| 10/2/2008
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Building the display components
The new display still needs the black plastic bezel and metal sun shield. I made a fixture for drilling the led holes and the cover attachment tapped holes.
I sheared the 1" strips, and deburred the edges.
I made a punch fixture that bends the metal sun sh... more |
| 10/2/2008
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PLUG in adapters for fan and current sensor
After striking out on identifying a source for the socket side of the fan and current sensor connectors, I needed to figure out how to make 500 male female pins for the 3 pin and 2 pin connectors. I want the adapters to securely support the harness connec... more |
| 9/22/2008
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Community day
Community day festival in Thompson CT will be held in Riverside park. Since this is just a mile from my place, we are planing to bring a lot of cool stuff.
If the weather is good(sunny), we will bring the small solar cooker, and some solar demos, my car, ... more |
| 9/19/2008
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More improvements to the dish
Had a couple of batches of tomatoes to can, so while waiting for the water to boil, I welded up a solar panel mount, so the solar panel can be attached to the dish permanently. Since the simple servo is not smart enough to find the sun each morning, I can ... more |
| 9/7/2008
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fast pack rebalancing 101
Ron Hansen drove his space alien green insight up from NY, so we could try to rebalance his battery pack.
He was having very frequent negative and then positive recals, and almost always saw a charge.
The car was rebuilt from a salvage, so Honda would not ... more |
| 9/6/2008
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IMA motor temp
With MIMA a lot of assist can be sent to the IMA motor, but we have no way to know if it is getting too hot.
A thermal probe could be attached to the magnet structure by drilling a small hole in the side case right where the case is in the closest proximit... more |
| 9/2/2008
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Hybrid gathering
A day of all things hybrid. Meet the people that you know from the forums. If the weather is good, we can cook some dogs and burgers on my solar cooker
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| 8/26/2008
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getting it fixed
Nephew Troy and I pulled the door on the blue Insight, removed the door handle /lock assembly, removed the mirror drive mechanism.
We put the mirror drive in my mirror, so I could have a good rear view mirror. We pulled my door handle, and replaced it wit... more |
| 8/26/2008
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canning season is here again
Sue picked a huge crop of cucumbers, and wanted to make some pickles.
We did the first batch of 7 quarts on the electric stove. The canning pot took a full hour to reach boiling, then 5 minutes at boil for a total of nearly 2KWh to preserve them.
I prepare... more |
