{"id":26597,"date":"2023-07-19T09:59:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T16:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=26597"},"modified":"2023-08-20T09:22:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T16:22:25","slug":"gasoline-powered-rockford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2023\/07\/19\/gasoline-powered-rockford\/","title":{"rendered":"July 19 Gasoline Powered Rockford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nEdward Abbey<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nIt is morning. I did morning things. I made my cold brew coffee with oat milk, had my vitamins, and got dressed.<\/p>\n<p>When I got downstairs, I noticed the cat bowls needed water, when I got to the cat food bin it was empty. There was more in the back of the van in the garage. I grabbed 2, 8 kg bags of cat chow and headed back to the bin. That got filled.<\/p>\n<p>Time to feed them. That got done. I needed water, for them, which was also in the van, in 40-pound bottles. I carried one of those up. I got it opened and filled cat bowls.<\/p>\n<p>Now it was my turn, although I had oatmeal instead of cat food. While I was eating, I put on another episode of The Rockford Files. I checked my Bluetti.<\/p>\n<p>It was down to 9 percent. Back down I went. Gassed up the gen, got it outside, and started it. Great, my glorified power bank was charging. I thought I better check my solar bank, it was low. I put the charger on that.<\/p>\n<p>I had two 12v AGM batteries I was going to use to revive my Redodo 24v LiFeP04. I drained it too far and put my BMS to sleep. It needed a shot of power in order for me to be able to recharge it. I had to wake up the BMS.<\/p>\n<p>The AGM&#8217;s were extremely low voltage. I put a second charger on one of those. Charging the lifep04 would have to wait. In the meantime, I was charging everything I could. My headphones, air purifier, rechargeable fan, 3 Ryobi batteries, my mouse battery, the Bluetti, my DIY power bank, my laptop, and even my tablet. That is what I watch Rockford on. All are now being powered by fossil fuels. Thanks to the cloudy weather. Honorable mention goes to me for completely draining my new 24v LFP.<\/p>\n<p>I still have a few more devices to go, my two bug-zapping led lights. One actually kills bugs, the other just makes a good flashlight.<\/p>\n<p>Gotta go while the gen is running and my work is done, for now. I am going to kill a few bad aliens and a very evil bunch of AIs.\u00a0 \u00a0WHAT? I did say they were bad.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-responsive-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yg1Cx26-928\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second. Edward Abbey It is morning. I did morning things. I made my cold brew coffee with oat milk, had my vitamins, and got dressed. 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