Content by decrep in January, 2026

But apparently version 1 can levitate, and also gives an exterminate warning.

As long as it doesn't freeze the cover to the car

I think so, you can see the traction battery drops at the same time as the system battery goes up. This is expected behavior even if MG deny it

No worries, don't think we'll be coming your way until there's enough infrastructure on the Nullabor. Unless I decide to take the surfwagon to Lake George

Sounds interesting, maybe we come and visit sometime.

Designing with the builder sound good, at least you should get what you want. Get an architect involved, and anything can happen, then the builder has to struggle figuring out how it can be built.

It's bloody hard though! Even at 81.

Dot's knee was complaining about climbing the stairs so 6 years ago we downsized. Now I have to fire up the Holden wagon to get my stuff to the beach. I'm not allowed to put roof racks on the MG!

The thing is to read all circuits at once, to find where the drain is, so a clamp for every fuse? The esp display boards have multiple inputs, as well as storing the data to SD card you could read it real time. Just need someone to design and write the code.

and in that direction the rear wheels are in front, that's the worst situation for grip.

Always wanted to build an underground house, on the side of North facing hill. But settled to a heavily insulated north facing house at the beach, couldn't give up easy surf access. No ICE use getting to the waves, just walked over the road

If it gets that bad in the distant future, by that time Climate change will have really kicked in, You'll also need to survive that, maybe a high up cave wouldn't be a bad idea. I'm not worried really, I've had my life, it's been fantastic, just be sad to see it go out on a bad note.

I think in my case, it's a big dollop of sticky treacle gumming up the works.

People will all ways need houses, but who will afford them in a financial collapse? Copper makes sense, it's always going to be a valuable asset, unless technology collapses as well. In that worse case scenario, guns and ammo could be in short supply, but the wrong sort of people would probably...

Multiple trace storage device needed. Anybody any good with Arduino? a DIY unit shouldn't be too expensive.

For some reason I don't like buying gold. It seems it's value isn't very intrinsic. Yes it's needed in a lot of areas, but I think it's price far exceeds it's worth. If the global financial system does a reset, is there an alternative to having a store of shiny metal sitting in a vault, doing...

Wow what happens when you meet someone coming the other way? Does the snow plough make passing spots every so often?

I had ours to 100% yesterday on a longish trip and watched the regen amount as the battery discharged. 100% 0 regen 100 friction brakes. 98% about -3 regen, so no friction brakes if you did along slow down, normal braking would use mainly friction brakes. 96% regen about -10, 93% regen...

I think your problem is corroded disks, I doubt changing pads will help much. If you are in a corrosive atmosphere a regular effort to engage the friction brakes is needed to wear the corrosion away. The disks can be machined to clean them up, but unless friction brakes are activated on a...

Yes a nice colour combo. In fact I like it so much, I've enlarged it.

but behind is ahead, depends how you look at it, H come before I, A comes before B and L comes before M. Z is the tail end of the pack, it's coming last. A is ahead of the pack it's coming first.

Been doing it all the way back from Rockingham, one guy was so pissed, 500m later he went flying past at least 10km/h faster than the limit

I think Hungry Head is a bit isolated, our rural power supplies have to deal with a lot of stuff,

Makes sense in your case, being able to carry the house with both cars and house battery, should see you right during a fairly major outage

hmm 25kW @ 250v isn't that 100A? I had to have the house wiring upgraded to 32A for the 7kW charger. I have a feeling 100A would need a new 3 phase connection and suitable wiring through the roof. Installation isn't going to be as simple as shown.

That makes sense, hadn't heard that before

wasn't that HAL? No wonder we have an inbuilt fear of AI. Arthur has a lot to answer for.

More to Bali Than tourist traps.

Yes nicely done Miles

Granted, but it's also a continent! Stand in the middle and the cool ocean is a long way off.

It's an Island Terry, no matter which direction the wind blows, it's coming off a lot of water. It's got a very humid climate, water doesn't stand a chance of drying up.

could be nice in the cane fields, if the Russians haven't taken over the lot.

but in an ideal place to recover from. Is that in the Ubud area? looks very familar

Converse of that is. Do Australian members really want to know how cold it is in UK right now?

70% Bonus! I think I'm running on 50, but it's hard to tell.

Been fine here near the beach hit 27.5 max

That slows things

My conclusion would be that the "intelligent charging" isn't working. No matter the capacity of the battery, if it's getting charged when needed, there shouldn't be a problem. Is this because the HV battery isn't full enough, or is there another fault?

I can only imagine that happening if the seat doesn't go far enough forwards, weird.

Loved it, I showed her all levels of regen and she coped with them fine.

Yes I've done the same, just a bit of hand pressure does it for me but this lady's bum didn't Maybe a load spread thing?

My mate's missus needs a new car, so they wanted to see if the MG4 appealed, Sat her in the drivers seat, but nothing happened, no lights no nothing! asked her to bounce on the seat, she gave me a strange look but eventually complied. Bingo, everything lit up. She is just too light to activate...

chapter 2 chapter 2. Pleeeeaseeee!!!!!

Gave ACC a try yesterday on the way back from the airport, not sure if it's my old software, but I didn't like it at all. It doesn't look far enough ahead and gradually slow down, waits til the last minute and slams the brakes on. I have to acknowledge that it's going to save me from a speeding...

Nice pic of a slide, and it shows what I mean by, "stones like marbles". Slipperier in the dry than in the wet. Unless you hit a muddy section.

Here's ours at my Sisters place in Margaret River.

With any luck I'm not ready yet, but building a Na+ battery would give peace of mind.

Same here, no strange noises in OPD and I use it all the time. Think it's something you should report

I mainly charge when the export is worth $0.04/kWh, just need to convert to equivalent liters of petrol to get a comparison. According to a USA site 10liters petrol = 1kWh. so in effect I'm paying 40c/liter, a lot different to the guys at the bowser paying close to $2

I'm not saying

He? those hands look female to me, the face appears in the reflection a few times, but not good enough to establish gender

I think you need to try it with an EV critic, and see If they are prepared to watch it through. This forum isn't suitable for testing your purpose. If you can get it to work, it's a well worthwhile exercise, and kudos to you for trying. I wish you luck.

This had me thinking overnight. I think the Romans screwed you Scots with their calendar, shifted the celebration 9 days. Hogmanay seems much more like the Winter Solstice, a big celebration for the days getting longer at last, heading out of those long cold nights. Wrong time of the year for...