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TDI repair kit ; mechatronic hybrid system; another bad "tune" and data log comparison:
There might have been a thing or two about naval architecture that the Swedes didn't yet understand in 1628?
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If it's the ship I think it is, there was something about the monarch demanding an entire extra deck be added to the top with more cannons, and the original shipwright/engineer quit over it because he knew what was going to happen. His replacement followed instructions despite the obvious risk, and the ship sank while still in the harbor.
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The wiring wiggle test failed, but the "just kick it" test worked!
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Edited to skip ridiculous AI music intro in the first 20 seconds.
When he was checking the three big power wires with his test light (terminal 30), I was mentally screaming, "What about terminal 15?!?!". I was pretty confident the problem was going to be a dodgy power from terminal 15. I was wrong.
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An excellent video on the ICE until he reached the end and tried to convince people to pin their lives on the electric grid that is far from reliable in many areas of the country/world.
As an example, ask folks in the Midwest USA how grid power has been for them the last few months with frequent power outages lasting as long as six days - one thunderstorm after another. Ask the folks in CA if they want to choose between air-conditioning or driving/charging their EV when it's 95 F with 100% humidity. I'll bet the folks in CA love those rolling blackouts every Summer... when PP&E isn't actually burning their houses down.
Even the folks in parts of Urrup were told to stop using their A/C this summer due to grid stress. In New York city people were told to turn their A/C thermostat up to 78 F this year due to the strain on the electric grid.
EV's have a place but they are certainly not a suitable replacement for ICE powered vehicles for many folks. With a power grid that is hopelessly under designed nor capable of supporting data centers let alone EVs, betting the farm and your life exclusively on the electric grid is a high-risk proposition for the brave. It's actually pretty funny to see EV owners carrying gas powered generators in the boot of their EV for when they are unable to find a charging station and their battery drops to zero. Maybe a 40 mile long power cord would be a better choice to save the planet?
As an example, ask folks in the Midwest USA how grid power has been for them the last few months with frequent power outages lasting as long as six days - one thunderstorm after another. Ask the folks in CA if they want to choose between air-conditioning or driving/charging their EV when it's 95 F with 100% humidity. I'll bet the folks in CA love those rolling blackouts every Summer... when PP&E isn't actually burning their houses down.
Even the folks in parts of Urrup were told to stop using their A/C this summer due to grid stress. In New York city people were told to turn their A/C thermostat up to 78 F this year due to the strain on the electric grid.EV's have a place but they are certainly not a suitable replacement for ICE powered vehicles for many folks. With a power grid that is hopelessly under designed nor capable of supporting data centers let alone EVs, betting the farm and your life exclusively on the electric grid is a high-risk proposition for the brave. It's actually pretty funny to see EV owners carrying gas powered generators in the boot of their EV for when they are unable to find a charging station and their battery drops to zero. Maybe a 40 mile long power cord would be a better choice to save the planet?
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If you have to carry an ICE generator in an EV, that is an admission of failure.
Except: You can make your own electricity with solar panels. Last I looked, you couldn't make your own gasoline.
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Except: You can make your own electricity with solar panels. Last I looked, you couldn't make your own gasoline.
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You could probably make your own diesel fuel with french fry grease... I could tell you how to make your own petrol but the climate extremists would be unhappy.
You could certainly find petrol many places in a power outage area long before the grid is back up. So at lease with ICE you have options, with an EV those options are use the grid, spend thousands on solar/wind and hope for enough to power whatever, use a gas/diesel power generator or stay home. I'll take my chances on ICE.
Indeed, that is possible. But I wouldn't use that homebrew in a modern diesel with common-rail injection. In a 20+ year old engine that has mechanical injection, maybe.
How you gonna pump it? Grid down, fuel station pumps don't work either.
How much fuel do you keep in stock?
I have between 50 and 100 gallons of diesel and between 10 and 20 gallons of gasoline in a central location to my travels up and down the east coast at all times. But for local use, I really wouldn't mind an EV, specifically a Slate truck, because I do have solar.
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Yeah, I agree with Uwe here. During the most recent 8+ hour power outage we got down to about a gallon of fuel for the generator. The nearest gas station with power happened to be the Sheetz that sells Ethanol Free (E0 90 octane) fuel which was perfect. It was still daylight, the storms calmed down, no estimate on power restoration so I called to verify they had power before we put just under 20 miles on the e-golf to go fill up a can.
The Ford Lightning was here with more than 100 kWh to spare in the battery so there was no point in using that vehicle if we ended up with several day outage. The gamble was; You may waste 1 gallon of that fuel if the e-Golf needed to be recharged using the generator but that's the only way we could make it as, if not slightly less, efficient than the ICE equivalent Golf 7.
In the end we didn't need it. The power was back by 11PM and we exported Solar the next day. I may have another 12+ month supply of fuel here if we don't end up donating it to one of our mothers for lawn care this Spring... but you can't just buy fuel when the power is out.
I have my eye on tri-fuel generators at this point. We usually have a few gallons of gasoline, 1 or more 20 pound propane tanks and we have Natural Gas. That would give us a 4-fuel option providing the sun was shining.
The Ford Lightning was here with more than 100 kWh to spare in the battery so there was no point in using that vehicle if we ended up with several day outage. The gamble was; You may waste 1 gallon of that fuel if the e-Golf needed to be recharged using the generator but that's the only way we could make it as, if not slightly less, efficient than the ICE equivalent Golf 7.
In the end we didn't need it. The power was back by 11PM and we exported Solar the next day. I may have another 12+ month supply of fuel here if we don't end up donating it to one of our mothers for lawn care this Spring... but you can't just buy fuel when the power is out.
I have my eye on tri-fuel generators at this point. We usually have a few gallons of gasoline, 1 or more 20 pound propane tanks and we have Natural Gas. That would give us a 4-fuel option providing the sun was shining.
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Natgas FTW when it comes to that, because you'll generally have an endless supply. There are two downsides: It takes a lot or RPMs to start a generator on Natgas alone. A pull-start rope is out of the question, so make sure your generator's battery is in good shape, or be prepared to jump-start the thing. And then there's the de-rating. A tri-fuel generator's rating will be on gasoline. It will make less than rated output on propane, and even less than that on Natgas.
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Right, in the 20 years we've been here we only had 2 natural gas outages. One was an accident (bridge construction crew hit the main line) and the other was planned service with a twist of drama when our furnace was inoperative for a while after.
Although I prefer Honda when it comes to smaller/portable they can't do all this and hit the budget price point: https://www.championpowerequipment.com/product/201423-11000w-wireless-start-tri-fuel-inverter/
That won't win any efficiency awards at 5.6 kWh per gallon of gasoline but the oversized specs should be fine even when reduced to 7,290 running watts on natural gas. I'll spare you guys all of the random video reviews I've watched over the past months :-)
Although I prefer Honda when it comes to smaller/portable they can't do all this and hit the budget price point: https://www.championpowerequipment.com/product/201423-11000w-wireless-start-tri-fuel-inverter/
That's back in-stock at Home Depot now.
That won't win any efficiency awards at 5.6 kWh per gallon of gasoline but the oversized specs should be fine even when reduced to 7,290 running watts on natural gas. I'll spare you guys all of the random video reviews I've watched over the past months :-)
Wow, $2k for an inverter generator that size is a screaming deal. I think I paid close to that much for my old one in the late 1990s. It was roughly the same capacity, but no inverter, and it did have a B&S V-Twin.
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Around here the grid is so unreliable that many businesses have commercial standby generators specifically to address this power issue. There are also large mobile commercial generators that businesses rent during grid outages.
Good plan on the fuel stash. Your Slate truck should be arriving soon.
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Going back a few posts, you can’t (easily) make your own photo voltaic panels or l-ion batteries.