Start a project and find a project

So Monday I quit work, and have being camping out in the driveway at Mom & Dad's. While trying to make myself use full  and not spend a lot of money. So I try and find thing to do.

Yesterday I noticed the fridge was looking a little dirty. So I started with removing all if the magnets off and scrubbing it down and painting the chipped paint. Then putting a healthy coat of mold blocker. After all of that EV-250 was like clean the coils. I think EV-250 like to watch me suffer.

After popping off the vent cover and seening the herd of dust bunnies hugging the coils I knew this had to be done. Started off with a shop-vac and got some of the herd, but a lot of the old bunnies held on tight. So I ran an air hose in to the house and cranked the psi up to 120 and put the air blower. I think EV-250 is leaning sarcasm, as he said "Go for it genius." Smart ass.

Well to may a long story short I got the coils clean and eat dust bunny for lunch. But then I had to dust the rest of the kitchen and mop the floor 2 or 3 times as the dust settled.

Move on

When is it time to move on to the next job?

I personally feel if you more then 1/2 apply move on:
If you are starting to think about doing stupid things, then it may be time to move on.
If you wake-up and hate the idea of going to work, might be time to move on.
If you can't stay focused on the work at work, might be time to move on.
If causing trouble at work is the only joy you get, then it might be time to move on.
If you feel you have to censer you self all day, then it might be time to move on.
If opening Outlook brings more discomfort then stabbing yourself, it might be time to move on.
If you feel I.C.P. is speaking to you in one of their songs, it might be time to move on (plus seek      mental health).
If trying to find a way back to Iraq is starting to sound like a fun vacation, it might be time to move  on (no joke seek mental health).
If you look at management and want to say "I think Pol Pot was on to something", don't say it but it  maybe time to move on.
If you feel printing off a bunch of pictures of Charles Manson to every printer is a good idea, it  maybe time to move on (if anyone ask tell them "what you don't like uncle Chuck").

Wiring Batteries 101

A guy at work was asking about wiring up batteries, so I made these visuals to help hope others can find them useful.

Stop Reinventing the Wheel

So I came up with this idea to kick my computer from the solar system to a other power system. Originally I came up with the huge power transfer system where I gut out a mid size UPS and put all of that with a over-sized battery and manual power input selector switch in a custom built box. One issue I had was how do I safely construct a power input selector switch.

So, I had to brush up on basic electrical circuit construction. I found a On-Off-On SPDT switch, I used a shared ground wire and a shared negative(-) wire put the switch on the positive(+) wire. I put the junction and the switch in a 6"x 6"x 6" PVC Electrical box. The Cords I got from junked electronics at work.

I decided not to hard wire the UPS into this box so I could make it a little more modular,


Here is a down and dirty wiring diagram (below).

Rocking to sleep

Last night while I was going to sleep a powerful cross wind hit the van and got it rocking. It reminded me of sleeping on the sail boats in the summer when I was in scouting. Hope this happens more.

Snow is Dirty

So left Utah this morning with the goal of get out of Colorado. While going through the Vail Pass we got caught in a little ice and snow storm. It is amazing how driving in the desert not much dirt 20mph in the snow for 3 hours looks like I was out mudding.

North vs South

So North and South Nevada are dramatic different. I may be looking more in the southern part, or look into Arizona.