Technically Insomnia

July 29th, 2010

Hmmm… It’s 5.25am and I’ve been up since 1am, but I’ve found time to test the UPS and determine that the battery (12V 12Ah SLA) is totally knackered, looking around online they are reasonably cheap @ ~20quid… so mees wont be geddin one of dem den… being a little short of the old spondoolies so to speak. I did connect it to a 13.8V PSU to test it and got some odd results, can’t think why right now. Radio’s next, first off the handie I blew up while repairing the battery pack, not sure what is wrong, I believe I over volted it at about 22V so could be something simple like a regulator or supervision device I’m hoping, just don’t want to have blown up the uP coz that’ll mean binning the whole thing. And of course the Yaesu 2/70, can’t remember how that stopped operating. Oh look, sunlight, will be drinking more coffee and finding more random stuff to keep me occupied before I inevitably pass out.

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