Fucking flyback ⚡
Just to reinforce the true madness in my mind, I yelled out those words when the LED burnt out in the indicator I had built to show when the solar is charging the starting battery or the alternator is charging the accessory battery. But I then replaced the LED and wired a diode in reverse direction, and this should not only protect the LED but also the replacement XY-CD60 charge/discharge controller which I managed to crash up at camp pushing buttons on it.
Still no bike, as I was sick on Wednesday 🤮 and did not get to the bike store after work, as I was really dying, half feeling like puking out my brains, half awake with a headache, 🤯 and just barely awake and conscious at the end of the day. Thursday I worked from home then went in late, as I had a meeting downtown, catered by DiBella’s Subs which made for lunch and dinner. 🥪 I took the broken derailuer off except for the part with the chain on as I want to get a proper, quality Quick Link tool rather then breaking the Quick Link and having to get another one. Tomorrow at 10 AM I will head over Steiner Sports in Glenmont and/or MadDawg Bicycle to see if they have a replacement derailuer from old stock or similar compatible part that is authentic and a Quick Link tool, if not I’ll order online but I am dubious about bike parts found online at this point, 🧑🔧 I got burnt last time I ordered from the Amazon.
I’ve been trying to get to bed early 🛏️ and sleeping in later and just recovering. Really I fell behind on everything when I spent six nights in wilderness, plus not having the bike 🚵♀️ and having to ride the yokel local bus 🚐 to work all week ground my gears, well except for that stressful day driving the SUPER DUTY to work on Wednesday. I got gas for it, ⛽ as it was lower then expected, but so far gas hasn’t surged again up now that the Iran War is back on 🇮🇷, you suckers at the gas pump, as the Trumpster says. Yesterday, I got logged out of the CDTA Bus App and had to pay $2 cash to ride the bus downtown. Sucks but the alternative was taking the SuperDuty and having to ask nicely to park in the downtown lot. Or paying to park. Going to order a new Navigator Card soon as the app kind of sucks – it’s so dependent on your phone working. 📱 Rescheduled my dentist 🦷 appointment to October 1st, my teeth have tar on them from all the weed I smoked when I was up north playing hokey from work 👷♂️ as the list of shit to get done added up to the point where I just wanted to puke on Wednesday afternoon. 🤮
It would be a nice weekend to get out of town 🔧 but I want to get the bike 🚵♂️ back on the road, finish cleaning out Big Red 🛻 and get him listed and sold. I might go kayaking 🛶 on Saturday evening down at Henry Hudson Park 🏞️ and maybe some fishing 🎣. But maybe I’ll take off next Friday and head out to Schoharie to hike, swim and camp 🏕️. You can feel summer fading fast – soon enough the evenings will be growing shorter and on July 29th 🌇 it’s off to the Finger Lakes until mid August. Then there is only a few weekends left until Labor Day Weekend probably spent up on Hardwood Hill in Speculator. Sunset before 7:30. How fast the summer days come and go.
But while I don’t have the CB radio or the circuit wired for power 🪫 in the cab, with the starting voltage display and the charging indicator working I think the truck wiring project is done enough for now. It will be good for summer vacation. 🩴 I can be annoyed that one voltage gauge I had didn’t work but the other one I installed is a bigger and easier to read display so it’s a good reassurance indicator even if it should not be neccessary except maybe during winter camping ❄️ when I should hit the remote start to avoid over discharging the starting battery. 🪫
