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Winter in the North East has been pretty mild lately. I’m a bit disappointed of course. My poor snow BLOWER (thrower? pshht!) is not getting the attention or work it desires and is becoming flabby.  As I told my folks it’s bellowing out in the barn waiting to be unleashed and I might have to […]

Continue Reading Winter Is Passing Me By to Visit Washington State! Noooooo!

Tags: copper, Snow, Winter

I’ve been wanting a way to monitor my home power usage for a while and recently did a lot more research.  The folks at TED (The Energy Detective) had a selection of products which rated well and I ended up buying the TED 5000-C. These are not installation instructions, just showing you how I installed […]

Continue Reading Review: Monitoring Power Usage With TED 5000-C Part 1

Tags: electrical, electricity, Electronics, monitoring, power

I ran across this video today from fark.com and it has to be one of the more interesting videos I have seen in a long time. It’s an older video, at least two years old, so some of you may have seen it already.  The video is the story of Little Red Riding Hood and […]

Continue Reading Cool Video for Stats Geeks

Tags: General, Video

I’ve decided to break up the Jon’s Home Blog a bit, there’s too much of a mix of information on this site for it to index very well and be findable, and also for visitors to find related content on what they came here for. I have added two new domains http://www.jonslasers.com/ which contains the […]

Continue Reading Moving my Sub-Directory Based Blogs to Their Own Domains

Tags: General, Website

I am working to convert my ACE Mini-Titan e325 to a night-flying setup. Since winter is on the way, the only time I’ll be able to fly is later on in the day when the sun is low, or gone so this is a perfect excuse to play with lighting. I purchased 2 feet of […]

Continue Reading Mini-Titan e325 Night Flying LED Setup Progress

Tags: Electronics, Helicopter, led, mini-titan, Night Flying, Soldering