F'ing gophers, did you go all Caddyshack on them? I bet your glad it's fixed! I've ran into that problem before and wondered if you could introduce a high current load, <1 amp 24VDC for awhile and see if it is enough to break the fault and make it easier to find.

Nice....she looks good.
Shelby is ok. She runs fine and walks ok, shes a little fat so that affects her when she stands up or sits down, but other than that shes ok....2 different vets said the surgery was 100%.

Last night I was reworking the programming on a C4 system with panelized lighting and about a dozen lighting keypads. I let our sales/design guy "help" by connecting to the main controller at the same time to set LED colors on the keypads. Turns out, C4 lighting modules don't like it when two computers are connected to the Director at once. Not at all. Tech support got me back up & running, and the customer left me a bottle of Jameson 12 Year as a tip!

We are in major grind mode putting the finishing touches on a bunch of projects that never had that last 5% complete. Not don yet but when I am I will feel super relieved.

I am now a proud owner of a 4K monitor.
Now I need to piece together another PC ASAP, so I can actually use the 4K resolution

I found this thread on page 6 or 8 !
What? no one has done anything in the last 9 days? :-)

As for me, I jsut signed a $70K contract to have solar panels installed at my house. It will provide 72-77% of my average energy usage.
Who's going to chip in and help me pay for this bitch?

if your monthly bill was $500 and you got 100% from solar it would take 12 years to recoup!!! am i missing something?

Plenty of rebates and grid feeding credits to help you along.

Bumped your resale value too.

Congrats. This year is landscaping for me. Gonna cost but after this

i dont know about all that. seems like a super low yield long term investment. surely you didnt fork over 70k, so there are finance charges. if he is getting 70% yield, how do you ever feed the grid? the tax credits would have to be incredible for this to even attempt to make sense. as far as resale, are there any definitive results on that? i would seriously question that in my neck of the woods.

what is the lifespan of solar panels?

Pics at esi or it didn't happen :).

Reworked this structured wiring can.

before (-ish, 1st coax patchbay in process):


during (before final patching):

Mike, I never thought about using SMC as the cavity for patch panels; brilliant. 
 

I ran the numbers, and only came up with three scenarios where this doesn't add up.

1. Your credit sucks and you can't finance it.
    The 40%fed, and 10% is an interest free loan for up to 18months to carry me until June/July of 2015, to give enough time to get tax refund checks.
    Rest is going on HELOC

2. You think you'll move in less than 5-6 years.
    While total ROI is about 8 years, the increased value of the property means that after about 5-6 years you're in the clear.

3. You don't have the space or clear shot of the southern'ish sky (buildings/trees/etc.) to put panels on the house or have it pole mounted. Or, your HOA, local zoning, historical regulations won't allow it.

The below screen capture is from my actual contract.
Panels and production guaranteed for 25 years.
Bottom number makes some assumptions for power rates increasing at a reduced/conservative, 50% rate of actual historical price increases over last 10 or 20 years.

Mac, I don't know that I have a lens large enough to capture the whole screen :-)

Brilliant indeed, but where's the network switch going to live and what will it look like once all the patch cables are in place?  I'm sure it's going to be a huge improvement over what you started with!