Squirrel, and the case of the hot batteries!
In the post about our South Island road trip, I described the issue we had with the battery overheating on the last day. In summary, I charged 5 times during that day, 3 times to 95% from a quite low …
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Squirrel – and our South Island camping road trip, Feb 2020
Squirrel has recently taken us on a road trip, from our home in Whitby to Little River on the Banks Peninsula. We intended to go all the way to Akaroa, but circumstances prevented the last leg. As the Squirrel only …
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Squirrel – the Mitsi Miev Minicab
Why Squirrel? Well it is small, red, quiet,cute and peoples heads turn like the dogs in the film “Up!” when they see a squirrel. It has already caused one nose to tail between two vehicles when the first vehicle stopped …
First Electric 4 wheeled vehicle
We finally did it, after years of considering, and months of waiting for the right vehicle to come along, we have bought our first electric car – or van in this case. A slightly unusual vehicle, especially here in NZ. …
Counterfeit Laptop Power Supplies
A few months ago, I supplied a Dell charger and battery for an older laptop. Because I wanted to get them at the same time, with a single postage charge, and the battery was quite difficult to find, when I …
Smart TV – some interesting settings changes
At long last our ancient Samsung 32″ LCD TV threw its final wobbly, going ultra-high contrast with weird colours. It started on the final stage of La Vuelta a Espana, at the end of the stage I remarked to my …