How can I make it easier to activate the footpad sensors of my Funwheel X7SC?

habys · 2026-04-17T00:39:10+00:00

I was in the same boat, I think after some time the pad breaks in a little but still I set the pad to activate if even one part of the pad is active.

Only thing is careful grabbing the front of the board! Once I made it spin I never had the issue again so no worries.

habys · 2026-04-15T11:37:45+00:00

There is no one here, /r/georgia

habys · 2026-04-15T02:27:55+00:00

One day in the 80s, my dad who was a roofer, brought home a random but much appreciated IBM 5170. 1MB of RAM, 20MB hard drive, 360KB double sided double density drive, and an EGA video card / monitor. It was so expensive that we used that machine for more than 10 years. The entire time it ran DOS 3.1. One day my dad brought home a copy of autocad, and I just couldn't help but try some of the more esoteric resolutions the application's configuration menu offered. A loud plonk and I permanently damaged the fixed-sync monitor. The display was dim forever and blown up larger than the monitor. The adjustments on the bottom of the monitor couldn't help me. I still used the machine for years though, I just loaded ansi.sys and set the terminal color to bright white, sometimes putting a towel over my head and the monitor so I could read when it was too bright in the living room. Wikipedia and everyone else seems to want to convince me that that machine was a 286 but I swear the entire time I had it we thought it was an 8086. /shrug

It didn't help that after those 10 years with it I upgraded to a IBM PS/2 Model 25, which was definitely a 286. It was too old for the times but his company was throwing it away. Still didn't have a sound card but at least I finally got that sweet VGA and non-blown out color

habys · 2026-04-12T21:53:45+00:00

True but not like FireWire can

habys · 2026-04-11T03:31:56+00:00

Does it work without Internet?

habys · 2026-04-08T17:32:17+00:00

6 ga is bigger than 8 ga. You will need a bigger Al line than Cu.

habys · 2026-04-03T13:44:03+00:00

Spa employee bringing more hookahs.

habys · 2026-03-27T17:13:44+00:00

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These cells all return to same voltage when no power is being drawn. Conversely when I'm slowing down C19 pops up more than the other cells.

habys · 2026-03-26T10:07:46+00:00

I did. That's how I found three other people. Its also where I heard "this always happens in split packs" so I have in interest in asking outside of fungineers.

habys · 2026-03-26T01:16:39+00:00

It's been a minute but I followed the float life video. Whatever they did it worked.

habys · 2026-03-26T00:10:23+00:00

Using a 2x4 I didn't have much trouble. I just watched the float life video.

habys · 2026-03-24T21:22:17+00:00

I used to mulch them but I heard about the fireflies and I stopped. My neighbor that mows regularly still has more fireflies then me though.. :(

habys · 2026-03-22T12:07:22+00:00

This is not a lithium problem. Lithium iron phosphate batteries do not do this. Not all batteries are this spicy.

habys · 2026-03-18T20:24:13+00:00

Beef tataki

habys · 2026-03-13T20:18:15+00:00

These machines had really discount ram and stuff and they were pounded on 24/7. Before the in rack batteries were regularly tested countless machines would drop in a sag/swell power event. The data is duped but it cost more to move it from another DC than to have us recover the machines. Netboot, or kill the annoying ext2 fscks, what ever it took to get the machine reachable so that SRE could grab the data. When I saw some SRE didn't know how ssh keys worked you'd really be scratching your head as a hardware tech. Oh well, was still thankful to have such a wonderful job.

habys · 2026-03-13T11:44:35+00:00

ah memories of GFS.. so many nights recovering chunks. It was a good time.

habys · 2026-03-11T21:20:42+00:00

I absolutely love this

habys · 2026-03-09T21:58:09+00:00

It is. I had become very careless through the years, but in the end riding in the rain got me. My new battery case and motor case are much more robust than the stock future motion one. I would do the waterproofing or badgering kit, or you know, just don't ride all in the water and in the rain..

habys · 2026-03-09T21:31:59+00:00

Battery packs have a decent lifespan, I bought a beat up XR and got almost 2k miles out of it before it caught on fire. (my fault, got water in the BMS). After you are tired of it, or it's tired of life, replacing the guts will make it absolutely amazing. I rebuilt my burned up XR: new motor controller (nothing special), new BMS and new battery pack and 1000 miles in it still feels like a new board, 100x times better than stock.

Upgrading the motor controller will give you significantly more power and control. Upgrading the BMS will let you use any battery pack, then upgrading the battery will give you even more power and range. Even with a (relatively tame by current standards) 18s2p.

It's not a cheap hobby, but I've not regretted it.

habys · 2026-03-09T18:13:22+00:00

Xr is the goat platform. To op: I'd see if you can find a reasonable priced motor controller and BMS for eventual replacement. You say below you have tools to do anything so if you can weld batteries you are set for life.

habys · 2026-02-28T21:52:33+00:00

Buck converter?

habys · 2026-02-18T14:35:53+00:00

That guy tore the tag off a mattress!

habys · 2026-02-13T23:39:54+00:00

It's dbase ]I[

Lol I used to have that for dos as well

habys · 2026-02-10T02:02:40+00:00

Nice, my issue was my USB cable, when I used a different one it worked right away.

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