Sunday, September 10, 2017
Nature provides the number
I'm still piddling with an alternative Volney ckt using both differential and sum, trying to sense both overall and bilateral R and V. Got a pretty good breadboard setup and some slip-knot electrodes made of solderwick braid. The zero-center diff meter does "interesting" things that I can't correlate yet. This project was slowed down by the resumption of courseware, but I try to spend a little time on it each day.
Today I soldered a couple of 500k pots, mainly for the joy and smell of soldering itself. Volney seems to have a certain amount of magic, and solder always has magic.
While waiting for the iron to cool down so I can put it away, I looked out the door at the FIRST FUCKING COOL DAY SINCE ....
At the same moment when I peeked out the door, an original unrestored '55 Olds sedan rumbled past the house.
Yes. Thanks for the word-fill, Ma Nature. Since 1955, or so it seems.
Solder magic as usual.
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Returning from magic to literal... the heat hasn't been QUITE as persistent as it feels, but pretty damn persistent. Here's an Excel from Weather Bureau data, Jun/Jul/Aug/Sep to date. Jul was all 90s, Aug had a couple weeks of high 80s then resumed 90s. Only a few high 70s.
Labels: Aberree, Zero Problems
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