{"id":32,"date":"2008-04-23T23:45:02","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T03:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2008-04-30T00:09:46","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T04:09:46","slug":"mode-w-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/23\/mode-w-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"\/mode +w #beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/food\/beer\/IMG_1176.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/73380-2\/IMG_1176.jpg\" height=640 width=427 border=0 alt=\"Victory's Hop Wallop poured into a glass. It's a somewhat syrupy, very hoppy beer. I like it. \"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Tonight I ended up staying at work until about 8:20pm helping a coworker out with something. It&#8217;s not set and he&#8217;s on vacation tomorrow, so I&#8217;ll end up working on it too. Ah well.<\/p>\n<p>Since I got home too late to go ride my bike I ended up boxing up <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/stuffivemade\/sequentix_p3_for_ivan\/\">Ivan&#8217;s P3<\/a>, making a frozen pizza, then watching some TiVo&#8217;d stuff and WTVS-HD before wandering back up here to my computer. So, why did I box up the P3? Well, remember the <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/22\/failing-pled\/\">failing PLED post<\/a>? Yep, it&#8217;s bad. While the first one didn&#8217;t display very well, the second doesn&#8217;t display at all.<\/p>\n<p>I had actually emailed the pictures of the questionable display (<a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/stuffivemade\/sequentix_p3_for_ivan\/IMG_1163.jpg.html\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/stuffivemade\/sequentix_p3_for_ivan\/IMG_1168.jpg.html\">2<\/a>) to the tech support people at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crystalfontz.com\/\">Crystalfontz<\/a> to see if what I was seeing really is indicative of a failing PLED. One of the tech support people replied, confirming that it is what I thought, and suggesting a replacement display. If you&#8217;d like to read the whole thread between the tech support person and I, it&#8217;s archived as a PNG <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/stuffivemade\/sequentix_p3_for_ivan\/crystalfontz_pled_failure_support_ticket.png.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, now Ivan is sorting out grabbing a new LCD and then I&#8217;ll get back to work on his P3. For now I&#8217;ve boxed it up and it&#8217;s sitting in a safe place, above ground level, not below any water pipes.<\/p>\n<p>My next (current?) project is now a set of PCBs similar to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/stuffivemade\/rs232_eaton_leonard\/\">RS232 to Eaton Leonard Level Shifter<\/a> boards which I did last year, but instead accepting ~7VDC &#8211; ~40VDC (or straight 5VDC) for the power, with the conversion being handled by a reference implementation of a switching supply. (This is the supply whose ripple is shown <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/stuffivemade\/audio_input_switch\/IMG_9847.jpg.html\">here<\/a>.) The parts are ordered for the first run of them, I just need to wait until they arrive, confirm the footprints, order the PCBs, test, and build.<\/p>\n<p>But for now? I rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I ended up staying at work until about 8:20pm helping a coworker out with something. It&#8217;s not set and he&#8217;s on vacation tomorrow, so&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/23\/mode-w-beer\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\/mode +w #beer<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14,11,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer","category-food","category-making-things","category-work","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}