Slippery's Trip Melbourne F1 2016

Dr. Kent Hovind June 14th Mathew 5: 13-20

Kitch Design for my Aunty

Aunty's Kitchen Design Mk1

Another view

Now the hard part, you know... actually start to make this. It's all fun when designing with sketchup but building really brings reality to my delusions :)

Chicken Pen from Old Kids Swing-set

Google Sketch-up design of what I would like to do..

Of course it never turns out the way I planned....always seems to be the same with DIY for me...

Photos of the project to follow:

Main Solar Components

Very simplistic diagram of my Caravan System and component list below:

Main Components:

  Solar Panel: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/12V-200W-Solar-Panel-Kit-Home-Generator-Caravan-Camping-Power-Mono-Charging-/331639809484?hash=item4d3745e5cc:g:B1kAAOSwFMZWsDBY

Solar Controller: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/LCD-30A-12V-24V-Solar-Controller-Regulator-Charge-Battery-Protection-CE-Certify-/251432415596?hash=item3a8a8a316c:g:cw0AAOxy4dNS4O8u

 Deep Cycle Battery: http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/armadale/other-parts-accessories/12volt-deep-cycle-gel-batteries/1094753148

 ** Note: These are all just examples of what to use, of course you will need at least decent 20A 12V wire and other bits and pieces like a fuse panel etc 

I have had this system running in my caravan for almost 3 years as of June 2016, it powers an Engel 12v 40Lt Fridge 24/7 and provides lighting and other auxiliary items like powered USB points and a 600watt Inverter. It may be worth noting that I actually have 2 solar panels with a combined 320Watts and 2 Deep Cycle 100AH batteries and this is more than adequate for powering the Engel and lights etc.

The Islamic Dilemma

DR Kent Hovind - Bible Study #33

Fence Progress

Original Fence



Fence removed



New Fence pics to come

Quadcopters

So, along with so many other un-finished projects, I have also began to play around with quad-copters.

I have previously built my own quad-copter frames using wire-screen aluminium as the framework and 1mm aluminium as the plates and fastened together with silicon and rivets. Link to short video on how to build one of these to be added.

First Quad-copter frame build using aluminium and rivets - 700 mm

These were somewhat successful and flew very well, however they bent when crashed, and this was a major bummer as I crash a lot!

I have now moved onto using in-expensive frames from eBay in this my learning phase of quad-copter mastery.

I started off with the CC3D flight controller from Openpilot which I found to be excellent, and have moved onto a Flip32 with on-board Barorometer and Compass and External GPS. This is still a work in progress. I have also built a Phantom 2 copy using a shell from Buzz hobbies and a NAZE32 Acro flight controller. This one looks great and flies very well so far.

So this is my DJI 450 copy:

My DJI F450 Copy from eBay

More to follow soon.

Slippery Out!

Back to the Blog

After some time of non-blogging I am back!

Update of current projects:

Kitchen:
Not yet finished, currently getting quotes for splashbacks

Shed:
Finished, full and almost unusable

Fences:
Right hand fence and gate complete!

Left hand fence and gate ordered and should be complete before Christmas! Yaaaa

Caravans:

Uncle's Viscount:
As finished as it is likely to be, usable with working solar power etc

My Millard:
All done, painted, awning installed and working, solar power excellent (running a engel 24/7 for more than a year now), inside needs cleaning but not too bad!

Planning:

After fences we would like to sort out the Patio at the back, and a carport out the front.

We would also like to build a limestone retaining wall instead of the metal fence that currently retains the soil.

After limestone retaining wall with steps is installed a terrace for the grapevine to grow on.

A pool is also on our agenda, but will be a significant cost with all the rock breaking required...

Cheers

Slippery out!