Daily Archives: October 12, 2015
On Further Inspection . . .
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Yesterday I detailed the problems I’m having with one of my Mighty Mule Driveway Alarm systems. The first one I installed has been working great since day one. But the second one I ordered, about a week later, has been flakey one way or the other, pretty much out of the box, either distance-wise or temperature-wise.
So this morning after I got up, I put in a call to the Mighty Mule company’s Tech Support. And quickly found that after hearing, “All of our technicians are busy helping other customers”, heard “You’re customer 26 with an expected wait time of 45 minutes.”
Yikes.
Either their products have a lot of problems, or as is more likely that they only have one support guy. Probably named ‘Peggy’. So I figured I’d call back another time.
Later in the afternoon, I was thinking over the problem, and again wondering about swapping the transmitters out on the road to see if that made any difference. But it was hot (93°)and I’d rather sit in front of our AC.
Then in another one of those ‘Doh’ moments (I seem to be having those a lot on this project) I thought that I could kind of accomplish the same thing by just swapping the receivers here under the canopy and close to the AC coolness. So I unplugged both receivers, changed the DIP switch codes on each one, and plugged them back in.
And now the problem swapped too. So the problem was actually the receiver here und the canopy and not the transmitter out on the road. So now I have to decide if I want to wait in the phone queue with Mighty Mule, or just have Amazon swap it out.
I’ll give it one more try on the phone tomorrow morning and we’ll see.
Tonight for dinner Jan fixed up one of her delicious quick meals using biscuits. She starts by cooking up a batch of Pillsbury Flakey Layer Buttermilk Biscuits ahead of time and keeps them in the refrigerator.
Then when needed, she toasts some up in the toaster oven after buttering them, piles on meat (sliced ham for her, salami for me) along slices of sharp cheddar and Colby Jack, and some bread and butter pickles. Then it all goes back in the toaster oven until it’s oozing with delicious melty goodness.
Along with a slice of the really good Pumpkin Bread we find at Wal-Mart for dessert, it’s a perfect gate meal.
Jan ended up getting a lot of rain tonight, mostly between 9 and 10. And then about 9:30 she lost power to the halogen light stands we use here on the gate, so she ended sitting in the truck until I came out at 11pm.
Turned out to be the GFCI outlet on the generator. All the connections are bagged, but sometimes these things are just popped by the moisture in the air. I showed Jan how to reset it for next time.
Tomorrow looks to be another Whataburger run, with a side of Wal-Mart for a few things. Yum!
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Today’s Science Tip:
Ever get confused by all the different temperature scales, you know, like °F, °C, and even °K (Kelvin)? Well, here’s a simple chart that explains how it all relates to you.
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