Question about glazing

[LenaLoyd]

The Best Baby Monitors in This year: Best Products Reviews

As much as we would love to be right by our children's side 24/7, it is impossible to ask. If it’s not because of job or social call, a chore would keep us occupied in another part of the house.

So how will we know when our children need something or want our attention? Or worse, how do we know when they’re about to get into trouble or are in trouble?

Before the existence of the top-rated video baby monitors , there was no easy answer for this. But now that we have these handy baby monitoring systems to keep tabs on the children, a good baby monitor is an absolute essential for any newborn-rearing parent out there.

In this video baby monitor reviews, we have a few models for you to consider.

Infant Optics DXR-8

Although the Infant Optics DXR-8 has been out on the market for a couple years now, this video and audio baby monitor still hasn’t lost its attractiveness. The DXR-8 has an easy on the pocket starting price and for what you paid for, it does the job pretty well.

It has a separate parent unit that’s relatively easy to use. The parent unit can automatically pair itself with the security camera unit and if you want to expand your surveillance network with more cameras, you can pair with three more (for a total of four) DXR-8 cameras. You have to buy all of the extra cameras separately, of course.

The camera unit has a zoom lens that allows you to take a closer look at the nursery or the baby.

Unfortunately, when it comes to video quality, the DXR-8’s camera unit is quite mediocre. In daytime, it can only be described as “average”. Despite the camera having a night-vision mode, the image quality isn’t all that good. According to many customers, the quality is such that you wouldn’t be able to see the baby’s face. Instead, you’d see the faint outline of the baby in the nursery.

DXR-8 is equipped with temperature sensors to keep you updated on the room temperature and avoid overheating the baby. The battery life of the system is excellent and can last for roughly 12 hours.

Nanit Plus

If you want to go all out on best baby monitors on the market for baby, definitely take the Nanit Plus into consideration.

Unlike the Infant Optics DXR-8 which offers only the most basic functions of a monitor system, the Nanit Plus also provides you with the baby’s health data such as their sleep cycle, temperature monitoring, and humidity reading.

In addition, the Nanit Plus also provides vastly better video quality than the DXR-8 with its HD video camera. The microphones are also very sharp and sensitive. They allow you to hear just about everything that occurs inside of the nursery through the parent unit. The microphones— working in tandem with the speakers on the camera unit— give you two-way communication with your child. You can talk to them and they can respond to you regardless of where you are in the house.

But there are two flaws with the Nanit Plus. The first is that the starting price is quite expensive. Furthermore, if you want to have sleep tracking enabled, you have to pay a subscription fee after the first year.

Conclusion

These are currently the best rated baby monitors  on the market. Whatever your choice is, rest assured that they are the best in the category and will definitely satisfy!

[JohnnyK]

Hi Lena and welcome to the forum...Amaco PC glazes are great for layering, but Amaco does not recommend brushing over dipped glazes. Have you purchased glazes designated for dipping or are you dipping into their brushing glaze (which is what you get with the pint size jars). They are 2 different animals. One of the things that you'll find when exploring the forum here is all kinds of things that potters have done over time, but in most cases, they recommend that what you do is test, test, test. What you can do here is try (test) what you want to do and see what kind of result you get. Record all the steps that you do from start to finish so that when you find something that works, you will be able to repeat the results. I've been using PC glazes for for more that 5 years and have come up with some really great combinations that work well for me and I'm continually experimenting with different layering combos to see what kind of results I get. Some are fantastic and some less so. You can see some of what I have done with the PC combos in my album and I'd be happy to share how I achieved what you see there. On Amaco's website under layering, you can find a myriad of layering combinations which you can use as starting points (but don't believe the photo for the PC33 over PC31...I have yet to achieve that look). Is there a particular combo that you are trying?

[Min]

Problem with putting a brushing glaze over a dipped glaze is the first layer of glaze has the chance of getting lifted or dragged along with the brushing glaze. You need to harden up the surface of the dipping glaze so this doesn't happen. On a test tile I would try dipping the tile in your dipping glaze, wait for it to totally dry then spray it hairspray. Don't soak it so it runs, a misting of hairspray should be enough. Once this is dry try brushing some of the brushing glaze on and see if it works. Other than hairspray if you can get some spray laundry starch that should work too.

[neilestrick]

You will be okay brushing on top if the glaze you dipped was purchased as a wet mix, since it will have the necessary hardeners in it to keep the first layer from being disturbed by brushing on it. However if you mixed the dipped layer from powder, you will probably mess up the first layer when you try to brush on top of it. You can dab spots or drizzle lines on it, but stroking with a brush will likely mess it up.

[Chilly]

Test, test, test.  And put cookies/catchers under your test pots, on case you find a combination that runs off the pot.