My cell phone’s battery was over heating and causing the phone to shut down so I looked for a battery and there were non to be had for this model.
After considering for a bit I decided to go to Amazon and get a new one as dealing with the battery wasn’t worth it even if I found one. I was able to find one for about a hundred bucks so I ordered it.
Van work
I wasn’t too much into hooking up wires today but there were some other things I could do and I needed to figure out where some more of the wires on the engine where supposed to go.
I started off by taking the engine covers off and I was thinking it’d be good to put a coat of paint over where all the soot from the fire which I did get around to doing.
Here’s what the engine looks like now. With the covers off I was able to hook up the temperature gauge which was down under there and hard to get to before on the left side.
Fan temperature switch
I had another fan switch the turns the electric fans on and I wanted to replace the old one with the wrench on it.
Here’s the old and the new temperature switch and I got the new one installed.
Chicks
I noticed my newer chicks were a little further out and about today, further away from their pen.
Darn voltage gauge
Yep, I couldn’t figure out what the voltage gauge makers name was so I could go look up how it was wired. They had a logo on the gauge but I just couldn’t make out what it said, so I into the house and online and looked for one that looked like it but no go. After much looking around I got out my magnifying glasses and had another look at the gauge. It was still hard to tell what he logo said but I finally figured out it said Max Tow so I was finally able to go to there web site and find out how it was wired and then I went back out to the van and studied how it was wired into the van so I can hook it up soon.
Water hoses
Then I fixed a couple water hose leaks and of course a bunch of chair hopping thinking about things I need to do on the van and how to do them.
Where’s my pictures
I also started looking for my historic pictures of this area on my computer and I looked on and off all day for them but I never did find them. I’m hoping to find them on my laptop, otherwise my history of this place won’t have any pictures.
The chicks are getting braver
And later in the day when I let the hens in the chicks were moving even further out.
Engine covers painted
Here’s the engine covers I painted earlier. I’m low on my paint supplies so have to use what I have.
There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
