10-10-2010, 07:26 PM
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Ok, now for some more irony. As it turns out, I ASSume too much. The woefully inadequate part had not failed at all!! In fact, I could probably have put another decade on it! Anyway, I feel safer knowing a more robust part is there to replace it. So now, what part failed?? It was the lousy, good-for-nothing, weak Curtis-Albright gazillion amp SW-200 contactor. No problem, I have a shiny new Kilovac to replace it. So I was about to replace it when I thought to myself: these are rebuildable. Maybe I could take it apart......
Last edited by vpoppv; 10-11-2010 at 01:42 AM..
Reason: as it turns out, I wrote as it turns out 3 times
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10-10-2010, 07:38 PM
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I think you have bug in the system.  |
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10-10-2010, 07:48 PM
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That actually IS the origin of computer bug.
In the early days of electro-mechanical computers, they realized a calculation was off. They dug through all the switches and found that there was "a bug in the program".
I imagine it looked just like that.
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10-12-2010, 04:25 PM
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Original computer 'bug' found by Grace Hopper, US Navy. (Spot the geek, spot the geek, arrrgh, he's on the left...)
Apologies for demanding this thread be flown to Cuba - Ben - can I get a cost for your leccy car DVD to the UK please ? Apologies if this is obvious but I am not at home and limited internet. Although Ironically I am watching your conversion series presentation on YouTube and I can't get to 300mpg. Don't you love some people's ideas about internet security 
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10-12-2010, 05:00 PM
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Quote:
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Apologies for demanding this thread be flown to Cuba - Ben - can I get a cost for your leccy car DVD to the UK please ?
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In favor of NOT hijacking threads, I have private messaged you.
Anyone else interested in the DVDs can learn more at 300MPG.org. |
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10-12-2010, 05:23 PM
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Apologies, I should have done that. But where I am PM is verboten.
I shall check when I get home.
Ta muchly.
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10-12-2010, 07:04 PM
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one of those caught on fire in my bug zapper, almost took the whole garage down. They sure have a talent for this trouble-making.
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10-24-2010, 04:52 PM
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I MISSED MY ANNIVERSARY!!!!!
5 days ago was the 1 year anniversary of my first test drive. I must admit that I never thought this car would have made it this long. I also thought I would have EV2 on the road and be working on EV3 by now  Perhaps I would have been better off it I HAD exploded the motor by now  EV's are just too indestructable- ok, well I guess a MOTH is not exactly the most threatening creature that ever lived, but it was enough to humble my work.....
One thing is for sure: not a day goes by that I don't love my car.
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10-24-2010, 08:38 PM
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Quote:
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One thing is for sure: not a day goes by that I don't love my car.
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It's true!
Everyone once in a while, I don't get to drive my car for a while. (Like this last week, which I spent most of at the hospital....in a good way: new baby)
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11-02-2010, 03:44 AM
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This is freaking awesome.
If I were not an unemployed poor broke (insert weathless adjective here) college student living at my godfathers house, I would like to do something like what you have done.
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