The Rainy Thursday Before Juneteenth 🌧️

It wouldn’t have been a bad weekend to head out of town if my truck was ready, though I think I should get most of the build and wiring put together tomorrow, and maybe next weekend if the weather cooperates which seems increasingly unlikely.

So I am busing it in the this morning, 🚌 as it looks like rain for most of the day on and off. Or mayb not, studying the radar. I’d rather ride in, but the weather looks like kind moist, as they say. The bus and shuttle are pretty slow,  and I don’t love having to go to the Plaza to make the transfer. And the bike gets me home earlier and feeling pumped. 🚲

Yesterday, I got home and was pretty tired 😩 after being up relatively late yesterday. Soldered together the diodes I am going to use for voltage sensing to control the relay between the starting batteries/alternator and the accessory batteries/solar. The idea is when the engine is running, I will charge everything with alternator, and with the sun shining, the solar will top off and maintain everything. 🔋

Driving home after the Pine Bush Meeting and Hike 🦋 I got to say I really like the automatic headlights on the rural roads. A feature I didn’t know my truck even had. They do a good job at dimming automatically, and when the car passes int he other direction, they fade back into the high beam mode. I was surprised how seemless that was, I thought it was more of an LED feature then the halogens my truck has, but truth is a microcontroller can drive incandescent bulbs just as well as it can LEDs and make them fade in and out.