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Showing posts with label solar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label solar. Show all posts
Saturday, May 14, 2016

Saturday the Fourteenth is Jason day

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The wacky stuff that is alleged to happen on Friday the thirteenth finally arrived. Friday itself was quite boring but Saturday... The fir...
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 ...
Saturday, March 26, 2016

Investigations revealed that it's possible

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To put two 15 gallon barrels end on end on one side of the bus but only one on the other side. That's pretty much what I suspected. It...
Saturday, March 12, 2016

Decisions, decisions... And the story of the idea shot down in flames!

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Attaching the 15 gallon drums underneath the bus was intended to be accomplished tomorrow. That won't be happening tomorrow though. Toda...
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...
Sunday, February 21, 2016

Those damn hillbillies!

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Today I looked beside my interior sub panel and discovered I have 9 inches of space between the panel and the woodwork. That gives me ample ...
Friday, February 19, 2016

Conceptualising

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I had opportunity to continue thinking today. Normally, I just don't get a chance to do my own thinking so I have to buy pre-prepared th...
Sunday, February 7, 2016

Meandering toward perfection

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Not feeling much like doing anything today I started by gathering up most of the garbage in the bus and by putting it all out in a big cardb...
Sunday, January 24, 2016

Are rednecks my salvation?

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Today the plan was to practice welding thin steel only that's not how the day unfolded. The day itself was fine - bright, cold and dry. ...
Saturday, January 23, 2016

It's colder than a witches tit today!

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It has been below freezing for several days in a row. It's highly likely that I won't be doing any welding tomorrow. Today was just ...
Sunday, December 27, 2015

One of "those" days *sigh*

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Today was a day when nothing went quite right. I woke with a headache which is never a good portent of things to come. After a leisurely bre...
Saturday, December 26, 2015

Another epiphany

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Toda started with the usual tummyache after eating too much on Christmas day. Then I headed outside to do battle with the metal that I dragg...
Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Small achievements building toward success

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That's the way to do it! Today of note were several achievements in an otherwise dismal, dreary, wet day. I'd like to be able to cla...
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...
Sunday, December 20, 2015

I got me some sugar!

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Yup - after spending a rather unproductive time using soda as a blasting medium with my Harbor Freight air blasting tool, I located a small ...
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...
Sunday, December 13, 2015

Invaders from Mars arrived today.

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Or perhaps that's what m'lady and her dogs thought when they ran, screaming, for the hills when they saw me in my welding outfit. ...
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...
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Power solutions

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Today I saw the perfect solution to my power problem. Lithium ion batteries look perfect. Looking at microwave usage at 1000W power consumpt...
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...