My new WiFi/Cellular Network Design

[carterchapman]

but I think I recall that purple and yellow is not a normal skin color.

The conversation when I came up from the shop:

Wife: "Because you're an idiot"

Purple and yellow - OUCH!

Reminds me of the line in Caddyshack:

Carl: "People say I'm an idiot or something"
Ty: "Oh Carl, people don't say that about you - as far as you know"

 

[douglee25]

Thanks. I got in a fight with the table saw today... I was cleaning up the edges on the jigs I made before I put them away and the table saw thought it would be better to have one destruct into about 20 pieces and throw it at me going Mach 4... I could post pictures but I doubt you all want to see my groin area... but I think I recall that purple and yellow is not a normal skin color.

The conversation when I came up from the shop:

Wife: "Why are you limping"
Me: "I'm not limping"
Wife: "You hurt yourself again didn't you"
Me: "No... why would you think that"
Wife: "Because you're an idiot"

:smt043

Don't you know Gary you're supposed to continue pushing the piece through the saw so it doesn't kick back? Maybe your saw blade isn't square to the fence?

I remember back in High School my shop teacher gave us the run down on the table saw. It was a huge saw with a 15HP electric motor. Several times in my shop career you would hear a nice WHAM! during class. The saw would kick the wood right back into the garage door and put a huge dent into it. At first I could never figure out why the door was so dented? You definitely needed to respect that saw when using it.

Doug

 

[Four Suns]

I didn't take shop in high school.

 

[Alex F]

I have a thermal controlled cooling fan at the top of the lower AV cabinet and all the shelves have 4 x 3" cooling holes so air can flow from the bottom to the top and out the side of it...

http://www.acousticpc.com/av_cooling_audio_ventilation.html

I'll post a picture later... It vents out the side so you can't see it.

The only thing that has a heat issue is the Mac... the rest of the stuff stays fairly cool.

Here's an overview of the stuff...

Admiral said, "what, Gary is 20 versions behind with his BOSE. He's gotto get the livestyle 48" :smt043

Sireously, can't wait to see completed intallation.

I didn't take shop in high school.

This could be a good thing and the reason why you're still walking. LOL...

 

[agreico]

Wow Gary. I am still trying to figure out how to put a converter on my 13" flat screen. I'm impressed!! TG

 

[Nehalennia]

Seriously Gary? Next time you do anything....anything, will you please wear this "I'm about to do a project suit"?

It can also be worn opening:
Bags of chips, cans of beer, cardboard boxes

It works but can be a challenge:
Licking stamps, envelopes, untying knots

 

[jg300da]

I didn't take shop in high school.

I can't tell from the pic if that's a Delta Hybrid saw or a Unisaw, in either case you need to get a riving knife for it. Virtually eliminates kickback by preventing the wood from "climbing" up the rear teeth of the blade as it passes. Also, make sure the rip fence is set a few thousands further from the blade at the rear than it is from the front. Easy to set up with a dial indicator.......unless you like wearing wood hats.

 

[Turtlesboat]

If you setup a table saw really high, like on a balcony in a sky scraper, wood can fly really really far.

 

[Skuza]

Isn't bragging fun???

 

[HUMPH]

Too much time, too much money to play with! Very nice setup but Gary is nuts!

 

[beachcombersc]

Nice layout. Hope it works well for you.

You said you pass everything to your home network. What happens when your 15 days out and your home network locks up? How do you reset, or deal with the possible home network issues?

 

[Four Suns]

Nice layout. Hope it works well for you.

You said you pass everything to your home network. What happens when your 15 days out and your home network locks up? How do you reset, or deal with the possible home network issues?

My real concern is tying into these public wifi spots as they pose a huge security problem with man-in-the-middle attacks. So... if the home/office network is down and not recoverable, I can just stay on the Verizon cell network for business or things I care about. The other thing also is I always have someone at the house that can reset the network if need be. I always have a house sitter at a minimum when we are gone.... plus.. I can always just reconfigure the router on the boat if need be. I'm not sure how well it will perform until I have it all installed but we'll see.

 

[Four Suns]

Isn't bragging fun???

Too much time, too much money to play with!

Well... I posted this in the Yachts section because I thought people with similar boats that are contemplating similar things would want to see a possible solution. This would be very expensive if I wasn't doing the work myself but as a DIY hobby, it has not really cost that much. Look at the blue lights/stereo upgrades that other people have done... spending thousands on drilling holes in their boat bottoms so see a blue glow.... or thousands on a couple fishing reels... so to each his own. This upgrade is about 2K dollars (and a lot of time) and I think adds a lot to the boat.

 

[Two Peas]

4:52am???

Did you just get back from a Lake Erie skinny dip?

 

[Four Suns]

So...

Here's part of the inside wiring for that lower AV cabinet. All the network components are on this thing. The lower pigtail goes to the new panel with switches...

What a PITA! It all works as advertised sitting in the cabinet mockup... and it all is powered off a single 12v connection to the house battery panel... You can see where this panel sits back at this post: http://clubsearay.com/forum/showpost.php?p=351611&postcount=46 - The control panel Scott is making goes in front of this thing.

I'll post a separate thread on the Mac Mini setup that is in the cabinet since I've seen other people on here talk about using one as a media center on their boat. Getting the Mac to work (with an external drive no less) when you can't reach the back and don't want to ever have to use a mouse or keyboard was not a trivial task... involved breaking the thing open and adding y-cables, video scalers, 3rd party software, etc... I'll post that later.

 

[Nehalennia]

Gary I think it looks great. Nice cable management too and well thought through. Sometimes the most time consuming part of a project like this is planning the configuration. It sure beats just throwing it together in the back of the cabinet. Nice work.

 

[Four Suns]

I will add another thing... those power bricks that plug into the 110v outlet to power these electronics are extremely wasteful. That little silver power regulator on that board has a USB connection and allows you to monitor loads and such... that whole board draws about 0.7 Amps at 12v (network running, doing big file transfers, running the external wifi amp, etc). If I totaled up the loads from the power bricks, it was something like 5 Amps... I think putting an inverter in to power these 110v to 12v bricks would be pretty wasteful on the battery. I basically cut all the power bricks and made pigtails out of the connectors and tied into those terminal blocks which are fed by the 12v regulator...

Basically allows me to run the network for about 10 watts on the battery.

 

[Presentation]

Gary,

Didn’t I send you a cable tie installation tool?

Those cable ties that are cut off with pliers are a real hazard to the next person that sticks their hand in the panel.

If I did not send you a cable tie gun to cut those things off nice tight and clean re-send me your address and I’ll send you one and some better cable ties.

 

[Tonka Boater]

Basically allows me to run the network for about 10 watts on the battery.

That's impressive. When you are all done will be willing to share your parts list with us? I obviously don't have the room, or the need, for all of this on my 280DA but I would like to do some of it.

Very nice work.

 

[Four Suns]

I did not get a cable tie cutter... but I did use that great crimp tool!!! I even bought some more dies for it... love that thing.