...he’s an engineer from Seattle...I’d estimate that Robert spent over $1,500,000 just building his home. Maybe even 2 million.

A former U.S. president defecting there would be a huge boon for Kim Jong-Un.

I got my own world to live through
And I ain’t going to copy you

White-collared conservatives
Flashing down the street
Pointing their plastic finger at me
They’re hoping soon, my kind will drop and die
But I’m going to wave
My freak flag high, high!

Right now my block I’d say is 50% EV. All of those pulling 40 A during the night is more than air conditioners during the day. What happens when everyone is pulling the high current? Do we have to go to even more staggered times?

I’m not going to do the digging tonight, but there is a ton of material out there, from reputable sources, that deal with both the successful bird mitigation technologies and also the relative comparison of bird strikes on windmills vs. bird strikes on buildings.

I’ve been using Deka batteries for, well, decades now. They typically last 7 years here in NE Ohio, when I change them out just to be safe.

I’ve been using Deka batteries for, well, decades now. They typically last 7 years here in NE Ohio, when I change…

This reminds me of horror stories previously posted in Jalopnik comments about trying to get replacement body parts for the Opel-built Buick TourX wagon. Now, that is even more daunting after GM sold off their Opel division. No thanks, if I want a Miata I’ll buy a Miata.

Does anyone else find it odd that the seller specifies “NO CASH ACCEPTED”?

Auto start/stop starters are beefier

I also have incredibly hard water, and I rent so I have the cheapest dishwasher known to man.

My wife was with me, so the drive from the airport to the hotel was calm. Oddly, I “forgot something” and had to run to the store to grab it...The Dodge at full growl was a handful, but oh so fun. I’d kill myself if I owned one, but was thrilled to have it as a rental.

Earlier this year we bought a new Bosch dishwasher to replace a 14-year-old Kenmore (Whirlpool) which was sounding like it needed a second replacement of its main pump assembly. The Bosch achieves dish drying without the use of an electric heating element like the old one employed. This one also “requires” use…

...supposed to be “Altima or similar” but I got a free upgrade to a Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack

On really cold days, i.e. below +20 degrees F, I’ll let my DD idle after a cold start until the ECM decides it’s OK to go from fast idle to normal idle speed. This is typically a minute or less. Who am I to argue with the GM engineers who wrote the ECM firmware. Otherwise it’s just drive gently as usual until the car…

It would be trivially easy to measure the current draw of the lighting system with any DMM. You have ten units, each with a 3x5 LED array. I’m guessing they are driven as 5 columns of 3 LEDs in series. If you assume 20 mA per LED at full intensity, that’s 100 mA per array, or 1 Amp total. Less than your car audio…

Instead of painted/decal flames coming off the front of the car - lightning bolts.

Like everyone else this year, I bought a webcam around September. After research, I decided on a Logitech C930E. There were a number of online retailers asking $140, but they were all out of stock. For some reason there was a big price jump to $200 and up, and even some of those online sellers had horrible…

Solder-sucker tools *and* solder wick are both valuable components of your PCB repair/replacement tool set. Along with an alcohol pump reservoir, PCB alcohol scrub brush, etc.

Trumps runs again in 2024 against the “do-nothing” Biden admin and wins.

I love the electro-porn photos posted here. More Jalops than I expected appear to have solid electronics skills. The closest I’ve come to this is fixing one of my 28 year old garage door opener control boards last year, by resoldering a broken solder joint on a PCB relay. Signed, retired BSEE/MSEE.