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Post by genmce on Sept 8, 2013 10:41:33 GMT -5
Hey I found this site and he has a diagram to series split parallel a humbucker. Is this a good design to follow? I have some on on on dpdt switches - it seems very efficient, any issues with using it? |
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Post by sumgai on Sept 8, 2013 13:31:39 GMT -5
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Post by genmce on Sept 8, 2013 15:46:03 GMT -5
I saw that but the images are all missing ... I posted looking for them but got no reply ... |
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Post by sumgai on Sept 9, 2013 2:41:41 GMT -5
All of ace's diagrams are present, but as you note, Unklmickey's are MIA. Sadly, very sadly, I've just now learned that my backup drive that took a dump  about 4 months ago was the only repository for all of my spiders of this forum. They had grown too large for my laptop's drive, so I stuck them out on the backup server, thinking I'll get around to putting them on DVD, one of these days. Of course, you know what they say about round tuit's, right?  Unless I wanna blow off $300 to $400 for a recovery service, they've effectively been deposited in The Big Bit Bucket In The Sky.... along with 6 years worth of collected music, which also no longer fit on my main drive.  Moral of the story - backups are also subject to The Fickle Finger Of Fate, just like the US Government: IOW, backup your backups too. I now have a shiny new rack of 3TB drives, rotating through a Grandfather-Father-Son schedule. Only one at a time is hooked up to the server. And an equally shiny stack of new DVD disks is sitting downstairs, ready to be popped into the drive. Oh, and a Round Tuit was delivered this morning, but for all we care, that's a bit late in the game.  sumgai |
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Post by newey on Sept 9, 2013 6:30:24 GMT -5
I think JohnH has Unk's diagrams stashed somewhere, I believe he reposted them originally when they first went away.
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Post by genmce on Sept 9, 2013 8:08:00 GMT -5
All of ace's diagrams are present, but as you note, Unklmickey's are MIA. Sadly, very sadly, I've just now learned that my backup drive that took a dump about 4 months ago was the only repository for all of my spiders of this forum. They had grown too large for my laptop's drive, so I stuck them out on the backup server, thinking I'll get around to putting them on DVD, one of these days. Of course, you know what they say about round tuit's, right? Unless I wanna blow off $300 to $400 for a recovery service, they've effectively been deposited in The Big Bit Bucket In The Sky.... along with 6 years worth of collected music, which also no longer fit on my main drive. Moral of the story - backups are also subject to The Fickle Finger Of Fate, just like the US Government: IOW, backup your backups too. I now have a shiny new rack of 3TB drives, rotating through a Grandfather-Father-Son schedule. Only one at a time is hooked up to the server. And an equally shiny stack of new DVD disks is sitting downstairs, ready to be popped into the drive. Oh, and a Round Tuit was delivered this morning, but for all we care, that's a bit late in the game. sumgai If you can remove the drive and mount it on another system - there are tools to at least something to try... I don't mean to push for those images - I'll live without them - thought you might have other things you want to recover of your own. I found a couple of free tools as part of this portable set www.liberkey.com/en.html There are actually several very good free tools in the set to do a multitude of things. I don't carry a thumb drive around - however I did install it on all of my machines. recova I have used to rescue pics and possibly other files. |
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Post by sumgai on Sept 9, 2013 13:23:04 GMT -5
genny, Thanks for the attempt at a rescue, but..... The drive is one of those newer generation jobbies whereby the manufacturer puts part of the BIOS in a chip, and the rest of it on the disk itself. That means that when you hear "The Click Of Death", your drive is toast - no amount of attempting to use software-based tools will work because the drive itself can't spin up and make itself known to the system. IOW, the lights are on, but nobodys' home. Sigh. The only way out is to take it to a greedy recovery service who then removes the platter(s) from the case and installs it/them into a special rig that ignores the BIOS itself, substitutes its own set of instructions, and then attempts (usually successfully) to read the data directly. Because they have a better than 95% recovery rate, and because they know they've got you by the cojones if you want your data back, they all agree to charge an arm, a leg, and your first-born son. Greedy bastards! This is why I've gone back to SLEDs (which are now really SLIDs), instead of multi-drive RAIDs of any sort. Rotating them through a 1:3 duty schedule should greatly reduce the amount of loss, should one bite the dust again. Every Sunday night it's backup all the working machines, and then swap to the next drive in line. (Having a drive off-line means that it can't be harmed by errant hardware or software glitches. Unless the cat somehow gets into the storage cabinet.....) Sorry for the loss of Unk's diagram, hope it doesn't hold you up too much. But as I said, I think asmith's interpretations improve on the original designs, so peruse that for awhile and see what you can come up with.  HTH sumgai |
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about 4 months ago was the only repository for all of my spiders of this forum. They had grown too large for my laptop's drive, so I stuck them out on the backup server, thinking I'll get around to putting them on DVD, one of these days. Of course, you know what they say about round tuit's, right? 
