n_maher

Well that's just NH, I'm sure VT, ME and MA have their fair share of outages as well. I'll post up some pics when I'm back home. I'd say the trees in my front yard lost at least 25% of their branches. Last night it was like fireworks, you could just lay there and listen to the trees snapping in the forest.

Yeah, it sucks, timing is unbelievable since I was all packed and ready to go the NYC meet tomorrow as well. We'll stay with the in-laws for however long is necessary, we're there now, since they were far enough south (about 30 miles as the crow flies) to have only gotten rain. My parents who live about 50 miles to the north got a lot of ice too but somehow still have power even though several surrounding towns are completely black. Estimates right now are saying about 25% or more of the state is without power (300,000ish). A generator would be able to help but the installation of something like that isn't all that simple. It's not like the furnace has a wall plug that you could just swap over to the gennie when the power goes out. So you'd have to have some sort of mains switch on it to swap over to the backup power source. It's something I've certainly thought about since this is the second major ice storm in 3 years. Too bad you can't (or I can't) DIY something like that.

Not mine, no power, no heat. If we were just without power but still had heat I'd be a lot less concerned. What we're hearing right now is that some areas may be without power until mid next week and with temps this weekend supposed to be dipping into single digits that doesn't bode well.

No, I have an oil fired furnace. It doesn't run without power.

Yeah, but there's enough stuff in the house that I can't do that with (forced hot water heat pipes for example) that it doesn't really matter if the water pipes don't freeze, the pipe right next to it probably will.

I just bought (or had my dad buy on my behalf) an 8000BTU indoor propane heater to hopefully keep my pipes from freezing this weekend. The damage from the ice storm is impressively bad and there wasn't a utility truck within 10 miles of my house this morning so there isn't much hope of seeing power today or tomorrow.

The price sounds right based on what I've been hearing for a few years now (north of $1k MSRP).

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4 x 600uF/500V ASC film caps For what, I don't know, but large value caps show up so infrequently it seemed like a good idea at the time.

I think Towert is honestly just curious, he's not the type to call someone out in my experience.

I've never met the man but I did get to hear the amp. It was one table over from me and it is both a work of art and sounds amazing as well. If I had the cash Blackie would be on the short list of people I'd consider commissioning for a build.

I second the Outlaw recommendation, I use one of their receivers with my Paradigm Monitor series speakers.

Out of simply morbid curiosity I want to see the power supply.

I post the following only because I would have expected that Tom would have gotten much better treatment given the amount of money he's spent with Mikhail. This sounds very bad.

Correct me if I'm wrong but technically you don't have to have paypal to pay through paypal right, just a CC?

It does smell rather Nigerian, doesn't it?

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or if you're lazy, right click, view image and read the title bar.

And see I operate from the position that I never buy anything that I can't pay for right then and there.

Unfortunately you have to give him the 7 days but they you can do as grawk said and paint a big scarlet letter on his ass.

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As long as you didn't hook up the power backwards it's irrelevant to the discussion here. Did you flip the freakin' LED yet?

I think there are a few commercial products that use a pot to call the modules an "integrated" solution. But more research required, otherwise just throw a two channel something like a MINT upstream.