Peltiers are probably your best best. You'll need to mount heat sinks on the hot sides to radiate off the waste heat, but you can get a good 60-70 C temp difference between the hot and cold sides.
My friend had arrived at work one night (night security at a landfill in the middle of nowhere), and shortly after the last worker left for the weekend his friend showed up to help him do a little maintainence on his car. Being that there was really nothing else to do on a given night he would bring his PIII laptop with him to work.
They get done and hop in the car to put it through its paces, but he forgets that his laptop bag is still on the ground. After backing over it at a relatively high speed the screen and casing were demolished. The motherboard was warped, as was the HD which had all kinds of files he didn't have saved anywhere else.
The whole thing was mothballed for a while until he managed to find a parts laptop (Bad mobo, good screen) on ebay. Surprisingly the warped board still worked properly when put in a good casing. He managed to get the data from the HD by mounting the drive at three corners on motherboard standoffs and a regular screw on the last to pull the whole assembly level again. I have to say I was impressed with that.
I can't find dates right now, but it was my understanding that Apple/Sony Et al devised firewire before USB ever existed.
But more importantly, they were not even in the same class of I/O until the USB 2.0 spec was put into use. Though some can rightly aregue that they still aren't.
learn more about how an intelligent charger works, and then buy a good intelligent charger. Those higher end models made for radio controlled cars are good for this because they follow one of the 'ideal' charging algorithm and are fairly configurable and feature complete.
The whole purpose of this submission was to get other readers experiences with intelligent chargers, for my benefit as well as that of others. From your original post I got the (mistaken) impression that the charger you were recommending was solely for multi-cell packs for RC cars and the like. My apologies.
Is it made for packs of cells or for individual cells? Mine aren't configured in packs of any number and I can't gaurantee that they are at the same level of discharge if I were to put them together for charging.
I think we may be speaking of different areas of battery tech.
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Actually "comcomcom" is a default admin password on some of their hardware.
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It's not just Linksys software that's poor, I've been very unimpressed with their hardware quality.
Out of all the home switches (4 to 20 ports) that are owned by friends family or myself, the Linksys switches are the *only* ones that have ever developed bad ports. Worse still every one that I can think of has at least 1 bad port if not 2 or 3.
I won't buy any Linksys device with a switch in it again, which pretty much rules out Linksys as a whole.
After devoting a little more time to this I have also found that the stereogram is limited to discrete levels of depth. As these are random dot stereo images, it may be possible to increase the number of planes until this is no longer distinguishable. Though this would probably make playing next to impossible for all but the best stereogram viewers and increase the complexity of the code exponentially.
Stiil, as I said before, they've done a great job and I hope they continue development.
As I have yet to find a stereogram I could not view easily, I decided to take this for a spin. After playing for a few minutes I've noticed some interesting things.
1) Playability is greatly reduced by the fact that the HUD and crosshair is not put in stereo as well.
2) If someone is not familiar with the levels already, the lack of textures makes it almost impossible to navigate properly.
3) After quitting the game, I realize how much I enjoy viewing things in real world color/lighting
4) This is still pretty wicked awesome, and I have to give props to the creator.
While I'm sure many of the suggestions here will give you a good increase in speed, I feel I should also recommend RAID. I've found that putting your swap on a small RAID 0 (a few gigs) is a great way to increase your throughput.
Two older drives shouldn't have too much difficulty utilizing the available bandwidth of your PCI bus, and even a cheap ATA66 RAID controller should work as 66 MB/sec is the limit for each channel.
Most people are used to seeing the occasional pop-up, so the offer itself isn't too obtrusive. If they aren't interested, clicking "No, Thanks" is a lot easier to do through a browser than say in person to most sales people. Add to that the idea that most people that are on the site are probably not just random passers-by, and you've got a fairly good idea going.
Now if this was on other sites, I could see it getting out of hand, but that's another thread...
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Peltiers are probably your best best. You'll need to mount heat sinks on the hot sides to radiate off the waste heat, but you can get a good 60-70 C temp difference between the hot and cold sides.
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My friend had arrived at work one night (night security at a landfill in the middle of nowhere), and shortly after the last worker left for the weekend his friend showed up to help him do a little maintainence on his car. Being that there was really nothing else to do on a given night he would bring his PIII laptop with him to work.
They get done and hop in the car to put it through its paces, but he forgets that his laptop bag is still on the ground. After backing over it at a relatively high speed the screen and casing were demolished. The motherboard was warped, as was the HD which had all kinds of files he didn't have saved anywhere else.
The whole thing was mothballed for a while until he managed to find a parts laptop (Bad mobo, good screen) on ebay. Surprisingly the warped board still worked properly when put in a good casing. He managed to get the data from the HD by mounting the drive at three corners on motherboard standoffs and a regular screw on the last to pull the whole assembly level again. I have to say I was impressed with that.
I can't find dates right now, but it was my understanding that Apple/Sony Et al devised firewire before USB ever existed.
But more importantly, they were not even in the same class of I/O until the USB 2.0 spec was put into use. Though some can rightly aregue that they still aren't.
Don't forget ATI's Rage Fury Maxx introduced in '99 (I believe)
Is it made for packs of cells or for individual cells? Mine aren't configured in packs of any number and I can't gaurantee that they are at the same level of discharge if I were to put them together for charging.
I think we may be speaking of different areas of battery tech.
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Actually "comcomcom" is a default admin password on some of their hardware.
It's not just Linksys software that's poor, I've been very unimpressed with their hardware quality.
Out of all the home switches (4 to 20 ports) that are owned by friends family or myself, the Linksys switches are the *only* ones that have ever developed bad ports. Worse still every one that I can think of has at least 1 bad port if not 2 or 3.
I won't buy any Linksys device with a switch in it again, which pretty much rules out Linksys as a whole.
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I think a 1990 AT Geo Metro would prove otherwise. 52hp IIRC.
IIRC, he managed to drift into the flight path of commercial air traffic, which is what got him fined.
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After devoting a little more time to this I have also found that the stereogram is limited to discrete levels of depth. As these are random dot stereo images, it may be possible to increase the number of planes until this is no longer distinguishable. Though this would probably make playing next to impossible for all but the best stereogram viewers and increase the complexity of the code exponentially.
Stiil, as I said before, they've done a great job and I hope they continue development.
As I have yet to find a stereogram I could not view easily, I decided to take this for a spin. After playing for a few minutes I've noticed some interesting things.
1) Playability is greatly reduced by the fact that the HUD and crosshair is not put in stereo as well.
2) If someone is not familiar with the levels already, the lack of textures makes it almost impossible to navigate properly.
3) After quitting the game, I realize how much I enjoy viewing things in real world color/lighting
4) This is still pretty wicked awesome, and I have to give props to the creator.
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While I'm sure many of the suggestions here will give you a good increase in speed, I feel I should also recommend RAID. I've found that putting your swap on a small RAID 0 (a few gigs) is a great way to increase your throughput.
Two older drives shouldn't have too much difficulty utilizing the available bandwidth of your PCI bus, and even a cheap ATA66 RAID controller should work as 66 MB/sec is the limit for each channel.
Thanks for the heads up. Where do I mail your Coke?
I don't really think this is such a bad thing.
Most people are used to seeing the occasional pop-up, so the offer itself isn't too obtrusive. If they aren't interested, clicking "No, Thanks" is a lot easier to do through a browser than say in person to most sales people. Add to that the idea that most people that are on the site are probably not just random passers-by, and you've got a fairly good idea going.
Now if this was on other sites, I could see it getting out of hand, but that's another thread...