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I’m going to start a new sub on a specific subject of a fairly rare syndrome. There is an existing sub on the disease and it serves a good purpose as a catch-all for the syndrome. The issue is that, at least in my mind and others, the sub has become too huge and overrun with “do I have this” posts and people looking for a diagnosis. For those of us actually medically diagnosed posts get lost in all the static. Just the nature of the umbrella type sub. This will not be a huge sub and I can see 5k members as huge with active participants in the low hundreds at best.

My idea is to start a new sub strictly for those officially diagnosed,or their caregivers, to discuss what we do to control this as it varies greatly from person to person. With many GP’s not really understanding it leaving us mostly on our own, outside of some general guidance and the few specialists that exist. There is no cure, only control.

My plan is to make this a bit rule heavy, with no medical advice ask for or given (only “what works for me posts), no AI at all allowed, no politics and strong anti-harassment and judgement control. I want none of the “mines worse than yours, grow up”posts. I’ll be modding this pretty tightly to start but at the same time allowing things to evolve if it benefits the users so rule exceptions will be in place as needed.

There will be scheduled posts for certain topics to keep them contained. Post flair will be required to help users hit points of interest.

I want to encourage links to medical references and actual publications as much as reasonable on posts when making a claim.

As always seeking official medical help before any changes will be strongly encouraged.

I’m planning a strong wiki with links to resources and good help guides.

OK, so now that you have the idea of what I want to do - if you have run, started or even actively participated in a medical sub what would you change, do differently or make sure to include.

Thanks for any and all suggestions and comments.

I’m in the process of completely rebuilding my booth setup for high production e-commerce product photography and am looking for lighting level recommendations. Specifically lux levels you use/prefer or recommend.

Details:

Booth will be two walled roughly 4’x4’ with cyc walls and I’m shooting into the corner.

Walls will be white with options for a neutral grey or black backdrop

Products will be 4” to 24” in either width or height, with the rare item smaller or larger

Illuminated area will be roughly .9 square meters or 9 square feet.

I’m using a multi-camera setup and products will be on an automated turntable

I’m not looking for the perfect single image here, good quality is fine with 8 - 12 images per item and high production rates

Continuous lighting is a must and will be LED to reduce heat

Most items will be shot with a semi-hard light to define details but will add modifiers at times to get soft light.

Light panels will be PWM controlled to allow for variable lumen output.

Looking at 3 panel setup

Since I’m basically starting from scratch I’m looking for some thoughts on lux levels for this area. Presently I’m at about 500 lux and I don’t feel it’s enough. I’m not getting the shutter speeds and aperture I want at times. Much of this could be the lights I have, (cheap no-name panels), the booth, light placement etc. Aiming for up 1500 lux with the new setup but some sources say 2000 or higher?

So, thoughts on lux levels? What do you use? Also, how would you change that for the different backgrounds, especially black?

Thanks for any thoughts.

Has anybody used this iron? I’ve been using the standard handpiece with my 971 but considering adding this to the bench since I have a mess 0402 to do coming up. Not many options on tips but likely to go with a basic chisel and knife to start.

If you’ve used it how do you like it compared to the standard iron? How big of SMD would you do with it? Could I do a 1008?

I’m working on improving my typing for coding, contract writing, blog posts, articles etc. since I’m tired of my brain having to wait for my useless fingers.

What do you consider a good sustained speed for all day work? I see tons of posts on burst tests, or even 10 minute tests but very little on sitting there and writing chapters of books or thousands of lines of code all day. Tens of thousands of words a day. Day after day.

I see many people talk of hitting 130 or much more WPM in tests, but can you do that all day everyday?

Sure you won’t be typing 100% of the time but over an 8 hour day what do you average? Even for 30 minutes or an hour of really intense typing what rate is good?

FWIW - I can do 40 - 50 WPM sustained right now with short bursts up to 100WPM but that all feels way too slow. When my brain “hits” I want to be able to blow it down on the screen as fast as I can.

Thanks for the thoughts!