Most drones/RCs are controlled with the 430 or 480 MHz band. 2.4/5.8 is typically for data uplink for video and such.
Only idiot companies (like Phantom who put all of their crap in the microwave bands) will have their product affected by this device (or not given 1W is the maximum allowed transmission power feed to the antenna in the FCC rule book for these frequency ranges, and I'll bet this thing goes way over that so the FCC will say "No, you can't do this.")
To boot, it's illegal to advertise jamming devices of this nature. Start pressing the FCC to put Battele out of business.
"And nobody thought to roll the upgrade back, despite the fact it's a big advertised feature of Windows 10 that you have a month to decide whether you want to keep it? "
You do know that most rollbacks tend to not fix the problem, yes? It's been like this since ME.
Cooling is required for the PowerWall because of the lithium battery chemistry being heat intolerant. SLA doesn't have anywhere near that issue and can operate/charge in much higher temperature ranges. Charge controller is cheap. These batteries have a warranty and guaranteed specs as well.
I've got an SLA+solar array in a warehouse in Memphis. It's been in operation almost 15 years without issue and from the steward's last report the system still maintains about 85% maximum capacity. I can build and install systems and provide the warranty work if needed if I built it myself. Even with the cost of my labor and a from-grid charge controller (assuming these bans aren't going to be solar-tied and charge from the grid directly) you're still only looking at about $4,500 total install cost.
And then you can have me replace that in 20 years.
So I've got a vaporizer coil on a USB cable. Here's a USB 3.0 system. It's dead, Jim. Self-resetting protection means there's some way for power to leak versus a true fusible link which blows in its entirety.
" And finally, no, voltage is NOT what the parent was implying when he proposed shorting the power (positive) terminal into ground."
There you go, reading into what someone says and talking without proper information.
" II'd suggest you read a bit on the subject though (it is quite interesting) and tone down the moral superiority on your replies in the meantime."
I design and repair electronics systems. I've worked for Google doing such. I design power distribution systems and horticultural automation systems.
When people ask about what happens when something shorts, 95% of the time they're referring to the voltage aspect, not the current aspect, as they're thinking in terms of batteries. Shorting 3V to your tongue doesn't do shit, 9V starts to hurt, 12V makes white flash across your vision, etc.
Go on, ask OP to clarify. Bet you 20:1 on them referring to voltage.
"When you short the positive and ground terminals of a USB port, you don't magically increase the voltage"
No, but you'll quite often kill the system because now you've got a constant power feed loop just generating shit tons of heat in the chip since it's going nowhere. Take a typical 3.7V e-cig atomizer coil, wire it up to hook to the 5V and ground terminals of a USB plug, plug it in, and activate it. Within five seconds your system will shut down and you'll likely have damage done to your ports, headers, or motherboard.
"There is no excuse for ignorance of elementary physics. Go sit over there with the "popular" kids."
Looks like you might've ignored elementary semiconductor physics in its entirety.
Bullshit, you get ads directly in your game list, with the "You have 2-3 days left to try out this game" and the game already 'helpfully' added to your damned games list.
This is a voltage-based attack. Imagine an ESD except it's deliberately fed into the system instead of accidentally conducted through minor plasma arcing.
"Since when people connect light bulbs or any appliance directly to the main generator without anything inbetween?"
All the time. Welding is one example. Incandescent lights don't need anything more than the right voltage and some current. If that genhead is pushing ~170V peak to peak then pretty much anything US power-based plugged right in will work.
I just finished an e-mail exchange with that company. I negotiated $75 a pop for the 12V 200Ah Gel SLA batteries when you get minimum order quantity of 50, which would be needed to match the PowerPack's storage levels.
$3,750. For the price of one PowerWall, I can match the PowerPack's storage capacity using SLA batteries. At the largest dimensions for the battery, I could run 50 (10 stacked vertically x 5 stacks) in a roughly 8.5' tall x 6.5' wide x 1' deep enclosure with self-powered gas/heat ventilation, done safely. That's roughly the same size of the cabinets currently used to house PowerPacks in Jackson, Florida at a refrigeration plant, except 1/2 to 1/3 as deep.
The SLA is also deep-cycle and can withstand serious drain far better than Lithium cells. It can also handle higher peak current draw (though not as much as if I were to go with straight non-gel SLA.) The lithium cells have an advantage in that they have better charge cycle life (roughly 25% on average) but they're also more sensitive to temperature than SLA, which in good ol' hot SoCal is quite often an issue.
So currently, a PowerPack utilizes more space, costs ~7x more, AND it can't handle the amperage load the bank of SLAs can, plus there's the issue of thermal control.
I wonder where the bean-counters and brains were on this one.
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Ding! Downtown Abbey was an ITV (UK) and PBS (USA) show.
Most drones/RCs are controlled with the 430 or 480 MHz band. 2.4/5.8 is typically for data uplink for video and such.
Only idiot companies (like Phantom who put all of their crap in the microwave bands) will have their product affected by this device (or not given 1W is the maximum allowed transmission power feed to the antenna in the FCC rule book for these frequency ranges, and I'll bet this thing goes way over that so the FCC will say "No, you can't do this.")
To boot, it's illegal to advertise jamming devices of this nature. Start pressing the FCC to put Battele out of business.
>procreating
>sin
Oh ye who is ignorant of the Bible. Procreation is one of God's first commands to man.
And have been since the days of the Game Boy, EASILY.
Don't fall for marketing, people. You're only seeing the word 'hybrid' because it's a popular buzzword right now.
"In what ways do you think a console should be partially portable?"
Subject says it all. Note, I said PSOne, not PSX.
"No! Their workers can go get a fucking education and get a job that pays them a living wage just like I did."
Yep, you tell that to the friends I have whom have Masters degrees in hard sciences yet can't get any fucking work at all EXCEPT at fast food places.
"Lewlz. Why on earth would you make this assumption?"
Because, Intel, much like nVidia and AMD, uses a UNIFIED DRIVER ARCHITECTURE.
"And nobody thought to roll the upgrade back, despite the fact it's a big advertised feature of Windows 10 that you have a month to decide whether you want to keep it? "
You do know that most rollbacks tend to not fix the problem, yes? It's been like this since ME.
"No one tries harder than the US military to avoid taking innocent life"
Bullshit. Vietnam is a perfect example to counteract your lies.
You utterly fail at understanding what it means to be a doctor.
You should be shot on sight so the world has fewer idiots like yourself.
Cooling is required for the PowerWall because of the lithium battery chemistry being heat intolerant. SLA doesn't have anywhere near that issue and can operate/charge in much higher temperature ranges. Charge controller is cheap. These batteries have a warranty and guaranteed specs as well.
I've got an SLA+solar array in a warehouse in Memphis. It's been in operation almost 15 years without issue and from the steward's last report the system still maintains about 85% maximum capacity. I can build and install systems and provide the warranty work if needed if I built it myself. Even with the cost of my labor and a from-grid charge controller (assuming these bans aren't going to be solar-tied and charge from the grid directly) you're still only looking at about $4,500 total install cost.
And then you can have me replace that in 20 years.
So I've got a vaporizer coil on a USB cable. Here's a USB 3.0 system. It's dead, Jim. Self-resetting protection means there's some way for power to leak versus a true fusible link which blows in its entirety.
Games that they should understand I'll never play if they fucking paid attention to what comprises the majority of my games collection.
So no, still useless blatant spamvertising.
So, blow the fuse, still fucking dead system. And not all fuses work as intended, don't forget that.
" And finally, no, voltage is NOT what the parent was implying when he proposed shorting the power (positive) terminal into ground."
There you go, reading into what someone says and talking without proper information.
" II'd suggest you read a bit on the subject though (it is quite interesting) and tone down the moral superiority on your replies in the meantime."
I design and repair electronics systems. I've worked for Google doing such. I design power distribution systems and horticultural automation systems.
When people ask about what happens when something shorts, 95% of the time they're referring to the voltage aspect, not the current aspect, as they're thinking in terms of batteries. Shorting 3V to your tongue doesn't do shit, 9V starts to hurt, 12V makes white flash across your vision, etc.
Go on, ask OP to clarify. Bet you 20:1 on them referring to voltage.
"I'm just not stupid enough to suggest that electronics can only be killed by overvoltage, which is what you proposed"
Pay attention. I didn't say that was the ONLY way. QUOTE ME ON WHERE IT WAS STATED AS SUCH.
You're fucking inserting words where they are not fucking stated. You are WRONG.
"When you short the positive and ground terminals of a USB port, you don't magically increase the voltage"
No, but you'll quite often kill the system because now you've got a constant power feed loop just generating shit tons of heat in the chip since it's going nowhere. Take a typical 3.7V e-cig atomizer coil, wire it up to hook to the 5V and ground terminals of a USB plug, plug it in, and activate it. Within five seconds your system will shut down and you'll likely have damage done to your ports, headers, or motherboard.
"There is no excuse for ignorance of elementary physics. Go sit over there with the "popular" kids."
Looks like you might've ignored elementary semiconductor physics in its entirety.
"Also, if voltage is what kills electronics i invite you to randomly start shorting connectors on your motherboard with a piece of wire."
You apparently fail at understanding what ESD is.
"I haven't done so and I won't, how bad will it be if the positive and ground terminals were shorted?"
Please show me where the word 'overcurrent' is in that entirety of OP's statement.
No, you need to pay attention. Maybe take a few EE classes or something.
VOLTAGE is what kills electronics. Hence VOLTAGE is what is being implied.
YOU pay attention.
Bullshit, you get ads directly in your game list, with the "You have 2-3 days left to try out this game" and the game already 'helpfully' added to your damned games list.
In case you weren't paying attention to the video in the article, the demo laptop WAS a Thinkpad.
And it was thoroughly HOSED.
OverCURRENT, *NOT* overVOLTAGE.
This is a voltage-based attack. Imagine an ESD except it's deliberately fed into the system instead of accidentally conducted through minor plasma arcing.
"Since when people connect light bulbs or any appliance directly to the main generator without anything inbetween?"
All the time. Welding is one example. Incandescent lights don't need anything more than the right voltage and some current. If that genhead is pushing ~170V peak to peak then pretty much anything US power-based plugged right in will work.
That still makes PowerPacks a horrible deal.
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I just finished an e-mail exchange with that company. I negotiated $75 a pop for the 12V 200Ah Gel SLA batteries when you get minimum order quantity of 50, which would be needed to match the PowerPack's storage levels.
$3,750. For the price of one PowerWall, I can match the PowerPack's storage capacity using SLA batteries. At the largest dimensions for the battery, I could run 50 (10 stacked vertically x 5 stacks) in a roughly 8.5' tall x 6.5' wide x 1' deep enclosure with self-powered gas/heat ventilation, done safely. That's roughly the same size of the cabinets currently used to house PowerPacks in Jackson, Florida at a refrigeration plant, except 1/2 to 1/3 as deep.
The SLA is also deep-cycle and can withstand serious drain far better than Lithium cells. It can also handle higher peak current draw (though not as much as if I were to go with straight non-gel SLA.) The lithium cells have an advantage in that they have better charge cycle life (roughly 25% on average) but they're also more sensitive to temperature than SLA, which in good ol' hot SoCal is quite often an issue.
So currently, a PowerPack utilizes more space, costs ~7x more, AND it can't handle the amperage load the bank of SLAs can, plus there's the issue of thermal control.
I wonder where the bean-counters and brains were on this one.
"Who the heck actually still runs an FTP server as part of their website, in this day and age? No big websites do that's for sure."
Every site that provides downloadable drivers for your hardware almost certainly has an FTP mirror.