LTT Spinoffs

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Linus Home/Paint Tips when? Would love to hear other suggestions. 

[Bombastinator]

19 minutes ago, AdjectiveMoose said:

Linus Home/Paint Tips when? Would love to hear other suggestions. 

Hopefully never.  It’s a market served by a lot of other sites.  

[Needfuldoer]

35 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

Hopefully never.  It’s a market served by a lot of other sites.  

Data wiring tutorials with Anthony and Brian would have made for an amazing series, though! 

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19 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

Data wiring tutorials with Anthony and Brian would have made for an amazing series, though! 

Maybe.  I don’t know what data wiring is.  Sounds like some old kinds of breadboarding.  That’s the thing about the internet.  It gets ultra specific and that’s just assumed.  I occasionally watch videos by this guy who self educated about specifically the ak47.  When he talks about ak47s he’s absolutely an authority on them.  The problem is he also speaks occasionally about other things like virology or politics, and at that point he’s just some dude in a backwards baseball cap.  It’s often extremely cringeworthy. Being educated is not the same as being smart, and being smart is not the same as being educated.  They get conflated a lot though.  There are people who choose home paint colors for a living.  There are people who even do videos about one specific painting media. 

[Needfuldoer]

2 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

 I don’t know what data wiring is.

Cat6 network cabling, phone lines, coax for cable TV... Basically anything that isn't line voltage electrical.

 

I probably should've used the catch-all umbrella term "low voltage wiring", but that also includes anything that runs off a doorbell transformer and low voltage landscaping lighting.

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To me, it's enough to be a temporary series whenever Linus makes upgrades to his home or office.

 

I don't believe there would be enough content for a separate channel.

[Bombastinator]

21 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

Cat6 network cabling, phone lines, coax for cable TV... Basically anything that isn't line voltage electrical.

 

I probably should've used the catch-all umbrella term "low voltage wiring", but that also includes anything that runs off a doorbell transformer and low voltage landscaping lighting.

Code does think of them as the same thing.  More or less “wiring that can’t start a fire”.  I do wonder about doorbell transformers though.  You can power a lot with those things. Anything that can run on a car battery more or less can run on a doorbell transformer.  It’s a pretty dirty 12v as computers go. Get some cleaning on it though and there isn’t a lot of difference conceptually between one of those and a 12vo PSU.  

[Needfuldoer]

4 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

Anything that can run on a car battery more or less can run on a doorbell transformer.  It’s a pretty dirty 12v as computers go. Get some cleaning on it though and there isn’t a lot of difference conceptually between one of those and a 12vo PSU.  

There's a huge difference between 12V DC and 16V AC.

[Bombastinator]

4 hours ago, Needfuldoer said:

There's a huge difference between 12V DC and 16V AC.

True.  My doorbells are 12v dc. Maybe my house is just old.  Might explain why I have so much trouble with replacement parts and had to go to wireless doorbells.  Did some thinking about what to do with the ancient thing screwed into my basement ceiling.  Continuity tests on the doorbell wires were good.  Maybe the problem is the new bells with the old voltage and I just have to replace the thing. I never thought to put a multimeter on it.  I just read it off the peeling label and assumed it was a standard.  Apparently it’s a long depreciated one.  Issues with ancient houses.   There’s an example of self education: everything I know about electrical and water cooling I learned specifically for this house.  Holes.