Rapid ticking is could also be one of the 3 or 4 dozen different (relays/actuators) that they use all over the car. Could just be anyone of those, the easiest way to track that down is to start unplugging fuses or relays for various parts of the car at idle and see what happens. Even without the fuel pump, the car will run for about 30seconds. I agree it's more of a choose your own adventure, with a pile of dead ends. It's interesting stuff, but an area I never wanted to get into 10 years ago.
Coils are easy to check as well, you can check the +/- impedance as well as any errors in the coil pack with a graphing multimeter. Any good automotive book will walk you through the steps.
Grounds are easy to trouble shoot. There's only so many on a car, grab out your handy-trusty manual from the local library, or look online. And spend a few hours moving around a car, while pulling panels apart, and double check. Loosen, tighten, check-short ends. Used to be a freaking hobby on my old mercury lynx.:)
If you're getting it during speed at highway, I'd hazard a guess that it's probably the ignition pack. They have a tendency to kick up nasty noise on a highway before failing. If you're getting other noise while the engine is off(you didn't really provide much details) such as is it always the same place you check, or anything else. But if that's the case it can be someone broadcasting illegally and flooding out the stations. Or, depending on the vehicle or the antenna placement it could a faulty reverse hookup. Also, you can check sparkplug wires, if the coating is worn, or there's a crack in the wire core, or too high of impedance(even when the engine is off), you'll get really weird things sometimes. Also, some batteries when they start to fail, will kick up noise as the plates begin to sulfate.
Something else to note, if the car is body positive, or body negative can cause that too depending on the type of stereo equipment hooked up. If you don't have it properly re-wired for that type of electrical chassis. And there are a few companies and models of cars that are body positive still, and stereo's that are in both. I'd have figured that we'd have been to a full body-negative system by now since people were screaming about it in the 80's but hey who knew.
I went for the alternator, it's the most common. And 9/10 cases the cause. It's that 1/10 that's a pita, especially in modern cars where you can spend 3 days looking, and find that it's a broken wire in the rear quarter that connects to the ABS ECM, causing an intermittent short. Or it's one of the VSS sensors, in the wheel hub, and it'll be a $800 repair bill(because GM, Ford, or Toyota) decided that an all-in-one assembly was a good idea.
Apparently you missed the part about the Asian automakers being down 56% in the last few quarters too. *waves a giant clue bat* It's not just a north american automaker problem.
In car audio, getting feedback in the speakers like that is the sign of a failing alternator. Not running the cables, it's the brushes in the alternator causing feedback. Nothing more, nothing less.
Is that like some cops classifying "white guy walking into a black gangsta neighborhood while wearing a t-shirt with racially inflammatory words printed on it" as suicide, and some not?:)
Well not quite, more like this. In Japan for example a suicide, where someone jumps off a bridge and drowns may be classified as a drowning. Where as someone who commits suicide but pillpopping is an overdose, and someone who hangs themselves is an actual suicide.
Where in some countries in Europe, pillpopping is not suicide. Hanging is suicide, there was some classification of manslaughter that one of the former state countries had that was classified in their stats as suicide as well. The problem is, not all crimes in a true crime statistics are actually what they're reported to be. My personal favorite was in China, murder isn't classified as murder. But as intentional death by a second party(death by other), or rape. Depending on the country, it can be classified as rape, or unwilling sexual participant(but not rape).
Criminology is one of those screwed up areas. Some countries lie, and in other cases it's simply a misinterpretation of the meaning. Which is why you always check the raw data.
Day 1: Sense of humour removal training. Day 2: Racist indoctrination training. Day 3: Brutality training. Day 4: Smart-arse, holier than thou training. Day 5: 10 minute test
You apparently don't know too many cops, but they don't have much of a sense of humor outside of that pitch black darkness known as the darkest night. You find the same with EMS teams. "A bunch of officers show up at the scene of a fatal, the guy is cut in half. The first officer looks to the second and says what a mess. The second officer responds: Damn it "insert name", would you just pull yourself back together for us?"/end black humor
Wait we get that now? Sign me up. I mean when black cops can call blacks niggers and no one else can...well damn.
Brutality training hmm...fun stuff. Lets see, you have idiots and you have assholes. Then you have idiots and assholes who can't follow directions. Than you have people who don't understand the law. Welp, you win and you lose some. I always did think it was unfair that female cops could asp someone down and I had to use fists.
Smart ass training is a requirement. It's called being an authority, while carrying an authoritative demeanor. The problem is most people don't realize that the police are an extension of the government enforcing the laws. And again you do get idiots who are idiots.
10min test? Can I have one of those? Damn it. Let me think. ATS, PREP, PIN, pass 2-3 base interviews, two psych evals, internal dept. testing, possibly a third psych eval. 12 weeks of training here in Ontario at the police college, 1yr(generally) with a coach officer. Sometimes longer. Yearly testing for weapons requirements, and I didn't touch on the fun stuff. And to think the RCMP you're looking at 1yr before you get in the door.
Who knew you could get in by breathing. There's your problem, the requirements are too low. They bust your ass here if you want in.
That's ignorance. Perpetuating ignorance is the problem, if you're unwilling to learn, then you continuing to contribute to the cycle of ignorance. Spreading misinformation as factual, and misinforming others. That in itself on something like this dangerous, but in other cases it can be.
So yes, it is flamebait, and was modded correctly.
I realize this is going by the wayside and all that, but doesn't anyone in the UK police service get ethics training anymore? Let alone have some type of psych eval when they join like they do in Canada? Some serious ethical questions that should be raised not only by his service, but also by the crown.
Regardless of whether or not he retired from being a police officer or not, there's some things that don't go away when you retire. He's crossed a line, whether he realizes it yet or not. Then again, this being the UK, maybe I shouldn't be surprised, if this is commonplace for retired officers to pull stuff like this, it could be an example of how deep the rot actually goes in their entire system.
Just an FYI, in Asia most suicides are classified as something else in true crime rates. In order to affect a lower suicide rate in the overall data trending. European data trending can be higher because they sometimes include 'other' crimes into their suicide figures during data reporting.
Never trust data, unless you see the raw data sets yourself.
There's a difference between having an educated opinion, and having an opinion that's egregious filled with misinformation based on events that will never happen. And event's that can never happen based on the way reactors are designed.
If my old plextor hadn't died I'd be using that but oddly, this old 40x12x40 that I pulled out of this machine that was as old as the hills, works just fine reading everything. I'm almost sure that companies aren't following the CD-R/CD specs.
I have CD-R's from a variety of brands that have failed in the first few years. The discs from my burner back in '99 are dead, I tried those a year or so ago into the trash they went. Personally I'm not sure if it's a problem with the discs in some cases, or the newer drives not following the proper standards. I also have DVD-R's that no longer read, and DVD-RW's
In some cases, I find that the new multi-drives will fail to properly read burned CDRs(much like the days of yesteryear when burning was hitting it's hayday), but regular(if you can find them), CD drives will read them fine.
"Hydro" means water. This article is about electricity.
Hydro means electricity in Canada. And we call water, water. And water meters, water meters. See how that works? It's kind of like coke, pop, and soda.
Good luck with that. In Ontario, they've already mandated smart meters by law. Here come higher hydro rates too, we're about to get screwed and they said that it will net us lower rates. They did the same in Quebec, rates jumped by 15-35%. Big shock, there is such a glut in raw hydro here, that they're actually shutting down one of our nuclear reactors for several weeks because of excess power.
Annoying as all piss. There was no input on this, bloody statists.
Don't ever live outside of the US. You can easily end up spending an extra $30 or more without even trying and it gets annoying quick, even when your currency is at par. I feel bad for the aussies, they can end up paying double and buy everything 8mo after it gets released everywhere else.
10 years ago the price was $70-80 for a game if not more. If I hadn't tossed the boxes for some of the games I had from back then I'd scan them. Some games like like Independence War, MechWarrior(1-4), BG/BG2 PS:Torment and the like you'd see a sticker price of $69.99-78.99
So much truth in that it's not funny. I've always believe that poll questions should be written so they can be understood. After all, and not to create a mud slinging match. But using 'vague' questions like this is nearly how Canada had Quebec separate from us when the separatists manage to use a ambiguously vague question.
The problem is, pollsters love their vague questions. More so in Canada.
I don't see it as good or bad to be honest. The problem I do see, is that people will approach this issue the wrong way. This is simply a new way in the socialization trends, and a 'behavior' to be corrected. This is that whole 'hermitish' thing that I suppose some people think. On the other hand, there are still other development skills going on and all the rest. Rather then something that should be expanded upon as something normal, an individual who feels the need to connect with a person they don't know or develop relationships and friendships like this is fine in my book.
New technologies bring new fears. New fears, bring new panics. Give me a crystal ball, and I'd be a millionaire too.
Comparatively speaking, and this is something I should point out. Social isolationism is the new effect, remember that people generally function best in groups of under 200 people. It was the change from the agrarian society, to post-industrial, industrial to cities, with staggered, large city blocks with a lack of communication that led to direct isolation. The reverse was hyper-isolation, where people 'moved-out' in order to produce something.
This is the connectedness within the family block, not unlike what I was talking about with the need to be socialized within a family unit. Remember that being a 'social butterfly' isn't a new concept, it's old, ancient as the hills.
Remember that a family is still a social block, even if you don't see it as such. Just because it's not something "new", doesn't mean it's not the social butterfly effect.
Is there really a difference between being connected and being addicted, when the world demands that you be connected in order to do your job? See where and what I'm getting at? This isn't the social butterfly effect, it's the information effect. The need to be overloaded, and have a constant stream of information, knowledge or connection with people even if it's not face to face.
Functioning as a productive member of society is rather moot to be honest. Can you really define productive, and what productive is to a person? Or is it in the terms of being a cog in the machine? Or is it relative to their own state of happiness.
50 years ago, going out was the norm. 20 years ago, occasionally going out was the norm.
Today, spending an evening at home is the norm, where it's cheaper and you can connect with someone halfway across the world who you know will share your interests, and not spurn you(and if they do, you can find someone else). You're also not faced with personal problems such as personal performance, social anxiety, or the real fear of making an ass out of yourself, etc. There's people you never have to face, but will listen.
Move forward 10 years, as the new kiddie-tech generation moves even further online? I see individuals who will prefer to remain connected at all costs because of this. We have people now who need to know all information at all times, need make sure that they're in instant contact with the world around them. And are experiencing this now.
I don't see it changing, I see it increasing. China, US, Canada, any country in the world can do whatever they like to try and change it. But the more interconnected the world becomes, the smaller it gets. The smaller it gets, the more people want to remain connected to it.
I don't know about you, but I commute 40km every day. That's a real short distance. I see the same cars occasionally down the same stretch of the 401 maybe every 3rd or 4th day. But, nearly every car up here has a GPS unit stuck on the windshield.
Not so much. I had a head injury about 14 years ago, my vision is -1.5 total in both eyes, with perfect colour acuity. The flicker from CFL's and standard FL's gives me stunning headaches because I see the flicker. It's not just across the bulb surface, but across the reflected surface. So anything at all that the light hits becomes this odd glowing surface, I wear polarized glasses everywhere to get around it. I don't even want to touch on the annoyance of low and high pressure sodium lighting.
Needless to say it's a pain in the ass like you've never imagined. I'm in my 30's, and am quite up on my tech terms. If you're wondering on my old CRT I had to have a refresh of 150hz or higher, and on my LCD here it has to be 90hz or higher.
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Rapid ticking is could also be one of the 3 or 4 dozen different (relays/actuators) that they use all over the car. Could just be anyone of those, the easiest way to track that down is to start unplugging fuses or relays for various parts of the car at idle and see what happens. Even without the fuel pump, the car will run for about 30seconds. I agree it's more of a choose your own adventure, with a pile of dead ends. It's interesting stuff, but an area I never wanted to get into 10 years ago.
Coils are easy to check as well, you can check the +/- impedance as well as any errors in the coil pack with a graphing multimeter. Any good automotive book will walk you through the steps.
Good luck in getting it figured out.
Grounds are easy to trouble shoot. There's only so many on a car, grab out your handy-trusty manual from the local library, or look online. And spend a few hours moving around a car, while pulling panels apart, and double check. Loosen, tighten, check-short ends. Used to be a freaking hobby on my old mercury lynx. :)
If you're getting it during speed at highway, I'd hazard a guess that it's probably the ignition pack. They have a tendency to kick up nasty noise on a highway before failing. If you're getting other noise while the engine is off(you didn't really provide much details) such as is it always the same place you check, or anything else. But if that's the case it can be someone broadcasting illegally and flooding out the stations. Or, depending on the vehicle or the antenna placement it could a faulty reverse hookup. Also, you can check sparkplug wires, if the coating is worn, or there's a crack in the wire core, or too high of impedance(even when the engine is off), you'll get really weird things sometimes. Also, some batteries when they start to fail, will kick up noise as the plates begin to sulfate.
Something else to note, if the car is body positive, or body negative can cause that too depending on the type of stereo equipment hooked up. If you don't have it properly re-wired for that type of electrical chassis. And there are a few companies and models of cars that are body positive still, and stereo's that are in both. I'd have figured that we'd have been to a full body-negative system by now since people were screaming about it in the 80's but hey who knew.
I went for the alternator, it's the most common. And 9/10 cases the cause. It's that 1/10 that's a pita, especially in modern cars where you can spend 3 days looking, and find that it's a broken wire in the rear quarter that connects to the ABS ECM, causing an intermittent short. Or it's one of the VSS sensors, in the wheel hub, and it'll be a $800 repair bill(because GM, Ford, or Toyota) decided that an all-in-one assembly was a good idea.
Apparently you missed the part about the Asian automakers being down 56% in the last few quarters too. *waves a giant clue bat* It's not just a north american automaker problem.
In car audio, getting feedback in the speakers like that is the sign of a failing alternator. Not running the cables, it's the brushes in the alternator causing feedback. Nothing more, nothing less.
Well not quite, more like this. In Japan for example a suicide, where someone jumps off a bridge and drowns may be classified as a drowning. Where as someone who commits suicide but pillpopping is an overdose, and someone who hangs themselves is an actual suicide.
Where in some countries in Europe, pillpopping is not suicide. Hanging is suicide, there was some classification of manslaughter that one of the former state countries had that was classified in their stats as suicide as well. The problem is, not all crimes in a true crime statistics are actually what they're reported to be. My personal favorite was in China, murder isn't classified as murder. But as intentional death by a second party(death by other), or rape. Depending on the country, it can be classified as rape, or unwilling sexual participant(but not rape).
Criminology is one of those screwed up areas. Some countries lie, and in other cases it's simply a misinterpretation of the meaning. Which is why you always check the raw data.
You apparently don't know too many cops, but they don't have much of a sense of humor outside of that pitch black darkness known as the darkest night. You find the same with EMS teams. /end black humor
"A bunch of officers show up at the scene of a fatal, the guy is cut in half.
The first officer looks to the second and says what a mess.
The second officer responds: Damn it "insert name", would you just pull yourself back together for us?"
Wait we get that now? Sign me up. I mean when black cops can call blacks niggers and no one else can...well damn.
Brutality training hmm...fun stuff. Lets see, you have idiots and you have assholes. Then you have idiots and assholes who can't follow directions. Than you have people who don't understand the law. Welp, you win and you lose some. I always did think it was unfair that female cops could asp someone down and I had to use fists.
Smart ass training is a requirement. It's called being an authority, while carrying an authoritative demeanor. The problem is most people don't realize that the police are an extension of the government enforcing the laws. And again you do get idiots who are idiots.
10min test? Can I have one of those? Damn it. Let me think. ATS, PREP, PIN, pass 2-3 base interviews, two psych evals, internal dept. testing, possibly a third psych eval. 12 weeks of training here in Ontario at the police college, 1yr(generally) with a coach officer. Sometimes longer. Yearly testing for weapons requirements, and I didn't touch on the fun stuff. And to think the RCMP you're looking at 1yr before you get in the door.
Who knew you could get in by breathing. There's your problem, the requirements are too low. They bust your ass here if you want in.
That's ignorance. Perpetuating ignorance is the problem, if you're unwilling to learn, then you continuing to contribute to the cycle of ignorance. Spreading misinformation as factual, and misinforming others. That in itself on something like this dangerous, but in other cases it can be.
So yes, it is flamebait, and was modded correctly.
I realize this is going by the wayside and all that, but doesn't anyone in the UK police service get ethics training anymore? Let alone have some type of psych eval when they join like they do in Canada? Some serious ethical questions that should be raised not only by his service, but also by the crown.
Regardless of whether or not he retired from being a police officer or not, there's some things that don't go away when you retire. He's crossed a line, whether he realizes it yet or not. Then again, this being the UK, maybe I shouldn't be surprised, if this is commonplace for retired officers to pull stuff like this, it could be an example of how deep the rot actually goes in their entire system.
Just an FYI, in Asia most suicides are classified as something else in true crime rates. In order to affect a lower suicide rate in the overall data trending. European data trending can be higher because they sometimes include 'other' crimes into their suicide figures during data reporting.
Never trust data, unless you see the raw data sets yourself.
There's a difference between having an educated opinion, and having an opinion that's egregious filled with misinformation based on events that will never happen. And event's that can never happen based on the way reactors are designed.
That's called being ignorant.
Err okay? Better let the countries who use them know that.
If my old plextor hadn't died I'd be using that but oddly, this old 40x12x40 that I pulled out of this machine that was as old as the hills, works just fine reading everything. I'm almost sure that companies aren't following the CD-R/CD specs.
I have CD-R's from a variety of brands that have failed in the first few years. The discs from my burner back in '99 are dead, I tried those a year or so ago into the trash they went. Personally I'm not sure if it's a problem with the discs in some cases, or the newer drives not following the proper standards. I also have DVD-R's that no longer read, and DVD-RW's
In some cases, I find that the new multi-drives will fail to properly read burned CDRs(much like the days of yesteryear when burning was hitting it's hayday), but regular(if you can find them), CD drives will read them fine.
Hydro means electricity in Canada. And we call water, water. And water meters, water meters. See how that works? It's kind of like coke, pop, and soda.
Good luck with that. In Ontario, they've already mandated smart meters by law. Here come higher hydro rates too, we're about to get screwed and they said that it will net us lower rates. They did the same in Quebec, rates jumped by 15-35%. Big shock, there is such a glut in raw hydro here, that they're actually shutting down one of our nuclear reactors for several weeks because of excess power.
Annoying as all piss. There was no input on this, bloody statists.
"If it bleeds it leads."
And why, raising hell doesn't get done.
Don't ever live outside of the US. You can easily end up spending an extra $30 or more without even trying and it gets annoying quick, even when your currency is at par. I feel bad for the aussies, they can end up paying double and buy everything 8mo after it gets released everywhere else.
10 years ago the price was $70-80 for a game if not more. If I hadn't tossed the boxes for some of the games I had from back then I'd scan them. Some games like like Independence War, MechWarrior(1-4), BG/BG2 PS:Torment and the like you'd see a sticker price of $69.99-78.99
So much truth in that it's not funny. I've always believe that poll questions should be written so they can be understood. After all, and not to create a mud slinging match. But using 'vague' questions like this is nearly how Canada had Quebec separate from us when the separatists manage to use a ambiguously vague question.
The problem is, pollsters love their vague questions. More so in Canada.
I don't see it as good or bad to be honest. The problem I do see, is that people will approach this issue the wrong way. This is simply a new way in the socialization trends, and a 'behavior' to be corrected. This is that whole 'hermitish' thing that I suppose some people think. On the other hand, there are still other development skills going on and all the rest. Rather then something that should be expanded upon as something normal, an individual who feels the need to connect with a person they don't know or develop relationships and friendships like this is fine in my book.
New technologies bring new fears. New fears, bring new panics. Give me a crystal ball, and I'd be a millionaire too.
Comparatively speaking, and this is something I should point out. Social isolationism is the new effect, remember that people generally function best in groups of under 200 people. It was the change from the agrarian society, to post-industrial, industrial to cities, with staggered, large city blocks with a lack of communication that led to direct isolation. The reverse was hyper-isolation, where people 'moved-out' in order to produce something.
This is the connectedness within the family block, not unlike what I was talking about with the need to be socialized within a family unit. Remember that being a 'social butterfly' isn't a new concept, it's old, ancient as the hills.
Remember that a family is still a social block, even if you don't see it as such. Just because it's not something "new", doesn't mean it's not the social butterfly effect.
Is there really a difference between being connected and being addicted, when the world demands that you be connected in order to do your job? See where and what I'm getting at? This isn't the social butterfly effect, it's the information effect. The need to be overloaded, and have a constant stream of information, knowledge or connection with people even if it's not face to face.
Functioning as a productive member of society is rather moot to be honest. Can you really define productive, and what productive is to a person? Or is it in the terms of being a cog in the machine? Or is it relative to their own state of happiness.
50 years ago, going out was the norm. 20 years ago, occasionally going out was the norm.
Today, spending an evening at home is the norm, where it's cheaper and you can connect with someone halfway across the world who you know will share your interests, and not spurn you(and if they do, you can find someone else). You're also not faced with personal problems such as personal performance, social anxiety, or the real fear of making an ass out of yourself, etc. There's people you never have to face, but will listen.
Move forward 10 years, as the new kiddie-tech generation moves even further online? I see individuals who will prefer to remain connected at all costs because of this. We have people now who need to know all information at all times, need make sure that they're in instant contact with the world around them. And are experiencing this now.
I don't see it changing, I see it increasing. China, US, Canada, any country in the world can do whatever they like to try and change it. But the more interconnected the world becomes, the smaller it gets. The smaller it gets, the more people want to remain connected to it.
I don't know about you, but I commute 40km every day. That's a real short distance. I see the same cars occasionally down the same stretch of the 401 maybe every 3rd or 4th day. But, nearly every car up here has a GPS unit stuck on the windshield.
Not so much. I had a head injury about 14 years ago, my vision is -1.5 total in both eyes, with perfect colour acuity. The flicker from CFL's and standard FL's gives me stunning headaches because I see the flicker. It's not just across the bulb surface, but across the reflected surface. So anything at all that the light hits becomes this odd glowing surface, I wear polarized glasses everywhere to get around it. I don't even want to touch on the annoyance of low and high pressure sodium lighting.
Needless to say it's a pain in the ass like you've never imagined. I'm in my 30's, and am quite up on my tech terms. If you're wondering on my old CRT I had to have a refresh of 150hz or higher, and on my LCD here it has to be 90hz or higher.