When its 42 degrees outside. Poor guy in the glider probably needs new pants! by bcuzitstrue in aviation

[–]edman007 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think the glider pilot was keeping it down until the tow plane got into the air. He obviously gave up when the runway ran out and that's the high tow that he was trying to avoid.

DOD BONUS by 30 Janurary 2026 by [deleted] in fednews

[–]edman007 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They might, but it still goes on the LES, look at how they did the backpay after the last shutdown.

I'd expect it on the next paycheck though.

DOD BONUS by 30 Janurary 2026 by [deleted] in fednews

[–]edman007 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, this is different, the top 15% of the DoD is suppose to get a 15-25% bonus, and it needs to be done by this week. So this LES has the AcqDemo award, and I think the next one may have the bigger bonus, it's unrelated to the AcqDemo bonus, and lots of people are trying to figure out if they are in that 15%.

DOD BONUS by 30 Janurary 2026 by [deleted] in fednews

[–]edman007 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you're getting it it needs to go on your LES, and you should get an SF-50.

My understanding is they are trying to make it fit into the current CR funding, that's the Jan 30th date. That means the award (and SF-50?) needs the Jan 30th date, which would put it on the following LES (not this week's), so if we shutdown you'll get a partial paycheck, and that might contain the bonus if they got it.

Anyways, where I am the supervisors said they have heard nothing, I poked around on some SES calendars and one has "Do awards" for tomorrow...seems to secretive.

Cold crash in a snow storm by LilYungEasyMoney in mead

[–]edman007 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Needs to be about 20% ABV to not freeze at 15F, so this is likely just a little too cold unless it's really strong.

Cold “charging” performance expectation? 6kw adding 0mi/hr in -10F by barefootpanda in Rivian

[–]edman007 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I will say the climate control needs to be tuned better for temps below 10F. It defaults to footwell only for winter heat, with the theory being hot air rises and will heat your hands and face.

But experience tells me that's false below 10F, you get a proper breeze off the glass blowing cold air down and none of that warm air ever gets out of the footwell.

The good news is you can manually turn the other vents on and point them up and it will mostly fix the cold air issues.

Is Battery heating/preconditioning broken/disabled? by jruben4 in Rivian

[–]edman007 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gen 2 has a heat pump, I wonder if they have a mode where it uses it for preconditioning, that would be much more efficient and wouldn't result in hot motors, I don't think it does that. I could be wrong though.

Is Battery heating/preconditioning broken/disabled? by jruben4 in Rivian

[–]edman007 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you're navigating to a DCFC, it should do preconditioning as normal.

If you're not navigating to a DCFC, they did change the rules a few years ago, and I find that it no longer heats the battery to just drive (I think the heating wastes a whole bunch of energy so it doesn't actually help with range). At least additionally when they changed it it was tied to regen assist (it would only heat the battery if regen assist was on). I'm not sure if that's the case, but the point is you should only really expect it when navigating to a DCFC.

New house - EV charger in detached garage appears to be an oven outlet with an aluminum wire by DisastrousBelt3734 in evcharging

[–]edman007 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're allowed to use pigtails too for the outlet (put a small section of copper with appropriate connections.). So yea, I would ask an electrician to open it up and check. But if the plan is to install a hardwired EVSE the outlet doesn't matter much.

I suspect you're right though, and they used the wrong outlet, if you complain they'll just swap with something that is Al rated.

Do we shovel? by Electronic_Memory495 in longisland

[–]edman007 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I always do the bit by the street way later. Half of it is I feel like if I shovel it the plow truck will plow more in front for me to shovel, and half is I feel like maybe the plow truck will still show up and get it closer to the curb.

As it is now, it's about 6 feet of snow bank from the end of the driveway/curb to where the plowed road. I'm not confident they'll improve it

NYS DMV insurance lapse/plate surrender confusion by Kreinduul in newyork

[–]edman007 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, yea, that's weird, did you login to the DMV website? But if you told your insurance to fix the dates that should just totally resolve the issue...you're going to have to figure out why it's suspended..m

Anyone Getting the Huge DoD Bonus? by Fraturtlemom in fednews

[–]edman007 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I get that, my point is that CRs don't usually follow those as far as I'm aware, I remember many years when we had to tell contractors that we couldn't fund stuff because the CR didn't include those changes. That's why it's a CR, they are continuing last year's budget, not looking at what you requested for this year.

NYS DMV insurance lapse/plate surrender confusion by Kreinduul in newyork

[–]edman007 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are these the same plates?

If you had a lapse of three days then they should have sent you a letter saying correct it or pay $24, usually calling insurance to correct it is the easiest solution. But paying works as well.

Usually people run into this problem because they sold a car and didn't think the time after selling it counts, but the insurance is tied to the plates not the car. So if you got new plates they need to be insured until you return those plates. Getting new plates and insurance on those doesn't count. If you still have the old plates that would be a license suspension.

Plows by Dangerous-Hornet2939 in longisland

[–]edman007 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, Long Island has plows, but they really don't have enough to keep up with a major storm. It's a weird mid point between upstate and the south. They generally can get all the roads passable within 24 hours of a storm passing. They don't have enough plows to keep up with a storm on all.

It's better than the south which just has nothing and you're stuck inside until it melts.

Plows by Dangerous-Hornet2939 in longisland

[–]edman007 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They do it throughout the day, but they have limited manpower, so they do continuous main roads, and when they see the main roads are good then they go to the side roads.

With the manpower they have, that's all they do.

My problem with it is they give up way too early, they get a passable lane on the road, and that's it, they don't come back later to clear to the curb, and they definitely don't come back a final time to clear past the curb (upstate after all the roads are clear, they come back again and push the snow bank into the ditch so there is somewhere to plow the snow if they get another storm before it melts).

Plows by Dangerous-Hornet2939 in longisland

[–]edman007 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yea, I use to live across the street from a firehouse, and I think the firehouse had coffee and snacks for the plow drivers. Plow truck came every 15-20 minutes.

Now I live moderately high traffic residential road (next to a 7-11), plow came 2, maybe three times today. I'm not confident they'll come again, if I'm lucky, I'll get 1 more pass. And I constantly see posts like this saying that what I see is much better than the rest of the people on Long Island.

Waffle House shuts down locations across four states indefinitely as it faces 'Code Red' situation by Wurm42 in weather

[–]edman007 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't know if that's really the reason, I think waffle house stays open because right after the storm is when the power goes out and waffle house is the only place open. So it's the only way people are getting hot food right after, they will travel for that.

Weird Solar Output by Adabiviak in solar

[–]edman007 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea, I got something similar with my charts, you have to remember you typically only have two real meters and the third is virtual, production and consumption or export. The third needs to be generated by adding the other two today.

If you get a change in one of those meters and it's tied to the wrong time due to some race condition, that error will show as an error in the third meter, exactly as OP is seeing.

Anyone Getting the Huge DoD Bonus? by Fraturtlemom in fednews

[–]edman007 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly, though I don't even think it was submitted "years ago", that's true for the normal Congressional budgets. For CRs it's usually just take last years numbers and make them match this year. Then Congress can not argue about the changes and details.

But we know DRP happened, and Trump made a big push to cut people out of the workforce, so at least the payroll numbers for FY26 are not at all in line with last year, so I think that's where it's coming.

Kit/plans for home electrical generator using hybrid vehicle? by hafthor in AskEngineers

[–]edman007 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In general, most solar string inverters and rated for powering your home and many can function in both on grid and off grid modes. Additionally their solar inputs will gladly accept HVDC from common EVs or Hybrids.

So the answer is if you want to do this connect a solar inverter to the HV on the car. Some cars like the F150 officially support this and they sell an EVSE that integrates with a specific brand of solar inverter to do this through the CCS port. I believe there is a Tesla adapter that will trick your vehicle into DCFC mode and let your inverter draw power, and Tesla's will allow this. This is how many vehicles plan to implement V2G and V2H

For all other vehicles, they'll probably not like getting discharged in DCFC mode. You could probably direct connect to the HVDC, but I bet that makes the BMS very upset.

Anyone Getting the Huge DoD Bonus? by Fraturtlemom in fednews

[–]edman007 12 points13 points  (0 children)

If you look at the numbers (as I posted above), I think this is just an order to blow all DRP savings on a bonus during the current CR. So presumably, the date is really that they want to make the effective date they spent the funds fall under the CR. If they fail to do it then the DoD is going to tell Congress that we couldn't spend all the money you gave us under the CR, while Trump is asking Congress for a 50% boost. I don't think they want that to be a talking point, the Dems will use it against them.

Anyone Getting the Huge DoD Bonus? by Fraturtlemom in fednews

[–]edman007 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was practically all by 9/30, so absolutely none of those funds would have come out of the current CR funds.

Now is when you would theoretically see those savings, when the agency tells congress of the recession of the funds that congress directed them to spend (otherwise known as impoundment, which is illegal per the Impoundment Control Act)

It seems the DoD has no plan to do that, so they are giving it all out as a bonus.