Show us your Christmas Gifts!!!

[Fthree]

Thread to show off the new gear!

 

[cambookpro]

 

[Nermal]

I bought myself a new TV a few weeks ago, and now I have a speaker ("sound bar") for it. Frustratingly the Panasonic speaker is about 1 mm too tall to fit in the gap under the Panasonic TV!



And in the chocolate department, a Rone of the Toble variety.

 

[myscrnnm]

My parents got me this Fellow Stagg EKG electric kettle. I used to have one of those Japanese water heaters that is on all the time, but it got fried when something went wrong with the electric company, so I've been microwaving water for years to make tea.

 

[Nermal]

Does that say "1200 watt quick heat"? Has someone let the marketing department loose again? 🙂

 

[myscrnnm]

Does that say "1200 watt quick heat"?

Is that a lot? It's very fast. I get boiling water in less than five minutes.

 

[MrCheeto]

Does that say "1200 watt quick heat"? Has someone let the marketing department loose again? 🙂

That's actually pretty much just letting your AC loose without throttle. Dumb AC devices, usually heating elements, run around this range quite easily. Toaster, heater, clothes iron, blender...

 

[Nermal]

Is that a lot? It's very fast. I get boiling water in less than five minutes.

No, it's not a lot, and I was laughing at such a low wattage being advertised as "quick heat". I have a cheap plastic 2400 watt one and I just tested it: It boiled 0.9 L of tap water (the same amount listed on the box for yours) in 2:25.

 

[sliceoftoast]

4x UniFi Protect G4 PRO Cameras. These come in a 3 Pack so I had to get one single camera on its own. 4x 18TB Seagate iron wolf pro drives to upgrade the storage in my server.

The older 4x 12TB Seagate ironwolf drives got moved and put into my Mac Pro 5,1 along with an additional 12Tb drive. Configured as raid 5 using soft raid