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Showing posts with label power. Show all posts
Showing posts with label power. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Scammed again!

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You've heard me say before about what rubbish these solar cells and wind turbines are on many occasions. I do try every now and then to ...
Sunday, March 27, 2016

What was I thinking?

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That I might actually achieve something today? The first thing I did was to head to the bus to find the tool needed to change the disk on my...
Saturday, March 5, 2016

Bang - ouch - grunt - bang - ouch!

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That was pretty much how my day went. I spent most of the day underneath the bus, fitting the back on the power inlet. Now I'm using a N...
Monday, February 29, 2016

What is that fuzzy plug?

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Yesterday I posted a slightly fuzzy photo of my new inlet in the side of the bus. Many of you will not have seen a connector such as that be...
Saturday, February 27, 2016

Unexpected achievements and a bad Kahr.

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Today was, I had thought, going to be a day of zero progress on the bus. How wrong I was. I did most of the things I intended to do for tomo...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

What a day!

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Two entries - would you even believe it? Yes - today has been exceedingly eventful. What with no electricity in the morning followed by inte...

My first meal

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Today, just as dawn was breaking and the cock was crowing there was a power cut in m'lady's household. That, for her means no water,...
Saturday, February 6, 2016

More welding excitement

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Reading about welding last night, I found the difference between 6011 and 6013 rods is that 6011 is a penetrating steel that will flow into ...
Saturday, January 9, 2016

A rainy day

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I blundered today. When I went out to the bus, it was dry. While I was inside, it began to rain. I had hoped to derust the other side of my ...
Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Rainy day at the Chicken Ranch!

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No - not that  kind of chicken ranch - the kind that actually has chickens that lay eggs! It's pouring down rain like there's no tom...
Monday, December 21, 2015

Interesting!

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I looked today more closely at my tyres. It seems that somebody has put 11R 22.5 on the back but 10R 22.5 on the front. Checking the inormat...
Saturday, December 19, 2015

Progressing again

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Now that work has put up the shutters for the next two weeks, I can apply myself fully to working on the bus. Yesterday though I made a slig...
Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Research is interesting!

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It seems that super capacitor technology hasn't been fully embraced yet. Having said that, there are portable car starting units that ar...
Saturday, November 28, 2015

Danger, danger danger!

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This is why air conditioner engineers make extremely bad electricians! Look at the bare wire to the right. It looks like an earth wire but ...
Friday, November 20, 2015

Ouch!

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Yes. I might have to lie down in a darkened room for a few weeks. I went shopping and it was expensive! My 10-2 electric cable was double wh...
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Walmart had a sale

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In that sale there was a roll of foam bedroll for $8. Very useful stuff! I bought a roll and will use it to make a honeycomb to put in my dr...
Saturday, November 14, 2015

An interesting day!

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The primary goal of heading out today was to get my car serviced, which happened this week. Now I don't have to worry about it all. Sure...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

The Power Budget

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The reason I'm putting in a 120V plugin is because solar and battery power are so horribly expensive. The reason I'm going with a bu...
Sunday, November 1, 2015

The new plan

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Today I went onto the bus and fixed some warped hardboard which had warped due to the water ingress from the leaking roof last month. The d...
Monday, September 21, 2015

Caulked

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Today before work, I completed caulking around the shower base. That's not going to be moving anywhere on its own now. The next thing wi...
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