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Noticed that the local liquor store started stocking Holgate, so of course I had to try one of everything. Can't tell you how impressed I am with this brewery. Absolutely fantastic beers. I know that little creatures is supposed to be great as well, but so far I've not been able to find it here...

Electronic fence isn't an option. As mentioned before, hops are evenly distributed throughout the yard and it's not possible to isolate them and only them. Just got back from camping. Buster actually ate a bunch of wild rose bushes. They're common on the Canadian prairies and can best be...

Buster the diggingest dog is about 45kg now and he's 11 months old. He probably will grow a bit more this summer. I'm 1.9m tall and his back comes to almost my waist. He's a big dog. Short of installing wrought iron fencing, your run-of-the-mill chicken wire garden center variety doesn't...

Traps weren't baited, just armed and 2 per hole deployed in the back yard. I honestly regret to tell you that I didn't video it. I put the traps down, let the dog out, and I was on the other side of the yard when I heard "RIP!" (think ruff & yip in a really high pitched voice). Then I thought...

Update: Camphor ointment seemed to work for a few days, then he started digging again. His own crap on each hole didn't work either. Mousetraps on each hole, however, work marvelously well. ....Particularly when the dog decides to lick them. :D

http://www.blogto.com/toronto/the_best_pubs_in_toronto/ It's been a while since I've been to Toronto but thankfully it seems as though the microbrewery scene there is better now. I had a quick look at the links in the article above and they all look pretty good. Too bad your trip doesn't...

Thanks guys. Al, he sure did watch me plant them. He's only 10 months old so when the hops were mature last year, he wasn't old enough to dig. No bone meal, just the promise of hidden treasure I suppose. I put some camphor ointment around the holes and will install some chicken wire tomorrow. I...

I moved over the winter and I planted the rhizomes I dug up from the old house. Damn dog keeps digging them up. Any suggestions to discourage this? I'm tempted to BBQ the prick. I want to try laying chicken wire over the holes and securing that with tent pegs. Sound like a good plan or not?

Courtesy tap, no doubt.

Kid touching. Or hitler youth involvement. Or both. Probably both. Rather vanilla compared to some past pontiffs.

You can also caulk the joints if you're really concerned about water ingress. Nicely done!

What size is the capacitor and what is driving (powering) the valve? If the cap is being driven from a power supply line, it will charge nearly instantaneously. If it's being driven from a logic line, yes it will take some time to charge, but probably in the range of hundreds of milliseconds...

16MHz is more than fast enough, BUT that depends on what else the micro is doing and how the code is written. Roll your own interrupt driven code and you'd be able to get that processor to do another dozen processing-intensive tasks and the encoder reading with ease. If the code is a RTOS or...

+1 Classic symptom of loose or broken wires. If re-seating the wires doesn't help, there is likely a broken wire in the cable somewhere.

The circuitry is pretty easy then. SSR_A activation state (the command signal, +12V for ON and 0V for OFF) is routed directly to SSR A's "activate" input. SSR_B activation state is identical to what I already spec'd: B goes to a wired AND circuit and the other input of the wired AND is driven...

Could be - need QldKev to confirm how he wants it to behave and I can massage the schematic accordingly.

Using a microcontroller or something like that, this would literally be a few lines of code which you've outlined already. If you're after a wired solution, there's a pretty easy way to do this. The logic you need is as follows. The SSR_A activation signal and the SSR_B activation signals...

If you have an assortment of power resistors and a voltmeter, yes. Connect different Rs, measure the V, plot the results. Whatever your amp is rated to "pull", use that to calculate an equivalent amp R, and look up in chart the V to see if it's good. I do have to say that I doubt that your amp...

Electrical engineer here. "Regulated" means "can't or doesn't change", referring to the output voltage. AC, since it's a constantly changing wave, is actually quite hard to "regulate" in the sense that you try to keep the voltage wave maxima a constant value. It's possible, but very unlikely to...

Still on my first, going on 16 years now. Oh wait, you weren't asking about our spouses. :)