That’s great!

If you want to live by the sword, you have to be prepared to die by the sword.

Going outside

Yeah, but they’d be YouTube influencers

God I hate these overwrought, click-baity titles; they cheapen the very event that’s important enough to become newsworthy in the first place. Just stop. It’s not a fucking sporting event and treating politics like it’s entertainment, instead of with the gravitas it deserves, is a big part of the reason we’re in this mess.

If you’re reporting the news then fucking report it. Don’t embellish it like it’s a fanfic you couldn’t get published. The Daily Beast is one of the worst offenders, all their titles sound trashy and it smacks of pandering to stupid people, just like Fox news does but for Democrats.

No, they get stronger as they modernize.

Just wait until they figure out how to get on the wifi.

Thank you for the kind words.

500 Michigans?? That’s quite a bit longer!

Personal issues got in the way.

Sorry for blowing up your thread but as for repairing it, might not hurt to draw up a schematic based on the board and try to ascertain exactly what the resistor is doing and why it is in the range it is in.

If it were me, I would separate out the pressure signaling system and see on which side the anomaly occurs. If you provide a solid signal and it still oscillates, the problem is probably in the main board. On the other hand, if a solid signal produces a one-off effect, the issue is in the pressure sensing module. Something is causing it to oscillate.

Personally? No. Mainly because while I have had to ID and work with resistors at work a few times, I am a hobbyist, and I haven’t worked on anything older than the 90s.

Again, from an amateur perspective, the color codes we’re familiar with wasn’t globally adopted until 1969. We don’t know where or when this resistor was made. It even looks different from the others. Considering that the reading is very close to one of the interpretations you have from the coding, I would guess it’s non standard but close and probably within the intended spec. It could very well be just the manufacturer’s coding, not our standard. Again, grain of salt, etc.

But check this out (third heading down):

Color Code Exceptions

The color coded resistors are inserted in circuit boards, and the PCB assembly manufacturing is finished by thru-hole pin soldering.

Reliability band: 

Resistors that are produced according to military specifications, sometimes include an extra band to indicate reliability. This is specified in failure rate (%) per 1000 hours of service. This is rarely used in commercial electronics. Most often the reliability band can be found on four band resistors. More information about the reliability can be found in the US military handbook MIL-HDBK-199.

Single black band or zero-ohm resistor:

A resistor with a single black band is called a zero-ohm resistor. Principally, it is used as a wire link that functions to connect traces on a printed circuit board (PCB). Using the resistor package allows the same automated pick-and-place machines to place the components on a circuit board.

5 band resistor with a 4th band of gold or silver: 

Five band resistors with a fourth band of gold or silver form an exception and are used on specialized and older resistors. The first two bands represent the significant digits, the 3rd is the multiplication factor, the 4th is the tolerance, and the 5th is the temperature coefficient (ppm/˚C).

Deviating colors: 

For high voltage resistors, the colors gold and silver are often replaced with yellow and gray. This is to prevent having metal particles in the coating.

Well sure. I started a mobile auto repair business. That’s a field that is rife with incompetents, junkies, and straight up scammers. It’s the Wild West as far as businesses go.

Unlike most of the mobile guys in town, I went all in on the professional front. Had a webpage, business cards, uniforms, took CC on the spot or online, emailed pdfs of estimates, diagnostics, and invoices, etc.

By the time I wrapped it up, I had a huge roster of clients. Years later I still get calls. I did it simply by being honest and trying to make sure my customers interests were also my interests.

I turned down work if it was outside of my abilities, I never upsold, if I broke something I paid for it out of pocket, and tried my very hardest to not recommend any repair without solid diagnostics first.

Had I wanted to keep going, I could have easily hired a crew and expanded. Once your name gets out, there’s more work than one person can shake a stick at. And expanding means transitioning from laborer to manager. Then it’s on to franchising.

When you get an LLC, the banks will throw money at you. Even without collateral. What ever you are being offered in personal loans now, times it by 10. Show a years worth of growth and reasonable fiscal management and they’ll give you a key to the vault. No joke.

So, yes, if you have a skill, you can do honest business and turn very little into a lot.

Fuck him up, Timothy. He deserves it

If I had to guess, 151 with silver being the tolerance range and blue the temperature coefficient.

You can put a potato into anything if you’re determined enough.

Blueberry

I’ll take 3 Oils of the Snake!!! Finally, someone who recognizes my insight and commitment to enriching myself without all that foolish hard work or technical expertise.

Right on

No. Don’t.

Lol, buncha normies up in this thread.

Being drunk can be, and often is, a lot of fun. There’s a reason why it’s probably one of the oldest and most frequently used mind alterants in history.

That said, getting drunk by itself is a pretty neutral, if not unpleasant, experience. What it does do is make everything else you’re doing more enjoyable. The music is hitting harder, the person you’re talking to is more attractive, YOU’RE more attractive, the joke you told is funnier, etc. It amplifies all the emotions, and since it also reduces anxiety, often the whole of those emotions experiences are positive.

Creativity flows, free assocation is strong, your mood is expansive and gregarious.

As for how much control you have, it’s like a sliding scale. At the light end, you’re still pretty much in complete control of your facilities, though you may do things because your mood is better. As one becomes drunker a multitude of things happen that undermine one’s self-control until there is very little or none left and people run on a kind of autopilot that is a combination of basic human instincts and the behavioral patterns developed over their lifetime.

There is a type of mental fog that gets stronger as the scale moves farther into drunkeness. This fog begins to inhibit higher order thinking until you can’t make any decisions besides satisfying the most immediate physical needs, or deep seated psychological drives.

Anyway, it’s a lot of fun until it isn’t.