Fulfilling a dream

[Rome]

I'd like to know what Asian glaze salmon is.
I frequently go China Town for sea food dish such as steam flounder glaze with soy sauce ginger and green onions. Add to that Chinese parsley.

 

[JedidiahStolzfus]

I'd like to know what Asian glaze salmon is.
I frequently go China Town for sea food dish such as steam flounder glaze with soy sauce ginger and green onions. Add to that Chinese parsley.

It's an asian flavor inspired glaze that I've been trying out different methods of making over the past year or so and friday nights was almost perfect. I think that all it needed was some orange zest.
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Just came in, I was going to do some welding today to make a spare tire mount and my welder won't feed. It had stopped the last time I was working with it, and figured it was just out of wire, so I quit and never looked. Nope, stupid chinese crap. The manufacturer put too large of a fuse on the control board allowing the bridge rectifier on board to draw too much current and it blew it's top off. It melted the fuse holder and cover and discolored a large resistor.

You can see a discolored corner of the bridge rectifier in the middle left of the board and it leads down to the lower left where the fuse block is. I'm betting that everything else on the board is ok, even the discolored resister. Found the part on Amazon, they'll be here on wednesday Just hate pulling parts held in with leadfree solder. I also found solder shorts at some spots which I removed, and may have contributed to the problem.

 

[PCeBiker]

I remember having a blown bridge rectifier on a power supply about 30 years ago.
It was a chore sourcing those kind of parts at the time so I made my own rectifier with four power diodes that I had on hand.

If you just replace the fuse with lower current value, you'll probably just keep blowing the fuse.
That whole board is over powered.
(Or the solder shorts were over amping it?)

I notice a trim pot on the board.
Maybe you can turn the power down with that?

You could probably turn it down by replacing one or more of the other diodes/resistors, but I forget how to do that especially without a schematic diagram.

 

[JedidiahStolzfus]

I remember having a blown bridge rectifier on a power supply about 30 years ago.
It was a chore sourcing those kind of parts at the time so I made my own rectifier with four power diodes that I had on hand.

If you just replace the fuse with lower current value, you'll probably just keep blowing the fuse.
That whole board is over powered.
(Or the solder shorts were over amping it?)

I notice a trim pot on the board.
Maybe you can turn the power down with that?

You could probably turn it down by replacing one or more of the other diodes/resistors, but I forget how to do that especially without a schematic diagram.

No trim pot on this board. This welder would act really funny sometimes feeding wire after the button was released. I'm wonder if that was the solder shorts I scraped off and those also caused the blown rectifier.

#1 and I just got done running lights around the menu boards. They turn on with the interior lights, figure if we need the interior lights, the menu boards need lit too. Pictures after it gets dark. We're experimenting out there for dinner tonight. Meatloaf sammiches on ciabatta rolls with a good cheese, tater skins on the side and some fried chicken since my wife doesn't like ground beef dinners. Wife and I cook in the trailer and the kids hang out at the tables we have setup near it. Its a really nice evening for it.

I also built a pair of screens over the serving window. We have to have it to pass inspection. The both slide open, but only one is needed to open to pass orders out.

 

[PCeBiker]

No trim pot on this board.

Trim potentiometer number 1

A trim pot is an adjustable resistor.

I have them to adjust the voltage for my power supplies.

 

[JedidiahStolzfus]

Top to bottom in your first picture is a diode, an electrolytic cap, and a transistor.

 

[PCeBiker]

Top to bottom in your first picture is a diode, an electrolytic cap, and a transistor.

Oops.
My bad.
I thought that was a screw head.

 

[JedidiahStolzfus]

Got the lights around the menu boards running. I had to pull one side down and put up a new strip.

We did dinner out there again tonight as a test. Our menu is mostly comfort, stick to your ribs, type foods. Tonight was Mashed tater bowls. A big glop of mashed tater, topped with shredded cheddar, bacon and gravy with some pieces of fried chicken. The chicken is sliced breasts, that spend 24 hours in seasoned buttermilk, the twice breaded, the last one is in panko. We made most stuff inside except the chicken it was fried out there, then brought everything out and loaded up the steam table. I then served in the types of containers we'd be using, through the new screen.

 

[Art Deco]

Sounds like a successful test. You are doing well so far.

 

[Viking1]

Making me hungry Brother!!

 

[Viking1]

It's an asian flavor inspired glaze that I've been trying out different methods of making over the past year or so and friday nights was almost perfect. I think that all it needed was some orange zest.
.
Just came in, I was going to do some welding today to make a spare tire mount and my welder won't feed. It had stopped the last time I was working with it, and figured it was just out of wire, so I quit and never looked. Nope, stupid chinese crap. The manufacturer put too large of a fuse on the control board allowing the bridge rectifier on board to draw too much current and it blew it's top off. It melted the fuse holder and cover and discolored a large resistor.

You can see a discolored corner of the bridge rectifier in the middle left of the board and it leads down to the lower left where the fuse block is. I'm betting that everything else on the board is ok, even the discolored resister. Found the part on Amazon, they'll be here on wednesday Just hate pulling parts held in with leadfree solder. I also found solder shorts at some spots which I removed, and may have contributed to the problem.

I would retouch all of the solder joints with actual 60/40 Rosen core solder to make it more reliable. Lead free solder “doesn’t”.

 

[JedidiahStolzfus]

I would retouch all of the solder joints with actual 60/40 Rosen core solder to make it more reliable. Lead free solder “doesn’t”.

I will. Still waiting for the part to show up from Amazon.

 

[JedidiahStolzfus]

Testing again tonight.

Turkey roasts that were roasted on top of mire poix, mashed taters, gravy and green beans. This is what we want to do with the custom roasts the local turkey farm is making for us. I'm picking them up on the 17th. I want to make a meal and take it to his farm and feed the entire family.

 

[Art Deco]

Testing again tonight.

Turkey roasts that were roasted on top of mire poix, mashed taters, gravy and green beans. This is what we want to do with the custom roasts the local turkey farm is making for us. I'm picking them up on the 17th. I want to make a meal and take it to his farm and feed the entire family.

Familiar with the Cajun trio, but had to Google "mire poix", which uses carrots instead of bell peppers (with the onion and celery) if I understand correctly. Anyway sounds good.

 

[JedidiahStolzfus]

I had a stroke...






...of brilliance today. I've been trying to figure out how to get a camera on the back of the trailer to work so I can see it in the cab of the truck. They make wireless back up cameras, but none of them have the range needed specially when they're being blocked by a big metal box. I have an IP camera surveillance system with an AP inside the trailer that will automatically link up with my wireless network at home so I can access things there. Today I got to thinking about if there was a way to use an ESP32 to take a video stream from an IP camera and convert it to an composite output so I could connect it to the stereo in the truck.

After running errands today I started researching it. No method of using an ESP32, ESP8266 or Arduino, but there is a method using a Raspberry Pi. I grabbed an RPi2 I had laying around and loaded an SD card. Installed VLC and connected it to a small display that has a composite input. Gave it the command line to CLVC to connect to the RTSP stream of the camera in the rear, and now I have a wifi enabled trailer backup camera. Just need to wire it into the truck. When I back up, I can switch the camera view to the other output other than the rear camera that's on the back of the truck.

 

[JedidiahStolzfus]

Spare tire mount is done. Just needs a rattle can coat. #1 helped me out. Built out of some scrap left over from the merging of the trailers, some allthread and a couple short pieces of 1/2" black iron pipe. The fixed welder did a great job.

It's easy to mount and remove, and hold snug. I'll have to take it out for a drive. I don't think it's going anywhere.

 

[Viking1]

Looking great!! You are doing a great job on this passion!!

 

[JedidiahStolzfus]

Looking great!! You are doing a great job on this passion!!

Thanks, it's getting there. Getting through all the paperwork is tough because there's so much other stuff we have to gather to send in.

A few wees ago, my wife and I stopped in at a large turkey farm and talked to the owner. Talked to him about making us some turkey roasts for us to use in the truck. He called the other week to talk about prices and that he'd have to test making them since he doesn't normally do that. We settled on a price and he's made us 5 3lb roasts that we're picking up on saturday. Sadly the plan for them fell through (thanks Covid), but instead we offered to make him and his family dinner out of them so he gets an idea how we're going to serving his product. He loved the idea so we're going to do that after Thanksgiving. Very nice man, we'll be happy to add him to our collection of friends we have helping us with this.

Dinner for him will be turkey roasts, light and dark meat, gravy, mashed taters, some vegetable, probably fresh green beans, and some pan roasts "filling". Possibly cheesecake for desert. This gives us practice serving when it's not stressful.

 

[JedidiahStolzfus]

I really like turkey roasts,job well done

I like to think of my gravy as La Roux Morgue.

 

[JedidiahStolzfus]

does that mean red death? I USED TO GET M

Ever read Poe? La Rue Morge, Street of Death. Roux is the basis of gravy and sounds just like Rue, french for street. Or Gravy of Death, just for the joke.