We’d been watching the Rivian company for a while.. We’d seen the R1T (the truck) and the R1S (the SUV) in pictures and videos online. There was a lot of interest in Rivian, Amazon and Ford both had sizable investments in the company. But, we hadn’t seen any hard numbers Read more…
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…
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…
A bit of a heads up, this is a verbose post. After being stuck in Gary Indiana for 4 days, and getting the rebuilt fan drive gear box installed, we were understandably eager to get on the road. It was late in the day ( 5:30pm ), but we wanted Read more…