{"id":26931,"date":"2023-08-19T11:28:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T18:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=26931"},"modified":"2023-08-20T08:58:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T15:58:19","slug":"aug-19-cat-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2023\/08\/19\/aug-19-cat-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Aug 19 Cat Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of all God’s creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mark Twain<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am a slave to my cats. I feed them, fetch water for them, clean up their poop.<\/p>\n

Right now I have a small flock of kittens. I know, I know, they are so cute. They run up to me when I enter the room and try to rub off the skin on my ankles, using their cheeks.<\/p>\n

The problem is that little kittens grow. More food, more water, more cleaning.<\/p>\n

It gives me something to do. Today’s task, clean up the boy’s room. I did a thorough job. A lot of painful sweeping. Tomorrow, another room gets worked on. The girl cats have their own room.<\/p>\n

The kittens? A boy cat got past the blockade and hid in the girl’s room for days.<\/p>\n

Gasoline was gathered, and the gen filled and started. Room cleaned. Time for a little Xbox time. I wait patiently for the starting day of Starfield. Until then, I will replay an older game.<\/p>\n

With my new LFP charger, gaming time got shorter as the charger recharges my battery a lot quicker.<\/p>\n

I hate to waste fuel on just gaming. Slowly I am moving to 24-volt batteries, inverters, and MPPT controllers. With all that comes wiring, remounting solar panels and more.<\/p>\n

Winter is coming fast and I am getting slower. Monday more tech arrives. Switches and cabling. After that comes wiring.<\/p>\n

I am adding a breaker, switches a shunt and a voltage\/current monitor. My EB3A is still at the heart of it all. It is a poor choice, but I am working through the problems.<\/p>\n

When I am done, I will have both 12v from my current system and 24v from the new system feeding into the Bluetti. Switched of course. I will be able to feed 12v or 24 into the Bluetti.<\/p>\n

Now when the Bluetti gets near 100 percent using input power, it reboots my Starlink. For now, I have run over to the box and disconnect the power. With the switch, I can just turn DC input off.<\/p>\n

Lots of work to do.<\/p>\n

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