On Saturday, Oct 1, we departed Las Vegas, NV on our way to Rusty’s RV Ranch in Rodeo, NM… As typical, we had our car hauler pulled out and waiting for us, hooked up, loaded the Model S into the hauler, then headed down the road. As our TPMS started Read more…
The evening was Sept 28th… I was looking over various readings in my Home-Assistant instance and something caught my eye. Wait.. our chassis batteries were at… 4.6v ? Clearly, that couldn’t be right… I have them on a dedicated 145 watt solar panel to maintain them. Surely, they were fine? Read more…
Well, that was short lived.. The 2022 Model S is the 2nd shortest ownership experience we’ve ever had with a vehicle.
You may remember that about 4 years ago, we built a remote observatory – we lovingly call the AstroShed. In the 3 years, through a combination of poor timing and poor weather ( for astronomy ), the AstroShed had sat mostly dormant, with only 7 completed photo projects: Now, these Read more…
While relocating my astronomy observatory, I routinely had extra bits in pockets. I tried to be diligent and ensure the pockets were always empty when I put clothes in the laundry area, but… alas, I missed something. The first expression of this lapse came from a phone call. I was Read more…
Another little issue that popped up during our drive back from Byron, NY to Las Vegas, NV — our dash AC stopped working! Which, was unfortunate, since it died as we were dropping down through Utah and into Nevada – in August. I’d been noticing an oddity for a while, Read more…