Good Morning!!!! 76F @ 9:00AM. Abundant sunshine. High 96F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
We're under an Excessive Heat Watch through early next week, with daytime highs well into the hundreds. I'd usually be riding on a three day gypsy tour Labor Day weekend, but this year's event has been another CV19 casualty. Saw temps of 117F last time I did it, mostly due to poor routing chosen by the organizers. It's cool on the coast, and in the mountains, but for some reason they kept us down in the valleys.:confused3:
Still no sign of the o'scope, and there's been no tracking update since 8/30, when it was transferred from UPS to the USPS. So much for free Amazon two day shipping. I was a little concerned about the complexity of it, but downloaded a copy of the owner's manual and think I have figured out how to capture the current sag from the A/C compressor. That's one reason I wanted a large memory: 60,000 samples/minute to get adequate definition on the 60 Hz waveform on an event with a poorly defined start time. I'll be using a thumb drive to move the data over to the laptop for plotting; I think the Ethernet interface would take forever. If that price had been missing a zero, Drew, I wouldn't have bought it.:laughing:
Sounds like the more you think about your current situation, Drew, the more possibilities open up to you. That's not a bad position to be in.:thumbsup:
Today's picture made me sneeze just lookin' at it, Ron.:laughing:
When I purchased E0 last summer, David, it was close to six bux a gallon. Very hard to find anyone selling it, and they charge a premium price.
Good to hear your A/C is back on line, Phil. Bad deal on the bad installation instructions, though. Sure wasted a lot of that tech's time.
Another 65 CV19 cases diagnosed yesterday here, bringing the total to over 2200. And now the CDC says that the testing is too sensitive? I'd rather see the numbers spike like this, knowing that people with a diagnosis are being quarantined instead of being left on the streets to spread it around.
Two more Battery Savers showed up yesterday, for the two dirt bikes stored out in the box trailer. The two batteries in those bikes showed zero volts when I hooked up the chargers, which was no surprise since they've been sitting at least six months. I put one on an old style trickle charger overnight, but I'm not expecting any miracles. But once I replace the batteries, they'll stay hooked up to the Battery Savers, and no more worries about dead batteries.
Gave the van a good washing yesterday morning before it got too warm, and shortly after that the evap system parts arrived from Las Vegas. I dug out a drawing from the company that made the Subaru swap parts, and it left me with a few questions about how the evap parts were installed. So I gave the company a call and it didn't take very long for the gal on the other end of the phone to guess who my ex-mechainc was. She has talked to many others in my boat that are having to undo his work to get past the smog tests this year. That got me thinking about a Plan B, where I just license the van out of state. A quick google search turned up a firm in Montana that will set up an LLC to establish residency, and then facilitate the transfer of the van's title and licensing under ownership of the LLC, a process which they say is entirely legal. That was late in the day, so some phone time is needed for additional clarification. They also offer a very inexpensive mail/parcel forwarding service, which could also come in handy when buying such things as freeze proof windshield washer fluid and other such nanny state disapproved essentials.
Hang in there, gang, Friday's comin'!
