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Sounds like the threads on your old tap are the real question here, not the nozzle. Mine fit a newer outdoor tap fine, but my neighbor’s older spigot has chunkier threads and it didn’t seat the same way. Might be worth just eyeballing how yours threads before ordering.
Motion detection on these things is basically a coin flip in my experience. Trees, shadows, a cat wandering past, it all counts as movement. The sensitivity setting helps a bit but it’s never going to know the difference between a leaf and a person. I’d say park facing away from anything that sways if you can, that made more difference for me than fiddling with menus. Also worth pulling the card after a day or two just to see what it’s actually capturing, sometimes it’s less junk than you’d think.
Mine actually keeps translating with the screen locked, so I don’t think you’re stuck staring at the app. I usually pocket my phone during conversations and it keeps going fine. Switching apps is where I’ve had it drop out once or twice, but lock screen alone hasn’t been a problem.
I think it’s a fair concern, and the way I look at it is whether the feeder still does its one job if the app vanishes. A friend of mine has one that just keeps running its set times even when her wifi acts up, and that seems like the sane middle ground to me. If the whole thing turns into a paperweight the moment the servers go quiet, that’s a pass.
Alright, I’ll stick with it and see how the cartridge looks in a couple months. Appreciate all the feedback, at least now I know what to actually keep an eye on instead of just guessing. Worst case I’m out a few bucks and learned my water is fine.
I actually prefer keeping my charging stuff separate from the rest of my gear. Having one small pouch just for the collar charger and cable means I’m not digging through my pack at night, and I’ve been doing it that way for a while now. It’s less about upgrading and more about not mixing it in with everything else.
I went the battery pack route instead of hardwiring and have zero regrets. It charges while I drive and keeps recording when I’m parked, but there’s no permanent connection to the car at all. After a year of this I’ve never had a dead battery, and I’d make the same choice again.
I use mine pretty much every day and the hole stopped registering after the first week or so. The one thing I’d mention is that it made me realize I was gripping my old knife way too far back. Now the hole basically tells me where my hand should sit.
I actually had to move mine out of the kitchen because it kept going off while I was cooking, and it’s been fine in the living room outlet ever since. No window anywhere close to that spot either. So placement matters more for false alarms than it does for actual detection, in my case anyway.
I keep a few of those little moisture absorber tubs on the shelf next to my bits and it’s made a real difference over the past year. Nothing fancy, just the cheap ones from the hardware store, and I swap them out when the crystals get gross. Way less spotting than when everything sat in a closed bin.
My old cat actually gave up her sunny spot way faster than I expected when the new dog arrived. She just followed the warmth to a different part of the house and picked a new nap zone on her own. So sometimes the spot matters less than we think and they just relocate.
The thing that finally worked for my cat was just leaving a couple of those crinkle balls in weird spots before I leave, like on the couch or in a shoe. She bats them around for a bit when I’m gone, way more than the fancy stuff I bought. Doesn’t take up any space either since I just toss them wherever.
I noticed the same thing right away, the ResQVac masks are way more flexible than that hard red plastic. What sold me was actually trying it on myself first, the soft one kind of molds around your face when you press down. I keep the adult mask on mine and the little child one in the bag, and so far no issues with suction.
I actually wear mine across the front like a collar sometimes instead of picking a side. Not saying that’s how it’s meant to go, but it hits both trap areas at once and stays put better than I expected. The compression feels a bit different that way, less focused on one spot, more like a general warm squeeze. I still use it normally on one shoulder most days, but when both sides are bugging me after a long stretch at the computer, that’s my go to. It’s not two separate massagers working independently, so if you want really targeted attention on each side, you’d still be better off doing them one after the other. But for general tension across the whole upper back and shoulder area, the collar trick works fine for me. Just play with the strap tension a bit.
I poke around the settings menu when I first get a handheld just to see what save options are built in. Takes two minutes and saves a lot of guessing later.
I get why the light color thing is confusing but I don’t think overcharging is really the risk here that people make it out to be. These little drone batteries aren’t like the old RC car packs where you had to babysit them. I’ve left mine plugged in way longer than I meant to plenty of times, like overnight once because I forgot about it, and nothing bad happened. It didn’t swell up or lose capacity or anything.
That said, it’s not really about the charger light at all. The light just tells you the charger is doing something. Whether it flips color or not, the battery itself is what decides when it’s done accepting a charge. So if yours stays red forever, that doesn’t mean it’s still pumping power in. It might just be a cheap indicator that doesn’t actually sense the battery state.
My point is, don’t treat the light like it’s some precise gauge. Unplug it when you remember to and you’ll be fine.
Mine stays plugged in pretty much all the time. I just leave the cord tucked behind the couch so nobody trips on it. No idea if it matters either way.
I got a pair last spring mainly for the drive to my parents’ place, which is about three hours of highway and a bunch of two lane roads after dark. I don’t wear glasses, so I just use them like regular sunglasses and they sit fine on my face. The over glasses thing never even crossed my mind until I saw it mentioned online, it’s not like they feel loose or slide around without a pair underneath. What surprised me is I actually use them more in the daytime than at night. Something about the contrast on gray overcast days makes road markings pop a bit more for me, and I didn’t expect that. Night driving they help with oncoming headlights but it’s not some magic switch, just less squinting. Anyway they live in my door pocket now, which says enough I guess.
I got the app mostly for the language picking part, since I couldn’t figure out how to switch things around otherwise. My husband just uses them as regular earbuds though and never touched the app once. So I guess it depends what you actually want them to do.
Mine lives on a low-pile rug in my bedroom and the full scan still reads pretty close to what I get on the tile in the hall. The rug has a bit of padding but nothing crazy, so yours might be fine if it’s on the thinner side.
Mine actually lives on a little side table pulled up next to my desk rather than on the desk itself, mostly because I got tired of moving it every time I needed to refill the tank. That setup has worked way better for me than squeezing it in next to the monitor. Still gets me plenty of cool air from there too.
The biggest difference I noticed is that they sit shallower in my ear than my old buds, which actually helped since my ear canals are pretty narrow. I wore them through a couple of long errand runs and they never worked their way loose.
The hole actually won me over once I stopped treating it like a handle and just let my index finger rest there during rocking cuts. Took me about two weeks of dinners before it clicked. If you’re forcing your grip around it, yeah, that’s gonna feel all wrong.
I do a mix of highway and city and my experience has been a little different from what some folks are saying. The stop and go part is actually where I noticed my fuel numbers stop bouncing around so much. Before the device, my tank average would swing all over the place depending on how bad traffic was that week. After about a month and a half with it, the bad traffic weeks don’t drag my average down nearly as much as they used to. It’s not like the car magically sips fuel while idling, but the overall weekly number stays more consistent, which I appreciate. The 150 mile learning thing probably matters here because the first couple weeks I wasn’t sure it was doing anything at all. Once it settled in, the difference in consistency showed up. So yeah, I’d say crawling traffic is still part of what it’s working with, not something that throws it off.
I hang my shirts on the bathroom rod for ten minutes first to let the worst of the dampness off, then finish them in the unit. Cuts the run time way down and I hear the fan less overall.
I’ve had mine for a few months and the volume buttons do the job fine for me. I usually just tap the down one a couple times before a game starts and it gets quiet enough that nobody on the bus gives me looks. No dedicated mute button that I’ve found, but honestly the rocker alone has been enough.
