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geoffbeaumont

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    Avoiding computers (I work in IT). Caving, hillwalking (no bobble hat), youth work and fixing Land Rovers. No time for any of those those, though - too busy fixing the shed of a house we bought...

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  1. The Fabia is just a VW Polo with worse suspension...so at least on this specific issue not so bad! Never had it near a dealer, though.
  2. Eek... 😲 That certainly puts me off ever owning a Suzuki!
  3. Can you get the diagnostic tool for reassigning them? Don't know about Suzukis, but the tool for our Zafira was about £15 off eBay and allows you to re-calibrate and reassign the sensors (there's a menu function in the car that asks you to go round holding the tool against the sensors in turn while it records them). That said, if you don't do this all it means is that the car thinks the wheels are in different places and reports the pressures for the wrong corners (does mean if you've swapped front to back you're almost certainly going to get warnings). The Fabia doesn't even need this - just set the tyres up right and reset the sensors from the menu - but then it doesn't bother to differentiate between wheels, just tells you you've got low tyre pressure and leaves you to figure it out. The Zafira will tell you which tyre, and exactly what the pressure is in each one.
  4. Was indeed a good trip. Doubt that part of the valley will ever be tarmacked, everyone is having to move away as it dries out 🙁
  5. The same applied to the spanner work before you got started!
  6. A few photo's from Morocco last week - we were mostly on foot (or camel for those that wanted), but 4x4 from M'Hamid about an hour out into the desert and two hours back afterwards. With a few stops on the way back to nurse one of the 110s which had decided to persistently overheat. Five nights in between, but most of my photo's have other people's kids in (it was an organised home education trip) so nothing of camp and not much of the trekking that I can post on here. Three 110s and a Land Cruise Prado - one of the 110s stayed nearby while we were trekking and appeared at camp and lunch breaks to comply with insurance. Sadly I didn't get to drive. Most of these were taken from the back seat of a moving 110, so don't expect amazing photography!
  7. Promised an update, so here goes. Solar panels mounted on a simple OSB/roofing batten frame. Not an ideal location as it'll be shaded part of the day by a kids den which is off to the right - I'll likely move them once the raised area to the right of the compost bins has been cleared and tidied up. Mounted the controller on a bit of OSB, trip on the left doubles as a switch for isolating the solar panels. The take away tubclassy waterproof enclosure on the right contains the under-voltage protection circuit and load fuse (which doesn't need to be in the tub, but it was tidier that way): The intake duct at this end takes in hot (very much ish at this time of year) hot air at the top of the greenhouse and passes it into the heat sink under the paving slabs. Ducted fan to the left of the louvre: The air is vented low down at the other end so that it circulates around the greenhouse: And before @FridgeFreezer calls me out for it, yes I did go round and crop the cable ties after I took the photos! Took a little fiddling with the under-voltage protector to get it running nicely (it's got a couple of potentiometers to adjust the voltage it cuts out and back in at). To start with it was just sitting rattling it's relay as the fan kicked in and out. Don't know if I've got it set sensibly yet - it would have been a good idea to set it up on the lab power pack first. Seems like it might not cut out very cleanly, time will tell. So, tweaking aside it's working nicely - only real problem is that the fan may be a tad OTT. It's shifting air nicely, but it's not quiet... Think I may need to step the voltage down and run it slower. If I do that right I should be able to reduce the current too - my electronics is rusty, but I'm pretty sure I remember at least one reasonably efficient way of dropping voltage...
  8. Can't you hide it behind the seats?
  9. Chinese brand. Make mostly pretty decent phones, known for their rugged phones. They like to describe their distributed OS as completely stock Android (which is more or less true so far as I can tell - the only non-standard software I could find on mine was an app to control some rather tasteless indicator lights on the back of the phone).
  10. I'd be scared to fit that to the truck and risk it getting all scratched up...that's a work of art!
  11. Handy tool - could use a little CSS tweaking do make it more mobile friendly (happy to have a crack at that if you don't want to).
  12. It is. Makes no difference, and affects all apps the same. It's just very bad at holding a GPS lock.
  13. Provided the GPS is decent - no way I could rely on the one in my phone for this, it wanders all over the place. Confuses the satnav and has my speed fluctuating wildly (apparently my car is capable of impressive speeds and truly amazing acceleration....).
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