Often I find myself needing to join/split cables in a situation where its going to be outdoors in full on rainy weather. I have tried using the common cable joiner enclosures like these: But every single time, they all fail due to water ingress, no matter how much the seals are torqued down. It could be my shitty luck for sure, but after this happening enough times I’ve moved to just epoxy encasing joins. ...
I picked up a Mac Pro 2008 2.8GHz model locally, and it worked well when I first powered it up and loaded snow leopard on it. However, I then upgraded the GPU in it (for fun) and the PSU went bang (loudly). As new PSU’s are hard to come by / expensive locally (and I couldn’t find an easy issue to fix upon opening) the Mac has been upgraded to instead recieving a refit of new insides. ...
I still use my Xbox 360 after all these years. Not as often as I once did of course, but at least once a month its up and running to play games. The Xbox 360 controller uses a small battery pack to hold two AA’s or could take a sealed unit with Ni-Mh batteries and be charged with a custom cable. As these are loong out of production by Microsoft, any stock you find is DOA as the cells have died. ...