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    I may have underestimated the LED lights I purchased....

    Cuba is quite safe, relative to the Caribbean and other countries south of the US, in terms of violent crime. Gun crime is almost non-existent. However, as with most countries in the world, theft has been a problem for a hundred years. The bars are original to the house which make them 100...
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    I may have underestimated the LED lights I purchased....

    I purchased more solar reflectors a month or so ago in Mexico. Some of the older ones are now over 4 years old and the batteries (32650 type) are failing. I've taken the older ones down and am in the process of sourcing new batteries. That should give them another 4 years of life. When I...
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    I may have underestimated the LED lights I purchased....

    I cannot wait for nightfall! Put up some illumination in the passageways of the house.
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    Replacement fan for the Dahua NVR

    ^^^^ I second the Noctua fans. Replaced my NVR fans with Noctua fans and I can only hear the air moving.
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    Need a new POE splitter to power camera and separate IR

    I've been using these with no issues. They go up to 18W which is decent for the price. 24W (2A @ 12V) units get expensive.
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    The Typical picture of a Perp on Nextdoor-type Apps with Consumer Grade Cameras like Ring, Nest, Arlo, Canary, Wyze, etc.

    He might have more light but I have very decent cameras. If we could collaberate, his light and my cams, we'd be in business!
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    Recommendations for face detection camera

    I have facial DETECTION running during the daytime on: 2x Color4K/X 1x T5449H-ASE-D2 And facial DETECTION running 24/7 on: 1x SD1A404XB-GNR 1x HDBW5441F-AS-E2-3.6mm The 5441 is the infamous BoobieCam mounted in my front entrance. This allows me to get face shots of everyone entering my...
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    I need more hobbies.. Working on a PVC post discrete camera housing... (a better birdhouse)

    I had some camera mounts printed out in black ABS (black ABS has no tints so as to dilute the filament). Roughed them up with some 120 grit sandpaper and gave them two coats of white spray paint (doing some more work with the sandpaper after the first coat was dry). The printers added a hole...
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    I have survived another national blackout here in Cuba

    Thanks for the tip. I'll check that out.
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    I have survived another national blackout here in Cuba

    I have voltage protectors on all the appliances (split ACs, fridges, etc) so they're safe. A small investment which I'm sure has saved me money. A couple years ago, we had an electrical storm and my transformer started pushing out 135v on each phase. That seemed to fry a couple of LED bulbs...
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    I have survived another national blackout here in Cuba

    I can't say exactly how many but many countries suffer from intermittent blackouts whether regional or larger. Lima, Peru recently lost power in a large scale. Folks I know in Mexico, Honduras, African countries are used to power outages of some scale. Even Nigeria with it's massive oil...
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    Canada is swirling the toilet bowl..

    Yeah, I'm not a fan either. He's renouncing his Irish and UK citizenships and will pay Prime Minister while licking the king's (I don't capitalize titles of the monarchy) boots.
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    Canada is swirling the toilet bowl..

    Not a fan of Mark Carney but the linked post in inaccurate. Mark Carney is Canadian and was the 8th governor of the Bank of Canada. So, yeah, he has been involved in Canada lol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Carney
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    I have survived another national blackout here in Cuba

    Shit happens and it happens all too frequently here. The national grid went for a dump (again) for the 3rd time in 6 months. I'm not counting the downtime from the hurricane as that happens anywhere a major storm hits. The official explanation is that a substation in a municipality of Havana...
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    Go Away!

    I live in the Caribbean and we're currently suffering 18C. That's 64 Bald Eagles per Thermal Rise for the 'Muricans.
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