What are your other hobbies?

[FloSonic]

Hobbies? Whats that? Go to work in the dark, head home in the dark. 12 hr night shifts are killer. lol Tried paintball but everyone quit....had fish, cat ate them all... used to hunt, Obama upped the price of bullets...yeah a bad pattern. LOL Currently taken up saltwater pier fishing, loving it.

 

[Bogus]

Hahaha! ^ You just have bad luck

 

[FloSonic]

HAHA aint that the truth!! Without bad luck I'd have no luck at all.

 

[ChrisJ]

One of my hobbies has been restoring vintage audio equipment. Somewhat recently (2008) I became interested in building my own amplifiers.

Here are two designs I built with the help of some friends. Hopefully the facebook picture links will work.

First is a 70WPC x2 into 4 ohm amplifier I use at work. This amplifier has been in use 10 hours a day every day since 2010. Unfortunately I never took pictures of it finished with the face plate on, but its just a plain piece of brushed aluminum with a light up rocker switch anyway. This is an LM3886 based amplifier with a 300VA transformer. I have it connected to a pair of A/D/S/ L300E speakers.

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Scope showing one channel clipping as well as one of the two power rails for noise comparison.

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This is the big amplifier project I took on to design new amplifiers to bolt into the back of my pair of late 1970s Powered Advents. They are 200W for woofer and 50W for tweeter with onboard linkwitz-riley active crossovers. 200W amplifier is based on a bridged-parallel configuration of LM3886s with DC servos. Amplifiers are direct coupled and have a 500VA power supply with 54,000uf of filtering each. Many resistors used on the 200W amplifier are 0.1% tolerance.

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[pacman552]

my other hobby other then the sonic is, SATURNS! and racing

 

[ChrisJ]

my other hobby other then the sonic is, SATURNS! and racing

You would have loved my wifes 06 AWD Vue we traded in for the Cruze a few months ago.

 

[Thaifight-R]

Going to attempt to describe my hobbies using only pictures.

 

[slitzell]

I like to shred some COD on xbox. I have been playing this series for 7 years now. I nerd out for it lol, my gaming rig. I don't get to play often, but when I do, I prefer to shred for 7hrs straight.

-Scuf Wired Controller w/ trigger stops and adjustable hair triggers(Left addle programmed to jump, right paddle programed to drop)
-Astro A50 5.1ghz Wirless gaming headset
-Gunnar Gaming Glasses(Reduce glare and eye strain)




-Kontrol Freek FPS CQC(to give more control over very high sensitivities, much the opposite effect of short shift)



-Toshiba 39in LED 1080p Tv
-Xbox 360 slim
-Asus Gigabit router
-60 Mbps internet connection



And lastly, but most importantly, my refreshments within arm's reach!

 

[ChrisJ]

I like to shred some COD on xbox. I have been playing this series for 7 years now. I nerd out for it lol, my gaming rig. I don't get to play often, but when I do, I prefer to shred for 7hrs straight.

I'm more of a PC gamer (keyboard+mouse). Back in 1999 I played TFC for 26 hours nonstop one time. Used to put 3-4 hours at a time into counter-strike as well. Now days an hour is usually the most I can sit and play a game. :blankface:

 

[ChrisJ]

And lastly, but most importantly, my refreshments within arm's reach!

You think maybe, its time to defrost that about 5 years ago?

 

[slitzell]

Yea, i played competative when I was younger, now i play 1-2 days a week, and that is about it. I still like to have good gear to play. It is my little man cave!

 

[Bogus]

My old hobby I miss.

 

[ChrisJ]

My old hobby I miss.

If you miss it, why not start doing it again?

 

[Bogus]

Sold all my gear a long time ago. It would be expensive to buy it all again. I want to in the future though.

 

[seanp1]

My old hobby I miss.

Paintball is my hobby that I make money at See first post in the thread.

 

[Bogus]

Nice! I used to be on a scenario team and we would travel CA for tournaments.

 

[Emersonic]

I'll use pics too...

Didn't realize I had so many...and I got a ton more too...but UNO calls so I guess I stop here. Maybe more later??

 

[$ub$onic]

Kick ass models man

 

[ThatTmoGuy]

Do you watch that show gears on the speed channel? They do model car contests all the time for some pretty good prizes.

 

[JaSonic]

thinking about getting into photography...