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Pellet heads!! What's up today?

Discussion in 'Pellet Stoves, Pellet Fireplaces, Pellet Furnaces' started by DexterDay, Jan 16, 2014.

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  1. Snowy Rivers

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    Well now......
    I have had better days than the last two.
    I went to open one of my banking apps on my big computer a couple days ago.....NO GO.....All scrambled up and nothing worked right....

    A bit of snooping later.....The browser is waaaaaay old.....And to make matters worse.....The browser needed would not work on the version of the OS I had installed.

    Been running Linux Zorin 9 LTS.......
    The latest version is 16.2

    Arrrrrrgh
    Time to install a fresh OS in the big machine.

    OMG....Tons of stuff to store away safely in my 2 TB remote drive.....
    Took a day to go through all the crap in the machine and save stuff.....

    I had purchased Zorin 16 back in Aug 2021 as I was having some issues with the machine then....But they were minor glitches that did little but be annoying .......

    So I grabbed a fresh 500Gig Hard drive and got started.....
    Swapped the HDD ...inserted the Zorin DVD and booted up to the DVD and hung on.....

    A lot of wait time WONDERING.....

    Took the better part of the day to get the beast running like I wanted and most of the add on software updated and stuff operating correctly.

    Yesterday was spent chasing little stuff that needed tweaking and getting my desk top icons all onboard and up to date.

    Passwords were messed up on a few....No worries.
    Took some time to get my email client running.... We use Thunderbird mail with our own domain name....A matter of getting the incoming and outgoing info typed in correctly and that was a pain....For some reason things did not want to work......I had all the info on hard copy.....Just a glitch somewhere....


    Still messing with a few things....Have not been able to get the screen saver to work.....But the day is young.....

    This new version is a lot different than the old version.....Some things are similar.....Just enough different that it takes more time than I would like.

    Took a bit of poking around to get the sound operating.......Then get the printer working.....

    Still need to figure out getting the scanner part working......

    But overall it has been a good install.....No crashes....The Disk I made passed the CheckSum test....Always a good thing....

    So we are back up and running....

    Stove running 24-7 now......Real glad we got the shells when we did.....Been raining here a lot....
     
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  2. jtakeman

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    Same here, Last 4 - 5 days have been fun! Started with the pellet stove doing 4 blinkies. Then we had the bear steal 3 of our chickens. Washing machine puke on the floor.

    Spent a couple of hours on my knee's tinkering/cleaning the stove. High limit was kicking out. Reset and it would kick back out as soon as the stove warmed up. Did a full cleaning and same deal happened again. Go find the temp probe(a good hour plus trying to find it due to moving!!) So I could measure temps. It kept kicking out at 160ºF. Jumped it out until the new one arrives.

    Thursday and Friday night we had the bear decide our chickens we fair game. Spent Saturday sucuring the coop and adding some defences. Solar powered spot light seemed to ward the SOB off. Also a remote monitor to warn of his/her presence. Trail cam to capture pic's. Also put some plywood sheets with a bazillion roofing nails, I wanna say spike strips?? Placed them around the coop with hopes the SOB steps on them!!

    Monday was washing machine repair after the wife found a flood on Sunday in the laundry room. Couple of hours clean up Sunday and Maybe 2+ hours of repair after going off to find the tub seal and a few other pieces to fix it. Luckily its a popular model and a local appliciance store had the parts I needed. Plus a few they recommended I should replace while I had the tub out.

    Pellet stove high limit should be here today!! Wondering whats going to break/happen next? :BrianK:
     
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    Them #4 blinkies get ya every time try the multi fuel setting a little birdie in my head keeps saying longer auger off times on your beast.
     
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    As for the Bear a 16 gauge slug works wonders when placed between the eyes using a fully choked gas pipe. damm the Department of Stupidity. SSS!!!!
     
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  5. ttdberg

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    70s this weekend, November is the new September
     
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    I'll take it :D
     
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    This one disagrees :rofl: :lol::rofl: :lol::rofl: :lol:

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    Careful. Any one of those could turn into Mothra!
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    We ran the P43 for a day and a half 2 weeks ago when it got into the 20's at night. Been off ever since. House is all sealed up, sun hits the front of the house during the day, hasn't gone below 65 inside and we don't usually get up till around 8 when the sun is warming the place up.

    I see in the 10 day forecast may have to run it Tue & Wed nites, possibly by next weekend too. If it stays like this till April I won't mind.

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    It'd be nice to have a NC winta down yonder!! :D
     
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    Today is chicken coop electrification day! Pounding in posts and installing isolators for the eltric fence to bear proof the girls. Bought a 10kv e-fence to zap his ugly arse!!

    Sent to wife out to get the ground rod and fence wire. I'm trying to figure out the isolators on the t posts. damm this are a PITA to clip on!! Got to be an easier way than busting my freakin knuckles on these things!! WTF!!
     
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    Come in Jay, You got to be smarter than the equipment :D

    I use these isolators on my shed for my electric fence for the bees. The yellow ones that go on the posts are kind of a pain in the azz for sure


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    We are using metal posts. Wifey doesn't want the wire on the coop.

    Wife said she had t posts. They are actually u posts. big difference. I just put them on the back side of hte u post! Much easier.
     
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    :rofl: :lol:

    Any pics of a bear getting zapped? :D

    :doh:
     
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    Zapped or snapped? lol

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