Author: Duncan

  • Breakfast at Dalkey Island

    Breakfast at Dalkey Island

    Up before 6 AM today, and with a forecast of reasonably light winds out of the south, I decided to anchor off of Dalkey Island for breakfast and to see what it’s like to sit through a tide swing here – it could be a very nice place for the night with the right wind […]

  • Sparks fly, broken alternator

    Sparks fly, broken alternator

    A suggestion from Dad was to take the wiring off the back of the alternator, clean the contacts, and reconnect them. Grime/corrosion there might be a reason for the voltage drop I’m seeing at the battery side of the circuit when the alternator is charging the batteries. I duly turned the engine starter battery switch […]

  • Battery investigations

    Battery investigations

    I’ve been suspicious for a while about how hard my batteries for house are losing voltage over a ~ 12 hour day. I know the fridge compressor comes on periodically at 3 amps to keep the coolant moving around, but that doesn’t add up to taking a battery from fully charged to near fully discharged […]

  • Flooring contractor fired

    Flooring contractor fired

    For the flooring of my house, I opted to go with MNP Flooring – I had been talking to a different firm earlier in the year about doing engineered wood, and when I reached out to Alex N. at that company, he said they didn’t do laminate or carpet, but that he could arrange that […]

  • Sending engine RPMs to the network, 3/x

    Sending engine RPMs to the network, 3/x

    A small re-write of the sender into a Click driven CLI, making hard-codes into CLI arguments.

  • More than slightly floored

    More than slightly floored

    Getting there, skirting is in upstairs, architraves are in, and downstairs has some flooring.