"dcarch, Thanks for the information I'll fool around a bit more with LEDs in the future as I have an outdoor LED Christmas tree Janie is discarding after this season. " * Out door Christmas LED lights has in-line resistors which may not be the correct OHMs. It's worth playing with. "The circuit I used for this sculpture was from a set of discarded (broken) rechargeable solar pathway lights. The original assembly used a solar cell to recharge a single AA rechargeable lithium battery." *1.5V cannot normally fire up an LED. So there may be driver electronics to raise the voltage. "so I tried a 9 volt battery the result was both immediate and disasterous as it fried one component on the board. " *Never do that. Anything much more than around 3.6V will instantly fry an LED. Also be careful with polarity. Reverse polarity can also burn up an LED. If you look inside an LED with a magnifying glass, the side connected to the component inside that looks like a dish is the negative. With a new LED, the longer leg is the positive. " Although I still find the basic theory still applies I put my old electronics background behind me years ago right after the vacuum tube disappeared and when I had to hard wire changes to alter a computer's program. " * For your information, that's not too long ago. "All that aside, thanks for your input you might have rekindled an interest I left smoldering for a many of years. " *Not smoldering, soldering :-) dcarch

A long time member of the forum changed her name a few years ago, and the system automatically changed her date. She was one of our earliest members, and enjoyed having the earlier date on her profile. Much has changed since that, and I don't know if the system does that anymore. Sammy

Hello, may be you can help me to answer the following question. My neighbor put a fence and removed the pin. Now I can not find out if the fence installed correctly. What should I do? I called the city and ask if they are allowed to remove pins and they sad " Yes". How can I check if the fence is done right and where is my property line? I am not very good with survey. mocropot You can get a ball of string and mark it off in 1 foot or more marks until you get to the width of your lot. (You can also buy a 100 ft tape measure but that would be more expensive.) Then find the pin on the other side of your lot and attach your string to a stick in the ground at that point. Measure to the other side as straight as you can to the fence. That will give you a ballpark idea if the fence is in the right place. If you think the fence is on your property no worries. You can politely ask your neighbor if they had a survey done to locate the fence because you "think" it might be on your property. Why "no worries"? Because if the fence is on your property it belongs to you. However you shouldn't do anything drastic (like removing it) until you can actually prove where your property lines is. If it was installed by a professional fence company it is very likely in the right place. They wouldn't stay in business very long putting fences on the wrong property. We did the measuring thing with our first lot many years ago on a day when no neighbors were home. It was very interesting because our lot turned out to be bigger than we thought. We didn't put up a fence but did start planting trees on the property line to remind us where it was. So did one neighbor lol. Denise

I always remember Day light Savings starting the 1st weekend of April and ending the 1st weekend in October. The days would then get shorter or longer with the season. Now that it's been changed to start in March and end the last weekend in October it seems less natural and more abrupt. Then again there's only so much light to stretch in December so it will get dark early.Of course if you're up North, it's cold and you want to stay indoors already. I vote DLS year round in South Florida!!!!!