On Wednesday 09 December 2015 17:53:30 Ralph Stirling wrote: > I've got a couple of watchdog modules from Brentek > (http://brentek.com) that I think would do what you > want. The ones I have are WDT5 units, which plug > into an Opto22 rack. They have a variety of other > form factors though. It looks like they show up on > ebay too. > > -- Ralph
Thanks Ralph. A bit pricey for me though. I can do the same thing with a $2.61 555 based gizmo available also on fleabay. But when I clicked on a 5 pack of them for a hair over a $12 bill, I was greeted with a login request from ebays servers, something I haven't been able to do for 6 months or more. So I thought maybe its been fixed, and clicked on the forgot password. But I clicked on the link and got the exact same eject message for probably the 30th time, the link I just got 30 seconds before, is claimed to be an expired link. Exact same scenario from about 90 days back when I last tried to fix it. The person I was talking to said perhaps my firewall was blocking something. So I informed him that this was a linux house, and that the router was running DD-WRT, and assured him that in a decade of running DD-WRT on various hardware, currently a Netgear, and that only one person had come in from the outside AFTER I gave him the password. You can get to my web page, but nearly every other port doesn't even respond to a ping. Locked up tight. So I've been on the phone to ebay in 2 separate sessions, talking to a guy who withstood the abuse I was giving out freely (and I am VERY good at that when I'm upset). Killed a bit over an hour all told. But the upshot is that he took all the data, and has initiated the procedure to totally nuke my account(s). But it will take a week to complete in case I owe somebody something, which I don't. In the meantime I have a phone message in to my packrat ex employee to see if he has any 4 pole or better T-Bar power relays that I can use to softstart the mill's spindle supply. There's a decent chance, he has 3 old salvaged 55 foot trailers crammed with this stuff so its in out of the weather. I have scrounged up a 51 ohm 200 watt power resistor and modified its home brewed mounts so it will fit in the space above the capacitor bank thats under the copper buss pcb's in the pictures at the link below. And there is room for 2 of those T-Bar relays under the BoB and Jon's servo amp. So I think I can do it all inside the box. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Some mill pix are at: Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene/GO704-pix> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
