A return trip to this area to check out the pond area shown on the 1961 and later topo maps. None of the maps name this side stream or pond nor show either of the 2 old roads into this area. If anyone has any information on this area like who built the pond, what was it's purpose, etc. feel free to post up in the comments. County bridge information, 37C0604 and 37C0605: https://bridgereports.com/ca/santa-clara/ Restoration: https://sccgov.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_LegiFile.aspx?Frame=&MeetingID=8498&MediaPosition=&ID=85534&CssClass= More to come, looking for the lower road and the outflow channel for the pond. Subscribe for more content like this Comment, rate, share & click the bell icon And as always, thanks for watching ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqVJxuq8jQM

While pre-charging a 5S Lithium Ion battery pack with my old BK Precision model 1670 bench power supply, I noticed it was getting hot up at 18.5V and 0.8A after some hours of running. The power supply relies on passive air cooling (I.e. no internal fan). So I thought I would look into what it would take to add a cooling fan to the unit. I noted the 12V DC output on the front, then recalled I had an old CPU heat sink fan and the light bulb went off. Why not plug the fan into the 12V DC output and call it good? I did just that, and it works great. Fan switches on and off with the power supply and keeps it nice and cool. If you have an old bench power supply like this, consider adding a simple cooling fan to it. Thanks for watching! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCnhqfkwkEY

Documenting trash from the stadium in the creek channel the day before a big Pacific rain storms moves in. This was shot 1 day before a big rain storm and 1 week after a stadium event and there's trash all over including the soon to be flooded creek channel. With 3-6" of rain forecast over the next week, the creek flow will increase by 10-20 times, raising the water level and flushing any trash out to SF Bay. This situation was reported to both the stadium operating company and the SC Valley Water District the day before and nothing was cleaned up. The Water District may be using my continuing video documentation of the litter problem to pursue some action against the stadium since they are clearly in violation of their operating permit with prohibits ANY trash from entering the creek. The stadium was asked in the EIR to erect fine mesh fencing around the entire site to keep wind blown trash from escaping. They chose not to do that saying a no littering sign and some trash cans would suffice, NOT! Trash blows off the site and the natural wind direction and gravity takes that into the creek. Winter rains then flood the creek channel and that trash gets washed away. Also, note the diesel generators. They have a total of 830KW of them running every stadium event. This is 3 times their installed PV system yet they make no mention of this on their web site. The stadium is not in some remote site, there's a major electric sub-station right next to it and there is underground power for the access lighting right next to the generators. Why burn 1000s of gallons of diesel every event when there's AC power right below the generators? If you see litter from the stadium in San Tomas Aquino Creek, please call the water district and report it: http://www.valleywater.org/Services/P... tel:1-888-510-5151 The stadium EIR: http://santaclaraca.gov/about/levi-s-stadium/49ers-stadium-deir "Impact LU-4: Trash and litter will be managed by immediate collection before it becomes windblown and will be disposed or recycled in conformance with City requirements." FAIL, the stadium is flagrantly violating the EIR. Why isn't the city our here enforcing those provisions? Seeing as the wind blows here almost every day, picking up in the early afternoon, as can been seen on the Weather Underground site:: https://www.wunderground.com/us/ca/al... Trash must be "collected" prior to the arrival of the wind as this is the only way to prevent it from becoming wind blown! Here's the previous video where you can see the source of this trash: https://youtu.be/p1CIcxFiDfs And check earlier videos in this playlist to see where this trash is coming from. And please share this video with anyone you know that works for the stadium operating company, 49ers, the Santa Clara Va ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVy6afZMamg

Time to test out the hardware decoder on the Raspberry Pi 2. Again, this is with the OpenELEC version of Kodi, this being the Arm7, quad-core binary for the Raspberry Pi model 2. Looks like the keys supplied by the Raspberry Pi store did the trick. They arrived within 24 hours of purchase. These keys are tied to each board's serial number. It seems that with the GPU decoder enabled, the CPU stays at the base speed of 600MHz and is only at about 20% load. In contrast, on the model B+, the CPU will jump to the fastest speed, 1000MHz in my case, and be sitting above 90% CPU load displaying these same Live TV programs.. This is a dramatic change in performance, at least in the responsiveness of the system. Both the B+ and 2 models play back the live TV signals at the desired frame rate, but the B+ is essentially at the limit and feels a bit sluggish from time to time. The model 2 is just barely off idle and seems to respond much smoother to user input. Either model RPi works fine for this application, but the model 2 should give a lot more headroom for future needs and at the same price, may as well get the newer model if you are shopping for a RPi to use like this. The amazing thing with either the B+ or model 2 is the miniscule power consumption, that just blows me away. At idle it is just over 1 watt and at full speed it is under 2 watts! So this means you can add the smart TV type features at almost no increased power consumption. For example, an XBox360 uses about 120 watts of power in it's media viewing mode. This whole process works exactly the same on the RaspBMC version of Kodi, same file, same commands, etc. I've just settled on the OpenELEC release to use on my RPis. Questions welcome in the comments section below. As always, thanks for watching! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYoAPJa2sOQ