20 June 2007As my friend Tony Garmey says: “Boys need not apply”. Lots of pucker factor at the Glen. It’s easy to wad your car up into a little ball, as numerous people did this weekend. It was a strange event – HSR is really weird. At least half the cars on the track were
12 June 2007 VIR looks like a horse farm, or a really big golf course. There’s a nice hotel on the grounds overlooking several corners, a clubhouse/tavern in a huge plantation house, and they’re building townhouse villas near the Oak Tree turn. Pretty cool place. and yeah, that picture above is actually at the Pittsburg
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19 June 2007I never finished the previous post, and now I’m a whole track behind. I’m sitting in the paddock at Mosport, we just came here from Watkins Glen. More about that later, but here’s what happened at VIR: So the Chapparal and the Scarab hit the straight and disappeared like the Roadrunner in the
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25 May 2007Headed out from Mosport giving brief thanks that Peyote and I are both in one piece and still ticking along. We stopped at a KOA in MalloryTown which should be renamed MosquitoVille. I’ve never been attacked so vigorously, and I’ve fished the tundra in Alaska. We retreated to Nero bringing along a large
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The big plan for Fritz is for it to be all electric and capable of extended dry camping, meaning no campground, no plugging in to handy electric outlets, self-contained–and still comfortable. That’s kind of a big requirement to pull off without propane, but I think I’m in the ballpark. Most RV solar installations put a
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4 Comments / Projects / By PonoBill I’ve had a few questions about how and why I’m doing a solar/battery system for Fritz, what I’m using and how I chose it. This is going to be a fairly long post with a bit of math, so if you’re interested, get a cup of coffee and
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I am NOT an electrician, not an electrical engineer, not a professional by any measure. As the name of this channel and website says: Expert Amateur. Electrical safety is unforgiving, and fortunately there have already been people for the last 150 years figuring this all out, creating solutions, and setting specifications. So I can just
Design the Solar Rack and the Electronics The idea of a solar container isn’t new–in fact there are commercial versions available with some very interesting features–if you have a few hundred thousand bucks to spare. The notion is simple: take a container, probably a 40 foot standard volume one, add racks that can hold a
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