The house next door...or how to NOT build a house

**IntheGroove** · Nov 15, 2019, 07:36 PM

My dog Lily, a Maltese, thought it was a flying vacuum cleaner and she hated it and just wanted to attack it...

**IntheGroove** · Nov 15, 2019, 08:02 PM

And I do offer a money back guarantee...

**Toolmaker51** · Nov 15, 2019, 10:39 PM

Meanwhile, in the infamous ThreadHack Department;
I receive mail in 2 locations. Being employed and being 65 miles between them, was a problem monitoring important inbound mail traffic. Well, there is a remedy.
On their site USPS offers at no charge 'Informed Delivery', that shows digital record of mail and package scheduled arrivals. No charge for the service, just register address and email. Two things I normally avoid when solicitors are involved.
And I have zero issues with USPS, certainly thanks to my kind demeanor. Or carriers really enjoy the even kindlier dog.

**jdurand** · Nov 16, 2019, 01:47 PM

Originally Posted by IntheGroove

And I do offer a money back guarantee...

It's on the operating table, one motor and the LED on that arm are intermittent. Makes it sometimes fly erratically and/or not even get off the ground. Since it's the LED AND the motor it sounds like a bad common power connection. I noticed those are both hooked to the same solder pad. I'll jumper it over to another pad which should hopefully fix the issue.

The guys are currently pounding dirt and tossing boards around so I can't photograph until later anyway.

As for the Informed Delivery with the Postal Orifice, it tells me things like "your package was delivered" when there was no mail at all delivered. For a while we were getting messages of "couldn't deliver mail due to dangerous animal". Our mail delivery is OUTSIDE our gate and our dangerous animals are chickens. Seems the postmaster didn't buy that excuse either so that carrier disappeared. The current carrier loves the chickens, is monitoring our house build, and is very reliable...except on days off/sick leave. THEN our mail delivery goes to crap again.

The latest fun I'm having is I sent off two identical boxes of holiday ornaments to the same town in Russia. These have bar-coded meter labels printed on our thermal printer (100 x 150mm, water proof) with electronically filed customs. One got to San Francisco a day before the other, but then sat there a week not moving. The other box got to San Francisco a day later, immediately departed and a week after shipment was delivered in Russia.

That first box THEN said it arrived at San Francisco 4 more times, dead air, then "Cleared Customs in Moscow" followed by tracking to the town and delivered.

**IntheGroove** · Nov 16, 2019, 02:28 PM

It was working fine up until I crashed it. That was two years ago...

**jdurand** · Nov 16, 2019, 02:50 PM

Originally Posted by IntheGroove

It was working fine up until I crashed it. That was two years ago...

Sounds like most of us with some machine tool, car, whatever. My car has the grill and one headlight reflector held together with epoxy and wire, you have to look close to see it. Also the bent metal was fixed with a ratchet winch (come-along) and a handy oak tree. Almost as good as new.

Found the problem, it had TWO bad motors. The one you had removed and one other. The intermittent was because part of the brush assembly broke so there was a piece of metal floating around in there randomly shorting things out. Complements to the circuit designer that the driver FET didn't go up in smoke.

Hopefully now it will hover without suddenly acting like a dog that just saw a shiny object..."HEY, come back here! HEEL!!!"