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Another old work pic.

This is a variable speed DC compressor I got to work with a while back. The machine this goes in is a 1 cubic foot environmental chamber that is accurate to 0.01C. It was a nice change compared to the big scrolls I normally worked with.

TLDR - All my refrigeration experience is with high end environmental chambers and I want to become a commercial HVAC-R service tech. Do I have any chance at getting hired?

So right now I have a few years of experience working as an environmental chamber tech. Basically, I'm the in house guy wo sets up, tunes, and troubleshoots new and returned environmental chambers. These are some pretty complex and varied machines refrigeration wise. Some are single phase, some are 3 phase, some use single stage refrigeration, some use cascade refrigeration, some use water cooled condensers, some utilize liquid nitrogen, some are designed to have ultra high ramp rates, some are designed to be ultra precise, some use 5.5hp compressors, some use a tiny dc compressor the size of my fist. So I think I know my way around the refrigeration side of things fairly well.

The thing is this is this is all I have done professionally in regards to refrigeration. I have never professionally worked on any heating appliance (I have worked on them personally) and I've never been a field service tech. The more I think about it the more this feels like a sports car factory tech applying to work in a diesel truck shop. I know a lot of the principles as far as electrical and refrigeration troubleshooting goes. I know how to read schematics. I'm 608 universal certified. I know how to recover, vac, and charge a system. I know how to braze. I know how to set/measure superheat and subcool. I know I can learn whatever I don't know fairly quickly. But is that actually enough for them to be willing to give me a van and set me loose upon unsuspecting customers?

Either way, I'd be interested to hear what you actual service techs think. If I put in an application do I have a shot?

Another old work pic to liven up the place.

One of our production guys put this service valve on and thought it was fine. Getting the damn thing back off required a pipe wrench.

Just posting old work pics to try and get some life here.

This was on a piece of equipment that came back in for RMA because it leaked refrigerant. The field techs couldn't find the leak. Best guess is there was a bit of moisture in the threads and over time it froze and thawed enough to crack the cap.

So I've suspected I have ADHD for a while now. The symptoms just fit plus both my mom and brother have it so I've got a pretty strong family history.

I finally got in to see a psychiatrist and they agree that I likely have ADHD. They had me take an online test called MOXO. I won't be seeing my psych for about another week and a half and I'm assuming that's when I get my actual results. But it feels like I did way too well on it.

Has anyone here taken that test and how did you feel you did on it when you took it?

Edit: Answer - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allium_tuberosum

I've been letting this grassy plant slowly take over my yard and I haven't been able to actually identify it. It has white flowers in late summer that bumble bees absolutely love. It smells like onions when you cut it and it tastes like onion as well except maybe slightly more mild.

Location: SE Minnesota

Not flowering:

Seeding out:

How are you supposed to decide where to get care for emergent conditions? Where is the dividing line between "just book a clinic visit", "head into urgent care when you get a chance", and "go inmediately to the ER"?

So this is a question I've always struggled with and it makes me feel very dumb especially because I literally am a EMR. This feels like something I should know. But at the same time I have also called to book a clinic visit before and had the scheduler tell me to go to the ER immediately only for it to wind up being nothing.

Certain things are obvious of course. Like if I need stitches or there is other major trauma then I know to go to the ER. If it is something like a concerning infection then I know urgent care can sort me out. For a skin rash that's probably a clinic visit. If urgent care is closed and it can't wait then default to the ER. But there are also the issues where I genuinely don't know on what side of the line they should fall. This is especially an issue for things that have been going on for a while which I know could be severe but almost certainly aren't.

For example (not asking for medical advice) I've been having repeated extended periods of heart palpitations for the past 2 weeks. At first I just chalked it up to screwing up my anxiety med schedule while I was on vacation because my med situation does cause heart palpitations if I screw it up. So I didn't think much of it at first but now I've been back on my meds properly for 2 weeks with no change. So, that's cardiac symptoms which in a patient would make me tell them to immediately go to the ER just to be safe. But at the same time it's been going on for 2 weeks and it's probably just some vitamin deficiency or something so it probably wouldn't kill me to wait a week for a clinic appointment (no walk in clinic here). Do I split the difference and go to urgent care? It's like schrodingers medical issue, it's both the worlds most benign thing and a symptom of immediate death until someone looks into it, so how do I know who should open that schrodingers box?

It seems like there has to be some easy dividing line on how to know which one to go to that I just don't know.

Edit: In USA, because that probably matters here.

So I recently upgraded every component in my PC to be fairly high end, except I didn't have the money to upgrade my GPU at the time so I was running with my old GTX 1070 for a while. Today I had some extra money so I finally got around to picking up a RTX 4070 super.

While installing it I just discovered a slight hitch in my plan. My primary monitor is 4k and uses display port so it isn't an issue. But my secondary monitor is an ancient 1080p monitor which only uses dvi and vga. The 4070 super only has display port and HDMI slots. I've been running with two monitors for so long that I don't know if I can stand going back to a single monitor.

It's already too late to run out and pick up an adapter so my plan for now is to install both GPUs in my PC and just pull the 1070 back out whenever I get around to getting a new secondary monitor or an adapter. Will a RTX 4070 super and a GTX 1070 both work in the same PC or am I just stuck with one monitor until I can get an adapter?

I like the bit of minty burn and it doesn't feel greasy afterwords like the non-alcohol based ones I've tried.

A friend of mine just sent me this picture and said someone they knew just got a capybara. I informed them that that definitely isn't a capybara. Now neither of us know what it is. It kinda looks like it's in the uncanny valley of the rabbit species. Is it just a fucked up looking rabbit?