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Many of the Swanns do have IR illumination, but there is nothing stopping you adding an external IR illuminator near the camera (indeed as many crims use a mobile to 'look' for the IR leds on the camera, you can actually 'steer' them into looking at the camera by using a separate IR illuminator...

My sister went to Thailand with one of her friends who came from there, and she sent me back some photos of the street cabling there (knowing I'd be interested lol) Yeah... it was 'interesting' all right... One of the things she saw was people 'pinching power' at night for lights- throwing a...

I know you can find worse than US codes- the issue is that when you look at at a 'Korean wired house' and say OMFG- there are plenty of other countries that look at US wiring and say 'OMFG' too... The US is literally decades behind most other first world countries... (I'm a trade qualified (4...

I'm aware of the US system and how it works, but it has a lot of stuff that simply wouldn't pass muster here ('suicide cords' being only one of them) The 'neutral/earth' has to come from the generator, if it was truly only a earth and two lines as you said before (actives as we would call them...

Actually I checked and it is a combination neutral/earth (it has to be, as it definitely 'powers up' the 120v circuits according to people online- and that can only happen if it is providing a neutral link to the generator...) Otherwise if it was only providing L1 and L2, then anything 120v...

Yes- running extension cords is fine, just never use a 'plug to plug' lead like some do (hell they even sell them on amazon in the US) (you are supposed to plug one end in the genny and the other into a wall outlet or drier socket in the house... oh and remember to turn off the main house...

I don't get it, all 'center console' autos I have ever driven have this shift pattern (Ford, Holden and Toyota) with park nearest the windscreen... What shift pattern do they have that you go backwards for reverse and forwards for drive??? You pull it backwards from park, yes- but if you are...

There are dozens of guys making their own large belt sanders on youtube, using everything from old washing machine motors to speed variable old treadmill motors, and stacked bearings to skateboard wheels for the rollers, many which seem to outperform even thousand dollar plus units, and they...

There's some things that tend to cause issues- battery chargers 'usually' won't work unless they are either very old, or very, very cheap- as practically every modern charger has 'reverse polarity protection' and if it has, then it won't act as a power supply without internal 'butchery'... The...

I regularly take sheets on the roof of the ute (Hilux with fiberglass canopy) and you never EVER just chuck one or two from side to side... I strap two (or for roofing sheets ie 5m long) I put three from one side to the other- but I also put a couple of timbers underneath and another couple on...

LOL- I wondered what these guys were doing, now I know... Taking home some ply from the hardware store...

I run Dewalt myself (from my old tradie days- Bosch, Milwaukee and Dewalt were the 'goto' brands for heavy industrial level users here in Oz) Initially bought a couple of their drills to try out and stuck with them ever since, I bought the 'tradie pack' about 2008??? the big 10 piece one that...

It's funny, I have only used the one (free Yahoo) address since 99, and always found their spam filters to be excellent- some forums won't accept 'free' emails and want a 'real' one- which is funny, because although my (probably dozens by now) ISP's have always given me one, I have literally...

Got to admit, I wish I had the money to go electric, I was very impressed with the guy I bought the batteries for my house from, he has a homebrew Hilux thats electric- with over 100 thousand on the clock since he built it in 2008- since then he hasn't spent a cent driving- unlike my (exactly...

Any WHY do you need to have a 30 minute charger in your house??? Now you are getting slightly ridiculous....

And yet billions of cells are in daily use around the world- with a lower failure rate than lead acid batteries- including the ones that run my house- which mind you (unlike my previous leadacid batteries) I haven't touched once since their first installation and use- over a year ago... Set...

One thing about putting sheets on the roofracks- tie them down side to side along the roof-racks- but put a strap around the very front, all the way around and clipped to itself and then tightened, and then use that to tie down to the front bumper/underneath- saves the ever popular- 'lets watch...

Considering I have lived off batteries for a good part of my life- I dispute your claims that lithiums need 'babysitting'- in practice- its the L/A that need constant 'care and attention'- especially flooded, but even so called 'sealed' cells outgass and require terminal cleaning etc Lithiums...

Which is why EV (even hobby homebuilt ones) have used lithium cells for the last decade plus Lead's heavy, so those 'lead acid' batteries were heavy, and not particularly effective energy storage... Lithiums (LYP is the most commonly used) can delivery much higher currents, have more energy...

I worked for about six years at a autodealership that dealt with mining vehicle kitouts (officially as a towtruck/delivery driver- but in the workshop on quiet days) and all the guys doing the mining 4x4 fitouts used Milwaukee or Dewalt exclusively- there was a bit of rivalry between the two...