PRC as a amplifier in GPS question.

[bobi]

what about the sheeps? Are there any sheeps dead!

"Eric" <someone@clear.net.nz> wrote in message news:3f1fb1a8@clear.net.nz...

A major earthquake, measuring 9.1 on the Richter Scale has hit New Zealand
this morning. 350,000 New Zealanders are missing, and over 100,000 have
been
reported injured. The country is totally ruined and the government doesn't
know where to start with providing assistance.



The rest of the world is in shock:



Canada is sending troops to assist the country.



The USA is sending food, medical aid and money.



France is sending doctors, nurses and medical supplies.



Russia is sending tents and warm clothing.



Australia is sending 350,000 replacement Kiwis.

 

[Ken Taylor]

It's clearly Sheep Day in Australia. Must be a new one, was never celebrated
while I was there. Must be for cretins (cretii?) who don't know the plurals
of objects.

Ken

"bobi" <bobi@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:bfpqup$1bfn$1@otis.netspace.net.au...

what about the sheeps? Are there any sheeps dead!

"Eric" <someone@clear.net.nz> wrote in message
news:3f1fb1a8@clear.net.nz...

 

[cdb]

Can you boot into safe mode at all?

If so, then uninstalling the CD burning software especially the software
that can format a CD to behave like a hard drive (if installed this software
because it runs in the background can cause faults).

then try rebooting into Windows.

Colin


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[Pyrrhic]

John & Rod

I tried switching my TV off at the wall to reset the set's auto degaussing,
and it worked beautifully. TV now works perfectly, and the thermistor seems
to be doing its job just fine. Many thanks for the info.

Steve



Pyrrhic <sknox@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
news:3f1faa2d@news.alphalink.com.au...

Thanks for reposting the info Rod, much appreciated. I thought that I
might
have bought a pup.

Steve

Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:bfnrfa$gjgs2$1@ID-69072.news.uni-berlin.de...

You're sposed to use groups.google in that situation.


http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3f1c647c%241%40news.alphalink.com.au

Here is the answer again.


Pyrrhic <sknox@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
news:3f1c647c$1@news.alphalink.com.au...

I have a 68cm Blaupunkt that's about 10 years old, and lately there's
a patch of screen (top left) that's purplish - it's faint but it's
there. I've
been moving a lot of gear around in my living room in the last few
weeks
due to new carpets going down, and there's a large speaker to the
side of the TV cabinet I've had to shift and replace a few times. The
speaker cones themselves are very large and heavy so would have a fair
magnetic field to maybe affect the TV - do you think the patch on the
TV
that's recently come up could be removed by degaussing the screen?

Very likely. Particularly as its showed up after moving things around.

Or does the patch mean my TV (only
had it six months) is on the way to the tip?

Very rare for TVs to fail like that. Its almost always an external
field thats the problem, occasionally the internal auto degausser
on turnon has had the thermistor fail, but thats not as likely given
that the problem showed up with moving stuff around. Its possible
its been dead for a while tho and you've only seen the effect of
that when you moved the speakers around. You should be able
to have that fixed cheaply, or just use an external degausser.

I know TVs don't last forever and a decade is a big slice of a TV's
life, but
it's a great set otherwise and is in great condition (teletext/stereo
etc).

Certainly worth getting it degaussed or even the thermistor replaced.
It may not have died tho, it may not have ever had that much
degaussing power and cant handle what those speakers produce.

The Commodor 1701 monitors are absolutely notorious
for that effect. Its no big deal when they are used as
TV monitors coz you really only notice it on the blue
screen when the VCR blanks the output etc.

 

[Nick]

Thanks for the reply.
I'm in Brisbane.

Nick


"John West" <dragnet@seaquest.dsv> wrote in message
news:3f1feb20$0$23595$5a62ac22@freenews.iinet.net.au...

I'm a Hp service agent, I have more bucket loads of canon engine related
shit than I can poke a stick at.

Where are you ?

"Nick" <nscholz@optushome.com.au> wrote in message news:3f1fab4e$0$1208
$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
Hey all,

I'm doing a project and I need to get my hands on some stepper motors as
cheaply as possible. I've been told that old HP LaserJet I, II and
III's
have the kind of stepper motors in them that I need ( 100oz-inch holding
torque and 200 steps). I was wondering if anyone had any idea of where
I'd
find unwanted/broken old laser printers from which I could salvage the
parts
I need?.
I've been around to printer repair shops and most of them either keep
the
printers for
their own use or have recently chucked all there old ones out
Alternatively are there
any other old machines out there that would have the steppers motors I
need?

Failing that, could anyone point me in the direction of any Australian
shops
(in brisbane area, or that do mail order) that sell such stepper motors.
Most of the places I have found on the net are in America.

Thanks for your help,

Nick



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[tense]

Is it true that 350,000 sheep are missing and 100,000 are reported injured
also, I'll have to think about that one!

 

[Oldus Fartus]

In news:MPG.198b314b9a751d20989ab8@news.paradise.net.nz,
Mainlander <*@*.*> wrote these words:

| In article <bfooq6$jqn$1@otis.netspace.net.au>,
| denisand@netNOSPAMspace.net.au says...
|| In news:YHGTa.10891$OM3.2528@news-server.bigpond.net.au,
|| Mark Harriss <ningauble@bigpond.com> wrote these words:
||
||| I was burning a CDROM image (Disc Wizard) when
||| my ACER burner died from a fault (less than 50 cd's).
||| Now windows tells me the harddisk I was using, a Seagate
||| ST32140A is either not accessable or is locked.
|||
||| I can access it in DOS ok but can't then run windows without
||| a crash. Linux just accesses the drive as per normal with
||| no problems at all.
||
|| Your friend and mine, www.google.com gives a few pointers to what
|| may be the problem, one of which is
|| http://www.ts-consulting.net/locked%20drive.htm
|
| Seems possible the burner program might lock the data to prevent it
| from being changed by another process?

Yes, I suspect that could be the case seeing as how Linux and DOS access
it without a problem. From what I have read the LOCK/UNLOCK command is
an internal one in COMMAND.COM so it is worth trying the link I gave the
OP to see whether that solves his problem.

--
Cheers
Oldus Fartus

 

[Mark Harriss]

Can you include the exact error message ?
Doesnt ring a bell at all.

Will do Rod, I'll try Oldus Fartus's
link first and then copy the exact message.

 

[Mark Harriss]

Thanks Oldus, I'll give that link a go.

Mark Harriss

 

[budgie]

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 09:42:38 +1000, "bobi" <bobi@nospam.com> wrote:

what about the sheeps? Are there any sheeps dead!

obviously a post from a concerned ex-pat Kiwi ....

"Eric" <someone@clear.net.nz> wrote in message news:3f1fb1a8@clear.net.nz...
A major earthquake, measuring 9.1 on the Richter Scale has hit New Zealand
this morning. 350,000 New Zealanders are missing, and over 100,000 have
been
reported injured. The country is totally ruined and the government doesn't
know where to start with providing assistance.



The rest of the world is in shock:



Canada is sending troops to assist the country.



The USA is sending food, medical aid and money.



France is sending doctors, nurses and medical supplies.



Russia is sending tents and warm clothing.



Australia is sending 350,000 replacement Kiwis.

 

[Allan]

They all go to Silicon Heaven..
(with all the calculators..)

Have you not seen the Red Drawf Series..:>

 

[Rob Judd]

Uh-oh. Kiwis making defensive statements about sheep. I smell an emotive
subject here, best we leave that thread well alone.

"I thought it was true love, but we were just sheeps in the night ..."

Rob


Ken Taylor wrote:

It's clearly Sheep Day in Australia. Must be a new one, was never celebrated
while I was there. Must be for cretins (cretii?) who don't know the plurals
of objects.

Ken

"bobi" <bobi@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:bfpqup$1bfn$1@otis.netspace.net.au...
what about the sheeps? Are there any sheeps dead!

"Eric" <someone@clear.net.nz> wrote in message
news:3f1fb1a8@clear.net.nz...

 

[John West]

Sorry, Cant help you. I'm in Perth.

Goto your local Tip, if it has a recycling centre, you will find SX related
printers for sure, they sold in the 100,000's per month and parts are now
discontinued for them.

"Nick" <nscholz@optushome.com.au> wrote in message
news:3f209962$0$1211$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...

Thanks for the reply.
I'm in Brisbane.

Nick


"John West" <dragnet@seaquest.dsv> wrote in message
news:3f1feb20$0$23595$5a62ac22@freenews.iinet.net.au...
I'm a Hp service agent, I have more bucket loads of canon engine related
shit than I can poke a stick at.

Where are you ?

"Nick" <nscholz@optushome.com.au> wrote in message news:3f1fab4e$0$1208
$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
Hey all,

I'm doing a project and I need to get my hands on some stepper motors
as
cheaply as possible. I've been told that old HP LaserJet I, II and
III's
have the kind of stepper motors in them that I need ( 100oz-inch
holding
torque and 200 steps). I was wondering if anyone had any idea of
where
I'd
find unwanted/broken old laser printers from which I could salvage the
parts
I need?.
I've been around to printer repair shops and most of them either keep
the
printers for
their own use or have recently chucked all there old ones out
Alternatively are there
any other old machines out there that would have the steppers motors I
need?

Failing that, could anyone point me in the direction of any Australian
shops
(in brisbane area, or that do mail order) that sell such stepper
motors.
Most of the places I have found on the net are in America.

Thanks for your help,

Nick



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[grames]

john_c@tpg.com.au (John Crighton) wrote in message news:<3f1f36f3.1314751@News.CIS.DFN.DE>...

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 10:00:27 +1000, Mike Harding
mike_harding1@hotmail.com> wrote:

On 23 Jul 2003 16:35:12 -0700, grames@telstra.com (grames) wrote:

......I thinkyou will find it a more difficult task than you anticipate
hence my suggestion to develop the first stage on
the bench.

Mike Harding


Hello Grames,
just following on from what Mike said about building
something on the bench. Why don't you whip out
the faulty unit and repair that one on the bench?
John Crighton
Hornsby

I will heed you advice gentlemen and put that idea in
the too hard basket for the time being. Maybe I can
repair the old one as John suggests.

Thanks for your posts, Grames

 

[Adam Seychell]

Look up computer recyclers in the yellow pages. If you were
in Melbourne I'd highly recommend you visit a mob called
MRI. I went to MRI and filled my car up with old A3 dot
matrix printers (@ $5 each). That gave me quite a few
kilograms of steppers motors. They used one of their fork
lifts to lowered down a crate stacked full with these
printers and they let me help my self. The place is the size
of an large automobile wreckers but with old computer hardware.

Each dot matrix printer has two main large steppers, one for
the papper feed roller and another for positioning the print
head. Some of the printers also had extra smaller steppers
for other things.

Adam

Nick wrote:

Hey all,

I'm doing a project and I need to get my hands on some stepper motors as
cheaply as possible. I've been told that old HP LaserJet I, II and III's
have the kind of stepper motors in them that I need ( 100oz-inch holding
torque and 200 steps). I was wondering if anyone had any idea of where I'd
find unwanted/broken old laser printers from which I could salvage the parts
I need?.
I've been around to printer repair shops and most of them either keep the
printers for
their own use or have recently chucked all there old ones out
Alternatively are there
any other old machines out there that would have the steppers motors I need?

Failing that, could anyone point me in the direction of any Australian shops
(in brisbane area, or that do mail order) that sell such stepper motors.
Most of the places I have found on the net are in America.

Thanks for your help,

Nick



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[Bushy]

Most hot water systems have a temperature controller that also has a safety
cutout. The controller is normally installed near the element and on the
outside of the tank. Temperature is sensed through the wall of the tank. The
overtemperature cutout will trigger if the temperature goes above that the
controller is designed for and is reset on many models by pressing in the
reset button. There are models with this feature built in or you can get
them as separate items if you wish. Normally the hot water would be set to
somewhere between 60 dergees and 80 degrees with the cutout operating about
90 degrees.

The cutout will protect the element from selfdestructing if the water level
drops below the element as the side of the tank will heat rapidly when there
is no water. Turning it off before damage to the element occurs is prevented
by modern manufacturers that want to sell yet another system!

My hot water system has this device fitted as part of it's controller and
when I use it in summer with my solar system providing much of the heat, it
handles it happily. In winter with my combustion stove providing most of the
heat it regularly goes off due to the higher temperatures reached. I can get
60 gallons of water to the boil in three hours! I have to make sure that the
water level in the tank is enough to keep water in the stove element. The
electric element is simply there as a backup for me on the farm for those
wet summer days and cold winter nights when I haven't had time to cut wood.

Hope this helps,
Peter

 

[Rheilly Phoull]

As Bushy says this the commercial approach to it, I imagine it wouldn't take
too much scrounging to recover such a unit. Commonly found in storage and
instantaneous heaters discarded in the rubbish and cleanup programs. Note
that these are used on copper tanks, yours being steel might take a little
longer to trip it. I guess we need a bit more input on the type of tank
usage.
You most likely could also find a pressure switch in a discarded
instantaeneous unit as well, identified by the cluster of micro switches if
on a three phase unit.

--
Regards ............... Rheilly Phoull

"Bushy" <please@reply.to.group> wrote in message
news:bfr32e$m9p$1@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au...

Most hot water systems have a temperature controller that also has a
safety
cutout. The controller is normally installed near the element and on the
outside of the tank. Temperature is sensed through the wall of the tank.
The
overtemperature cutout will trigger if the temperature goes above that the
controller is designed for and is reset on many models by pressing in the
reset button. There are models with this feature built in or you can get
them as separate items if you wish. Normally the hot water would be set to
somewhere between 60 dergees and 80 degrees with the cutout operating
about
90 degrees.

The cutout will protect the element from selfdestructing if the water
level
drops below the element as the side of the tank will heat rapidly when
there
is no water. Turning it off before damage to the element occurs is
prevented
by modern manufacturers that want to sell yet another system!

My hot water system has this device fitted as part of it's controller and
when I use it in summer with my solar system providing much of the heat,
it
handles it happily. In winter with my combustion stove providing most of
the
heat it regularly goes off due to the higher temperatures reached. I can
get
60 gallons of water to the boil in three hours! I have to make sure that
the
water level in the tank is enough to keep water in the stove element. The
electric element is simply there as a backup for me on the farm for those
wet summer days and cold winter nights when I haven't had time to cut
wood.

Hope this helps,
Peter

 

[Eric]

and I thought the story was a bit strange too, just that if you think
outside the square, well !!! good luck to you.


"Bob Parker" <bobp@bluebottle.com> wrote in message
news:i3q0ivs0mtbendbatqi82a0oqg93jb011q@4ax.com...
: Personally I don't think that was very funny.
:
:
: "Eric" <someone@clear.net.nz> wrote:
:
: >A major earthquake, measuring 9.1 on the Richter Scale has hit New
Zealand
: >this morning. 350,000 New Zealanders are missing, and over 100,000 have
been
: >reported injured. The country is totally ruined and the government
doesn't
: >know where to start with providing assistance.
: >
: >
: >
: >The rest of the world is in shock:
: >
: >
: >
: >Canada is sending troops to assist the country.
: >
: >
: >
: >The USA is sending food, medical aid and money.
: >
: >
: >
: >France is sending doctors, nurses and medical supplies.
: >
: >
: >
: >Russia is sending tents and warm clothing.
: >
: >
: >
: >Australia is sending 350,000 replacement Kiwis.
: >
:
:
: Hate spam? Go to http://www.bluebottle.com (It's free)

 

[Eric]

As they say different people read the same thing and they get different
things from it,
If I had of thought it was good, I would of posted it to a joke group.
By the way it did not come from a joke group, so I suppose that speaks for
itself.


"Ken Taylor" <ken123@xtra.co.nz> wrote in message
news:bfpfnk$hiov4$1@ID-76636.news.uni-berlin.de...
: "Eric" <someone@clear.net.nz> wrote in message
news:3f1fb1a8@clear.net.nz...
:
: And the punch line......?
:
:

 

[Phil Allison]

"Astable Schmitt" <sick@of.spam> wrote in message
news:Xns93C4650D8496Esickofspam@202.89.128.20...

I wonder who made that up.

** I wonder who made your "handle" up ???

That same joke was floating around NZ years ago except it was about Samoans
in New Zealand.

** Coconut head jokes are popular here too.

Now you Australians should think twice about kiwi bashing because we are
unfortunate and have been forced to your country.

** What - now you want refugee status ??

Little Johnny will start putting you in detention camps if you say
that.

75% of the kiwis that
move to Australia are skilled people and are moving for work reasons.

** Skilled as waiters ? barmen ? ..... bouncers ????

BTW Taking jobs that Aussies would like makes you no friends.

They are refugees from a government which gives handouts to anybody and
overtaxes the high income bracket.

** So Pacific Islanders have got a strangle hold on the Govt already ???

This will never change as the majority of the country is now on a benifit
and will only vote for whoever will give them the most money.

** Good heavens - voters voting in their own self interest.

Will wonders never cease.

Would you rather have the Samoans?
They come to your country for the handouts.

** Aren't they tecnically New Zealanders too.

I didn't think so.

A couple of facts.


There are more Samoans in Auckland than Samoa

** There are 180,000 people in Western Samoa.

See http://www.library.uu.nl/wesp/populstat/Oceania/wsamoac.htm

There are more sheep in Australia than New Zealand

** Yes, but here they are not pets nor family members.



............... Phil