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The only thing by that wall is extra bedroom that I use as an office, and then the main entry area of the house. No plumbing or showers or anything on that wall (or even in that area at all really). I don’t even think I have any boots/vents on that face of the roof either.


I checked again this morning and it wasn’t nearly as bad as usual, but was 100% dripping from the shingles almost like it had been raining lol.

This never bothered me until someone told me they didn’t think it was normal, and now it’s bugging the crap out of me.

I think I’m going to start paying more attention to humidity, dew point and temperature every day and see if puddle size seems to follow that

The ac drain is on the side of the house, and my lot slopes to the street. So I don’t see how it would cause the concrete in this spot to get wet.

I really don’t think it has anything to do with a drain line, plumbing or anything like that. I can see the water dripping off the roof in the morning so it’s definitely not coming from the ground.

I’m fairly convinced it’s condensation building up on the shingles and running off into that valley/corner and dripping onto the concrete. I just don’t know what the root cause is.

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Irrigation spraying from the other side of the sidewalk where plants get watered??

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Nope. No irrigation in that area at all.

Maybe this is normal, but ever since I’ve owned my house the concrete near my front door accumulates a “puddle” overnight, getting its biggest right around sunrise and then slowly evaporating throughout the day. Cycle repeats pretty much every single day. Looking at it in the morning, it seems like the shingles are getting wet (condensation I guess) and water is just running off shingles onto the concrete making the puddle. The water is all on the outside of the roof, so I haven’t been too concerned as the wood sheeting/attic are still dry and aren’t building up moisture. But does this point to an issue with insulation, ventilation in the attic, or maybe something else? Or is this just something normal for LA with how humid it always is?

I did notice if I don’t run my AC (has been broken past 2 days), I don’t get a puddle. So I’m assuming it’s something to do with the temperature difference of shingles/outside air and inside house somehow (which makes me think I have an insulation/attic vent issue)?

I have a thermal imaging camera that I played around with, and didn’t see anything that really stuck out. That being said I’m not really sure that I know what I would be looking for. The Attic and shingles read hot/around ambient temp, and I don’t see any spots where cold air is leaking. Best I can tell, this is only happening on the one corner by the front door, but I haven’t really walked down the rest of the house to see if it’s happening anywhere else.

I’ve always had XM in the past, but if I was to do it today I would just get starlink instead.

The only thing XM gives you that starlink doesn’t is the weather overlay on your garmin mapping (plus the random other layers you can overlay with XM info). Unless you can do that over WiFi now.

But with starlink you could just use weather apps and Spotify (or really any other streaming service - including XM) from your phone.

My vote is starlink

I also modelled/printed a fully functional remote control boat based off a real one we’ve had. Mainly due to having a few months with way too much free time, and also just wanting to see if I could actually do it :lol:

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yeah y'all gotta name every document a series of numbers and letters that make no sense then have a document register listing them with more reference numbers then a damn index so you're having to jump through hoops to figure out what 3 of the 3,757 specs included with the 2 ISOs are relevant

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To be fair, 90% of the time that is client driven and we don’t have a choice on how we structure/number the drawings in a work package.

I’m an EE and agree a lot of engineers make shite way more complicated than it should be, and design stuff off theory instead of real world. But not all of us are like that.

I worked for an electrical contractor in refineries/chem plants over the summer while getting my degree. I honestly think that gave me more knowledge for what I do every day than college did. Should be mandatory to spend time in the field before getting a degree.

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but all people who use door dash are lazy worthless pieces of shite.

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Sometimes it’s the complete opposite. My time is worth ALOT more money than the small delivery fee they charge.

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I love it, but multi colored prints have a lot of waste

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I got X1C when they first came out, and rarely did multicolor prints for this reason + added time for multicolor prints.

I got the H2D a few months ago and it made multicolor (2 color) prints WAY faster/less waste having 2 nozzles. I run a decent amount of 2 color prints now.

My brother just got the H2C which is supposedly even better for multicolor printing, but I haven’t had a chance to check it out myself yet

Maybe something like a nitetrak/Sionix low light camera, portable screen, and power with cigarette lighter plug for portability?

Can get one of those cheap 7” or 9” portable displays for screen and fix it to suction cup or something?

That’s best I can think of outside of adding radar or permanent FLIR install, both of which would be significantly more expensive.

I had nitetrack on last boat. It was cool to have, but I rarely actually used it and ran radar when running at night over using the camera