Bill's 2009 Adventure

[KeithTarpley]

Greetings,,,

I can't get more here than a paranoid icicle with delusions of flakedom, and you get a nice white blanket of reflective dreams...

And what color are those license plate letters?

Keith

[OriginalHotrodder]

Beautiful pics Bill,  thanks for sharing.  My favorites are #8 & #11.

Ed

[wbuehler]

28 February 2009

Well I was at Lowes today and decided I would check out the electrical isle.
I found they had the 6 foot white cords on clearance and I had a $10.00 off $50.00 Lowes coupon with me
So you know what that means.   I only found 32 at first but after digging around I found 34 more hidding on the back of the shelf.

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Bill

[ThaiWay]

Score!

What was the clearance price Bill?  I'm so jealous...

John

[wbuehler]

Score!

What was the clearance price Bill?  I'm so jealous...

John

After my coupon about .95 each

Bill

[wbuehler]

02 March 2009

Well 3rd snow of the year

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Bill

[wbuehler]

11 March 2009

Hello I have my first version 3 LE built.  Well everything but the heatsink and triac's.  I am waiting for the new anodized heatsink's.

Bill

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[wbuehler]

Greetings,,,,

Think the orange leds are due to Halloween bleed over.  You have to wait until Turkey Eve for the coloration to clear.

Keith

Ah that explains it

Thanks

Bill

[RJ]

Bill,

  You keep breaking my heart with the different colors. I guess I will need to come up with the right correct action to you!  Hum! what will that be?

RJ

[claytor1999]

Thanks for the video Bill - nice to see the LE in action.

Robb

[magic8192]

I like the led's!! 

[ThaiWay]

Bill, in your original Adventure you featured a 2-piece FM transmitter. 

Where did you get it?

John

[wbuehler]

Bill, in your original Adventure you featured a 2-piece FM transmitter. 

Where did you get it?

John

I got the 1Watt FM transmitter from EBay.  They are hard to find now.
But several others have gotten the .5 and .2 versions and have had good results.

Bill

[abell]

There's a lot of how-to's on building your own FM transmitter. I was curious about watts vs feet though.

Bill does your 1 watt with good line-of-sight transmit far?

There's a schematic for a 15 watt fm tranmitter that falls below the FCC limits (200 feet from house) that I thought about building.

Adam

[Greg]

There's a schematic for a 15 watt fm tranmitter that falls below the FCC limits (200 feet from house) that I thought about building.

Adam

Wow, Adam unless you're planning on running a true pirate radio station I don't think you should even consider over a watt.  This past year I turned my transmitter down to a little under 25 milliwatts. The signal was clean for about 1000 feet on flat terrain using a well tuned dipole on a 10' pole outside.

IMO, this is one case where "more power" isn't a good thing.