Lol yup that is what a buddy of mine said.. "could fit a sub in that basket"
@Steve_Lee said:
. . . Electric motor too - could mount a solar panel overhead for canopy . . . battery in the basket . . .
Electric motor is the giant black front wheel hub. Battery mount is indeed in the basket.. Just happened to have the battery removed in the pic.
Mounted the speed controller just under the seat (silver box). The black box under that (in previous pics) I added to shove the connectors and extra wiring in. Tidies it up and keeps moisture away from the connectors.
Solar is a whole different can o worms. Modern lithium batteries hold a ton of power, so a small solar panel that would fit on a trike would probably take a week of full sun for one full charge. However, since the batteries hold so much it should last far far more than sporatic use of a weekend at the campground anyway. Not a big deal to plug it into the charger every great once in a while for 6hrs. Also lithiums don't like to be constantly at max charge, which depending on the situation solar would potentially often be trying to do. IMO solar was a better idea for lead acid batteries in this type of use since they have less capacity that solar can supplement, and don't mind being charged up to and held up against full capacity (they basically like it that way).
Depends ... electronics have all the ul certs and CA approvals to run parallel with grid, but our poco is not solar friendly. Asked for all documentation before starting the build and the maths looked like a 20kw inverter+panels and battery diy system could break even in <10yrs plus. It took a couple years to get from a small'ish offgrid system that only ran the shop to a system capable of covering most of our total shop+home usage. In the meantime, poco changed their rules and regs concerning 'member generators' that drastically affected the payback period. Following new regs concerning running parallel with the grid, the normal solar system would break even sometime shortly before the sun burns through all its nuclear fuel. Cut that time in half if diy, but it's still not really a $ viable alternative.
So, plans changed. Moved the hvac over to solar this spring. Next project is to tear up an interior wall, add another electrical panel, and start moving loads from the 'grid' fed panel to a 'solar' fed panel. It would have been so much easier and way less expensive, to have just flipped a switch on the electronics and ran parallel with grid.
c/est la vie
Anywho, have enough battery and inverter to run all essentials for several days with no solar input, with solar indefinitely. Since the electrical bill has fallen considerably and they have me on record concerning 'member generation', I expect them to show up at the door with a cease and desist or disconnect demand any day, even though the solar stuff is not connected to their grid, it 'could' be connected and I'm afraid they will use that to base their demand.
Hopefully I got the worst of it. The northeast corner of my house was crunched lost some shingles metal roofed carport is destroyed and my backup vehicle got some damage. No big deal, inshurance will take care of it.
Ken, so sorry to see you got hit! Glad there was not more damage, you are safe and still have power. I hope you have good luck dealing with the insurance company.
Anyone familiar with Makita XTR01Z 18V compact router? I had some stuff in the makita ecosystem, many of their items not good as remember back 10-25 years ago. I'm fan of Bosch hand held power tools these days. Must say, never again with electric mower where at least yielded enough selling off to cover buying a honda gas mower couple years back - love the double blade mulching.
Anyway, about had enough with this one as bit keeps sliding ever so slightly f'ing up depth set. Went back to using 20+ year old porter cable corded router with milescraft jig. Plus annoying on the compact router that cant use the bigger roundover bits and prefer to just leave the jig mounted on the porter cable, and trust it's depth set and start with a twist to plunge to avoid that dimple. Though sometimes messes up with menards particle board where the screw develops some play and end up with mild elliptical effect.
So, 3d printed some rings to try template routing. Not sure if the el cheapo top bearing bits are gonna tear up the plastic template, like if cutting edge overshoots bearing - will see. But more so I don't trust my makita compact cordless router - any tricks that might prevent the sliding bit? I kept thinking it was how holding it messing the depth adjustment but then saw it's the bit sliding.
Don not know about the makita cordless router, but I have been using the corded makita corded trim router for flush trims (3/4 mdf, 0.25" in one pass) and miscellaenous small roudovers - a lot of the desktop cncs use this as the main spindle. Works prett yand didn't have any issues. Has got a 1/4" collet and bit seems to stay in place - though i am looking at going the cordless route, but most probaly going to be a dewalt (say in the smae battery eco-system, but expensive and all i have in dewalt are drill and driver) or go to a new ecoysystem which would be ryobi, cheaper, lot of tools.
I have been using electric mower and snow blower both a single stage one and a huge/heavy dual stage one from greemworks - 80V system, more expensive than the other brands, works great, silent and i don;t have worry about seasonal cleanup and put away rituals and silent!
Similar to Ani...I have the CORDED version of the Makita - it is well regarded and I have no complaints. I barely use it anymore though, as I have corded DeWalt full size, cordless DeWalt on the Milescraft circle jig and Triton 3-1/4 HP in the router table.
@traw said:
Think I'll caliper measure the chinazon bit shaft and compare to bosch or diablo bits I have - googling seems I'm not the only one encounter slippage.
Yeah, I found there are different standards that can be close but not right. For instance you can find 12mm and 12.7mm. 12.7 being the actual 1/2" stadard. Can be easy to just think of 12mm as 1/2" and get it mixed up.
Just an FYI - Check your router collet's expansion grooves for compressed dust and clean them out regularly with a compressed air gun and fine wire brush. DAMHIK.
Well, held up good enough today, plus easier cutting on plywood. Some pics for giving the template routing method out (vs mounting block from inside to recreate center point to jig off of). Though I shoulda accounted for formica or veneer thickness but can probably get by with foam gasket lift. Ug, gotta reprint the outter template, carelessly nicked it with bit lifting out.
@traw said:
Anyone familiar with Makita XTR01Z 18V compact router? ...
any tricks that might prevent the sliding bit? I kept thinking it was how holding it messing the depth adjustment > but then saw it's the bit sliding.
The bottom of the collet might be bottoming in the shaft before the taper can apply full grip. Had that issue with very similar type before (ancient Makita). Some file work on the collet solved it.
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Done. I guess you can't stop folks when they aren't even looking, but I did my best to be conspicuous. Hopefully it never becomes a hood ornament.
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. . . Electric motor too - could mount a solar panel overhead for canopy . . . battery in the basket . . .
Lol yup that is what a buddy of mine said.. "could fit a sub in that basket"
Electric motor is the giant black front wheel hub. Battery mount is indeed in the basket.. Just happened to have the battery removed in the pic.
Mounted the speed controller just under the seat (silver box). The black box under that (in previous pics) I added to shove the connectors and extra wiring in. Tidies it up and keeps moisture away from the connectors.
Solar is a whole different can o worms. Modern lithium batteries hold a ton of power, so a small solar panel that would fit on a trike would probably take a week of full sun for one full charge. However, since the batteries hold so much it should last far far more than sporatic use of a weekend at the campground anyway. Not a big deal to plug it into the charger every great once in a while for 6hrs. Also lithiums don't like to be constantly at max charge, which depending on the situation solar would potentially often be trying to do. IMO solar was a better idea for lead acid batteries in this type of use since they have less capacity that solar can supplement, and don't mind being charged up to and held up against full capacity (they basically like it that way).
Did someone say battery and a can of worms? More where this came from ...
Are you going off-grid soon?
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Depends ... electronics have all the ul certs and CA approvals to run parallel with grid, but our poco is not solar friendly. Asked for all documentation before starting the build and the maths looked like a 20kw inverter+panels and battery diy system could break even in <10yrs plus. It took a couple years to get from a small'ish offgrid system that only ran the shop to a system capable of covering most of our total shop+home usage. In the meantime, poco changed their rules and regs concerning 'member generators' that drastically affected the payback period. Following new regs concerning running parallel with the grid, the normal solar system would break even sometime shortly before the sun burns through all its nuclear fuel. Cut that time in half if diy, but it's still not really a $ viable alternative.
So, plans changed. Moved the hvac over to solar this spring. Next project is to tear up an interior wall, add another electrical panel, and start moving loads from the 'grid' fed panel to a 'solar' fed panel. It would have been so much easier and way less expensive, to have just flipped a switch on the electronics and ran parallel with grid.
c/est la vie
Anywho, have enough battery and inverter to run all essentials for several days with no solar input, with solar indefinitely. Since the electrical bill has fallen considerably and they have me on record concerning 'member generation', I expect them to show up at the door with a cease and desist or disconnect demand any day, even though the solar stuff is not connected to their grid, it 'could' be connected and I'm afraid they will use that to base their demand.
I hope all of our friends and family are ok after the bad storms that cut through the lower Midwest. John H are you ok?
Hopefully I got the worst of it. The northeast corner of my house was crunched lost some shingles metal roofed carport is destroyed and my backup vehicle got some damage. No big deal, inshurance will take care of it.
Oh No!!!! Sorry Ken!
Booo!! Yeah we got everything ready for it, got nothing. We had tickets to a comedy show and decided to not risk it...🤷🏻♂️ Better safe than sorry.
Sorry Ken. I only had a lot of smallish branches down. It took almost 4 hours to clean up and that was using my skid steer to haul the stuff.
We only had about 2 minutes of high wind, heavy rain, and a bit of dime size hail. Zero damage, just a bunch of tree sticks to pick up.
Did up a new body for the 1/10 scale.
Been about 8-9 years since, so it was due...
Ken, so sorry to see you got hit! Glad there was not more damage, you are safe and still have power. I hope you have good luck dealing with the insurance company.
Thanks everyone. 😊
Worst case scenario I buy some beers and call some friends and we fix this like we're Amish.
Best idea, IMO - Who will do a better job of it? - you or some contractors?
West MI doesn't lack in good contractors. I won't do this job unless I have to.
Good luck Ken, hope you get it all sorted out!
Oh my, Ken! Close call!
All my family was OK just some hail damage. I’m in Phoenix now. My car was safe in Melody’s garage.
Anyone familiar with Makita XTR01Z 18V compact router? I had some stuff in the makita ecosystem, many of their items not good as remember back 10-25 years ago. I'm fan of Bosch hand held power tools these days. Must say, never again with electric mower where at least yielded enough selling off to cover buying a honda gas mower couple years back - love the double blade mulching.
Anyway, about had enough with this one as bit keeps sliding ever so slightly f'ing up depth set. Went back to using 20+ year old porter cable corded router with milescraft jig. Plus annoying on the compact router that cant use the bigger roundover bits and prefer to just leave the jig mounted on the porter cable, and trust it's depth set and start with a twist to plunge to avoid that dimple. Though sometimes messes up with menards particle board where the screw develops some play and end up with mild elliptical effect.
So, 3d printed some rings to try template routing. Not sure if the el cheapo top bearing bits are gonna tear up the plastic template, like if cutting edge overshoots bearing - will see. But more so I don't trust my makita compact cordless router - any tricks that might prevent the sliding bit? I kept thinking it was how holding it messing the depth adjustment but then saw it's the bit sliding.
Don not know about the makita cordless router, but I have been using the corded makita corded trim router for flush trims (3/4 mdf, 0.25" in one pass) and miscellaenous small roudovers - a lot of the desktop cncs use this as the main spindle. Works prett yand didn't have any issues. Has got a 1/4" collet and bit seems to stay in place - though i am looking at going the cordless route, but most probaly going to be a dewalt (say in the smae battery eco-system, but expensive and all i have in dewalt are drill and driver) or go to a new ecoysystem which would be ryobi, cheaper, lot of tools.
I have been using electric mower and snow blower both a single stage one and a huge/heavy dual stage one from greemworks - 80V system, more expensive than the other brands, works great, silent and i don;t have worry about seasonal cleanup and put away rituals and silent!
Think I'll caliper measure the chinazon bit shaft and compare to bosch or diablo bits I have - googling seems I'm not the only one encounter slippage.
Similar to Ani...I have the CORDED version of the Makita - it is well regarded and I have no complaints. I barely use it anymore though, as I have corded DeWalt full size, cordless DeWalt on the Milescraft circle jig and Triton 3-1/4 HP in the router table.
Yeah, I found there are different standards that can be close but not right. For instance you can find 12mm and 12.7mm. 12.7 being the actual 1/2" stadard. Can be easy to just think of 12mm as 1/2" and get it mixed up.
Just an FYI - Check your router collet's expansion grooves for compressed dust and clean them out regularly with a compressed air gun and fine wire brush. DAMHIK.
Well, held up good enough today, plus easier cutting on plywood. Some pics for giving the template routing method out (vs mounting block from inside to recreate center point to jig off of). Though I shoulda accounted for formica or veneer thickness but can probably get by with foam gasket lift. Ug, gotta reprint the outter template, carelessly nicked it with bit lifting out.
The bottom of the collet might be bottoming in the shaft before the taper can apply full grip. Had that issue with very similar type before (ancient Makita). Some file work on the collet solved it.