, and GPS.
Recombu writes:
The GPS hooks up to Google Maps to create a territory map, showing you where your cat goes when he’s out and about, while the camera gives you a ride-along view. The accelerometer can also interpret certain actions like scratching, going up and down stairs, eating, and jumping, all of which can be used to update a Twitter-feed – or even a full-on blog – of what your cat is up to all day long.
The Cat@Log is great, especially for anxious owners who are away on holiday and wondering if the cat-sitter is doing a good job, writes Recombu. You can also be assured your cat won’t be lonely on Twitter as he’d have Sockamillion (Sockington), the famous tweeting cat, for company.
Here’s a video of Cat@Log in action:
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Image: Cat@Log
Mail Jeep + Chevy Small Block + Metal Work = Colonial Viper Car
From Autoblog:
Another day, another creation from another dude with a dollar and a dream. Oh, and a former Postal Service Jeep and some serious metalworking skills. Dean Shorey, Seabreeze Amusement Park's master ride mechanic - emphasis on "master" - took an old small-block and pai
NASA Still Struggling with Stuck Valve in Space
From Yahoo! News: Science News:
Flight controllers struggled Wednesday to open a stuck valve in a cooling loop at the International Space Station, as the 13 orbiting astronauts enjoyed a little time off after an intense week of hauling supplies and swapping tanks. The ground con
Apple’s Chief Designer, Re-Designed [Apple]
Jonathan Ive's the head designer for all Apple products. He looks cool, he has a sexy British accent, he gives fanboys broners and gets fangirls wet. Look at your right. That's him today. But who's the guy on the left? More »
33KV.XLPE Straight Joint Procedure
I am in need of the Procedure and measurement to cut the insulation, for making 33KV.XPLE Outdoor Type straight through joint. If it is available in any web site, please guide me.
OSTP Preview of Thursday’s Presidential Speech
"On Thursday, April 15, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the President will outline a bold strategy for human spaceflight that increases the NASA budget by $6 billion over the next five years. His plan represents an ambitious effort to foster the development of path-breaking technologies; increase the number, scope, and pace of manned and unmanned space missions; make human spaceflight safer and more efficient; and help create thousands of jobs."
To do the heavy lifting, Paul Spudis, Air & Space
"I'm confused. If a heavy lift launch vehicle (HLLV) is not needed for future human missions beyond LEO, why are we spending billions of dollars researching aspects of it in order to make a design decision five years hence? If a heavy lift launch vehicle is needed for such missions, why are we waiting five years to make that decision when we have the parts and workforce needed to make the vehicle now?"
A New Crew Member for the Space Station: The “Robonaut 2? | 80beats
Have robots got the right stuff? We’ll soon find out, as NASA has announced that one of the last flights of the space shuttle will carry a humanoid robot, Robonaut 2, up to the International Space Station.
The two-armed ‘bot is the result of a venture by NASA and General Motors, and will help the researchers involved identify in what ways a robot could be a help to human explorers in space. Before it gets to go on its first space walk, however, it’ll be monitored to see how well it deals with weightlessness [DVICE].
The robot isn’t much more than 300 pounds of torso, head, and arms, with wheels for locomotion rather than humanoid legs. But NASA hopes it could one day work alongside human astronauts, perhaps helping them during spacewalks. While we’ve blasted plenty of unmanned explorers into space, this will be first largely humanoid robot to venture beyond our home planet.
NASA and GM first showed off Robonaut 2 (or R2) in February, and it will fly to the ISS for this test mission on board the shuttle Discovery in September. Back here on Earth, GM hopes to use R2 to help out workers building cars on factory floors.
GM and NASA have been in business together since the automaker produced lunar rovers for Apollo missions, and could see more collaboration as President Obama pushes for more collaboration between NASA and private enterprise (though the government still owns the majority share of GM).
The space agency is pushing the same kind of collaboration with Chrysler: What the three-year alliance between Chrysler and the space agency could generate are lighter-weight materials, more dexterous, even human-emulating robots and advanced batteries that ease drivers’ worries about running out of electricity on a transcontinental trip [Detroit Free Press].
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Image: General Motors/NASA
Advantages On Star-Delta & DOL Connection On 3-Phase Submerssible Pumps.
I have a project storm water pump station. I will ask this question regarding the DOL & Star-Delta connection. Because the Submerssible Pumps is 90Kw, 3-Phase, star=380Volts, Delta=600Volts. Since our Supply Voltage is 380Volts only. Is there any problem in starting this submerssible pumps on Di
Retrode Sucks the Romz out of SNES/Genesis Cartridges [Video Games]
For about $100, you can use the Retrode to convert your SNES and Genesis games into PC and Mac emulator-ready romz. Don't ask about the legality of it all. Ethically, it's fine by us. [StoneAgeGamer via Crunchgear] More »
HTC Incredible Is Droid Incredible, Will Launch With Verizon April 29th [Android]
Ooh, this is something unexpected. That Incredible phone that's been knocking around for months now will be part of the Droid line-up, launching with Verizon Wireless on April 29th. More »
Black Holes May All Contain Other Universes [Space]
It's mind blowin' time! According to a new theory, every black hole contains a smaller alternate universe. And our universe might just exist inside a black hole in a much larger universe. Ah-whaaaaaa? More »
Pumping a Paste … Any Ideas ?
We're make this thick paste as part of our process at the moment with a high shear motor and then it is spread by hand .. Does anyone know of a suitable pump/system I could get off the shelf to try ... We tried using a pneumatic grease pump with a custom applicator with some success but was wonderin
Yves Behar and Puma Roll Out The Clever Little Bag
From TreeHugger:
Puma invited super-star industrial designer Yves Behar to design a packaging system for its shoes that would be more sustainable. In reponse, Behar came up with "The Clever Little Bag". It's a sheet of folded cardboard inside a bright red PET bag that is going t
Pilotless Navy Helicopter Busts Cocaine Deal During Trial Run
From Gizmodo:
The US Navy's unmanned "Fire Scout" helicopter was out minding its own business on a trial run, when its home base warship detected a suspicious speedboat on radar. That's when Robocopter kicked into high pursuit—filming the whole way. The subsequent three-ho
Comprehensive Mammal That Might Have Been | Visual Science
Jason Salavon is a new-media artist whose solo show at Ronald Feldman Gallery opened last week in New York. He is also a research fellow in the Computation Institute and assistant professor in Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. I asked him last week about his image, Generic Mammal Skull, featured in the current show.
RH: Where did this idea of creating a generic mammal come from?
JS: I’ve been interested in evolutionary processes for a long time and wanted to explore them in my own way. I was specifically interested in representing fictional, imagined forms, things missed or skipped by evolution, in a rich, historical way. Combining that with a renewed interest in 17th century Dutch still life made for a challenging project.
RH: Do you decide what percentages of what mammal to use, or does the software determine that? If you decided, how did you determine which mammals to use, and what percentages? For example- why wild boar instead of blue whale?
JS: I designed four very accurate, high resolution models (bear, human, baboon, wild boar), hoping to capture much of the large land mammal “design space.” Percentages in the photographs were chosen for visceral impact as well as representing opposed regions in the “design space.” There is a parent project, a video animation of sorts, that covers a larger range of possibilities.
Courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York
Generic Mammal Skull (21% baboon, 18% bear, 17% human, 44% wild boar), 2010
