How (and why) to Ramble on your goat sideways
Serious question for northern folk:
Anypony here ever use one of these new-fangled LiIon portable jumper packs?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IQK6LI0?psc=1
Do they really maintain a useful charge for many months of storage untouched in a freezing cold trunk?
Asking for a friend whose '04 with a six month old East-Penn battery almost didn't start tonight, despite the temperature being well above 0°F. (Yes, he knows to check the alternator output under load. No, he hasn't done it yet because he can't find his damn Fluke 77 at the moment.)
Anypony here ever use one of these new-fangled LiIon portable jumper packs?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IQK6LI0?psc=1
Do they really maintain a useful charge for many months of storage untouched in a freezing cold trunk?
Asking for a friend whose '04 with a six month old East-Penn battery almost didn't start tonight, despite the temperature being well above 0°F. (Yes, he knows to check the alternator output under load. No, he hasn't done it yet because he can't find his damn Fluke 77 at the moment.)
Originally Posted by Joe Perez
Serious question for northern folk:
Anypony here ever use one of these new-fangled LiIon portable jumper packs?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IQK6LI0?psc=1
Do they really maintain a useful charge for many months of storage untouched in a freezing cold trunk?
Asking for a friend whose '04 with a six month old East-Penn battery almost didn't start tonight, despite the temperature being well above 0°F. (Yes, he knows to check the alternator output under load. No, he hasn't done it yet because he can't find his damn Fluke 77 at the moment.)
Anypony here ever use one of these new-fangled LiIon portable jumper packs?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IQK6LI0?psc=1
Do they really maintain a useful charge for many months of storage untouched in a freezing cold trunk?
Asking for a friend whose '04 with a six month old East-Penn battery almost didn't start tonight, despite the temperature being well above 0°F. (Yes, he knows to check the alternator output under load. No, he hasn't done it yet because he can't find his damn Fluke 77 at the moment.)
Bought it on Amazon Prime. I'll try and update with a link when I get home later.
Edit: This is the one I have but unavailable now.
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Remove the top hat things if you want the rail as low as possible....................
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I've been looking all over the place for one of my 1TB external hard drives for days. Turned my office upside-down, searched every spot in the house I could think of, dug all through my car... Finally found it this morning in a drawer in the kitchen. Under what circumstances did I think that the drawer next to the silverware was an appropriate spot to put a hard drive?
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If so, I'm gonna pick one up. Temps are getting down into the 0°-10°F range (supposed to be -15° on Sunday) and it's getting really hard to start in the evening after work. On the plus side, I found the Fluke this evening.
Hard to believe that something that tiny and light can deliver enough juice to turn an engine...
Fun fact: suction-cup windshield mounts don't work at all at 9°F.
I've been looking all over the place for one of my 1TB external hard drives for days. Turned my office upside-down, searched every spot in the house I could think of, dug all through my car... Finally found it this morning in a drawer in the kitchen. Under what circumstances did I think that the drawer next to the silverware was an appropriate spot to put a hard drive?
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It's entirely possible. I still haven't found the cable for it (9 pin USB3 micro-B) of which I only own one. It's backwards-compatible with USB2 cables, but... USB3.
Ah, well... The replacement OptiPlex 7040 should be here tomorrow, and the ASUS touchscreen arrived today, so we'll see how hard its going to be to un-**** myself from yesterday's fiasco.
Oh, and progress:
This should be the last custom part I need to have fabbed to make it all go together:
Ordered 16 of them, should be here in about a week.
Ah, well... The replacement OptiPlex 7040 should be here tomorrow, and the ASUS touchscreen arrived today, so we'll see how hard its going to be to un-**** myself from yesterday's fiasco.
Oh, and progress:
This should be the last custom part I need to have fabbed to make it all go together:
Ordered 16 of them, should be here in about a week.
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This was right in front of my driveway today. I pulled the truck out of the road, and the merc out of the ditch. It is a **** show. Road is solid ice. I drove up through the field instead of the road.
I just looked for the highest power rating at the time.
https://smile.amazon.com/uxcell-Port...starter+jumper
https://smile.amazon.com/NOCO-GB40-U...starter+jumper
I don't miss snow.
In other news, I saved big and scored an ACDELCO map sensor replacement on amazon. What's weird is when I checked a while ago it was more expensive than rock auto. Now it's $60 less on amazon, Order Sent!
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^They'd still be alive if they were driving an appropriate speed for the conditions.
It's like the idiots that complain, "Why can't I drive 85 in a torrential downpour on Star Specs? These tires suck!"
It's like the idiots that complain, "Why can't I drive 85 in a torrential downpour on Star Specs? These tires suck!"
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Being a firefighter in the winter is always amusing.
People are at peak stupidity when it is cold, or really anytime the weather is bad.
My "house" is pretty in the winter:
Also, my dog likes snow:
People are at peak stupidity when it is cold, or really anytime the weather is bad.
My "house" is pretty in the winter:
Also, my dog likes snow:
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For ****'s sake... WGN just interrupted a rerun of Family Guy to tell me that some bunch of dudes hit a little round rubber disc into a net with a stick while wearing ice skates more times than some other bunch of dudes, and now every single living human in Chicago is out in the streets shouting, honking their horns, playing "Chelsea Dagger" by The Fratellis as loud as possible, etc., and it's driving me batshit crazy as I sit here in my hotel room trying to think of some new way to **** with 92verty's head.
And I think I just heard gunfire.
And I think I just heard gunfire.
Six and a half years after this post, I'm the director of engineering at WGN, and responsible for making sure that the aforementioned news of a bunch of dudes hitting a little round rubber disc into a net with a stick more times than some other bunch of dudes is nationally televised.
Life is weird...