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gcrank1
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# Posted: 17 Jan 2024 20:57 - Edited by: gcrank1
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Seems my I-Pad battery wont take a charge in spite of trying reboots, diff cords and wall warts.
At 16% and fading fast.....
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909
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# Posted: 17 Jan 2024 22:32
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Clear the charging port of dust with a toothbrush.
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paulz
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# Posted: 18 Jan 2024 07:18
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Coincidently, I’ve had my wife’s IPad on a charger at the cabin all night, charging icon is on but percent has not increased. Using same cable as my iPhone connected to standard old usb port off 12v bank.
Read that IPads require their own stuff (and AC), which she has at city house. Going to have to figure something out.
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Nate R
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# Posted: 18 Jan 2024 09:21
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Yeah, for me, apple stuff...charging ports get iffy sometimes until I clean them with a brush and isopropyl.
-Nate
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Nobadays
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# Posted: 18 Jan 2024 09:30
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If the charging port is standard iPhone, you can use one of the plastic dental toothpicks to clean it out as well. Having my phone in my pocket I quite often get sawdust and or lint in there..... of course gcrank1 is probably out of juice!
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Whiskerbiscuit
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# Posted: 18 Jan 2024 13:32
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In the old days phones and what not often had a little plastic or rubber cover that went over the charging hole when not in use, but I guess that's not fashionable anymore. Pretty easy to get crumbs or sawdust in that port now now , especially if you're not in the habit of walking around with pristinely laundered pockets all the time.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 18 Jan 2024 19:40
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Good news, a savvy friend suggested cleaning the port too, no diff. He took it home and put it on his bigger power supply and it must have jump started the bms? whereas the little wallwart couldnt.
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909
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# Posted: 18 Jan 2024 22:16 - Edited by: 909
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I recently had a laptop stop charging.
All 3 shops quoted me $150 for a new port.
I found the part on Amazon for $9 so I ordered it and swapped it out myself. It took 5 mins to swap.
Notice the red wires, that lead to the amber, that leads into the yellow port covered in metal.
Anyways, $9 later, and a new port .... it still wouldn't charge. Turns out it was the power supply just like yours. After buying a new power supply everything is back to normal. And I have a spare port as a backup.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 18 Jan 2024 22:57
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Ive had tool batteries that needed a simple 'jump start' to reactivate too, just never considered it for this stuff.
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paulz
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# Posted: 19 Jan 2024 16:08
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Back at the city house today. Plugged Julie’s iPad in with the charger and cable it came with. From 50 to 100% in short order. I’ll bring that to the cabin next week. There I only have cables with Apple at one end and regular 12v usb at the other, which charges my Apple phone just fine.
If her IPad charges at the cabin off the 110ac inverter I guess I can do that… or put her back on paperback books, which is all she does with it anyway.
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paulz
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# Posted: 26 Jan 2024 08:41
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Quoting: paulz If her IPad charges at the cabin off the 110ac inverter I guess I can do that… or put her back on paperback books, which is all she does with it anyway.
Ipad charged right up off the inverter. I ordered a car usb-c charger, next step is try charging direct off cabin bank.
Usb was so simple before...
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 26 Jan 2024 10:30
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I recently heard that most all usb's are being sorta standardized with the usb-c type, but idk.
Ive had no trouble charging anything with usb off our psw 300w inverter in the cabin, and of course there is the car to and from, even while there. I think a lot of folks forget about the car. Too easy.
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paulz
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# Posted: 26 Jan 2024 11:12 - Edited by: paulz
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I read that too about the usbs, here I'm pretty sure from Steve, ICC, Trav.. Three charge cables types in the cabin now, one for old usb, one Apple and one C.
I was in my shop down below the cabin yesterday and ran across a psw inverter sitting there, I think it came with all those free solar panels I scored awhile ago. It's smaller than my cabin inverter at 1,000 watts (vs.2,500) but will it draw less juice? I will try it soon, on my list of roundtoits.. I tested the big one quickly yesterday, think it draws about an amp with nothing plugged in. For lighting I'm good with 12v and usb LEDs, bright enough, plus I wear one of those strap to the forehead lights half the time now anyway.
Use my truck usb all the time, keep my hearing aids plugged in there now because I kept leaving them at the house or cabin.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 26 Jan 2024 11:42
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Im figuring I will get the best efficiency (on the low draw devices/idle anyway) if my normal draw is about 2/3 of the inverter rating. For us that is mostly the 120vac led lighting (we usually only run 1 or 2 of the 5 bulbs) and in summer some fans, some usb and last year I did recharge my Masterforce 20v tool bat as an experiment (worked fine).
Near as I can tell the 300w unit only uses maybe 1/2 amp, so low that like with the led lights and usb ports I dont even keep track anymore.
This next season with the new cabin (just ordered the prebuilt milled log 12.5 x 28' cabin for spring delivery)
I plan on a 1000w psw cw an integral transfer switch so I can leave the gen and bat-bank/inverter hooked up and seamlessly go between them. We only use the gen for high draw stuff but this way I wont have to change plugs as I have been.
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ICC
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# Posted: 26 Jan 2024 12:12
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Quoting: paulz ...keep my hearing aids plugged in there now because I kept leaving them at the house or cabin.
I have had a travel bag for countless years. It goes where I go. Always, when I travel anywhere with the intent or possibility of being overnight.
And my truck always has a backpack with more goodies as well as water, raingear, change of clothes..... The pack gets moved into the Bearhawk when I fly. I got used to having an emergency kit a long time ago when camping, hiking, flying, etc.
Presently I carry a portable hearing aid charger (li-ion will fully recharge them three times.
A 10000 mAh li-ion powerbank and a couple cords for devices
Flashlight (li-ion with powerbank feature)
A weeks worth of the important anti-Afib drugs
Spare eyeglasses
Spare sunglasses
Dark chocolate bars
Protein bar
Other odds 'n' ends. Some get added or subtracted at times.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 26 Jan 2024 14:06
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Ive got an onboard defibrillator now since my heart shut off on 1-5-24, yet to experience it going off (I guess that would really be 'going on').....
Yeah, a 'go bag' is smart!
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ICC
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# Posted: 26 Jan 2024 17:00 - Edited by: ICC
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Quoting: gcrank1 onboard defibrillator
Onboard as inside yourself? Very hi-tech DIY.
USB-C port recharge?
(Just joking around... no harm meant)
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 26 Jan 2024 19:12
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No worries 
Just glad to have lived through it, doc said only about 1 in 10 survive what happened to me.
The defibrillator battery is right under my left collar bone, the unit a lump below it/upper chest under the skin.
My beach effect is gone.....
They say the bat is good for 10years, must be lithium.
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ICC
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# Posted: 26 Jan 2024 20:42 - Edited by: ICC
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Well,  here's to you making it to at least the first required battery change...
Do you start beeping when the battery runs low? 
-izzy
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 26 Jan 2024 20:49
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Ive yet to have it pop, guess its quite an eye opener!
Suppose the more it runs the faster the bat goes. They can do an 'error code' check externally too.
They also say don't 'work under a car hood' or use an arc welder.....
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ICC
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# Posted: 26 Jan 2024 21:02
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Quoting: gcrank1 ...don't 'work under a car hood' or use an arc welder.....
Maybe a Faraday cage for the welder or a Faraday suit for you would work?
Quoting: gcrank1 They can do an 'error code' check externally too.
There's an app for darn near everything...
Lifestyle changes can be difficult to deal with at times. All the best.
Take care, but enjoy doing stuff too.
-izzy
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 27 Jan 2024 09:37
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We just formalized the order yesterday for our semi custom 12.5x28 milled log cabin, they will start the build indoors early Feb.
Im not sure what my capabilities will be anymore after rehab but it is a relief that I won't have to build it!
There will still be deconstruct the old shack and prep the landing site for a spring delivery, I won't be bored!
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