In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Got a game plan on the sump today. I've already got the well, the pump and the pipe, so all I need is some connectors and some other cheap stuff. This will be a major improvement with very little cost.
Not going to start digging the well this late in the day though. 
Had a scare with my A/C unit today. It must have stopped working last night sometime. Was stuck with the Filter LED on and all the other buttons were not responsive. Even after cleaning the filter which didn't seem that bad and vacuuming out the whatever I could from the front it still didn't work. Unplugging it and plugging it back in several minutes later would make the compressor work about 1 second before you could tell it was running a series of tests and finding some error codes I couldn't find any info for online.
Unplugged it for around 3 hours and it worked fine when I plugged it back in.
Leaving it off now though. Major change in forecast shows that only 1 day in the next 10 is going to be 80 degrees or higher, and it's going down to 57 degrees tonight!
But damn... I'm going to have to mow again. It's only been 5 days and for the middle of August it looks like I haven't mowed it in two weeks. What a strange summer with so many days in the 90's but so much rain at the same time.
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Quote:Good!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from my walk and all chores finished for today.
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Quote:We've had a problem with vapor lock. ACs aren't supposed to get it, but ours did, once. It happens.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Got a game plan on the sump today. I've already got the well, the pump and the pipe, so all I need is some connectors and some other cheap stuff. This will be a major improvement with very little cost.
Not going to start digging the well this late in the day though.
Had a scare with my A/C unit today. It must have stopped working last night sometime. Was stuck with the Filter LED on and all the other buttons were not responsive. Even after cleaning the filter which didn't seem that bad and vacuuming out the whatever I could from the front it still didn't work. Unplugging it and plugging it back in several minutes later would make the compressor work about 1 second before you could tell it was running a series of tests and finding some error codes I couldn't find any info for online.
Unplugged it for around 3 hours and it worked fine when I plugged it back in.
Leaving it off now though. Major change in forecast shows that only 1 day in the next 10 is going to be 80 degrees or higher, and it's going down to 57 degrees tonight!
But damn... I'm going to have to mow again. It's only been 5 days and for the middle of August it looks like I haven't mowed it in two weeks. What a strange summer with so many days in the 90's but so much rain at the same time.
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I just don't get it. My grandma still has a piece of junk A/C installed in her bedroom in the early summer that has to be 25 years old and it chugs right along.
I wish they had models of A/C units that you could buy today that didn't have the computer board and just had the manual dials like the old ones did. There's no reason that the computer board should keep it from running. So what if it detects a minor issue? People are more likely to just throw it out and buy a new one instead of taking it in to get fixed some place.
I wish I knew more about electric and electronics and could just mod the thing to bypass the computer altogether.
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Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:Good!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from my walk and all chores finished for today.
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If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
Yup, nothing like getting everything done so I can have a nice sit down.
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Quote:It's called The Landfill Economy. Hubby might be able to jury-rig something for you. He'd prolly have to design and build a circuit-board tho... something has to translate those dial settings into voltages or currents to turn the compressor motor on/off and control the fan speed. But he used to do more complicated designs than that. Too bad he's not there, he might find it fun.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I just don't get it. My grandma still has a piece of junk A/C installed in her bedroom in the early summer that has to be 25 years old and it chugs right along.
I wish they had models of A/C units that you could buy today that didn't have the computer board and just had the manual dials like the old ones did. There's no reason that the computer board should keep it from running. So what if it detects a minor issue? People are more likely to just throw it out and buy a new one instead of taking it in to get fixed some place.
I wish I knew more about electric and electronics and could just mod the thing to bypass the computer altogether.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:It's called The Landfill Economy. Hubby might be able to jury-rig something for you. He'd prolly have to design and build a circuit-board tho... something has to translate those dial settings into voltages or currents to turn the compressor motor on/off and control the fan speed. But he used to do more complicated designs than that. Too bad he's not there, he might find it fun.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I just don't get it. My grandma still has a piece of junk A/C installed in her bedroom in the early summer that has to be 25 years old and it chugs right along.
I wish they had models of A/C units that you could buy today that didn't have the computer board and just had the manual dials like the old ones did. There's no reason that the computer board should keep it from running. So what if it detects a minor issue? People are more likely to just throw it out and buy a new one instead of taking it in to get fixed some place.
I wish I knew more about electric and electronics and could just mod the thing to bypass the computer altogether.
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Yeah. That is something else I'd really like to get into. I watch a few YouTubers that do tear downs of new tech to show the inner workings and sometimes make new things out of them. I'm sure the A/C would need a new circuit board like you said. There's a lot of buttons on there. Not all of them would be needed... Maybe the simpler way would be to figure out how to bypass any codes that would keep the unit from turning on while still using the original board? Maybe it's as simple as adding/changing a wire or two? Maybe adding a simple extra chip in between. It's how somebody figured out a way to bypass the copyright protection on the Sony Playstation back in the late 90's and made a lot of money selling the chips online with instructions on where to solder it. I know the A/C is 20 years newer, but I'm still guessing that the circuit board on it wouldn't be nearly as advanced as a cutting-edge gaming console would have been even 25 years ago.
The Landfill economy sucks for sure, but this isn't a $25 coffee maker. It's a $600 A/C unit that would probably cost me $1,200 next year if it breaks down in the middle of summer next year, assuming I could even find one in the middle of a heat wave.
I think I forgot to mention my old man's reaction to the work when he came by. He's not much of a DIY guy himself, but he does keep a clean garage. He loves my garage and says it's going to be a great selling point now when I sell the house.
But it was those pantry shelves I think might possibly be the one thing I've done that impressed him more than anything else. He did a little step back and one of those "Wo-ho-ho-howwww's" before saying that's like something you'd see in the rich people's houses.
Even though I've got my 2nd sump game plan down, I think I'm going to have to take advantage of the weather right now and start digging my trench around the foundation so I can clean it and get the foundation tar on it. It looks as though we won't have any significant amount of rain until early to mid next week, and it's the coolest week we've had in quite a while.
I really don't want to have that huge pile of river rock stacked up all winter because I never got around to doing this, and there are some steps involved after the tar coat and before the rocks.
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Out for my walk and I think the rain missed my area. Hope it went up the Interior without the lighting. Do not need any more fires starting that way. Still have over 50 burning in the province.
Going to pick up something else to put my laundry in to haul down to the laundry room. Shoulder is till mending but I have to stop stressing it out so much.
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Back from my walk and still no rain in my area. So we shall see. Maybe tonight?
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