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Bought some Bosch coils from RA and noticed they don't seem to have the hologram sticker nor QR or numeric code they used to, the ones used for the authenticity check. I believe the coils are genuine but it's just odd because ones I've bought before usually come in a Bosch box (these are in white boxes) and had such a label on them. Also oddly the labels on the boxes say "Made in Mexico" while the parts themselves are "Made in Brazil"--but I've seen this kind of thing before I don't think it's that concerning.

But it also seems like websites like protect.bosch.com and KeySecure have also gone bye-bye? Both just lead to Bosch website errors.

Seems they have abolished the genuine check/anti-counterfeit stuff, which seems odd since it's not like counterfeits are going away. The parts themselves still have a QR on them but with nowhere to scan them to seems like. If anyone knows what happened here or if there is a new site or check method, would love to hear it!

I did try to google it BTW, closest thing I could find was this "Origify" thing but this is not for auto parts nor is it even for Bosch products per se--it's like some tech they developed to put marks in consumer products that doesn't require QR codes or labels, and can be "written" into the product packaging or body itself. That's cool and all but has nothing to do with this and the app not even available in North America anyway.

Hi all...so I have a KS220M (Smart Motion Dimmer) in one room and it is installed with a 2-bulb fixture that does have dimmable LED bulbs installed in it.

I've performed the dimming calibration a few times and it seems to work fine and smoothly/gradually dim/brighten the bulbs as it should in the calibration part of the app.

The light will dim correctly with the buttons on the switch and also the dimming preset buttons (25%, 50%, etc.) in the app work correctly.

What does NOT work correctly is the dimming "dial" within the app--the thing you can just slide your finger around to set the brightness to any percentage. It actually doesn't work at all. When I hit say the 25% or 50% buttons it shows that on the dial accordingly and the light changes brightness. But using the dial at all (either after hitting the presets or not), does...absolutely nothing! 😟

In another location in the house I have HS200 (Smart Dimmer, w/o motion) and that one works fine in the same app, with the dial control, buttons and app presets--all as it should and as expected.

Anyone have any ideas on how to fix or what's going on with the KS220M here?

As title says, just a reminder for people--almost forgot myself.

Today is the last day to change your Cineclub from monthly to annual (or get an annual membership to begin with) at the $109.89 price. Tomorrow price increases to $120.89 annual and $10.99 monthly.

So long as you switch/buy by today at latest your next billing date will get you the $109.89 (+tax) price.

I needed to replace at least two cameras at my house since two have gone kaput. The prices for Primal Days seemed attractive so I ended up with three--a CX820, a 1224A, and an OMVI 3i.

Only one of the dead cameras is easy to replace--the other one requires a ladder taller than I have--so I started out just replacing the one I could get at easily, with the CX820.

Now as a note there is a streetlight directly across the street from my house. However due to the installed location (under alcove for front door), the camera doesn't actually see the street lamp or even much of my lawn, never mind the street side of it.

I just did this today and forgot about checking the camera for the night view. I just checked it and thought, "oh this is still the frame from the daytime". It wasn't, it's the live view right now. Colour me shocked because it honestly looks like broad daylight on the camera...while it's pretty much total darkness at my door when I look outside. 😮

I can't comment yet on all the rest of the stuff, but I'm quite amazed at how good the night view on the CX820 is--full colour, looks like day, I can't complain. Light years ahead of the camera it replaced (even when it was working).

I now wonder whether I shouldn't have gotten a second CX820 instead of the 1224A? But the latter is going in my back yard which has less (no) ambient lighting, which is why I thought the CX820 wouldn't be great for that.

Sorry if I'm late to the party with this but that's what it seems like?

If we go back to this old post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/KobaltTools/comments/1qnvjre/24v_usbc_batteries_chargers_combos_accessories/

And click on all the links there, the product pages are still up but changed. Now all the batteries no longer have the USB port, they no longer mention anything about USB I/O and where the port was is just blank now. None are yet available but the pages are up, just gone is the mention of USB *in* the batteries.

They do still show pictures of charging with the USB adapter though, suggesting that be the only way to charge the batteries with USB now. Edit: It seems some people are confused about what I meant here. I didn't mean to say the USB adapter would be the only way to charge the batteries, I meant it would be the USB adapter is the only way to charge... with USB. The batteries should always charge fine in the regular chargers regardless.

So I guess the in-built USB was a fail and all those batts that were purchased, got recalled for real?

Less so a question and more a PSA I guess. As a note this would also include the RY401120 (self-prop version of RY40110) and the older RY40180, and RY40190, which all use the same blade. TLDR: Your mower actually uses a 19" blade despite being called a "20in" mower!

I bought a 20" Hart blade (model HAC220MB)--it was cheap @ Ollie's!--thinking it would work work on my mower; or could do so with light modification (probably to the "keying"). I didn't need the new blade but figure I would buy one for spare given the price; but turns out I'll just have to resell this to someone that has a 40V Hart mower that uses this...

I just went to measure it up against the existing/original blade and the Hart is noticeably bigger. Getting out a tape measure, the Hart "20in" blade is indeed...twenty inches. The Ryobi "20in" blade however is quite clearly only 19" across!

How they got away with even selling these models as a "20in" mowers, is beyond me. The actual/correct replacement blade, AC04020, also says it's "20in" as a replacement part but is absolutely not...20 inches.

Anyway if anyone is at Ollie's and sees these blades for cheap and thinks what I did...think again!