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RAZD
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Message 555 of 653 (864325)
10-10-2019 12:59 PM


A reminder about heating, and power strips
quote:
Here's why you don't plug space heaters into power strips
HERMISTON, Ore. - A fire department is warning the public about the dangers of plugging a space heater into a power strip.
The Umatilla County Fire District in Oregon posted the warning on its Facebook page with a picture of a melted power strip.
"The weather is getting colder, and people are pulling out their space heaters. We just wanted to remind you that you should NEVER plug a heater into a power strip," the fire department wrote on its Facebook page. "These units are not designed to handle the high current flow needed for a space heater and can overheat or even catch fire due to the added energy flow. Please share and stay safe this Winter season."
The Electrical Safety Foundation International says heating equipment is the second leading cause of home fires in the U.S. with more than 65,000 fires being attributed to them each year. The ESFI reports the fire result in hundreds of deaths, thousands of injuries and millions of dollars in property damage.
Be safe. Avoid extension cords to heaters if you can. Use outdoor extensions if you need one.
Enjoy
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Message 558 of 653 (864509)
10-12-2019 10:51 AM
Reply to: Message 557 by dwise1
10-12-2019 4:08 AM


So Fitchburg ...
Now, the more parallel circuits you have, the more current they will draw and the more power (AKA "heat") they will generate and that will need to be dissipated. So you have lots of devices plugged into your power strip and you plug another power strip into that with lots of devices plus another power strip, etc. Doing that, you could easily exceed the power rating of your house wiring or at least of the original powerstrip. ...
So if you have a basement full of plants with grow lights plugged into power strips, plugged into power strips, plugged into power strips ....
Even though the grow lights themselves (fluorescent) do not draw a lot of power, the accumulated demand creates a potential fire hazard. To say nothing about the damp environment...
That's my thoughts.
Thanks
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Message 559 of 653 (865787)
10-30-2019 4:40 PM


Bandwidth usage
Apparently I am using 93.38 MB (373.52%) of bandwidth (25.00 MB plan)
When I only have 66 MB (0.27%) Storage Used and I am not actively posting pictures? Do search etc robots cruising the forums cause this?
I know of one (1) picture I have linked recently on this forum (Message 7). I don't need to use these photobucket pictures on other forums, so as far as I can see this one picture is causing 93.38 MB of bandwidth usage for the month.
How can I control this?
Does the [thumb] command use less bandwidth than the [img] command?
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Message 562 of 653 (865819)
10-31-2019 11:11 AM
Reply to: Message 561 by Theodoric
10-31-2019 8:54 AM


Re: Bandwidth usage: photobucket
Bandwith and data maxes are different things.
A 25.00 MB plan would mean you can only download 25MB of data per month. Do you mean 25 Mbps?
This is photobucket, which I have been using to store the images I post on threads here. I am currently well below that limit for stored pictures, that is not the problem.
I think the rest of your questions are irrelevant if you are on a standard internet plan. Bandwidth is not something that accumulates. It is the speed data is moving at a particular moment. Unless your plan has a data cap you do not have to worry about the pictures you link to.
Except this is where the problem with photobucket is involved: they say my bandwidth use to view the pictures is way over their plan limit.
I don't understand where this bandwidth usage is coming from, it's like the pictures are constantly being viewed over and over and over.
and I don't have any control over it.
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Message 564 of 653 (865834)
10-31-2019 5:52 PM
Reply to: Message 563 by jar
10-31-2019 2:48 PM


Re: Bandwidth usage: photobucket
Remember the limit they are talking about is the sum of every access from every viewer. So if I look at it and you lokk at it the use is 2x. If three others look at it the use is 5x. And if we go back to check a detail it is 10x.
okay, but I am being punished (pictures blurred out) for something I have no control over.
and it's probably not even the picture being looked at but the thread being loaded for people to see the latest posts with nothing to do with the picture.
that's not right.
This has only cropped up since I paid for their basic plan. It looks like a sucker plan imho.

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Message 569 of 653 (865992)
11-03-2019 5:16 PM
Reply to: Message 568 by caffeine
11-01-2019 10:39 AM


Re: Bandwidth usage: photobucket - caved
Move to imgur.
I think I tried imgur and had some issues with it.
Doesn't matter at this point, I caved and upgraded to unlimited bandwidth.
Also I already have most of my images on photobucket
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Message 597 of 653 (876273)
05-16-2020 10:54 AM
Reply to: Message 596 by nwr
05-15-2020 9:09 PM


Re: Latex Help
I noticed when copying formulas from wiki that they use latex, but not quite the same, so it needs some interpretation.
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