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Refrigerator Problems
Think you need a new refrigerator, try these options before you go shopping. I've done rental property repairs for several years and these are two typical problems I see over and over. I had to clear a drain tube yesterday so thought I would share my techniques.
A) Not Cold Enough
This is common and usually due to reduced air flow over the condenser coil on modern refrigerators. In the old days the condenser was a big flat coil on the back of the refrigerator. I wish they still sold this type, no fans, natural air flow, never clogs and always works. Modern refrigerator designers wanted a little more space, so they folded up the coil and put it under the fridge next to the compressor. The problem is a fan and duct housing is required to create air flow over the folded up coil which also became a pet hair and dust bunny collector.
This is usually a fairly easy fix, just clean it out to allow normal air flow. Best to unload heavy items in the fridge, pull it out and unplug it. Then remove the front kick plate cover and the back cardboard cover. The coil is usually accessible from the front, just clean out all the crap, you'll need some small homemade brushes and small pipes to attach to a vacuum, (see photo below of my standard tools). Now the coil may also be located in the back and might look more like an air conditioner coil, same process, just clean out all the crap. While you are back there vacuum out the fan assembly and clean all the junk off the fan blades with a tooth brush. Before re-assembly plug in the fridge and make sure the fan is rotating, very occasionally they will become seized. If seized you can often free them up with a good cleaning and a little oil, before you go out to buy a replacement.
In my experience this fixes the problem 8 out of 10 times.
B) Water in the bottom of the fridge or leaking onto the floor, or frozen water in the bottom of the freezer.
This is another common problem due to a clogged condensate drain. I can usually fix this by locating the condensate evaporation pan under the fridge, then find the drain tube which drains into it. Now use a small wire with pipe cleaner, small test tube brush or whatever else works to feed up the pipe, hopefully as far as the condensate tray inside the fridge. As you feed it in and out, you will remove all kinds of slime blocking the tube. Now use a syringe with some small tubing attached to the drain tube, push in an ounce or two of hot water then pull it back out, do this several times like you are plunging a clogged toilet. Then push in about two ounces and remove the syringe, water should flow out, if not rinse & repeat. If that doesn't work look inside the fridge, freezer and vacuum out any debris that might be clogging a drain port. The drain ports aren't always visible you might have to remove the back interior fridge or freezer panels and remove the crap that is blocking the drain, usually a pea, corn kernel, twist tie, bread clip etc etc.
Hope this saves you some money with a couple of hours of labor, but as always maybe the better half just wants a new fridge!!
Gord
Yes excellent reminder to all who have direct vent furnaces and hot water heaters or any other type of direct vent gas appliance.
I provide property maintenance for several properties and I have seen this happen at least 5 times in the last five years. Note it is not only snow drifts, sometimes its people piling up snow to clear a walkway or driveway. Once it was a discarded Xmas tree on top of a brush pile that caused enough restriction to trip out the furnace.
On another occasion I found the vent pipe to be full of walnuts. Yes walnuts, the screens had rusted out, which is normal every couple of years, and squirrels decided this was a good place to stored some nuts.
I personally lost a furnace years ago when my 5yr old son decided to play gas station attendant with the garden hose and filled up the furnace. Main computer board was fried.
Another typical fault is a clogged furnace filter that can trip out the furnace on the high temperature limit due to lack air flow and overheating. This usually happens in homes with dogs and cats that shed alot of hair.
Gord
Qone0
The posting of live charts on IHUB is a privilege that StockCharts allows on a limited basis due to a friendly relationship with IHUB back when StockCharts first started.
The basic limitations are that free users will be limited to what free members can see, ie; daily and weekly charts with a limited number of overlays.
Now StockCharts members who are logged in will be able to see your complete chart, although it may appear limited at first, but a screen refresh will usually show the whole chart.
When I open your link I see your complete 15 min chart, but only if I'm logged into StockCharts on my browser.
Here's a couple of links which explain this in more detail.
http://stockcharts.com/docs/doku.php?id=faqs:how_do_i_add_a_live_sharpchart_to_an_investorhub_post
http://stockcharts.com/docs/doku.php?id=policies:third-party_message_board_restrictions
Quasi
Sliding glass doors
Beigledog,
Just a followup, interested in how you dealt with the sliding doors that were fogging up. Warranty, new glass in the old frames or the option to repair and reseal the sealed glass panes?
thanks
Sounds like these are double glass thermopane sliders which have suffered a seal failure.
The glass units are two panes with an air gap and a separator seal strip around the outside. The air gap is usually filled with dry argon gas, but if a leak develops then as the window heats and cools moist air is drawn in and out creating the moisture fogging on the inside. When it gets really bad you will actually see little water droplets.
Have you checked with the installer and manufacturer, there is usually a warranty on seal failures. For windows its usually 10 years or more, not sure about sliding doors in a rental unit, might be much shorter.
I've never heard of cleaning and resealing a thermopane unit.
In any case you shouldn't have to replace the whole door unit frame and all, just have a local window and door installer replace the glass in the original frame for the section that has failed. I've had this done before, sealed glass pane might be around $250 plus labor for the frame disassembly and re-assembly.
Hi Cush, guess you already know they are working on it, or at least the other providers who own that section of the connection are working on it with a big push from Chip.
Just for everyone to know the next time you're not sure what the problem is, bookmark the following links.
One place to check during an issue like this is on their Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/stockchartsdotcom/
Appears the service provider (ISP) has a problem with the datacenter and they are working on getting it resolved ASAP.
The other link you should bookmark is the Pingdom independent monitoring site.
http://stats.pingdom.com/g0fdmqv6vgnb
You should also check their Twitter account which will have the most up to date info. Appears road construction, probably a guy with a backhoe, has taken out both the main and backup fiber lines between StockCharts and the internet.
https://twitter.com/stockchartscom
These sites are useful when you are not sure whether the problem is at your end, the middle or actually at the StockCharts site.
My first thought was the this is pretty well standard with the newer low flush, or two flush toilets as I call them. This is because the way they flush with less water is to make the internal bowl and siphon section smaller in diameter, thus they clog easily.
However as these seem to be older toilets, there could be a few different issues.
With the lid off flush the toilet normally and see if all the water drains out of the tank. Flush again holding down the handle, forcing it to drain all the water. Any difference in how it flushes could indicate the flapper valve is not staying open long enough. This is a common problem and the easy solution is just to hold down the handle until the flush is complete.
The second common problem is a clogged roof stack vent which will starve the toilet drain of air and it will not flush properly. In my area this happens often as squirrels and birds like to sit up there in the warm exhaust during the winter and they drop various things in which can eventually clog the vent.
Also are you sure there is nothing in the toilet, the most common things I find are tooth brushes as no one wants to fish them out. They just think they can flush them away, problem is they only flush them around the bend and they will never actually get out of the toilet, just sitting around waiting to create log jams.
LED's
Another great thing is the LED's don't burn the drywall or paint when you're drywalling or painting. I also put them in all my trouble lights and so far they are standing up better than the rough service bulbs I used to buy at $3-4 dollars a pop and like you say no heat.
Canadians, LED lights
Check out Rona this week, just bought a bunch of LED bulbs. Price was reduced and an instant rebate is applied, $3 or $5 depending on type, with tax works out to be about $1.50 per bulb.
As always I'm marking the month and year on the base so I will know how long they are lasting. Haven't had one burn out yet and some are 1&1/2 years old.
great deal
Yes Canada, so that jacks the price up a bit. But there are some good deals out there, although I don't mind paying a bit more and having Home Depot or Lowes vet out the supplier for quality.
But still won't pay much more than $3.00 for a bulb, as the sales are every few months or so, with government added rebates, so sometimes down to $2.50 a bulb.
Not a good deal for me, that $9.99 special is for only 2 bulbs, the 8 pk is $24.99 plus some hefty shipping.
I usually wait for a good sale locally at Home Depot etc, usually get em for a little less than $3 a bulb. Also all my trouble lights now have LED's, no more broken bulbs.
Yes those dimmer switch instructions are in the fine print, almost invisible for some of us that are getting older.
Also those adjustment controls on the switch are very small, you probably wouldn't even notice them unless you know where to look and they are often a little different between manufacturers. I like the ones that are on the front behind the cover plate, ie you don't have the pull the switch to make adjustments on the back. If you change the wattage of the LED's you might have to adjust the balance again.
Dimming LED bulbs
Here's a post I wrote a while back that explains the issue in some detail, and yes you can't just use an old style incandescent dimmer.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=123736183
Sorry there is no way for you to recover a deleted chart. However I would suggest you send a detailed request to StockCharts support and see if there is any way they may be able to help.
Dimmable LED lights.
Yes I agree that most people are not impressed with the dimmability of LEDs. However its mostly that people just screw them into the fixture and expect to use the same old incandescent dimmer switch.
Problem is the old dimmer switch basically goes from 0 to 600 watts and the LEDs draw much lower power thus they are at the very bottom of the dimmers range.
What you need is a dimmer for LEDs, they have a power adjustment on the back or the side behind the cover plate. You have to adjust this setting to balance with the power for the number of LEDs in the fixture or the number of POT lights you have daisy changed together. Basically it allows you to change the min/max power range from 0-600watts, down to say 0-5watts or 0-20watts or 0-50 watts depending on the total LED load.
Two years ago I had an electrician on a job that complained about the same thing, they just didn't dim very well, I had to show him the adjustments for load balancing and then he changed his mind. I guess he never bothered to read the instructions for the LED dimmers.
Give one a try and you will really notice the difference.
Symbol requests:
StockCharts is a site focused on Technical Chart Analysis and thus they do not cover every stock in the universe. Here's a quote from their website covering this subject.
StockCharts is an excellent value, I've used them for 15 years, they are really the only choice for Charts & Technical Analysis.
But it depends on what you want to do, StockCharts is the very best for the value on charts and technical analysis with lots of world class commentary. If you want an interactive trading platform then best to find a broker who provides that service.
Here's a couple of links to the different options available for the various levels of membership, from free to the top level.
http://stockcharts.com/sales/new.html
http://stockcharts.com/h-mem/pricing.html
Login problem, no problem for me this morning, all normal here.
Here's a link to the troubleshooting page for login problems, it might help.
http://stockcharts.com/docs/doku.php?id=trouble:unable_to_log_in
Looks like the datafeed problem has been fixed. This morning I'm seeing the updated chart.
I've also changed over most of the lights in the house, just buy them when on sale with energy saving coupons. I'm later to the game on this one as they were just too expensive in the beginning.
My oldest one is only 6 months but all still working. Just to track the performance I write the install date on the bulb base so if one ever burns out I will know the time frame.
Working fine for me. Also just checked the PingDom monitoring site and it shows no interruptions recently.
stats.pingdom.com/g0fdmqv6vgnb
Here's a couple of links to docs on posting charts, live, annotated or screen shots. These are old posts so the methods are still the same but some of the example screenshots of menus have changed in appearance.
Chart & Link Posting 101, updated; April 15, 2012
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=74409478
StockCharts doc on posting live charts.
http://stockcharts.com/articles/step_by_step/2012/05/adding-a-live-sharpcharts-to-an-investorshub-post.html
Scanning Saturday Webinars !!
I just did the first Scanning Saturday Webinar with Chip, bit of a learning curve with new software and live on the fly format, but great fun and great content, (I think).
Here's a compendium article with links to the Webinar recording and all the charts (with settings), used during the presentation.
http://stockcharts.com/articles/scanning/2015/04/scanning-saturday-web1-compendium.html
cheers Gord
I agree Cush, this is an excellent perk from StockCharts and a great read.
I met Dr. Elder at ChartCon 2014, he is an excellent presenter and trainer, I enjoyed listening and talking to him. If anyone gets the chance to go to the next ChartCon in Seatle, I highly recommend it. Always lots of great presenters and discussions with other users.
cheers
Did you use the request a symbol form, link below.
http://stockcharts.com/support/symbolrequest.html
However I have looked at the historical data on Sahara Energy and it may not meet the basic Technical Analysis criteria to be added to the data base. Being a penny stock with low volume and many days at a time without trades its not really suitable for Technical Analysis.
Remember data costs money to purchase and then there is the maintenance on that data. StockCharts is primarily a Technical Analysis charting site and that is their goal on applicable stocks.
That said if they do decide to add the data, it usually takes a few days, its not instant.
Yep you've got it.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=74409478
- How'd they do that ?
Users often see a chart and ask how'd they do that, what settings did they use? Well often you just have to experiment with settings, but first check the image properties, if it starts with something like "…ih.fotothing.com/76643.gif" start experimenting as its just a screenshot picture. However if it starts with "..stockcharts.com/c-sc/sc?s=XXX", you're in luck, it's from the Stockcharts image server. Copy everything after the equals sign (make sure to get it all), then open the Stockcharts charting page, pull up one of your saved charts or just create a new chart and click the link version button. Notice in the URL address bar it will start with ".. stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=XXX", now just replace the chart link info copied above into the address bar after the equals sign and refresh the screen. You will now have the subject chart with all the settings displayed from the input charting server rather than from the image server, just scroll down and look at the settings.
"..stockcharts.com/c-sc/sc?s=XXX" Image server
"..stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=XXX" Charting server
I haven't had any problems at all.
I would try a different browser and see if that works.
I've always left my wired router on and have done the same with my wireless router, at least for the past 10 years, (except for model changes).
Just make sure you have a good password and keep an eye on the usage, there could be somebody next door piggybacking on your service, but they'll need to hack your password to do it.
Yes I've seen that happen sometimes, I think it just wants to re-save the file with a new time stamp.
To be safe you can always use the "save as" function and save it with a different file name. Then check the two files for kb size and actual difference.
Bruce, you and your family will be in our prayers daily. Sounds like you are in good hands and we all pray for a speedy recovery.
I hear ya,
When I was young, my new brother had to sleep in the box the color TV came in.
I had to WALK to school! hell we even had to walk to the other side of the room to change the channel on the TV.
Best of the season to all !!
I agree with you Excel on being careful when hiring contractors.
However I find it hard to figure out how this guy agreed to pay by the hour and then paid for the whole job in advance ??
I don't and I don't know anyone else who does.
Sorry.
ChartCon 2014, another great event is now over.
In case you missed it, here is an article written by on of the attendees. It gives you a terrific overview of the speakers, discussions and the event in general.
http://www.alphahunt.ca/2014/08/highlights-from-chartcon-seattle.html
Hope to see you all at the next one, date to be determined.
cheers
ChartCon 2014
"Celebrate Stock Charting at ChartCon 2014 this August! - John Murphy, Alex Elder, Martin Pring, and Richard Arms will be there - will you? ChartCon is our annual conference in Seattle this August 8th and 9th. It really is a must-see event for all StockCharts fans. See the link below for more details including the speaker list, the agenda, and even links to some great add-on activities for visitors." Chip
http://stockcharts.com/sales/events/chartcon/index.html
The above is the short intro list, see the weblink for the full list of great speakers, topics and training sessions. Note there will also be sessions on developing and troubleshooting your scans.
I'll be there and I hope to see some of you there.
cheers
Yes it can be done but need a warrant to get that information from the ISP owner of that IP address.
Of course I could just drive down the street, connect to an unsecured wifi and send an email from there. Or I could pull into MacDonalds and use there free wifi and there IP location.
Yes its only the location of the ISP server the user was connected to when he sent the email. To get the exact location you would need a warrant in order for the ISP to turn over the User name and address for whoever is owns the static IP or in the case of dynamic IP it would be the particular user at that point in time.
Not really cloaked in secrecy, just a way to make very long URL's easier to handle. I use the preview feature to check the long version of the URL before I click on it, just so I know exactly where its linking me.
http://tinyurl.com/preview.php