I'm sorry to learn that you're going through a tough time at the moment. You seem stuck in some kind or a rut. You lack the get-up-and-go that you once had. It's as if you feel let down by your surroundings.

Not sure what field of work you do, but some employers offer support services, such as counselling. If you're in a union, usually the union offers those services. Just a note that the employer itself does not offer the service, rather they contract it out to a mental health company so they can keep their distance for confidentiality purposes. If your employer does not offer such services, there are counsellors out there to whom you could reach out. Would this be an avenue worth exploring ?

This is about the most I am willing to discuss publicly in a forum, however you're more than welcome to send me a private message should you feel the need. Hope this helps.

I’m having a really hard go of it lately. I got very depressed during Covid, and that’s when my hoarding started. I bought stuff I didn’t need and I can’t seem to let go of it.

I’ve lost all of my friends, they’ve all gotten married and have children and I never hear from them anymore. I haven’t seen or talked to any of them in two years now. I guess they finally managed to get rid of me.

If I want to go anywhere I have to do it myself. Therefore I never really get to go on trips or vacations. I had a good few years in college but that was pretty much the peak of my life.

I’ve realized at this point I’m never getting married or having children, there are no more milestones to come.

I had high hopes that I’d be able to save and buy a home someday, but the real estate market had other plans. I’ve been saving for over 10 years, but prices and now interest rates have doubled in the span of 4 years and insurance now is too, so I’ll never be able to own. If I wasn’t going to have a family, I just wanted a home to put up some ceiling fans in and hopefully a yard to put some  in and maybe. Garage to work on projects in, but even that is not going to happen.

If I’m not going to have a house I need to get rid of my lighting and fan collection and I’m just overwhelmed as to what to do with it all.

I don’t have any siblings and none of the rest of the family really has anything to do with us much. All of my grandparents are gone now except one grandmother. My parents are approaching 70 and aren’t doing very great. I live with them and I’m not sure what’s going to happen to them or where I’m going to end up. I worry something will happen to them and I won’t be able to care for them.

I’m just really having a hard time keeping up hope, everyone around me is extremely negative. I used to be a happy positive, and maybe a bit too much of a “head in the clouds” type person but something changed and now I’m not.

I’m getting to where I’m just sick of getting up and going to work everyday when it’s the same sad evening when I get home and nothing to do on the weekend. I have an ok job but it doesn’t pay enough for my own home, etc.

All I ever do on the weekends is go to thrift stores and flea markets and I’m tired of it. I don’t know what else to do. I’m just too old to make new in person friends, and most people my age have kids and spouses and only want to hang out with similar people. And I live in a small town and nobody wants anything to do with you unless you come from a popular or “big name” family and have lots of money.

I wish I had friends and got to go on trips and vacations like my old friends do. And I wish my parents were still healthy.

Anyway, maybe TMI but I just had to vent a bit. 🙁

Thanks! I may not post or comment much, but I'll stick around for the foreseeable future.

these types show up on EBAY sometimes and you might find someone with drivers listed separately but the Chinese ones where often sold as a kit and NOT separate

In the case of the video it's just an old type of governor. Because at startup the RPM is not at the set value, the engine gets maximum injection and because it's not yet at speed, the air/fuel mixture is incredibly rich causing the smoke.
This can be prevented with basic electronically controlled injection systems, which don't just put fuel to 100% on startup.

A similar situation happens when you have a turbodiesel that you suddenly load up. First the governor opens, and only after the turbo spools up, you'll have a good air/fuel ratio again, and the smoke fully disappears.

Petrol engines should never smoke. If they do, they're burning oil. During starting you definitely get exhaust gases coming out of the tailpipe but no smoke. Water vapor can very much be exhausted, if it's quite humid and cold. but that often goes away within 10 minutes or so.

I know that car petrol engines starts to exhaust gases and smoke only after the starting and not during the starting judging by the noise of the exhaust. I've heard this with my father Subaru XV crossover.
Why is this?

Eric, thank you for stickin around. It's a pleasure to have you here.

Here are Iwasaki LED lamps:
https://www.eye.co.jp/lighting/sources/led/

So why sodium iodide have lower vapor pressure than metallic sodium? (In HPS lamps, the sodium vaporizes easily, while in my BLV Colorlite HIT-DE 70W Orange lamp, it takes very long time to vaporize, and the arctube have heat reflective coatings at the ends).

Bare metal is just different material than a compound containing it. The bare atoms tend to attract each other way stronger than the molecules of thallium iodine. The valence electrons like to pair orbits with others. In a bare metal it leads to forming the crystalline structure, but when paired with a halogen atom (I), the electrons are extremely happy so not much forces to other molecules. So easy to release with just a little shake (aka not that high temperature), hence the high vapor pressure...