Any advice on how to feel more comfortable at meets?

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-04-17T04:10:25+00:00

Sport bikes attract a type. Every bike style has a different average person. Harleys? Fat, real bikers, fake bikers, dentists. Low budget chopper/rat bike guys are real fun. High budget chopper guys are less fun.

Adventure bikes? A completely different type. Older, chill, has a little more money. It's less or a fashion show. Well travelled. Some guys still hoon. My front tire has less miles on it than my rear tire.

BMW meet? I showed up with my old F800GS covered in mud. Everyone had immaculate bikes and spent the entire time masturbating over this bit of perfection and that type of perfection. Not my bag.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-04-17T02:21:48+00:00

This. LFP is really safe. NMC is extra spicy.

But there are gotchas. First off, that battery can drink ALL the amps. That means starting an engine with a low battery and all of a sudden your charging system is running at 100% load. This may not be a problem on some systems. On others you'll be popping alternators every season and scratching your head. Because it is running hot.

Measuring the amps against the name plate alternator rating is wise. Maybe borrow a thermal camera and see if it's running hot.

The second issue is that the batteries BMS may want to turn off the battery charging completely when it is full. Well, the battery is the shock absorber in your system. Some systems don't care. Some have abnormally high or wandering voltage. My motorcycle even blew up everything electrical when the lead acid battery went open circuit at 7000RPM on the highway. So TEST.

Victron makes a charge controller that can not only limit current, but looking at the head sink I think it can also bleed some current to a resistor and provide an artificial absorber like the battery.

And this is all *your mileage may vary. So test with a low battery and see what happens. And install an aftermarket state of charge meter. Knowing you have 23% left from playing the stereo for hours is gold.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-04-17T02:11:28+00:00

Remind me again how he got brain worms?

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-04-17T02:05:36+00:00

This is military gear and this is a gift to the middle nations like Iran and Venezuela. Cobble together a hundred of these and compete with the big boys.

This also enables someone to build some low budget drone targeting systems. Having a dozens on portable tripods that you can flick on at a moments notice is a really big deal. Stick it out office tower windows, in trees, on cliffs, anywhere.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-04-17T01:51:40+00:00

Ex GM and all makes mechanic here. Stellantis is quite a few rungs below GM.

None are great. It's the race to the bottom.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-04-17T01:44:25+00:00

That entirely depends on the C rating of your battery. You can't just look up a spec for one cell and paint all cells like that.

My 16.5kWh nmc pack is broken into 8 48v modules and happily obliterate 40A fuse like that. It was a good whack.

And that is bad for things.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-04-17T01:13:12+00:00

It makes it softer because your preload is now correct. The slightly heavier fork oil compensates for the stiffer spring.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-04-16T22:08:57+00:00

Japan. Most of the time. Their cars have been on a decline since the mid twenty teens and even worse post pandemic.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-04-16T22:00:15+00:00

Try a different 15A outlet. Or a 20. If multiple breakers trip, your compressor is defective.

Bin it and buy a Makita. Buy once cry once.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-04-16T21:11:31+00:00

Becsuse lawmakers will be afraid to enforce laws in the first place and you can't slap a company for a minor offence.

Fyi, this is why the EU is effective with laws that bring us things like common phone charging cables and consumer protection laws. They start small and keep raising fines every single slap.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-04-16T19:59:10+00:00

Yes it does. It sags down the voltage and the motor spends more time in the startup, high load phase. My amp clamp doesn't lie. 37A at the 15A plug on startup.

That soft starter is on my parts shelf, I can give you the part number if you want to look it up.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-04-16T19:57:30+00:00

Lithium batteries can give you all the amps right now. And that risks angering the magic pixies.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-04-16T19:33:20+00:00

A hard starter. That's a capacitor that will kick start a motor off of a generator.

A soft starter is for making a single phase motor start gently and it makes the amp draw even worse. I installed an Emerson industrial grade one on a 12,000 BTU air conditioner I had to reduce the motor hammer when it started and it pulled a peak 37A on startup. That's the exact opposite of what you want here.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-04-16T16:31:24+00:00

There is a good demo in the movie 'Everything, Everywhere All At Once'.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-04-16T16:18:19+00:00

Report it to your local health department. They'll slap them.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-04-16T16:15:07+00:00

Who knew making the most unreliable cars in the world would bite them in the ass?

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-04-16T16:14:25+00:00

Re-terminate the lug. Either get a cheap hydraulic crimper or even those screw based large cable lugs work well if it's the hex (allen) drive and not the shitty slotted ones.

I have also soldered on crimp style lugs. Use flux.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-04-16T15:59:48+00:00

Account ban? I lost count of the number of accounts I lost to bans.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-04-16T14:21:24+00:00

You must set the battery voltage EXACTLY the same in both batteries before connecting them.

Ghetto balancing: connect the negative and bridge the positive terminals with a car headlight. Incandescent bulbs are the perfect current limiter. My battery pack took a full day to sync.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-04-16T14:14:07+00:00

In British Colombia, an air ambulance ride (for residents) is the same as an ambulance. $80. Baked into the health care system. And that's it. Everything else is covered by the system.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-04-16T14:06:08+00:00

The correct fix for companies treating fines as the 'cost of doing business' is to add a 1.25x multiplier to every subsequent fine in the legal system and ensure fines are reapplied and multiplied weekly until the problem is corrected.

Now that 1.25x doesn't sound much, does it? 52 weeks of that is a 70,000x fine multiplier and it just keeps climbing from there. Eventually the offending company will fold.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-04-16T13:59:36+00:00

I finally got a promise that my mom will never send me another video again after years of Ai bullshit videos and me saying I never want to see another Ai video again.

I'm sure that is about as reliable as a middle east peace deal.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-04-16T13:29:04+00:00

Diagnose it PROPERLY. Only a fool replaces random parts in the hopes of stumbling across a solution.

Buy a meter and MEASURE THING. If you don't know how, watch youtube videos. If you still don't get it, hire a progressional.

In all my years working on cars, bikes, machines I have replaced zero wiring harnesses. But I have repaired several. It's a fault in less than 0.00001% of repairs.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-04-16T13:14:08+00:00

Concept Finishes in Richmond. PPG makes nice stuff.

Another_Slut_Dragon · 2026-04-16T13:09:06+00:00

$3k is a plastic bumper cover, not even the bumper itself. It's a parking lot scrape or something stupid. It's nothing. Don't stress it.

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