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Craftsmen air compressor

First off hello and thanks for letting me join the forums.



Ok my 30 gallon air compressor is right around 13-15 years old. It's a 150psi 2-6hp 30 gallon craftsmen air compressor. When I start it it runs for a couple seconds then blows the fuse in my shop. It has ran in there for a atleast 5 years. There is no extension cords and nothing else plugged in with it. I think I have the conductor out of it and it still does it.. Is this the conductor I need to replace or is there something else wrong with it.

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Simple pergola question

I've looked at a lot of pictures of pergolas. It seems to me a lot of pergolas without a consistent roof or fabric don't seem to work very well: vertical slats don't work when the sun is high, and they only work well when it is perpendicular to them. As such here is what I am thinking, but I wonder why I don't see this design used much? I would have the slats angled at 45 degrees.







So 4X4 posts, 2X8" joist probably, and 5/4 decking about half way notched in (as deep as a circular saw will get me).



Fabric won't save any money over this plus it blows around and decays. The benefit to the angled wood instead of laid flat like a deck is that I don't get additional snow weight on top of this (it will be on top of a deck). Also it gives the ideal angle against the sun when the sun is perpendicular to it and, finally, as the sun swings around at late day and sends its light parallel to the slats, they still offer substantial shade (though not complete).



Feel free to post thoughts on if this is awesome or terrible! Thanks!

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Lennox RTU Condenser fan is not running in stage 1 cooling.

I am Having an issue with a Lennox RTU M/N:LGH036H4ES1Y S/N:5610C03692.



The Condenser fan does not come on in stage 1 cooling so the unit trips out on high head pressure. The fan does kick on in stage 2 cooling. I tested the voltage when calling for stage 1 and it is all there. When i run stage 2 i have the same voltage but the fan will actually run. I cannot figure out what is holding that fan out in stage 1. i swapped the wires for stage 1 and 2 for now. So when i give the signal for stage 1 stage 2 kicks on so the fan runs. then if there is a need for a second stage my controls send the signal for stage 2 then stage 1 will kick on so the fan will stay running.



has anyone seen this issue

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3 Unusual Lessons We Learned by Studying Over 16 million Posts (And 100,000 Brands) on Social Media

At Buffer, we love to see new stats and research about how to best share to social media and drive engagement. And as a brand on social media ourselves, we know just how challenging it can be to post engaging content across multiple channels.

To learn more about how brands are tackling social media in 2016, and importantly, to discover what's working, we decided to study what types of posts brands were sharing the most of on social media.

We examined over 100,000 accounts, which consisted of over 14 million tweets and two million Facebook updates to figure out how brands have been sharing to social media over the past 12 months.

Here's how it broke down…

How have brands been sharing to social media

Which social networks are brands posting to?

Facebook and Twitter are still leading the charge

After looking at over 16 million updates over 12 months, covering Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google +, Facebook and Twitter, we found that brands posted primarily to Facebook and Twitter. It makes sense seeing as both social networks have the largest active audiences of the group according to this study.

Here's the breakdown of percentages:

• 79.6% of updates were sent to Twitter


• 13.8% of updates were sent to Facebook


• 3.6% of updates were sent to Google +


• 2.3% of updates were sent to LinkedIn


• .5% of updates were sent to Pinterest

How many times are brands sharing per week

This data was super-interesting for us as we love to experiment with posting schedules frequencies. We found that brands posted to Twitter more than any other network – which feels about right considering the more real-time feel of Twitter.

I was a little surprised to see that Facebook is the only other network where brands post an average of once per day.

Which types of post are getting the most engagement

For this part of the study, we looked at how many engagements (clicks, likes, shares) each post a brand shares gets on average across Facebook and Twitter. We found that Facebook video appears to be leading the way here (by a considerable margin, too) and photos are still leading the way on Twitter.

It's interesting to see that links appear to be driving more engagement than photos on Facebook at the moment. It feels like this could be due to their visual nature, now when you post a link, a large image is displayed, as is meta data from the post, giving brands plenty of opportunities to grab user's attention as they scroll through their news feeds.

Here's an example:

A cool way to potentially further increase the success of links on Facebook could be to create specific headlines and descriptions for your post. Here at Buffer, we use a neat tool called Yoast to choose the image, title, and description that'll accompany a link when posted to Facebook:

Does Twitter have a noise problem?

Twitter have recently made similar adjustments with links pulling meta data into the timeline. Could this lead to a boost in Twitter link engagement? Maybe. But for now, it feels a little like Twitter has a noise problem, with images being one of the few ways to stand out in the timeline.

 How are brands posting to each network

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Bathroom - Single, unshared circuit

In the midst of a bathroom repair/remodel.



From what I understand bathroom receptacles should be on a dedicated 20A circuit and GFCI protected. The bathroom lights and exhaust fan can share that circuit so long as no fixed single load is more than 10A.



Is this correct?



Part two, if what I said above is correct, should the light switches be on the GFCI circuit (come after the outlet)?