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I've had mine almost five years now, and it's worked well. I appreciate its simplicity. It holds everything from two kitchens and a greenhouse, and composts fairly quickly. I pull compost out of it twice a year. The compost can be pretty wet, but that is largely due to the nature of the materials going in. It has been mostly odor free. I haven't had a problem with stability, and the stand is fine, although I do find it hard to turn when it gets full. Now, I'm looking to replace the bin itself, not the stand, because, after four years, the side holes have enlarged. The bin rests and rotates on those holes, and the weight of the compost has stretched them out, allowing critters in.
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London is an exciting place in the summer, with endless festivals and performances providing the perfect excuse to enjoy an outing with family and friends. The longer days and warmer weather allow many of these events to be staged outdoors, and what better way to while away a sun-drenched afternoon than by lounging on the grass, listening to music or being entertained with theatre or dance?
To help you make the most of the fine weather and London's cultural happenings, we've rounded up some of the best outdoor events in the capital this summer. Pack a picnic, bring your sunscreen or a jumper, and prepare to enjoy the best of London's outdoor arts scene in 2014.
Open-air theatre, opera and dance
There's something exciting about shows staged in the open air, and given the strength of London's theatre, opera and dance communities, it's not surprising that summer brings a veritable flood of high-quality outdoor performances. Regent's Park Open Air Theatre has become a warm-weather institution in London, a place to enjoy extraordinary theatre in a relaxed, carefree setting. This year's programme includes a reimagined Twelfth Night and an adaptation of the ever-moving To Kill a Mockingbird, amongst others.
Opera fans can savour outstanding performances at the equally popular Opera Holland Park. Highlights this year include a fanciful revival of the specially commissioned Alice in Wonderland, as well as a unique performance of Britten's The Turn of the Screw followed by a spooky night-time tour of the park.
Live outdoor music
Music festivals are a summer institution, and there are countless opportunities to catch some outdoor tunes in London this summer. The ever-popular British Summer Time in Hyde Park (3rd-6th and 12th-13th July 2014) features an outstanding line-up of artists, including Arcade Fire, Black Sabbath, Soundgarden, Neil Young, Tom Jones, The Libertines, McBusted, Backstreet Boys and more. (The Cumberland Hotel is conveniently situated just on the edge of Hyde Park, so you won't have far to go to catch this year's festival.)
Alternately, catch the likes of Kanye West, Tinie Tempah, Drake, Bruno Mars, Ellie Goulding and Outcast at Wireless Festival (4th to 6th July), which has relocated to Finsbury Park this year, or plan a trip to one of the exciting festivals taking place at Victoria Park in Tower Hamlets, such as Lovebox (18th to 19th July).
Fancy a picnic in scenic gardens while listening to world-class acts? The annual Kew the Music concert series at Kew Gardens returns from 16th to 20th July 2014, with performances from Elvis Costello, Björn Again, Jools Holland, Simple Minds and Bill Bailey.
For those who fancy cool jazz on a hot summer's day, check out the programme at the Canary Wharf Jazz Festival (15th to 17th August 2014), which offers a diverse mix jazz, soul, big band, folk and funk acts at its base in Canada Square Park. All performances are free, so be sure to arrive early to get a space.
Outdoor cinema
Outdoor film viewings have become a favourite summer pastime throughout the UK, and London has no shortage of cool venues that let you watch your favourite stars under the stars. From pop-up screens in surprising locations, to regular showings at trendy hangouts throughout the city, there's an outdoor cinema for every taste, playing everything from cult comedies to classic dramas.
The best known is the Film 4 Summer Screen at Somerset House, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year from 7th to 20th August with a special selection of new and old favourites shown in its elegant neoclassical courtyard, just a short walk from The Charing Cross Hotel. Or catch one of the many shows organised by the travelling Luna Cinema in spectacular settings across the capital, which include everything from Greenwich Park to Kensington Palace.
A similar operation is the Nomad Cinema, which organises pop-up screenings in locations as diverse as Belgrave Square and Brompton Cemetary. Or head to Camden Lock Market, where the Backyard Cinema has set up shop for the summer with bean bags and deck chairs lined up on the cobbles in front of its 14-foot screen.
For a really unique film viewing experience, bring your swimwear and hop in the Hot Tub Cinema, which this year has taken over a disused train platform in Shoreditch that was once part of an underground station. Seated in an inflatable, eight-person hot tub with your own personal waiter, you can enjoy a relaxing soak while watching the film.
A bit of everything…
The Scoop at More London (just across the Thames from The Tower Hotel, between HMS Belfast and Tower Bridge) is a fantastic new outdoor venue that hosts an extensive programme of free events throughout the summer, ranging from fringe and theatre to music, dance, opera and film screenings. It's well worth checking out the More London Free Festival for events during your visit – for instance, there's live music on in July and film screenings throughout September. A particular highlight this year is August's programme of theatrical adaptations of the stories from Wagner's Ring Cycle – a must-see for those who love opera, theatre or fantasy.
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I've come across several recent articles in the press from India that talk about Theory of Constraints and the application at a number of companies.
"Pride and Joy" by Alex Knight is a Theory of Constraints business novel about a hospital in chaos and a way of thinking that can help move beyond the chaos to a truly patient-centric, high quality environment.
Rather than describe the solution - a description that is always going to be lacking - understand what problem the customer is trying to solve. What limitation or barrier do they need to overcome? And why do they want to do that?
One of the many people I follow on Twitter, Richard Cushing, has been interviewed and the results posted as "Where Does Your ERP Selection Fit with Your Continuous Improvement Efforts?"
Yishai Ashlag's new book, TOC Thinking: Removing Constraints for Business Growth, is a good overview of the Theory of Constraints approach to thinking about running organizations.
A theme has emerged for me at TOCICO 2014 across many of the talks and discussion this year. We generate big changes in implementing Theory of Constraints in organizations. And those big changes by their very nature create conflicts. How should we respond to these conflicts?
As usual, I'm exhausted after four days of listening and thinking and talking about the Theory of Constraints. Today was loaded with shorter sessions and more interesting conversations.
I attended a number of talks on CCPM today at TOCICO, as that is work I am doing these days. And these weren't even all the material that was available on CCPM. There were also some great hallway conversations.
The TOCICO conference has shifted from longer talks and workshops to 30-minute updates and case studies. This gives me the excuse to summarize in one post, rather than a post for each session.
Rob Newbold of ProChain held a session, diving into one of the big themes of his book, The Project Manifesto. It was good listening to him talk about it, as I picked up some things I hadn't appreciated from reading the book alone.
The second day of the TOCICO conference opened with a great keynote from Kristen Cox on "Better, Faster, Cheaper State Government." What a great way to open the day - TOC and systematic thinking really can come to an environment like state government. And there are lessons for other implementations.
Jelena Fedurko presented an interesting way to help resolve organizational conflicts - conflicts between the desired actions of two parts of the organization, where each believes the other's actions will severely damage a common goal.
Avraham Mordoch presented the next iteration on his CCPM Maturity Model that I reported on from last year's conference.
Eli Schragenheim's workshop covered the history of TOC with a focus on the many paradigm shifts that Goldratt went through in development of TOC and related thinking.
The "four concepts of flow" come from a 2008 article that Eli Goldratt wrote that describe the innovations from Henry Ford and Taiichi Ohno that have inspired him to create Theory of Constraints.
How does Theory of Constraints apply to the healthcare situation? Very well. Alex Knight presented his long running work in healthcare as the opening keynote at the TOCICO 2014 conference.
Rob Newbold's latest book takes the reader further down into how to run projects (with CCPM). This book will be something to talk about with my colleagues and friends who are running these kinds of projects.
Blue Ocean Strategy is a ten-year-old book that is still relevant today. How do you craft a business strategy that moves you to a new mode of operation - away from the competition and setting your own destiny? I also see a lot of Viable Vision in this book.
A great discussion of systems thinking by Fred Kofman, which ties into much of what the folks in the Theory of Constraints camp talk about. In the first minute, he says several times some version of, "To optimize the overall system, you must sub-optimize the subsystems."
When planning a project, are you more interested in the dates every activity happens, or are you more interested in how all the activities are connected together?
The book in two sentences: "There are two alternatives: one is to bitch about reality and the other is to harvest the gifts it just gave us. This is what I call the freedom of choice."
Are successes because of the design or despite the design? What about failures?
Some good videos that I've come across recently on Theory of Constraint: Critical Chain and the Thinking Processes.
I re-read Goldratt's book on the TOC approach to project management, Critical Chain. Some interesting food for thought here, even for a guy who does quite a bit of CCPM work.
Deming repeats the main mantra over and over: Management owns the system. It is the system that generates the results. If those results are unacceptable, it is management's responsibility to investigate and improve the system. Repeatedly. Continuous improvement.
Are you suffering the effects of fluctuation? Or are you Focusing on constraints?
The Goal has helped companies of all shapes and sizes. There is a podcast with Erik Prince of Blackwater (the defense contractor) who sites The Goal as helping him grow the business.
I picked up Steve Tendon and Wolfram Muller's Tame the Flow: Hyper-Productive Knowledge-Work Management shortly after the TOCICO conference in June, and every time I pick it up I glean a different take on the embedded ideas. I enjoyed the thinking here, particularly since I am seeing more and more project management that is all about managing the flow of knowledge work.
After the TOC ICO conference, I picked up Yuji Kishira's Wa - Transformation Management by Harmony, based on a conversation with him and other attendees. It is a fun take on Theory of Constraints, change management and other topics.
Why do businesses exist? What is their purpose? Can we identify just one thing? Steve Denning talks about Milton Friedman's statement that the sole purpose of corporations is to make money for its shareholders. The short form is that Friedman based his article on flawed logic.
Drew Greenblatt, the president of Marlin Steel has a nice appreciation of Eli Goldratt on the Inc. website, The Man Who Saved My Company | Inc.com. (Yes, Eli Goldratt died two years ago.) He opens with the familiar struggle and goes on to talk about how he was able to pull his company out of the struggles with help from The Goal, and Theory of Constraints.
Is Agile at all compatible with project management? Should we even try to make them talk to each other? Wolfram Müller talked through his views on Agile, and on how some of the TOC applications could be thought of as working together with the Agile mechanisms.
Steve Holt had some fun with his talk at TOCICO this year that he created out of conversations with April K Mills of Engine for Change. This time he suggests create policy buffers to protect change efforts.
Prof. James Holt usually gave a talk about Managing Complex Organizations this morning at the TOC ICO conference. The basic idea is to use Throughput Dollar Days and Inventory Dollar Days internally.
What am I good at? What do I love to do? What drives me? What fits my personality? These questions are the core of today' full-day session on TOC for Personal Growth, by Efrat Goldratt.
How can we take advantage of what Theory of Constraints teaches as well as bring in thinking from other disciplines to learn? Specifically, how do we learn from a single occurrence - an occurrence of something going awry? This was the question that Eli Schragenheim tried to answer in his talk this morning on "Learning from ONE event: A structured organizational learning process to inquire and learn the right lessons from a single event."
Rami Goldratt of Goldratt Consulting talked about the latest knowledge that is coming out of TOC implementations in retailers. It's about what NOT to replenish.
Avraham Mordoch presented his thoughts on an organizational maturity model for project management environments, and specifically related to Critical Chain Project Management. It was very interesting to listen to in relation to my recent experiences with project management work.
How about this for advocating Theory of Constraints? The opening keynote from Mazda at the TOC ICO conference ended with the statement, "Made with TOC." They even had a couple cars in the parking lot to show off.
My review of "The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win" by Gene Kim and gang. I enjoyed it, and ended up staying up late to finish it. The structure of the book is quite familiar: business novel; looming disaster; averted with the determination of the protagonist (and colleagues) and the help of a wacky "guru." There are some new-to-me concepts that fit neatly with my current worldview.
I re-read Eli Goldratt's The Goal. I enjoyed reading it again for the nuggets embedded throughout and the reminder that this is a solid way to help people and organizations think differently about their situation.
Believing in the inherent value and quality of people comes out in how you challenge them and what you expect of them. It has much less to do with your direct personal style.
Ihab Sarieddine has a nice overview of CCPM in his blog on project management, "Improving Scheduling Using Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM)."
I read Bob Sproull's _Epiphanized_ in just a few days and found it told a gripping story of TOC transformation, even if the writing style was sometimes off-putting.
Working with clients on project management, as I do, I see a familiar theme come up over and over again. People have a difficult time separating the creation of an idea from starting to work on that idea.
Creativity and productivity are both enhanced by acknowledging and working with full understanding of the operating constraints. An HBR article from Matthew E May reminds me of the idea once again, "How Intelligent Constraints Drive Creativity."
Project management and knowledge management are about getting things done. I attended and spoke at the Center for Business Information (CBI) 6th Annual Forum on Knowledge Management this week in Philadelphia. Rather than talk about knowledge management directly, I opted to speak about managing projects - whether they are KM or other types.
Thanks to Mark Graban's recent Leanblog podcast with Steve Bell, I found a long list of "information wastes" that serve as an appendix to Bell and Orzen's _Lean IT: Enabling and Sustaining Your Lean Transformation_ (2010).
Thomas Corbett's _Throughput Accounting_ is a quick read and very familiar for someone who has been in the Theory of Constraints world. I wonder if anyone comes to TOC via this route, rather than through The Goal and some of the other business novels.
I came across a pair of articles that compare Lean, Theory of Constraints and several other process improvement approaches. Both decide that Lean is the best, but the authors appear to emphasize Lean in their work as well. TOC doesn't get a very good hearing.
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The CEO's 2013 Resolution: Business Improvement
As I sit here planning for the New Year, I try to prioritize what is important and critical to our success in 2013 and beyond. I reflect on what we accomplished last year and try to observe where our greatest gains came from so we might apply some of our best lessons of the past year to aid in the new year's success. Some of our greatest success came from making the decision to change the way we do things through business process improvements and applying better controls.
This is an area I have great knowledge about, but I often fail to put into practice, as I am personally NOT a process person. I am a busy CEO that focuses on two extremes: the big stuff and the little details, but NOT the process of how it gets done on a day-to-day basis. This was one of the significant motivators for creating iSynergy and Progression, to address my personal weakness and what I had observed as a weakness in many of the organizations I have worked with.
So I started iDatix to provide Business Process Automation solutions, because I hate doing things the hard way. I don't like the details of paperwork; I just want to get things done. (Trust me when I say, this is a horrible attitude for a CEO to have and thankfully one I have consciously focused on to compensate.)
In recognizing that good processes are critical to success, that making workflows easy to follow and perform for all brings tremendous benefit and my personal stress is reduced when things are done right, all set me up to do more with our own products. Since iDatix is a Business Process Automation Company, we already have our big processes automated, like sales orders, fulfillment and accounting, but in 2012 we focused on some smaller processes that were just little headaches. We implemented a new time-off request process, expense report process that lets you use your smart phone and take pictures of expenses and a purchase request process for both major expenses and all those little day to day things. As CEO, wow what a difference!
It was amazing to me how much simpler things were without all this stuff coming across my desk the old-fashioned way. I can approve time-off requests on my phone at a stop light. All the documentation for expense reports are on my iPad, and I can use the camera of my phone to take a picture of the receipt so it couldn't be misplaced.
Over the past few years you cannot escape hearing everyone espousing the importance of Mobility. I even saw a presentation by renowned physicist Michio Kaku forecasting the future and the coming age of abundance from technology and specifically Mobility and how Mobility will be playing the major part in everyone's life and work. But I still did not fully "GET IT" until I performed my mundane, required tasks with a simple click on my phone.
I know it is how we have built our company. We say it in our marketing. We see it as benefits we document for our clients. But, when you can personally experience just how easy it is and that it is NOT just something that your employees do, you really get just how powerful it can be.
Today you would never think of keeping you corporate books on paper using an adding machine to close-out and balance each month of business. You can no longer run a business like that. Yet we still use paper invoices and purchase requests to get work done. Paper is not only obsolete in business processes, you will not be able to afford to stay in business if you continue to use it. It's just too easy, convenient and stress reducing to click "Approve" or "Deny" on my phone, tablet or laptop to get the work done. And, I do mean "Stress Reducing". When you click it, you know and have peace-of-mind it's done and done right!
So, my 2013 plan as CEO is to continue to reduce the workload of our employees and give them the satisfaction of knowing that they have gotten their work done and done correctly by continuing to automate as much as possible. I am sure as the reader you might think this post is self-serving, but please let me assure you that once you personally experience the ease at which work can get done as we and our clients have, you will understand that now is a critical time for you to make this a priority in your business.
Best wishes in the coming New Year for you, your family and your business!


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The National Weather Service had issued a Flood Warning for central Raleigh County Monday night that expired at 12:15 a.m. Tuesday.
Meteorologists with the NWS reported that anywhere from an inch and a half to two inches of rain had fell in the central part of the county due to a strong storm that stalled south of Beckley.
Dispatchers in Raleigh County reported getting around 20 calls of flooding and high water from residents. Around 13 calls reported trees being down on the roadways.
Meteorologists expected the rain would come to an end around 1 a.m. Tuesday.
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In the November 2009 issue of SOF, the last two words of the article "Blood and Guts in Kirkuk, Iraq," "tough bastard.", were cut off. We regret the mistake.
In one piece of good news, the feds have dropped the charges against General Vang Pao in relation to the ATF entrapment scheme called "Operation Tarnished Eagle."
However, the feds have added charges against two other defendants. These additional defendants and charges have resulted in yet another delay in the case. The next court date will be a "status conference" that will be held on 15 March, 2010, allowing the attorneys for the new defendants time to review the documents. By that time, ten other defendants will have been under indictment for nearly three years.
Two developments related to the July, 2008 firefight in Wanat, Afghanistan involving Chosen Company, 2nd Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade, in which nine Soldiers werekilled, are worth noting.
First, a report issued by a historian with the US Army's Combat Studies Institute was leaked to the press, outlining how weapons failed during the firefight due to overheating. One soldier was quoted as saying he fired 12 magazines' worth of ammo in the firefight. As we go to press, a new investigation into the Wanat incident has been ordered by General David Petraeus, Commander of United States Central Command.
Also, on 21 September, Sergeant Israel Garcia, one of the Soldiers killed in action during that firefight, received the Silver Star posthumously. The medal, our nation's third-highest award for valor, was presented to his widow.
Two cutters, USCGC Dolphin and USCGC Venturous, played key parts in a very productive six weeks for the United States Coast Guard in support of the War on Drugs. During a six-week period when the Coast Guard intercepted 13,300 pounds of cocaine worth $180 million and 4600 pounds of marijuana worth about $4 million, these two cutters made busts totaling 3900 pounds of the pot seized. The Dolphin's bust of 1400 pounds was its second in five months. WELL DONE, COAST GUARD!!
While Hollywood generally ignores projects that promote respect for American troops fighting the Global War on Terror, there are projects that provide a positive depiction of American military personnel. SOF Consulting Senior
Editor Harold Hutchison's first novel, Strike Group Reagan, about a carrier strike group responding to a crisis, was released in December, 2009 by Comfort Publishing, and is available via amazon.com at http://tinyurl.com/strikegroupreagan.
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While our troops at war are known to be at risk, the risks do not remain on the battlefield. In fact, the legendary General George S. Patton was killed as the result of injuries suffered in an automobile accident at the end of World
War II. Often, routine training by forces at home can also be very dangerous, and troops killed or injured in those accidents suffer no less than those who are killed or wounded in combat. That was proven recently off Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Two F-16C Fighting Falcons collided during a routine training mission on 15 October, 2009. As we go to press, the pilot of one of the F-16s is missing, although the Air Force has found crash debris. The other F-16 landed safely.
A recent al-Qaeda attack shows that terrorists may be getting more inventive in trying to carry out their attacks. In a report on an assassination attempt on Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, the Assistant Interior Minister for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Europol believes that the attacker inserted the bomb in his rectum – a tactic often used by drug smugglers and prisoners to hide contraband.
The bomb was apparently detonated via a radio signal. While the bomber was literally blown in half, his intended target suffered only minor injuries.
Retired Senior Chief Construction Engineer Jerry Murphy provided a photo from the Vietnam War of a United States Marine Corps chopper spraying the weeds to clear fields of fire forward of the Forward Edge of the Battle Area in April 1966.
His description is as follows: "To our left on the FEBA was L/3/4, and I was in NMCB-7. This chopper cleared the weeds for them and us. Our right flank ended at Highway 1, with an arty outfit across the road from us."
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Senator John McCain cited the littoral combat ship as a program that had not performed well. He may want to eat those words. The first of the littoral combat ships, USS Freedom (LCS 1), is going to be making its first deployment two years ahead of schedule.
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Day 2 - Spectacular Start of the KTE France
The first competition day of the KTE France started early in the morning with the skippers meeting set at 7am. It was still dark and the waves crashed loudly on the promenade of St Gilles Croix de Vie when the riders gathered to start the final stage of the Kitesurf Tour Europe 2011.
The forecast promised 16-22 knots until early afternoon. Combined with the tide, this left the organisers a competition window of only a few hours to carry out the single eliminations in the men and women division. As soon as the first light kissed the beach, the wind started to turn and came in at around 16knots - the kick-off for the single eliminations!
Dutch rider Bram Bast opened the comp and made his way right into the quarter finals demonstrating an impressive performance. In the first semi, Polish freestyler Tomek Daktera faced French local and KTE #2 Seb Garat. It was a close heat with the French proceeding into the final keeping all chances alive to become European Champion 2011. In the second semi final, German KTE leader Mario Rodwald met Erik Volpe beating the top Italian rider to advance into the final against Seb. Although feeling a bit sick, Seb showed an impressive trick repertoire and seemed like the French local wanted to demonstrate his strength to his French fellows. In the end, he took the win in the single elimination leaving Mario in second and Tomek Daktera in third place. This means, the rider winning the double - Mario or Seb - will be European Champion 2011!
In the women division, Polish rider Michalina Laskowska faced Holly Kennedy in the semi final with a better ending for the English proceeding into the final. In the second semi, current KTE leader Joanna Asia Litwin from Poland defeated Annie de Jong from the Netherlands. In a close final with strong currents and the tide already splashing against the promenade, Joanna Asia Litwin won the single eliminations in challenging conditions underlining her goal to become European Champion.
It was a spectacular start into the final of the Kitesurf Tour Europe 2011. For the next days, the wind is going to drop a bit with the racers entering the competition at the skippers meeting at 10am.
Day 3 - KTE riders enjoy the surf at St. Gilles Croix de Vie
The second competition day of the KTE France welcomed the riders with nice surf conditions but a lack of wind that did not change during the day. Therefore, the local surf school was the place to be for the riders to get a board in their hands and enjoy the waves instead of the wind.
After a tough first day of competition with the single eliminations of the men and women with the lucky winners Seb Garat and Joanna Litwin, the second day was calm. However, instead of just chillin at the beach, the most important question to answer was "where can I get a surfboard and rip these waves?". Fortunately, the local surf school "Ecole de Surf De St Gilles" was more than happy to provide all riders with gear and made the day for the riders.
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|May 08, 2012, 08:43 PM
What is the difference or pros/cons of terminating in Delta or WYE?
|May 08, 2012, 08:48 PM
Maybe I have just been lucky 4 times in a row.
Seems to me, if you picked the"wrong" adjacent pair, once you got all the way around, it would be as if you just started with either the second our third "correct" pair. The pattern will be the same in the end. Isn't that why, if your motor is turning the wrong way, you can just swap any two of your bullet connectors in the ESC, and it will switch direction?
|May 08, 2012, 09:30 PM
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Me too
I'm thinking of ribbon on the wing tips. I followed my line just like you and was way off and I still don't know why.
Stupid weeds! The wing is a couple inches tall and the weeds are two feet tall and I had to be on top of it before I finally saw it.
|May 08, 2012, 09:53 PM
Good and the Bad
The bad news is , hooked up rewind SPARKS etc flew every where , dogs
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|May 08, 2012, 09:57 PM
elCapitan Just kiddin
I was not happy with first wind, so repeated it and then took apart another
new 2812 - took for ever to get the org windings off
then wound it , slowly sometimes havin to back track a bit as either on wrong tooth or going the wrong way with the wind but finally done
don't know if they work - but think they are in the right order this time
|May 08, 2012, 10:13 PM
The termination is different with everything else remaining the same. Using the
DLRK wind in this discussion. After correctly identifying the three ends, E1, E2 and E3 you twist those together and the S1, S2, S3 become the leads going to each of the three wires to the ESC.
My understanding is that WYE also called STAR termination for the same number of turns and wire gauge pulls less amps but provides a lower KV, usually best for a project where you want to turn a larger prop with a higher pitch for more torque where the Delta termination provides a higher KV best for turning a smaller prop at a higher RPM as preferred for the Assassin.
I am not a motor rewind expert but have wound many DLRK and others this past year and learned a lot from the motor winding threads. The diagram on page 24 of the PDF attachment shows you how to label, and allows you to follow as you begin to wind one tooth/pole and then reverse the direction for the next one to it and then jump 180 degrees over to the other side and do the same thing. I don't like guessing after all that hard work and a simple matter to label as you go and terminate the wire pairs according to the instruction in the legend always provides a winner for me.
Star (Wye) Termination
Solder E1, E2, E3 together
Note: S1, S2 and S3 are connected to ESC.
Best regards,
|May 08, 2012, 10:18 PM
Nice explanation.
the FC2822 is the same motor as the FC2812 with the windings terminated differently to give the lower Kv rating.
Happy winding
|May 08, 2012, 10:25 PM
Thanks, Joe
|May 08, 2012, 10:57 PM
I'm not going to claim to be a winding expert either, but at 5:30 into this video (the one I used to learn the first time), he clearly says it doesn't matter which two adjacent wires you twist together to form the leads that go to the ESC. He even spins the motor on the table and picks randomly. I took that to heart, and have never worried about which to to pick either, and like I said, have never had any sort of a problem.
And W5BSA, when you say to solder E1, E2, and E3 together, I have no idea what you mean by that. The only soldering I do is soldering each twisted pair into the bullet connector.
Am I really this lucky that I'm misunderstanding that badly and have still successfully re-wound 4 motors? Or are we talking about a different termination? Or is the issue of figuring out a "correct" adjacent pair an urban myth? I can't say I plan to change what I'm doing, when it's working so well.
|May 08, 2012, 11:21 PM
You'd have to read the power point he provided to understand what he's talking about.
E1 E2 and E3 soldered together is the Wye termination (or star- same thing)
The windings are the same for both termination methods.
The end result is different.
Wye (star) ends up with a lower Kv
Delta ends up with a higher Kv
|May 08, 2012, 11:22 PM
Yah Will- don't change anything- you are doing it right.
|May 08, 2012, 11:22 PM
My vote is for: It doesn't matter on the wire pairings. As long as you alternate phase starts and ends, twisting any two adjacent wires will always mean twisting a starting wire with an ending wire. I find it highly unlikely that everyone in this thread who has rewound one of these motors has gotten lucky.
It appears that Mr. Rademacher's tutorial provided by W5BSA pulled information from building intructions for a motor from Komodo Hobby. I believe the wiring terminations are labeled as such for instructional purposes to make describing the different connections easy. I doubt it is meant to be the one and only way. Full document from Komodo Hobby below:
|May 08, 2012, 11:28 PM
|May 08, 2012, 11:31 PM
The other termination setup requires you to track start/end for each phase. That's the S and E numbers. So you connect all the ends together, and the starts go to the esc. It's a different way to do things, and changes the performance of the motor apparently. It might be useful on other planes, but the comments suggested that the Assassin would probably prefer the style we've been using.
|May 08, 2012, 11:39 PM
Will- if you wind according to the video and pick any adjacent two wires one will be the Start of a phase, one will be the End of a phase. Every time, as long as it is wound correctly. You are doing it right. Don't sweat the semantics.
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- Wave-guides, Noise Diodes, Mixer-Preamplifiers, RF Coaxial Cables - the wave-guides and RF coaxial cables are conduits from the feed horns (#6) to the receiver subsystem. The noise diodes provide mid-range temperature references to the three low-frequency receivers for calibration purposes. The mixer-preamplifiers are the front ends for the three high-frequency receivers.
- Sunshade and Struts - the sunshade exposes one side of the instrument to the Sun and blocks the other side from the Sun; the struts hold the main reflector.
- Main Reflector (and its support structure) - reflects the RF energy emitted from the Earth's atmosphere into the feed horns; its coating of aluminum and then silicon oxide diffuses sunlight, which could damage the feed horns. The feed horns are located near the focal point to achieve the best combination of efficiency and beam-width performance across the various frequencies.
- Instrument Control Assembly, or ICA (attached below the Instrument Spacecraft Structure) - controls the power from the spacecraft to the instrument; controls the temperature of the instrument; controls the transmittal of science data from the receiver system; and maintains the spinning of the system through the spin mechanism assembly (#2).
In March 2005, NASA chose Ball Aerospace & Technology Corporation to provide the GMI instrument.
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This is my 30th year in the field of "screened" investing. Over the last three decades, this approach to investing has been nuanced with many labels. In 1984, Amy Domini and Peter Kinder wrote one of the first books on the subject and called it "Ethical Investing." In the 1980s and 1990s, the term socially responsible investing (SRI) was most common. When I started our firm in 1982, I expanded the term as socially and environmentally responsible investing because I wanted to give equal weight to social and environment.
It seems every few years there has been yet another label to describe the screened approach: values driven; values based; corporate social responsibility; responsible; socially responsive; socially conscious; environmental, social, corporate governance (ESG); triple bottom line; sustainable; green; and impact investing. Although these terms can be defined differently, in practice they are often used interchangeably, which can certainly cause confusion.
The most common terms used today are SRI, ESG, sustainable, and impact. SRI is often associated with one's personal values. ESG is more often associated with financial performance derived from ESG screening factors. Sustainable investing often emphasizes the environmental screen; however, it is also widely used interchangeably with SRI and ESG. Impact investing is the latest term and I associate it with community investing, social venture capital, and microfinance. Again, in practice, impact investing is sometimes used interchangeably with SRI and ESG.
The only way to really define these terms is to look closely at the underlying investments and match the investment choice with your specific screened objectives. For example, many mutual funds that fall under the category of SRI, ESG, or sustainable, invest in oil companies, which some people may not consider a sustainable approach.
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Executives at Salt Lake City NBC affiliate KSL met with local LGBT families today, just a week after the station announced it would not carry an upcoming NBC series about a gay couple having a child via surrogate.
The station has not reversed its position on carrying the show, which will air on KUCW in the Salt Lake City market. In a statement released after the meeting, KSL said it "was helpful to talk together, to better understand issues, and to be able to discuss the reasons behind our decision to not air 'The New Normal."
"This was not a decision we made lightly and it was not made because of any single issue including gay characters or LGBT families," the statement continues. "As a communications company we make decisions every day regarding our programming and we made a decision to not broadcast this program because we feel it had a number of issues including sexually explicit content, demeaning dialogue, and inciting stereotypes." Read more


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Hord Coplan Macht and SPEVCO are jointly working on this mobile 48-bed acute care hospital and presenting the design at the upcoming Arab Health 2010 Congress in Dubai, which is why the renderings show it placed in a desert surrounded by palm trees. Although we are fully in support of accessible medical care for everyone and love the modular nature of this design, we are a bit skeptical based on the description we read over at ArchDaily. Based on their info, the MONARCH seems a bit like propaganda for western based medicine, or maybe just a movie set complete with gift shop and craft service. We applaud the spirit of the project and hope they've thought through all the design challenges of a mobile medical facility, especially providing power and water. And we sincerely hope that those trailers are covered in solar panels.
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It's hard to avoid the topic of mobility these days, with the plethora of new devices available from Samsung, Nokia, Apple, and Microsoft, etc. What's more, as bring-your-own-device (BYOD) gains traction, small and midsize companies (SMEs) are also looking at the business value of supporting mobile applications, including mobile analytics.
How should your SME evaluate mobile analytics to decide if you can afford to go down that route? Or afford not to? Here are some simple points to consider:
- Do you currently have an information culture (even if it's on a laptop?). Organizations that don't already use analytics in their daily work benefit the most from mobile analytics.
- Are your business users looking for information or are they content to go by their gut feelings? An existing hunger for better access to information fuels the desire for mobile analytics, even in SMEs.
- Make sure you consider mobile analytics options that are extremely intuitive. For example, no one wants to read the user guide for the iPhone,— thankfully, no one has to. Although it does exist, the iPhone's ease of use makes the guide unnecessary.
- Mobile devices should "just work" for the IT folks, as well. Analytics content should be formatted for different form factors on the fly. We don't create special emails just for people using mobile devices, and analytics content should be no different. The mobile app should take care of that, as, for example, the new email app Mailbox is attempting to do.
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