putzing around with camera on the 30x dissecting scope.

neo-pixel,

corrosion on the original LED hoop brain from 2002.

more corrosion

gonna work on frame center and better lighting, so can share all the fun things i find…

little bit of well pump fun for a good friend.  out with the old, in with the new.  gonna fix the old too and see what the other well can pull.  blessed are we with water.

24vdc all wired and roped up and ready to go.

all of that goin in the hole.

except the plugs on the shurflo pump are shit.  pins are too small for the sockets of the plug.  so contact stops if the cable is wiggled.  of course its gonna wiggle goin in the hole, modifed the pins a wee bit, and see how long it lasts.  if quality is this far off on the things i can see, wonder how bad it is inside….  only time in the hole will tell.

and this is part of the why the old one wasn’t pushing much.  argument here for brass fittings.

finally got enough wind on my old AIR403 wind generator to see if it still works.  it does, but the regulator did not engage, and battery went up to 16v on gusts.  i’ve learned about machines, love them a little a lot, or love them a lot a little.

maintenance.  here the problem is the seal gasket let moisture in that corroded all the fun metal combinations inside.   one of those things that if replaced before it fails, like every 2 or 3 years, the rest will be ok.  but if the cheap gasket fails, so will every other bit inside.   $2 gasket vs $200 regulator, or worse.

the generator part seems fine, but i’ll replace the bearings anyways since i’m in here.

when time permits, i’ll take the brush ring assembly apart, so to remove the regulator board and diodes.  considering just removing the regulator as it appears the diode out goes straight to the brush.  the controller has aluminium oxide dust all over it, and all the contacts are moderately corroded.  i can just remove the controller board as it just shorts-out the windings at over-V or over-speed and i’ll make my own MPPT type controller with diversion instead of short.

i guess half the state of washington had power outage today. worse case i can just close it up and jumper the reg and not worry about pgne.

ANNABELL, the first neural network simulation (on a hacked GPU no less) to be “taught” how to “think”.  neural networks where mostly philosophy and math back in 1989 when i started.  who would have thought that gamers drove a hardware chip design (1500 cores on a off-the-shelf GPU card) that now gives enough wide-and-tall grid to do these fun things?  happy i still understand this technology now that the hardware can keep up to the dreaming.   some day, we will look back, and know ANNABELL was HAL’s mother.