things n stuff
Jul. 10th, 2024 08:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyYesterday I got the rocket engine tooling done. 2 or 3 hours on the lathe and generally dorking around. I also bought a bit of 2x8 and bolted the arbor press to it. I need to decide if I'm just going to leave the press up north. They're not too expensive and I don't really have a place to put it here anyway.
The remnants of hurrincane Beryl are blowing through. Lots of rain and will be continuing today. Last night the power was out for a couple of hours. The batteries were already down to the 25% reserve so we only got a couple of hours on them before they hit 10% and the inverter stopped. I moved the system to backup only this morning and it's charging from mains, since there's no way we're getting enough sun today to charge them at all and I'd like to have topped up batteries if the power goes out again.
I had thought about building a modest trebuchet, a new design I saw online, to take up north. I do have time to do it.
The lawn needed mowing yesterday. It's going to be very ragged by the time the rain stops and the lawn dries out.
Jenn's new PC is arriving today. I'll need to do some data copying but mostly it should just be ready to go. I bought a 4T SSD to drop into it for storage. I also need to set up backup to the NAS. I think before now it was just backing up to a separate spinning hard drive in the unit itself.
My PC is back running Linux, which is a relief. I've gotten to the point where I feel Windows is a definite step back, it feels clunky and slow in comparison even on a 20 core i7 12th gen with tons of memory. I was only switching back to Windows because I thought Linux was the cause of some irritating crashes.
However, the crashes were traced down to a bad memory stick. Crucial is replacing it, meanwhile I'm running in "only" 32GB and things are solid again.
While I was messing with warranty replacements, I pinged WD on the 256G SD card I sent back to them in April. They turned out to have just forgotten about it somehow, and are replacing it with their super high performance version as a "sorry."
I saw something on FB on the Yamaha Tracer group, went out and checked and sure enough, the tail tidy I put on the Tracer keeps the luggage from being mounted. I don't think any tail tidy would work with that luggage. So I put the regular tail/plate mount back on again.
I also put in a brake light flasher. I'm not super happy with the flasher, I think I could do a better pattern but until I decide to mess with it I'll just use the $8 Amazon version.
I bought an ST2 brake module - it's supposed to activate the brake light when you engine brake/downshift. It advertises as having accelerometers and gyros and has algorithms to decide when to light. This is all lies. It's a friggin' steel ball tilt switch and some simple analog circuitry to drive a relay. It's useless junk that flashes the brake light spastically whenever you hit the slightest bump in the road. Removed. Unfortunately their money back guarantee is useless since to use it you have to ship the unit back to Slovenia, which costs > $50. I did go up and find the most-watched ST2 brake videos on YouTube and splashed them all with "this is useless, here's why" and did the same on the Tracer forum. Hopefully saved a few people from wasting their money. A ton of other people had made the same comments and I didn't read them though...
The remnants of hurrincane Beryl are blowing through. Lots of rain and will be continuing today. Last night the power was out for a couple of hours. The batteries were already down to the 25% reserve so we only got a couple of hours on them before they hit 10% and the inverter stopped. I moved the system to backup only this morning and it's charging from mains, since there's no way we're getting enough sun today to charge them at all and I'd like to have topped up batteries if the power goes out again.
I had thought about building a modest trebuchet, a new design I saw online, to take up north. I do have time to do it.
The lawn needed mowing yesterday. It's going to be very ragged by the time the rain stops and the lawn dries out.
Jenn's new PC is arriving today. I'll need to do some data copying but mostly it should just be ready to go. I bought a 4T SSD to drop into it for storage. I also need to set up backup to the NAS. I think before now it was just backing up to a separate spinning hard drive in the unit itself.
My PC is back running Linux, which is a relief. I've gotten to the point where I feel Windows is a definite step back, it feels clunky and slow in comparison even on a 20 core i7 12th gen with tons of memory. I was only switching back to Windows because I thought Linux was the cause of some irritating crashes.
However, the crashes were traced down to a bad memory stick. Crucial is replacing it, meanwhile I'm running in "only" 32GB and things are solid again.
While I was messing with warranty replacements, I pinged WD on the 256G SD card I sent back to them in April. They turned out to have just forgotten about it somehow, and are replacing it with their super high performance version as a "sorry."
I saw something on FB on the Yamaha Tracer group, went out and checked and sure enough, the tail tidy I put on the Tracer keeps the luggage from being mounted. I don't think any tail tidy would work with that luggage. So I put the regular tail/plate mount back on again.
I also put in a brake light flasher. I'm not super happy with the flasher, I think I could do a better pattern but until I decide to mess with it I'll just use the $8 Amazon version.
I bought an ST2 brake module - it's supposed to activate the brake light when you engine brake/downshift. It advertises as having accelerometers and gyros and has algorithms to decide when to light. This is all lies. It's a friggin' steel ball tilt switch and some simple analog circuitry to drive a relay. It's useless junk that flashes the brake light spastically whenever you hit the slightest bump in the road. Removed. Unfortunately their money back guarantee is useless since to use it you have to ship the unit back to Slovenia, which costs > $50. I did go up and find the most-watched ST2 brake videos on YouTube and splashed them all with "this is useless, here's why" and did the same on the Tracer forum. Hopefully saved a few people from wasting their money. A ton of other people had made the same comments and I didn't read them though...
