my weird LED light strip post should make a bit more sense now; I got rid of another scoot, so now I need to clean up and sell 3 lil kid razor scoots that I built batteries for, so those are superior to the existing batteries that are dead.
and once THOSE are done, and I frankenstein a scooter to working condition, I can make my daily ride an actual daily ride with a 5kw motor and a 72v motor.
it's still a lot of work.
my first as in, this was the first one I ever owned.
just sold my first electric scoot.
The buyer seemed excited about it, esp. since the rear light stopped working on it when I used this for testing other controllers.
After several headaches, I got this to run the headlight as well as the rearlight at once, which is what the customer wanted.
Horn broke somehow, but whatever! I gave him a grace period. He gave me a 50 buck tip. I gave him the option to take the tip back XD
blaze TV yt channel is full of BULGING FUCKS
"OH! I want to put LED lights on my scooter!"
"Oh! I need to either get my UV flashlight back, or make one from the random LEDs I have!"
"I wish not to bother my methfriend for my flashlight back! I will continue with making a functional UV flashlight!"
" I have all of the components, I just need to 3d print a housing!"
"I will need to use uv resin to build this, so I will model and 3d print a body for a smaller UV flashlight that I can make!"
THIS IS EXHAUSTING :D
(and I love it)
at least I can open the windows tonight.
@BlueStateBabe oh gosh seriously! I remember thriving in the heat in my early 20s! sigh. I can get back to that. I just gotta stop drinking. easy solution, but it's hard to remember how to go about without it. Gosh, it is baffling, and yet so infuriatingly simple at the same time. Like tonight. too hot to do anything, HOURS TO KILL. I could grab a drink and compute until it's time for bed. sigh. executing its cessation is an intricacy in and of itself.
@BlueStateBabe 102°F. Not so bad, as I remember Upland being [120°D when I was 11!] but I'm an old man with added fats! It is currently 85 at a quarter til nine. :(
IT IS TOO DAMN HOT IN SOCAL TO EXIST OUTSIDE.
All existing outside-ness must take a break until... what, tuesday? F this so much.
@Kinnison you honor me :) Thank you!
If any of you have any thoughts on Beau is Afraid, feel free to share them! My own vacillations on what this ought/would/should/could be/been/have been is just all over the place. I tried watching it a second time and the boat was something I definitely noticed 😛
this is the scoot I bought!
@Kinnison I clearly didn't because I ... well, I post about fixing them and such and I figured no one was interested 😅 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D5YCJ9S2
@FernLovebond apparently coso works oddly with its links; any messages posted after the link doesn't appear! I got the cheapest on from this particular amazon link because I justed wanted the frame and suspension. I have everything else to make it a quaint lil sleeper ;)
In further news: I got a brand new ride!
36v, but I bought this specifically because it has SUSPENSION and 14 in wheels, which means I can replace the drive wheel with MY drive wheel.
That is to say, a 350 watt hub motor with a 5,000 watt hub motor. right underneath the seat is a good spot for the new 72v battery, and the controller can go wherever.
This thing will hopefully be my new work commuter as it will save me 160 a month on gas, more or less.
I functionally liquidated assets to gain $700+, hooray.
I am currently bound to work to make 120 more, and it is too damn hot to work :( the customer is super chill and patient though, but ugh, I'm reluctant because disassembling this scooter and reassembling it is so excruciatingly exacting and requiring a very specific order of handling parts in a very specific way.
but I need to do it :(
WHO would have THOUGHT that completing projects, completing THINGS PERIOD, boosts your confidence??
But completing a project, hoo boy, that takes some... thing. something weird. I don't know. I must be able to put words to it, to know my enemy >.>
so much news, probably good! I sold my first-ever made scoot/ebike battery! along with an old motor purchase. also sold a battery rebuild to a coworker!
And also just sold my here-to-there scooter.
I pretty much sold these to get a brand new scooter with full suspension that I can put a 5kv motor on; a sleeper that can smoke a surron that the popo would never suspect unless they see me in the act >.>
also: as part of my previous account that no longer exists: I built a battery! I was told it was tested but I do not trust the source, and I have yet to convert a bike of mine for proper testing.
bcp
just a cat in a pair of big pants
Joined Aug 2024