This video is brought to you in part by TrueTech Tools quality tools essential support Nobody talks to nobody most of the time Probably if it's never explained to the next person what's been going on then we got a case. It's leaking water And the stores too cold, so we're gonna just that yet All right guys, so we've got us a little cooler here that's got two condensers and Two evaporators got one down here Got a pan here You got a pan here on the other side What's going on is it's not regulating temperature very well? And we're trying to figure out is it a refrigeration issue See that one unit there. It's not running which I hit the high pressure switch to see if it shut it off My satisfied so Right now we're checking out thermostats if it's just a thermostat issue or what so we've got an evaporator fan there That's working just fine. We're gonna check this one here. Make sure it's working and a dig All this stuff out Get in there and get into it Want to make sure the obvious stuff's taken care of first And is running Which is always a good thing Both condensers feel warm like they're working the way they should I believe it's just a thermostat issue but wasn't sure if it was a Traditional thermostat that they used to regulate the temp Or if they were using a pressure control And they are using a temperature control Which is good Then we got a deep lost clock off so because of that So this is like I said not on a rack or anything Let's get in here and see if we can find out where this thermostat bulb is at There's TXV so the thermostat Is in the discharge line, which is fine if you compensate for it but unfortunately They've got it set for 40 degrees here That's not going to cut it Um I doubt it's just been dinked with I'd rather see it in the return path So we're going to move that but I think what we're going to do is go ahead and replace it either way because It should always be the same problem. It should never hit temperature and So you've got thermostats control in the contactor Which then controls the other stuff That looks like an awful lightweight wire there That's Kind of scary There's no way that's feeding all that stuff. So you've got power coming in here Interesting. Let's see what the ampereal is on that 8.5 8.9 you got up here on this 8.3 So surprisingly That seems a little Little off Got 11 there. So they're not completely 8.7 there Yeah, that's some haphazard looking wiring. I'll tell you that this All it's kind of scary the way they did it Amps there And it looped it from here to there and do the same thing on the black Not sure how they're breaking that don't make sense. Yeah, I just don't like that at all All right, so we killed the power Power comes in at the top or 208. I've gotten like a turn and a half or more out of this breaker And I did out of this side here too Go ahead and finish tighten up some of this stuff here. So we're going to do is we're going to go and change the thermostat We're going to set it for about 10 degrees area below what they wanted that. So if they're wanting to say 35 We'll set it for 25. They're wanting 37. We'll set it for 27 That way we don't freeze the product Had a double check on that. I knew we'd do that on our On the rack stuff, but I wasn't sure we was doing that on this little stuff But we are so we're going to go ahead and do that real quick we'll just Make that bolt out of there and get her in place I have a feeling what this happened because 40 degrees is really a high number I think they've been trying to adjust it and it's just probably not been getting the work done and they've just Set a higher and higher and now it's causing issues and nobody talks to nobody most of the time so Probably it was never explained to the next person what's been going on And then we got a case that's leaking water And the store's too cold. So we're gonna adjust that yet So I'll just swap this thing out piece for piece and run the wire up and across and over to the top Which it goes right up through the hole and Should be good to get. Can't get the other one out Pull this one in I'll just stick it in there What do you think? Got to get up and out a little bit further to be a little better There's not a real great way to Get up in there probably tears the evaporator coil So if you think about it Your temperature is always 10 or 15 degrees, but on how it's built You should have The temperature coming in to the coil would have to be lower as well But if this is laying up against one of these that would really throw it off So, yeah Maybe great if it get a little further up in there That would work probably a little bit better But That's where it's gonna go I'll see if I can get a little higher, but I don't think I can All right, so he's able to pull this back Get that wire or the uh Up into There that way it's not right beside the coil And uh, that should help get a more even temperature The brown stuff you're seeing sesame seeds Some of its breads and then it's not mouse Droppings or anything like that It's just uh, like I said from the bread Hopefully it'll work a little bit better I'll get this back in there seal this back up Some old silicone This keeps that air as it gets shoved up through there Falls out gets pulled back to here. We've got her mounted up Which I see I made a mistake here. Let me fix that real quick All right, so let's get this set up about right, which I think we are 10 15-ish There you go And flip this on and let's Turn that up so that don't click. Let's see or Seems like it's clicking on and off about 55 It's fighting off too much Okay, turn it down Turn it on did chop that wire off and restrict it underneath there set this thing for 20 Seven area great about the middle ish Let it run. I'm gonna go here and work on this other Project tightened all these connections up in here Check the contact here took the cover off. We ain't gonna have any bugs in here. It's gonna get in it So you can see there's a little part there about temperature change it But let's go ahead and run it and see if we have any issues see if it shuts off the right temperature Could always switch it to the other unused contact point there that they didn't use Make use of that. I think I'll do that when I come back over here All right, so we got the new condensate pan heater in there Put the meter on it Put it on max hold and it pulls seven amps. So that's working Let's go ahead and look this thing run. We'll get it back together and then Come back and check and I forget some of this other stuff done What we've got now is this one side gets about five degrees colder than the other check refrigerant pressures, which Hard as heck to get into that that we got into it with the probe instead of the gauges these hoses I've had nothing to problems with and so For adjusting the txv we were almost 16 degrees super heat on it So we're gonna try to get that down maybe around nine eight area And uh starting to let more refrigerant through on this coil now Super heat still only at 14 on this thing. It's very very slow But my hope is once we get this thing balanced out and putting out the cooling that it should It should be at about the same speed as the other Between that the thermostat and getting it a little bit better in the path there Should do a little bit better job All right, so we had to clear off this bottom shelf Which they'd love to put all these little things in there to make it more decorative So you gotta move all that out Get down here in the strain pan. You can see we got a little bit filled up there in the drain along with the pan also If you look at your air band It's just a little dirty so If your air Can't get pulled back into the fan down here. We'll be pulled in and push back up through the back of it And it comes back down. So we've got to run the sweeper on that because Kind of packed full of cred. There's a pump in here somewhere. And usually It's right there in that little spot right here. So See if we can dig into that.  It's not gonna pump it up to the top So it pumps the water up to the top into a little heater pan up here Which Is right here And it just boils it away. There's this big old 1500 watt elements Everything's just a little bit tired Just a little bit All right, you got the old shop back at the old filter pulled out As you can see there's not really that much water in that pump So it appears most of it's right there. So I'm gonna Put the vacuum cleaner on that drain hole right there. That's all nasty and funky junkied See if we can pull that right through See what we get here Oh forgot to put a battery in it That was great. Wait the rest of that crud out of there here in a second Tough right, dude. Kick on here in a second. Let's make sure it pumps up to the top. We don't leak out of the top Yep, it pumped it up here, which is probably more than what it can handle, which is awesome Wonderful that's gonna be overfill here in a second Okay, so he's able to pull some of that out made a little bit of a mess Should have known that was gonna happen We'll check that cycle ass back here. See how that's doing. I'm sure it's probably flashing See if this water's getting warm Heat our element don't feel yeah, it's hot. Okay So we know that's working. That's good. I think this is how I'm dump the water out Can you believe I actually wanted to do this? All right, so we get this last bit of gunk out of here Let's see if the rest of this crud out go on to the heating issue they got All right, so we got that all cleaned up Everything back together We swept up the floor All I got to do is put those rags away and we should be good to go on this part Maybe we can get their heat adjusted I'm not sure it's not on the controller. I don't believe so probably up on the brook and a thermostat on a The duck somewhere is what I'm guessing All right, so we've got stat here With a remote sensor That's a duck heater And then The rest of them are all on the roof with the duck with the stats in the duck work So this one here is on cool still which we're just coming out of it. So it's running I've seen any flutters of flames. Look it over real good. Make sure it's safe and you'll get the other ones All right, so we got that one Okay So now all we got to do is get those two That one there Those then there a few of the others All right, so you can hear the belts loose Got it set on heat. It's nicely attached there That's the old control system. It don't work anymore It was elaborate at one time so Six more to go I think A little bit loose you can hear the squeaky squeak going on and I think it's not straight probably Yeah, well tighten her up just don't feel too bad there didn't get crazy and overtaken it See if we get a squawk. Let's go That's to do and I thought you'd like a monkey. Why is the fan not coming on immediately? Fan shouldn't have ran nonstop Now check the fan make sure it's on fan all the time. You can't remember I think I think carrier does shut off the fan when it goes into Heat mode we don't really do much of any Preventative maintenance, so they just call when things break. Come on. Let's go. Come on. Come on That's a little less squeaky all right This one was loose as a goose Swapped out one used belt for another used belt So that'll be better I did a video on this one once before So you can see the suction line there Little ice on it wait till you see the evaporator. She's a leaker. I've completely gone through this and cleaned it you can see Through they're pretty good. So we're gonna have to melt this baby down. Check this out So you take a look at it. She's a little rough I was good and just turn that off Look at this baby I can't even get my phone back behind here So we've got a a little birthing Pain here Say the least so, yeah Just a couple problems. It just happened. It was it was fine yesterday Okay No Yeah, we're gonna It's gonna take a little while I don't know if our I think we're low on charge is our biggest issue clocking here at running It's set for a 60 minute defrost. There's no reason why three of them for an hour would not keep that thing clean So i'm gonna try to knock off what I can knock off and then uh melt the rest About the only thing you can do This ought to make a difference It'll make it a little easier So if we can just Oh good grief Come at it from here And make it pop off the back or not Like that And then we'll work the backside a little more gently He scores Doing a row So, yeah Normally I would not probably do this if it was a new one But sometimes you gotta do what you didn't gotta do And he's worried about A few of his things getting spoiled so We'll get her get her He's got that little piece there left to go And then we'll Try to do the rest with water. You don't want to get rough like that on the coils Yeah, she's looking rough Yeah I'd say that's a little plugged up Just a little That may not have helped it a lot Could just been storing the water in the bottom of the pan, but I will know here once we get her clean Well, we're making progress Got the backside completely Yeah, never mind that Got it cleaned up. It was pretty bad on the back Got a lot of gunk out as you can see Yeah, he said go ahead and get the floor wet. They'll clean it up. So sounds good to me Got the fan bleeds out and gotta finish getting that rest that gunk out I think I switched that to 134a a while back. It was a year ago. Maybe I forget It's got a leak As you can tell it's Just um, it's not getting replaced. So we're going to go ahead and get that melted out of there Got the handy dandy Sprayer here. Thank goodness for that because I mean it really Helps give you a control got them washed off along with this here. They had nasty stuff all over it Reinstalled that out and got it all cleaned up looks a lot better than what it did I only have so much polish to go around Uh, I gotta blow these motors out with my blower yet. They got water all in them, but As long as you ain't using chemicals, I haven't had too many motors go out from just water Usually it's dry them off. You're good to go Not idea, but you know, there's not a whole lot you can do and it's impacted into the ice Did check make sure the thermostat that looks like it's about ready to go On a vacation uh, that it's uh Set on 35 area. See if we can get this turned on without getting shocked There we go That's always a good sign There's sparks So Let's go outside and See if we can reduce this. I'm assuming that's what's probably what's wrong clock does seem to be working. I did push it in Past the next defrost, which is just about ready to happen. So let's go outside All right, so we've got our drain hooked back up suction on I'm not gonna full with the High side just yet Think we'll be fine About guarantee what we're gonna find out is it's just Really really super low fans not running We'll scan it for leaks when we get done At this point, it's uh gotta run Definitely looking empty there Yeah, they've got problems. They know they've got problems. Just unfortunately it's not been handled So go ahead and juice the juicy juice the goose. So we've scanned Everything up here. Nothing in any of the controls. It's so windy out here.  You can see The water driplet coming across I mean, it's it's it's just there's no way you're gonna pick anything up out here I got nothing on the inside So once again, it went low like it did a year ago or so about a pound and a half to almost two so it's uh It's beyond needing replaced But at this point I can't find it. It's way Way too windy out here Uh, it's got a lot of flare fittings on it. It could very easily be on one of those It could be on one of the controls, but I'm not picking anything up. So it's back up and running I'm gonna head on to the next one


And welcome to Lady Aida, happy new year 2023 doing a show first day of the year. That's right. We do a show on Sundays and we did a show last Sunday. Don't matter what Sunday it is, we always do these. We're here again. Happy new year. It's me, Lady Aida, with me, Mr. Lady Aida on camera control, behind the scenes. We got a couple new designs that I've been working on so I thought I would show them off. So let's kick it first off with this new ESP feather which you did a little video with. So we've had the ESP32 S2 and S3 feathers that have the TFT on the opposite side with a module on the bottom. So you put them to a breadboard and the TFT is on top and the module is on the bottom. And I really like those designs and those are all good and everything. But one of the things that I thought would be neat would be to have a reverse mounted feather. So you could still use feather wings on the back by soldering them with like a socket header up and then male header down like that. But then you have more space on the top here so you can have like GPIO buttons and like this is a reset button. So you can have like a little panel mount or like control situation and you know it's nice it flat easier to mount. So this is the 1.14 inch 240 by 135 color TFT and you can see I've got some demo code here and when I press the buttons you know it displays them and there's also a battery monitor. I don't have a battery plugged in for the battery monitor. I have been using the LC 709203 but since the chip shortage occurred you know that part is end of line. The replacement is like a 0.4 millimeter BGA and so I'm not too excited about it. So I replaced it with you know so it was like very on the S3 especially the iSquad C was very finicky with that part. Like it works in Arduino but not in circuit Python and it was like you have to wake it up and then it's like clock stretchy and whatever. It's a good chip the LC 709 but like I said discontinued anyways. So I'm replacing it with the Mac 17 048 which is another you know under $1 iSquad C battery monitor that doesn't use a current sensor resistor. Remember we showed that off on the great search like a couple months ago because I had to find a replacement for the LC 709. This one's good and also with this now that I have it in a kit I was able to do the low power measurement. And the low power measurement is great. One side effect of the chip shortage is I've moved from using the AP2112's which were my favorite LDO's 3.3 volt 500 600 milliamp LDO's. And I've moved using the RT9080. The RT9080 used to be more expensive than the AP2112 that RT9080 is now cheaper and was easier to get. And so I moved to that and what's nice is the quiescent current is a lot lower. So you know ESP32 S2 design like a feather used to do like 70 microamps quiescent and now it's as low as 20 25 milliamps microamps quiescent. So you know much better low power use and the battery monitor is also you know nice and low low battery use as well. And as an option you know on this version I have a BME 280 soldered on because of the self heating. Of course you want to like you know only use that if you're going to low power mode. So I'm leaving the footprint there but I'm not I'm not going to populate it for the product to start. And then if we do populate it I have to document like here's how to take measurements from the BME 280 before you turn on the backlight before you turn on the Wi-Fi so you can get a nice you know cold ambient temperature reading. Otherwise it the humidity will be too low because it's got heated up and the temperature will be too high. So this is a design. So it's actually out for the PCVs are out for manufacture get the PCVs in and we'll get this in the store in the next couple of weeks. So it's exciting and then we'll do an ESP32 S3 version as well. I like both the S2 and the S3. You know the S2 has a little bit more stable and I believe the S2 has DAX and the S3 does not but it has dual core and Bluetooth. So you know there's there's reasons for both. So I'll just keep making both because that mini module is the same footprint.  And then like I mentioned three IO buttons that you can use for interfacing. So you know even like small projects plug-in a Stema QT sensor maybe a Laura feather wing and now you've got your own you know all in one package without having to use a breadboard. So that's a one new design that's kicking off the new year. Any questions about that or? If you're taking the what's the lowest current draw you can get Circuit Python done to I realize it won't be very low but I'm curious. Well you know we do have deep sleep support in Circuit Python. So on the ESP32 S2 you will get down to that 20 microamps.  It's like four milliamps like two to four milliamps something like that. Okay cool. Okay great. All right what's next? Okay next up ding ding time for Cowbell. We have to get the Cowbell back here. Yeah I'll get the library of sounds and video. Yeah we'll get that later. You were up late last night. Yeah it's well yeah it's new year. We were having fun with friends. So before I went on leave we did get one Cowbell done which is cool. I just like things got just so busy for me but we didn't get this Proto Cowbell. I always like to start with the prototyping feather wing or shield or bonnet or hat or whatever. So this was just make it really easy people to prototype. You see the nice silk screen using Penguin. The STEMI QT port on one side and the nice right angle reset button and then here I have it soldered with stacking headers and then you know you can plug in either your PyCow or PyCow W on there you can reset and you can connect sensors so very handy very low cost and then we got all the headers in the shop too so people can like if you want the headers on top or the bottom whatever mix match. So the next one I always like to you know what I was talking to Phil one of the you know big successes of feather back in like 2017 or whatever when we were doing a lot of feathers or 2015 is I would do a feather a week like every week at a feather or feather wing and for for a year I had like 50 designs one a week starting with you know the basic feathers that I launched with and then I just added more and more and that kind of like kick started the platform and so with the Cowbells you know the the PyCow has been around for the sorry the Pico has been around for a while a couple years and the Pico W the PyCow has been around for like about a year and so you know the pinout format is pretty well established so this design is a longer feather you know basically a longer feather wing but made as a Cowbell so you've got a micro SD slot here so this is you know you can if folks remember I did a great search on this micro SD slot so the standard micro SD slot that I tend to use is actually too wide to fit between the header so I took find a new micro SD and this one from Molex is quite nice it's pull pull so you don't push to release you pull but it's a very high quality you know it's a Molex part you can see the part number on there it's like 23220823d it's nice and slim it's you know if it's very nicely between and then we even have a little bit of space for part marking and then for the real-time clock I've got PCF 8523 which is low cost I like that it has battery backup but you could also you know you can generally power to the main power supply 3 to 5 volts which again is really nice and then battery backup if you want so this coin cell battery holder also nicely fits right between the headers you can see it's like perfect fit and then a couple passes a 7qt port because I feel like we're going to data log we're going to public data log sensors so this is very handy and then a reset button even though this will probably be underneath your pico pie cow still by be handy to have a reset button eventually I'll make like a pico doubler you know I mean where you can have all the cowbells next to each other so probably have like you know Laura cowbell and you know RGB matrix cowbell and Scorpio cowbell whatever so people can like stack them one you know four in a row and you can make you know fairly advanced projects so this is the next one so I just got these prototypes I have to test them but I'm pretty confident because I've used the PCF 8523 and SD cards so much so unless I did a pinout mistake these are good to go folks had a question yeah more of a request doubler a triplet cowbell yeah that's like I said I'm probably gonna do that once I have a couple I want to get a couple cowbells going though I'll be able to test it I'll use a surface mount 2x20 header so you can just plug them in it's interesting because you know I looked at the Raspberry Pi pico accessories and somewhere like this like the slim style you know feather shield it goes underneath or goes over but there's also a lot that the the pico plugs into the back like a display and so it's like it's like there's two ways of doing it but for now I'm starting with these slim style you know cowbells okay okay next up we'll be making pico versions of many all feather wings some I don't know if many again I don't know if I'm gonna be making 50 but I'll be making a bunch I mean if people request pop them in the chat or tweet them at us or toot them on the mastodons and yeah look at our new product show we talked about one mastodon and all that stuff so you can tag us there we're also everywhere we're gonna be everywhere until the end all right okay what else so that leads us into the great search search time the great search brought you by digikey native you thank you so much digikey every single week lady did user powered of engineering to help you find you yes you things on digikey.com that are probably hard to find or maybe need help getting that part or who knows because it's been an adventure in the world of chip shortages of finding what is this week's great search okay let's go to the overhead real fast I've realized one of the things that you know I've been doing is I'm experimenting with slight component changes like I've gotten so used to some of our parts that I thought for the new year I kind of explore variations so for example almost all of our boards have these little tactile buttons these you know I call them mini-tactiles they're like three by six two by five millimeter-ish tactile buttons and I use them all the time for reset buttons or mode selects you know I've got them here on this kb2040 for the boot and reset button and these are good but I was thinking you know these have like little little mini actuators and I noticed that I saw some folks with boards that have these larger actuators like Pimerone uses some of them I've seen one with some other German boards I've seen masted on toots about and so I thought I'd got some of these and use them and I rather like them like it's a bit bigger of an actuator but it's still very clicky and I think it's you know it's maybe a little bit easier to press because it's a little bit more surface area a little more tactile so I thought I would show this part because I didn't realize that this was available on ditch keys actually available at a very good price so let's go to the website and find them to first of all I don't want to mention that SD card that I showed for this board the little micro SD the skinny one if you're like ooh I really like that skinny micro SD card we covered this in an earlier great search so go check that out and then if you want to ate a longer but feathering format check that out too and you can see actually interestingly enough this has a kind of a wider oval actuator this is the original KMR2 button that we use so that button footprint is the same but the actuator size has varied over time so let's um let's go to digiki so we call these well so originally if you look at all my schematics I call these KMR2s because that's the original even if I don't necessarily use that exact part number anymore and that's not what we are going to find here but I did want to show it so this is the KMR2 you know you can see that kind of oval actuator and then the size is about five by three millimeters again the size of my very so I'm not gonna check that box because I want to find similar switches so let's find active SPST the switch function off mom means it's off normally and then momentarily when you press it it turns on so that's what I want the contact rating is not important to me because I don't use these as power switches I use them only for signaling so it's like they're passing you know micro amps at three volts so I don't care about that their surface mount their top actuated the actuator height I don't want to select because I you know that might vary the termination style might vary the outline might vary non-aluminated operating force may vary and then switch travel and mechanical life may vary so let's see what what pops up here this should give me quite a few options so looking down you see kind of the standard these are the six by six millimeter tactiles these are very very popular right they're very expensive this kind has a little nub long actuators extra long you can see this is similar to what we're looking for but let's let's pair it down so the most important thing is the sizing so remember that size was kind of like four and a half to point eight is basically five by three the only thing is is that it's like you know it may vary so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to select a range of parts I'm gonna do four point six by two point eight and then let's see six by three point two and let me see I don't want to go bigger than six there's a couple of sizes here that might be close enough let's see four point two by two point eight four point two by three point two they're definitely not square you know they're rectangular but the size might vary a little bit I think these are some good options though okay well let's see what what pops up here okay cool so you can see this is kind of what I'm looking at so these you can see some of these have round actuators and some have like really big pillowy ones so for me what's important is pricing so let's look at pricing for 5,000 because I'm going to be buying a lot of these and then of course if the operating force is important to you you can select it to me because it's rarely used it's just a tactile switch it's not that important so you'll see some bigger switches got put in here because of the sizing so this is six by three point three and then these are some other six by three so let's remove those let's go only the four point sevens okay cool and here we are so we've got a couple options you've got ones with the black actuator white this one looks like it's a little bit taller I ended up going with the arcade but I do want to show that there's a lot of different options like if you want if you do want the little tiny button those are available and if you like you know white actuator that's cool but what I really liked was these arcades because first off they're you know fairly inexpensive all these these pts ones are also very inexpensive about ten cents eleven cents but you can get them either 250 gram force actuations a little bit tougher or 160 gram force and you know both are the same package 4.2 by 3.2 and even though these these might see if the other one has a little bit better now even though this one it doesn't even image at the bottom but I do have the data sheet up here so the footprint even though that the size you know might vary by point one millimeter here and there the footprint actually worked exactly the same like I use my standard KMR 2 footprint and I use this part and you know the overhead real fast you can see it fits very nicely it picks in place very nicely it has four solder points and I rather like this button so you know and this is a 250 gram force it's particularly clicky but I kind of like that I like the force feedback of a high tactile high clickiness button so I'm gonna probably be moving you know a lot of my boards especially new ones over from these smaller tactile to these nice larger ones these buttons are a little bit less expensive and I like the nice oval actuator as well so congratulations the RKB you have one over the KMR 2 to win for the button of the week and that's a great search and that's weeks that's this week's desk of lady about add a couple questions yes so let's do these what type of glue is safe for TFT displays for glue I mean you can use you know six what e6000 but I use tape okay VHV tape accept some shout out for did you key search yay can you get other colors or just black and white I need I like the bigger actuator I do yeah I looked in case of other colors I only saw black and white you know those are two well this is when there's a blue you want to go to my computer real fast this one looks like it's available like a bluish color unless it's a it's like the unless the photo is just a little confusing I don't know that you can search by color you can't let me see if the data sheet yeah looks like you can get like a blue color so these are your color options okay next up and someone has some advice as well what related recommendations for an advanced circuit Python editor with linter and formatter support autocomplete etc I find million thawney to basic and the plug-in for VS code is too reliable for me someone mentioned pie charm but what do you suggest yeah I use Adam but I also don't use a lot of the like I don't use the autocomplete stuff I don't unfortunately just continued but if you use Adam and the pie com serial plug in I rather like it because it has a serial monitor at the bottom and auto reconnects so I tend to use Adam but again it got discontinued yeah okay and let me just check the other chat I believe that is it we're back so you'll see our shows throughout the week on Wednesday show and tell and ask an engineer should be a pretty straightforward week tomorrow's a holiday for a team they were not shipping yeah but we're we're back and we have a bunch of exciting things ahead we'll be switching things up on where we do some of our shows and more but more content y'all have probably been watching the blog and more we have a ton of new designs we've been filming every day going on we saw this cowbell and then yeah if you guys have other suggestions for Pico or pie cowbells that you want just toss them in the chat tag Mr. Lady Ada or tag us on the mastodon were I think Mr. Lady Ada probably put it in the discord chat too so you can yeah we're at a fruit well I know there's like a fruit at something something I could just search right a fruit on any instance that's fine yeah okay all right and that's a show thank you so much everybody we very much appreciate it see you 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What's up guys like the go-to here today? We're gonna go over the problem for Rita princess for Rita And once upon a time there is a cute princess called for Rita living in a castle with her father On the way to the castle there are many monsters each of them have a gold coin Although there are monsters they will not hurt and said they will give you gold coins If and only if you didn't take any coins from the monsters directly before the current one So to marry princess for Rita you have to pass all the monsters and collect as many gold coins as possible Given the number of gold coins each monster has calculated the maximum number of coins you can collect on your way to the castle Okay So how do you do this problem? Okay, so let's look at the first test case. We have one two three four five and the answer is nine so That's I basically just labeled one two three four five here and our output should be nine, okay So how do we get nine? Okay? Well, we have to think Good thing about this problem is that if you think hard enough you'll be able to get it Okay, so let's actually start with the first monster. So the first monster is one and What is a monster of one? Well What if you're at the first monster, right? There's no monster before it, right? So if remember if you if you look at the problem statement, right? You can only pick the monsters if you didn't take any coins from the monster before it, right? So I only could pick the coins of the current monster if I didn't take any coins before it So in this case if I'm at one, there's no no, there's no monster before it, right? So I didn't take any coins before it so I could literally just pick one, right? Like I just pick one. So if I kill this monster, I could take his coin. So I'll just take one Okay, so let's say let's look at the number of coins we have so let's say this is our coins Now we just pick one. Okay Now let's look at the second monster well, if I pick If I'm at the second monster, right? I Only could pick this second monster If I didn't pick any monster before it, but I already did pick the monster one So I can't actually pick two. You cannot you cannot pick two. Okay, so In there's only two stages. You could do this, right? If I started picking at one Right Then I would have only picked one and I can't pick two Correct. I can't pick the second one, right? Because in order to pick two Right the second monster. I couldn't take any coins for the first monster Correct. So that's why you cannot pick any coins for the first monster. So the answer is only one but now at two Because I couldn't pick any coins with a fur from the one before it. I can't pick two, right? So I'm gonna have to skip this All right Now at three Did I pick any monster before it? No, I didn't pick any monster before it Right. I didn't pick any monster. I didn't pick two So then at this point I could actually add three. So I'm gonna add three to this Okay Now at four did I pick any monster before this? No, I Didn't pick any monster before this. Oh, no, I actually at four at four I picked the monster three so I can't pick four. So at four I cannot pick this. So this is bad Now at five did I pick any monster before this? Yes, I picked I didn't pick four I didn't pick four so I could pick the current monster five So I'm gonna add five and I'll get you nine. Okay, so that's basically answer how you get this Now here's the issue. So what if the monster you picked? So this is a this is what would happen if I started at one, right? But remember you could actually start from two So like remember if I started at Remember we chose here the answer to be nine because we started these the value at one, right? We couldn't pick the value before it. That's the reason why right? So you started at one, right? There's nothing before it. So we just started at one But technically you could just pick starting from two and the reason why is that in now instead of starting at one I'm not gonna pick the values at one. So I could just start from two. So and in this case my coins would be Two right and then then I go to the next one. Okay. Well, did I pick the coin before this I? Did I did so that's why I can't go to three. So for three. I'm gonna skip. So right here I'm gonna skip so I'm not gonna do three and at four. Did I pick the ones before it? No, so I could pick the coins at four. So I pick four and then five. Did I pick coins before it? Yes, so I can't pick five. So this would be six. So if we look at These values, right? We only could pick Choices the coins if you didn't pick the coins prior to it. Correct. So if you would think about this using Using your solutions, right, you should You might be thinking, okay, maybe what if I just skip every two like every single two values I skip and I just pick the values for that now. You could do that But you don't know which one is the best version of which or not, right? I can't just go one two three four one three five seven nine because sometimes that might not be the best possible outcome So what do we do? We store each pot best possible outcome? In an array called DP. So in this array DP the ith value is going to represent the most optimal coins taking so far and the The yeah, the ith I'd represent so far the most optimal coins you picked so far and I minus one is going to represent the optimal Coins you picked prior to it. So I'm gonna show you what I mean by that. So Here's what we're gonna do for each value here. We're gonna store Store it into an array called DP. So this is gonna be the optimal solution. Okay, so first of all Let me just quickly look at the code real quick because uh, Actually, don't okay. Yeah, I remember this. Okay, so In the first two one or two The DP is just gonna equal to one and two. Okay So the reason why it's equal to one and two is because those are the first two choices You could pick right if I pick one and I can't pick two Right and if I pick two and I can't pick Pick one right so at the second choice, it's just gonna be whatever this maximum You could pick from one or two and at the first choice. It's just gonna be just the first choice, right? okay Now from three now, I'm gonna loop is I'm gonna loop through from the second choice to the end of the array Basically, I'm gonna loop through from the second choice to the end of the array and what am I gonna do? Well From the second choice to the end of the array, I'm gonna store the most optimal solution at the current value So in this case, what is the most optimal solution? Well, if I pick three, right? I pick three. I only can add this three to the answer that is Most optimal solution if I pick three because if I pick three I only could pick three if I didn't choose a Choose the monster coins before it right if I didn't choose the monsters coins before it Right, so what is the most optimal solution starting for it from three if I didn't pick the choice coins before it? Well, it's the Value that I chose to to two choices ago, right if you think about it Right, like if if I had added something prior to here like if I added a To here right to here then um, I can't I couldn't pick three with two because this would have been chosen Right, if I picked three with two that means that uh, that means I've killed the monster prior to it The monster before it and I can't do that because it's not allowed Right if you look at the problem statement You only can pick monsters if and only if you didn't take monsters directly before the current one Right, so it's not allowed if I picked the ones before it So the the choice you could only pick is the ones is the choice you picked two I minus two so the trans before before the ones that before the other one so before two I picked one right so I picked this one so if I wanted to pick this one What would be the number of points I have simple it would be the ones two choices ago that I picked here I plus the one that I currently have just three so it's gonna be one plus three so that gives me four right so that's picking The values of two choices will go if I pick the current value But what if I didn't want to pick the current value? Right, what if I didn't want to pick the current value remember? I want to maximum value the most optimal solution for every coins for each of our array Well, you have to compare this new value with the choice you picked prior So the choice that you picked before if I instead of picking starting from one Let's say I want to start from two Well, if I'm starting from two and that means that I couldn't have picked one I couldn't pick one because one is before two right So if I have to compare the current value that I added of three plus one So I have to pick three plus one which gives me four and I have to compare this four with the Value of prior to it of two because if I pick four and if I choose four and two I need to get the maximum value in order to store in my current optimal solution of DP so in this case of which one is greater Four or two well four is greater. So I'm gonna maintain the state of four So four is gonna be my DP state here. Okay, then I'm gonna start going to the next value I'm gonna go to the next value. So what is the next value? The next index is four. Okay Well, if I'm picking four right, how can I pick the current solution of four? How can I pick this? How can I pick four? Well in order to pick four and that means I couldn't have picked the one before The current I picked three and the solution of three, right? I couldn't have picked this because this this this solution of three is This solution of three would only I wouldn't have only picked it if if Because in order to pick three that means I wouldn't have picked the one prior to it So in order to pick four right I have to choose the values two Twice before it right the ones before it. So in this case, I would have to pick two So which value would if I pick four which five would have to do I would have to do four plus two Okay, four plus two. So I'm gonna store the value of four plus the value of two. That's gonna give me six right That's gonna be six and I have to compare the six with the one that I stored prior to it In case if I didn't want to pick the value of four So in order to do that I have to compare six and four So which is the maximum of six and four and that's gonna give me six So the answer here would just be six. Okay. Now we're gonna be at five Okay Now we're at the solution of five and What is what do we do at this solution of five? Well in order in order to have done the In order to have picked five that means I couldn't have picked four So in order to pick couldn't have picked four it that means that I'm gonna take my five And I'm gonna add it to the optimal solution two times before it right twice before it So what is the optimal solution of five twice before it would be four here right four here So I'm gonna take this five and I'm gonna add it with the optimal solution twice before it of four So I'm gonna be five plus four is it gonna be nine then I have to take this nine I have to compare it with the one that had before of Six because in the case of if I didn't choose five Then I would have had this all solution of six So in this case, I'm gonna take nine compare it with six and which is greater nine So maximum of nine and six is gonna equal to nine and that's gonna be my answer Then at the end of the DPR we're gonna return this value nine So that's basically how this solution works. All right, and let's look at the code now Okay, so here I have a Read a number of test cases T Read in T and I read in the number of N. Okay. All right. This is a this is a slight case You have to watch out for if we have n is equal to zero then we have to print out zero Okay, and also another thing you have to realize is that a case? This is uppercase case and then I Okay, you have to print out the case number current case and then the current number you have because That's just one that will have what they wanted to output So like if you look at case one case two if two cases you have to print out case one Then your answer of nine and then the second case Which your input statement and the the solution for that case also so for that For the special case of any equal to zero you have to print out case and I okay So our my index of I is just representing looping through from the current test case Okay from one to T So I read in number test case and loop through from one T and then I print out zero, okay And then I do a continue to skip to the next test case. All right, so now at Now I have to create my two arrays. So here I have vector long long int which is going to represent the array and Then I have the vector int long long int Dp my DP array to store the current optimal solution So now here what I'm going to do is I'm going to loop through all the values of my array And then just read in all the values right read in all the values of my DP array of R of I Okay And what am I going to do? Okay, so this is going to be a little a little little tricky a Little difficult Okay, so it's actually not that difficult. Okay, so at the current solution of DP is zero I'm going to set it to the first value of my array So that's just like the same thing of what I explained prior hand, right for one If you pick the value of one you couldn't have picked the ones before it So the only solution you could pick if you pick the value one is just going to be DP of one So that's just going to be DP of one for that case Okay, and then the second solution second case DP of one At the At one that's just going to be the maximum of the first and second number So the maximum of the first second number one and two which is going to be two So that's why we do DP of zero and one. We're just going to give us two. Okay, so Yeah, that's what we store here maximum of the prior number and part of one. All right now in order to build a DP array, we're going to loop through from two to the We'll loop through to starting index of this part. This isn't this is index from index. Okay, so This this is actually the array This is the array and remember we're actually indexing my my array is here is indexed from Zero, but you can index it from one any in your solutions. It really doesn't matter. But yeah, I indexed it from zero so My starting index is going to start from two and I'm a loop through to the value of n. Okay now What do I do for every optimal solution? I'm going to take the previous choice that I had I minus one DP of the previous choice I had compare it and it's going to equal to the maximum of the previous choice I had and the previous choice that I had two choices ago plus the current value I have currently so remember That's going to compare the previous choice you have currently In order to pick the current value of my current value of three. That means two choices ago. I have to add The choices I had two choices ago of one plus three, right? I can't you can't pick that you can't add the previous choice here because they said that you only can pick coins You only can pick coins if you didn't pick the coins directly before the current one So that's why your answer would have to be two choices ago So it would be the DP of the two choices ago plus the current value at I and you have to find the maximum of your previous choice So yeah, that builds up your DP array And you have to print out your case and the current case number And then you have to print out DP of n-1, which is the last value of your DP array and that's your case space So yeah, that's basically they just had to do this problem. I hope you guys enjoy this video Remember my array LL long long is just representing the Long long int I actually use a little as long and because The test cases was pretty large. So yeah, I use long long in but you but I don't know if you could use long long But yeah That doesn't matter that much for our vector for our array. 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Why the Narcissist is still with new supply? The Narcissist appears to be happy with their new supply. Things seem to be going well for them and you thought that it would all be over after a few months but they're still together and it confuses you because how can the Narcissist not be bored of them by now? How can the new supply not see all of the things that the Narcissist is doing? How can there not be any problems? Something must have gone wrong by now the reason why the Narcissist is still with their new supply is because their new supply is a codependent a people pleaser someone who cares a lot about whether people like them someone who has an emotional need to please others at the expense of their own needs and desires they have an excessive emotional and psychological reliance on the Narcissist it's an illness an addiction where they enable the Narcissist self-destructive behaviour they give them the ability and the opportunity to do it by providing whatever is necessary codependents function well in relationships where they're not getting anything out of it they don't care about reciprocation so they're well suited to the Narcissist they're made for it they don't know what a healthy relationship is meant to be like they just want to be with someone they don't want to be alone they want to make someone happy which is exactly what the Narcissist was looking for someone who will overlook their faults and failures to meet certain standards because they don't want to be alone so they will supply and empower the Narcissist no matter what the Narcissist does they will justify it they will make excuses as long as they don't have to be alone so they will stay with the Narcissist even though they're being exploited and abused because they're used to it it's all they've ever known so they can deal with things that you couldn't deal with things that affected you things that broke you down because they're toxic and unhealthy they're able to deal with it they expect to be lied to they expect to be cheated on they expect the Narcissist to steal from them they just don't want to be alone which is perfect for the Narcissist because now they can do whatever they want they can live independently they don't have to be domesticated or tame they can be bratshit they can act wild and crazy they can be low class they can have no moral values and they will still be accepted and tolerated so why would the Narcissist ever leave it's the perfect situation for them they can just lay in their own filth they can do whatever they want to do and this person is always going to be there for them which is nothing for you to be jealous of you shouldn't feel sad because they didn't do that with you that's a good thing you should be glad they didn't anyone who stays with the Narcissist for a long period of time must have something seriously wrong with them and most often people who do that are codependents they can't be alone they need to be with someone normal people can't be with codependents because they're very needy they're overly attached they're too emotionally dependent they act like Narcissists in many ways they will force you to stay with them so you couldn't be with a codependent just as you couldn't be with a Narcissist because you're a normal person but a codependent can be with a Narcissist because they will tolerate things that you wouldn't they will pay little attention to it so the Narcissist is still with their new supply because they found someone who can put up with them someone who can put up with their filth which is not something that you should be jealous of because they're not with a good person they're not with someone who is going to make their life better they're with someone who is enabling their destructive behaviour the Narcissist will always look for situations that work easiest for them they will always look for someone who is going to put up with them so that they don't have to change or make any improvements so that they can stay the same which is the perfect situation for them because no matter what they do their new supply is always going to be there waiting for them but just because they're still together it doesn't mean that things are better it's a toxic situation they haven't won there is no winning with a Narcissist thank you for watching I hope this video resonates with you please like, comment, share and subscribe if you would like to donate my PayPal link is in the video description coaching inquiries you can email me at coaching.narcsurvivor.uk thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon


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Tom here from Lawrence systems, and I am in a unfinished building people always a hey Can you do more on-site when you're doing these wiring bids and wiring jobs? Yes Except most of time they're with occupied buildings. This building is well not yet occupied in under construction Now we've already been wanted, but I wanted to walk through a few things about our bid process How we do things and I give people a better more expanded idea I've talked about this before and there's people who say well You can't do things on a per drop price. It's even on a job like this Which is about 220 drops going in here in terms of 220 drops of Cableing that's going in cat 6 for those wondering but one of the important things is I'm gonna talk about how we bid it with the Riding rigging the prep work and everything and how we come up with that pricing and kind of walk you through the building in The process of what we're doing here before we get into that. 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Lawrence systems comm is where you can have a more in-depth discussion about this video And other tech topics you've seen on this channel now back to our content Okay, we'll start with kind of a walk through the building here And the first thing you're gonna notice is not only is the building not complete. Where is everybody? Well, it's about seven o'clock at night and we are still here one of the things we actually work out with the client Is hey, what kind of hours can we work on this? We actually like working when we're not tripping on all the other trade people here What I mean by that is they everyone has different tasks They have to do and putting a lot of people in the building together. Well, it can be a little bit challenging So we frequently work the different set of hours and see if we have access to the building at night It's a definite consideration when we're doing it is not always an option, but on this place It is which is great. We actually don't start until they leave So we're not you know in the way of the electricians and they're not in our way and vice versa So that makes a lot easier now when we first bid this job So there was some good and bad good pull strings Oh, that's uh, cannot get past fire stop below ceiling. That's not a good I know that's our notes. These are important notes and there's people here to take care of some of those aspects of it We'll come back and address that I didn't even know about that till now But we do look to see if there's pull strings inside of there. We're that's one of the considerations. We Look up at the ceiling above us and we try to say, all right. What is it going to take and this is a standard trust ceiling Uh, what is it going to take to attach to that? What kind of rigging do we need to get the j-hooks up and hold all of that? Where's the it room going to be? What's the average length of run? So those are all considerations when we went to near bid this now One of the things that was not here that's here now that does add a little bit of time But this was part of when we bid it versus when we want it And then we want it had to let them know Hey, this has to be addressed and what we mean by that is we had to address the fact that there's now Not ceiling tiles, but the ceiling structure. This wasn't even here When we first set our walkthrough there wasn't even lighting in here We got here really early on some of the bid process, but Nonetheless, no big deal. We adjusted and moved on. So that's now part of it where we have Okay, we added those hours now once you've come up with that then we break it down to our per drop price Now we came up with that per drop price plus we had the prep hours that go in there Now the reason for breaking it down this way and this has been like the debate of many comments Telling me that you can't do it this way But I will tell you I know a lot of successful people who do and I feel successful at doing a lot of these infrastructure and wiring jobs What we do is we come up with that per drop price because as the client Inadivitably it is almost never. I have ever done a job, especially when you're doing 220 drops job like this and a drop doesn't get added or removed. So When it's all done, we're going to count them punch them all down and just adjust by the drop price the client If they decide hey, can you put one more over here or one more over there? No problem. They have a sheet. They know our per drop price now granted if they were to put a drop At the furthest end of the building versus the middle of the building. Do we have a cost difference? Yes But that spends a lot of labor calculating all those little cost differences Later when people do it and most of them because you're only looking at small variances to the overall bit You don't think about it. You don't worry about it It's just a little bit more cable and you've already done all the pathing You've already put all the j-hooks up to carry the wire You're already have all of that other prep work Adding one or two more wires different now if they significantly change the job on you. Can you put? 100 more over here Then you may have to relook and add it because we only built paths that were Capable of carrying a certain amount of wire over a certain distance Now as far as some of the other things to consider when you're looking at this as a bid process Where did they put the it room is is it going to be feasible to do that? This was a thing we really had to stare at when we were bidding and I'm going to walk over to the it room and show you why Okay, so now we're in the it room and you can see we're pretty far along we've got you know quite a few drops already in here and We have all the different larger j-hooks here for the pathing And this is what we're going to show you and talk about and what the challenge was now This is not necessarily a bad location for the it room But there is a little bit of a detail you have to notice and the good news is the ceiling tiles are out We could do it But if the ceiling tiles weren't here we would have climbed up and made sure of this And that is this We have the ductwork right in our way along with some pipes now ductwork and piping Not an insurmountable task But you do have to think about these things when you're doing all the paths in here and going All right, how do I get around this? Is it going to be any special challenge? And at the same time you may have noticed the room I'm standing in is not particularly large So you know next question to them not related to us, but it's one of those. Hey before you put all the servers in here Will you have the proper air flow to cool any devices you put in here? Which they right away had the good answer that the HVAC team is going to be putting in split systems in here for cooling So that's going to be great. So when this room gets built out And I'll probably be coming back and revisiting this particular job site when we build the server racks in here And talking about how we do the punchdowns But yeah, that's there's going to be proper venting and cooling in here Speaking of venting and cooling It's a little warm and these are these are your best friend So if you need a way to cool off and Do that in there, but overall it's not been a bad process now There's one other tricky part we had with this one Which is also an unusual consideration you may not have to do But we are on the second floor. So this is something we have to address. I'm going to go find one and show you So I'm telling everybody how we bid it What we got down here. Oh, that's a floor cord come What that is is a recess between this concrete deck that we're standing on And the drop ceiling directly below us in the lower unit. So how is that getting from there to the com room? Well, somewhere else There's another floor core where we can go and bring it through a closet where it's hidden So you don't see it out in the open and then basically we'll have to come through the ceiling tile and find this sucker Yeah in the other suite So this is another aspect when you're bidding it before we call it the price This goes into our prep time in hours that we had to add in there is it sounds like hey Let's just put in our what I think it's going to be kitchen area. Am I correct? Yeah kitchen area Let's just put a couple nice drops here. So it'll come through the table so people can have network drops, but you're like Sounds easy It'll be easier if it came through the ceiling and down, but they wanted it not so Oh, these are all those other this is a quirk of this job I mean, it's better when they have conduit and a pull string so we can pull it there But this is us finding the path which means disrupting the people in the suite below They're not gonna like us. No, they already don't they're like, what are you doing up there? This because the office downstairs is not part of this building In in relationship like they are a separate business and they're like, why do you have to disrupt us to fix What's going on up there? We already have to listen to banging all day At least we're not the only ones. They're not gonna like yeah the electricians have to put power in there Yep.  So there's two crews That's the other consideration that you really gotta think about while doing these So in summary of everything we did we put this all together We come up with you know average length of cable type of cable. They wanted which was cat 6a plenum specifically was their request We put it all together We come up with an average price per drop that way these changes won't make much of a difference because inevitably there will Be changes before this is said and done Either plus or minus a couple drops places. They thought they could put an office Maybe they're not going to now or they said, hey, it'd be great if we had a couple extra You know printers or some other network attached device over here or over there So that is you know the easy way to do it that way when final billing is done No big deal this bid was already won. So I'm doing all this essentially in past tense to tell you how we bid it But as you've seen from the job, we're already there doing the work. It's you know a done deal Now one of the other things in case you're wondering is we do add and as I said prep work That is a certain number of hours to path everything because you figure out the major trunks of the lines And we have schematics on all this and we'll look at it and go Hey and schematics were provided by the general contractor. We didn't have to actually draw any of these They said this is the layout of the building. These are where the office are going and these are where the drops are going And we need network connectivity. So we'll look at it and go Okay, we're going to put j-hooks all up here and all up here That's your prep time and once you look at the j-hooks and have them all laid out Adding one or more one or two drops or removing two is not going to make any major difference in terms of The number of j-hooks you use and things like that. This is how we can come up with that flat rate price Now the one tricky thing is figuring out exactly how much extra labor to add for Like the duct work that was in the way and going up and over it That was something we had to take into consideration But it's really only when it's coming from like one side The other side can come down and the cable fall will go the other way I do plan to update as we finish out that job and do some more filming like when we start punching it down getting all the rack equipment in there Now the last little thing is yes, it is tricky figuring out the pathing when they start doing those Cours where you got to go downstairs, but we'll coordinate with the electricians because well going into the separate business downstairs is and It's a pain, but it is part of it And that's just something we'll have to deal with those popping ceiling tiles down there because it is on a drop ceiling down there And putting the pathing there and attaching to it You do have to look at that because you have to determine as we had a particular job Where we had to actually drill into because there was no trussing It was a port cement ceiling so there wasn't any trussing to hang onto for the wiring So we had to actually drill into and hammer drilling into cement. Hey, it's absolutely possible But it's an extra piece of labor So that is something you really have to evaluate when the client says that you have to really calculate on that particular part That's why I made sure I showed the hole in the floor there So it all sounds like a good idea and you're like, what we absolutely it's not anything can't be done It's all a matter of budget Final thing I'll mention. How do we get these jobs? This seems to come up in Advoli Well, cool time you got to the bidding process, but I'm not getting to the bidding process. How do I get there? Well, how do you get there is Previously prior to me doing a lot of the youtube stuff, which is our primary and boundary generation I've covered that in a few other videos Chamber of commerce Marketing in general just being out there and present. You can buy google ad words. You can buy facebook I don't know right now in 2020. What's the most effective because we stopped advertising in 2018 and went full time with youtube For our advertising. So I'm not as good on that. I will mention it. At least I'm not aware of any, you know, magical Job boards are posted in terms of like where these bids go out most of time We've never participated in any of those job boards like that Especially for wiring because it always seems to be a race at the bottom We looked at them a couple times and they seem to offer a rate sometimes less than half of what we charge So we've never found them to be the most effective I could be wrong and has been a while since I looked at them. So at least I'll throw that out there That's not my field of expertise. I do know other, you know friends I have who are in this field so much of it just becomes word of mouth once you get You know known into business The word of mouth He's coming in if you do a good job or you hook up with perhaps a franchise or something like that They will often just keep feeding you jobs But a lot of it is you have to really, you know be out there Have people know what you do and do the work right that is hugely important because you don't get a second chance You screw one of these up. Um, they will make sure they never use you again So that's uh, that's an important being sure that you do it all right and keep your reputation This particular job did come um come in as a youtube lead. They watched a few youtube videos I know we did some network engineering work for them Which I think came before any of the wiring work we did their previous building And now we got the bid for this one. Hopefully this was insightful or makes you give you a better understanding of how we do things Uh, if you want to have a more in-depth discussion have a forums dot learn systems dot com If you want to just Put your caps lock on and hammer out. Uh, you're doing it wrong. You're whatever. I'm fine with that too I got that on the last time I talked about bidding and processes, but uh, thank you. 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