Re: [AFMUG] Billing Platform

2019-12-20 Thread Steve Jones
does freeside handle annual billing? Powercode has never had a clean way to do it other than 12mo prepay or something On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 10:13 AM dave via AF wrote: > We still use freeside and now added preseem recently and seeing how well > the mapping goes but we have integrated cacti as

Re: [AFMUG] Look what I found...

2019-12-20 Thread Ken Hohhof
Be happy you don’t do residential (or maybe you do). It’s not uncommon for a customer to cut the Cat5 with something like hedge trimmers and then splice it with 8 wire nuts. From: AF On Behalf Of Jaime Solorza Sent: Friday, December 20, 2019 1:10 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group

Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Audience mesh router

2019-12-20 Thread Ken Hohhof
I did a comparison between Audience and hAP ac. Hard to do exact tests, but I would say that as a standalone router, not a mesh system, Audience has no better WiFi performance than hAP ac. They seem about the same in 2.4 GHz, and if anything the hAP ac does a little better in 5 GHz, especially

Re: [AFMUG] Outdoor UPS

2019-12-20 Thread Ken Hohhof
In fairness, I can personally attest that lead acid batteries can and do explode. For example, if while jumping a car battery in cold weather, you draw a spark and ignite the hydrogen at the top of the cells. Not sure if AGM batteries do that, but flooded cells do, splattering everything nearb

Re: [AFMUG] Outdoor UPS

2019-12-20 Thread Steve Jones
that article manipulates numbers comparing 1 in number of people vs 1 in number of lithium batteries. I know zero people who have been lightning struck and a handful who have had lithium batteries catch fire You're far more likely to be struck by lightning (1 in 1,042,000) than ever see a battery f

Re: [AFMUG] Outdoor UPS

2019-12-20 Thread Ken Hohhof
Get the non exploding type? https://www.cnet.com/news/the-lithium-ion-battery-that-didnt-explode/ From: AF On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Friday, December 20, 2019 11:39 AM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Outdoor UPS Interesting. Will check that out. On 12/20/2019 11:21

Re: [AFMUG] Outdoor UPS

2019-12-20 Thread Adam Moffett
Interesting.  Will check that out. On 12/20/2019 11:21 AM, TJ Trout wrote: You can float them dumb, but you *should* add a cell balancer which keeps each cell within range, they cost between $10-100 per site and aren't complicated to install, just goes to each terminal to read each cells volt

Re: [AFMUG] OT Apple News

2019-12-20 Thread Ken Hohhof
RT News is still free. Ooooh, maybe they’ll have more shirtless Putin photos. Or that hottie Maria Butina (she is actually on RT now, unless that was fake news). And they have an app in the Apple Store. https://www.rt.com/ From: AF On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Friday, December 20, 2

Re: [AFMUG] Outdoor UPS

2019-12-20 Thread TJ Trout
If you want to learn with a really really easy YouTube diy solar will be explains how to install a bms, it's just a dumb module that connects with a few wires On Fri, Dec 20, 2019, 6:22 AM TJ Trout wrote: > I'll give you guys the hookup > > > https://batteryhookup.com > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2019, 5

Re: [AFMUG] Outdoor UPS

2019-12-20 Thread TJ Trout
I'll give you guys the hookup https://batteryhookup.com On Fri, Dec 20, 2019, 5:59 AM wrote: > I am laboring under that same assumption. > > *From:* Adam Moffett > *Sent:* Friday, December 20, 2019 7:09 AM > *To:* af@af.afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Outdoor UPS > > > I didn't think you co

Re: [AFMUG] Outdoor UPS

2019-12-20 Thread TJ Trout
You can float them dumb, but you *should* add a cell balancer which keeps each cell within range, they cost between $10-100 per site and aren't complicated to install, just goes to each terminal to read each cells voltage and keep it within range. On Fri, Dec 20, 2019, 5:59 AM wrote: > I am la

Re: [AFMUG] OT Apple News

2019-12-20 Thread Steve Jones
have you sen the new universal apple product case? its pretty stylish ans will also solve the news problem. On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 10:00 AM wrote: > It just came up this morning when I wanted to read the news. Wanted > money. I would like to go back to the plain vanilla free one if I can > fi

Re: [AFMUG] OT Apple News

2019-12-20 Thread Bill Prince
Unless you're willing to pay some real reporters, all you get is the tissue paper that can be called news. Blow your nose in it, and toss it in the bin. This is an opinion too. I think it's pretty funny, and sadly, describes the situation that 60% or so of us are in

Re: [AFMUG] OT Apple News

2019-12-20 Thread chuck
It just came up this morning when I wanted to read the news. Wanted money. I would like to go back to the plain vanilla free one if I can figure out how to do it. From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Friday, December 20, 2019 8:15 AM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Apple N

Re: [AFMUG] Outdoor UPS

2019-12-20 Thread chuck
I am laboring under that same assumption. From: Adam Moffett Sent: Friday, December 20, 2019 7:09 AM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Outdoor UPS I didn't think you could put Lithium on a dumb float charger. I thought they needed special electronics. I'm happy to be educated if I'm

Re: [AFMUG] OT Apple News

2019-12-20 Thread Steve Jones
I liked google news, but they tend to prioritize the paywall sites that you have to clear your cache to get past after a couple articles a month. msn gardens the articles inside their page so you dont hit the paywalls but the layout repeats the same articles. apple news probably embed subliminal st

Re: [AFMUG] OT Apple News

2019-12-20 Thread Ken Hohhof
OK, not being a member of the Apple cult, I was unaware of Apple News. Apparently what you have is Apple News+. https://www.macrumors.com/guide/apple-news-plus/ It seems to give you access to a lot of newspapers and magazines that would normally be behind their own paywalls. It also allows

Re: [AFMUG] OT Apple News

2019-12-20 Thread Nate Burke
Apple can just randomly charge you? Or did you have to agree to something and put your ccard details in when you downloaded the app. Which should have thrown up red flags right there On 12/20/2019 8:36 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: Was it any good? As in worth paying for? News.google.com is j

Re: [AFMUG] OT Apple News

2019-12-20 Thread Ken Hohhof
Was it any good? As in worth paying for? News.google.com is just an aggregator of stories from other well known news sites. Nothing to write home about. Most "news" these days seems to be opinion, propaganda and ads. They should pay me to view it, not the other way around. From: A

Re: [AFMUG] Outdoor UPS

2019-12-20 Thread Adam Moffett
I didn't think you could put Lithium on a dumb float charger.  I thought they needed special electronics.  I'm happy to be educated if I'm wrong there. On 12/19/2019 8:06 PM, TJ Trout wrote: Whatever you do don't use lead acid lithium batteries of varying chemistry's are available second-hand

[AFMUG] OT Apple News

2019-12-20 Thread chuck
Apple news on my iphone charged me $10/month this morning. Has been free up until now. May need to search for a free news feed for the phone now. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com