Though I'm sure that in many instances a box of tricks that dies is because the 80c capacitor or 2 buck transistor was a few cents cheaper than a better longer life equivalent component, simply the lack of a good long lasting component at a cost effective price is the problem - in my tropical locale, the lack of market presence of a robust switch is a major headache for much of the fly by wire machinery that really needs a better switch when fixing the POS tin plated version that relies of being sealed for it's protection against the elements. Back at least to the 80s, they seemed to have a better regard for what electrochemical potentials of various metals to build robust switches that didn't rely entirely on being sealed ... for example though the old foot dimmers on cars would sometimes give minor trouble, for the most part they worked for a long time in a hostile environment without the need to oil and fuss over them.
The idea of putting zero electronics was to appeal to those familiar with the many frustrated tractor owners who've got dog tired of POS revenue driven electronics being a necessary part of their more recent purchases. The title to them would indicate it was both not fly by wire as well as an absence of overly complicated control boxes being essential for the machine to work. Obviously the tractor has electrics which includes such things as lights, batteries, alternator and starter motor, and probably basic half century proven basic electronic components such that drives signals and instrumentation.
As a side note, there's not an adequate explanation for what P pumped injector means or its significance. [1]
Unfortunately it doesn't go into depth as to how much success is had with flash memory, such as sd cards, percentage wise, for example snafu sd cards and thumb drives where free recovery software has already failed finding any of the older files.
Oh how I know what one would give to rescue a dead sd card. Much of what I have is backed up and I long ago stopped putting any faith in flash drives. However my mother passed at the start of this year but three months before that shortly before finding her blood cancer had returned (it's not what ultimately killed her [1],) she became victim to android trying to endlessly thrust encryption over the unencrypted sd card - eventually deciding to ignore its user. My Mum realised the same day so the card was essentially empty bar the couple photos she'd just taken. I ejected the card but no luck scouring with free software for any buried files. It was a good quality sd card and I might have tried further but I've never had any luck with flash drives. Android needs a revert sd card function.
"Flash memory is used in thumb drives, smartphones, newer laptops, and SSDs. The technology exploits a phenomenon known as “quantum tunnelling” to trap electrons in floating-gate transistors, like the genies imprisoned by King Solomon. Because they have no moving parts, flash chips are generally considered to be more stable than HDDs. But their design can also complicate data recovery. "
I had hoped the article would elaborate a little more on SSD - only for the fact 9 times out of 10 I've rescued some if not all the data from HHDs that had suddenly had a problem via software the failures being head damage or my unwillingness to spend money on another control board to replace the one that had died - besides most of it was backed up. Thumb drives and sd cards I've had no luck at all - if it has died, it's dead. About the only win with sd related data was when the device was slow or misbehaving and it was placed into a newer usb port or better quality card reader.
[1] Treatment was going well as expected with other complications, but the care towards the end was lacking, people with little idea of constipation and if one is losing 3 to 5 cups of water more than they are taking in a day, there's going to be a point the body will no longer function, almost week 4 for her.
3.5 tonnes of cargo might not seem much but with the expectation that eventual running costs of a pilot-less operation would be both economically cheaper and offer more flexible operating hours, that such a plane could be a game changer to delivering basic necessities to remote communities.
It's certainly been weird to see their silly childish push-back against renewables like solar power. As for wind power though, locally I've heard via some National Party faithful(s) that some wind project are being put in boneheaded areas bundled with very lax governmental permissions, enabling clearing tracks (dirt roads) up to the top of various mountain ridges that no other industry would ever get away with. Boneheaded as there's just as much or more wind on the coast where existing transmission lines already exist.
Popularism is a problem here in Australia as well - who would have thought decreasing / cutting funding (starting around the 1990s) from basic tertiary education and further adult skill education would come back to bite - in particular considering recent state voting, especially the liberals on the bum.
To clarify, the political party is not the current government holding power but the opposition party ... which has slowly become very fractured to the point their putting their hopes on popularism while still aiming to be the best friend of various fat cats with interests to keep on cashing in here.
It's not a new plan either, much of it's origins were purposed when Trump got a lot of butt hurt a few years ago in regard to social media, the opposition were in power and they were very much sycophantic in regard of Trump and intended to bring into law where its citizens having a social media account, details would be vetted for age and real identity.
What's outlined is more a new type of social media area, one that would not lend itself to search engines, and as such ... only really of interest to those who are all about the now ... want to be heard today but please nobody recall or record and look back on any previous missteps -- there's already things similar to that (a popular smart phone app) where if a conservations doesn't go well, they can simply delete their yip-yap and consequent replies and comments from the data archive.
What made the good old net was the wealth of information however fragmented between a lot of different areas of the web, information could be found reasonably quickly, thought at first it relied on users for answers or for them to point to static sites that held questionable information, and later a search engine(s) that did its fucking job as best it could without being hindered by precious interests, copyright issues ... etc
Oh interesting, maybe I shouldn’t have included the examples. They’re just what I happen to be busying myself with. What I winkingly called an anti social site is an experiment to see if people with share their authentic self if there’s no particular “karma” to be gained. I am all for a thousand flowers, including older strains.
Ah, an example of ... sorry I had missed the intent. Yes it would be so nice to be back in the days where common sense ruled and relied less on side loading bs to scrape every user that arrived at a site. I have always enjoyed forums that didn't rank, didn't use likes... etcetera.
I think a lot of people get the impression of DIY repair - but most tractors can be serviced entirely or if not most repairs via a third party mechanic / appropriate workshop.
I have surfed (I used to research stuff for various people) many tractor forums over the years but don't really recall too many details, but ever after a number of years, one of the things that stuck in my mind was one USoA farmer's account of the over the top gouging practices that JD was running with. Basically the newish JD was serviced by a third party mechanic, new parts installed correctly and verified ... but it would not run until they paid $$$$ for a JD tech to drive out to their location, plug in their simple special tool to unlock the system so the tractor could start and get to work.
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