The all new "Where are you today?" thread

[Steve]

This week there has been loads of military planes and helicopters flying about …British ones …   are “we” about to invade somewhere ..?..?

Not up to date on who the latest threat ..? …

Two Hercules just rumbled over now …

Awesome plane for its time the Herc but I think you'll find they were the much bigger A400s.  We haven't got any Hercs anymore.

And what BM said with that  , Humanitarian purposes my arse.  Restocking with missiles for taking out Iranian drones far more likely.

A400s fly into RAF Akrotiri...

Apey is much more likely to have seen the Hercs flying in and out of Pafos - I think they are RCAF... Also a regular procession of C-17 Globemasters on finals over our village into Pafos....

IIRC the Yanks still fly them too.

A picture taken in Pafos of one of our current visitors... Unfortunately, I haven't seen any in Pissouri... 

Cor! Saw an Osprey on finals into Pafos International at lunchtime... 

Over my house this evening... 

The Marines are here big time!

Cor! 

This bad boy just lumbered over the house - unfortunately I only had my phone to hand...

I fitted an ADS-B antenna on the roof yesterday... Was testing last night and tracked this Osprey which left Chania, descended to 0 feet in the middle of the Meditteranian (presumably onto a ship) and disappeared! 

Tracking military aircraft in Cyprus ….   Wonder which jail you’ll get ….

Nah, mil aircraft turn off their ADS-B transmitters when they don't want to be tracked.  And the Flight Radar etc sites are tracking them all the time they are on.

Which begs a question:  what does having your own £50 and up ABD-B receiver + antenna give you that Flight Radar doesn't?

a) It is cool to set up on a Raspberry Pi
b) You get a free upgrade to Flightradar 24 Business when you start sharing your data
c) It is fascinating to see what you can pick up on it

[Steve]

. . .Which begs a question:  what does having your own £50 and up ABD-B receiver + antenna give you that Flight Radar doesn't?

a) It is cool to set up on a Raspberry Pi
b) You get a free upgrade to Flightradar 24 Business when you start sharing your data
c) It is fascinating to see what you can pick up on it

[Steve]

Taking Mrs K to hostipal for loads of checks - and an all clear 

 

Hopefully the end of the line of some stupid misdiagnoses

[apc2010]

Back from work …nice people but the combined IQ of all 30 of them wouldn’t reach 3 figures …

Makes it hard work when they request ..” you know that song that goes ….” …..   “but I don’t know the title or artist “ ….

When we politely explain we have a library of 10s of thousands of songs ….”you must know it “ ..really helps narrow it down …

[Steve]

Back from work …nice people but the combined IQ of all 30 of them wouldn’t reach 3 figures …

Makes it hard work when they request ..” you know that song that goes ….” …..   “but I don’t know the title or artist “ ….

When we politely explain we have a library of 10s of thousands of songs ….”you must know it “ ..really helps narrow it down …

  google is very good if they could remember just one line.

[Steve]

Trying to sort out the mess that a Plug in Hybrid can get itself in.

Seems they have a 12V battery but only a small one so when you use an electric pump to sort the tyre pressures it flattens it very quickly and then nothing works.  Mrs K was locked in the car for a while and then we were locked out of it as you have to part dismantle the door handle to use the manual key  .

[apc2010]

Trying to sort out the mess that a Plug in Hybrid can get itself in.

Seems they have a 12V battery but only a small one so when you use an electric pump to sort the tyre pressures it flattens it very quickly and then nothing works.  Mrs K was locked in the car for a while and then we were locked out of it as you have to part dismantle the door handle to use the manual key  .

   Sounds crap ..

[Barman]

Trying to sort out the mess that a Plug in Hybrid can get itself in.

Seems they have a 12V battery but only a small one so when you use an electric pump to sort the tyre pressures it flattens it very quickly and then nothing works.  Mrs K was locked in the car for a while and then we were locked out of it as you have to part dismantle the door handle to use the manual key  .

On the KIA the '12V Battery ' is actually part of the main traction battery but they have a 'boost' button or summary if it goes flat...

[Steve]

Trying to sort out the mess that a Plug in Hybrid can get itself in.

Seems they have a 12V battery but only a small one so when you use an electric pump to sort the tyre pressures it flattens it very quickly and then nothing works.  Mrs K was locked in the car for a while and then we were locked out of it as you have to part dismantle the door handle to use the manual key  .

On the KIA the '12V Battery ' is actually part of the main traction battery but they have a 'boost' button or summary if it goes flat...

There's definitely two different batteries on Toyotas.  The HV traction battery also starts the internal combustion engine so the 12V battery can be much smaller.  And then as most driving is done on the traction battery there's no alternator charging up the 12V one.  Instead there's a low current DC-DC converter.  Sort of obvious in retrospect.

Now the internet says that converter only runs when the car is in 'ignition' mode but it appears to also run at least a little when everything is supposed to be off as the car slowly recovered functionality over the evening and night.  Annoyingly at one point it wouldn't even let us recharge the traction battery via the cable as the car wasn't giving the 'OK to charge' message back to the wall charger.

The lesson learnt here is never run accessories off the 12V supply of a PHEV with the 'ignition' off.

Going to do a test drive next IF it will run, right now it's refusing to talk to the App.

[Nick]

Goes out to buy anorak ….

[Steve]

Goes out to buy anorak ….

essential wear for arty types

[apc2010]

Trying to sort out the mess that a Plug in Hybrid can get itself in.

Seems they have a 12V battery but only a small one so when you use an electric pump to sort the tyre pressures it flattens it very quickly and then nothing works.  Mrs K was locked in the car for a while and then we were locked out of it as you have to part dismantle the door handle to use the manual key  .

On the KIA the '12V Battery ' is actually part of the main traction battery but they have a 'boost' button or summary if it goes flat...

There's definitely two different batteries on Toyotas.  The HV traction battery also starts the internal combustion engine so the 12V battery can be much smaller.  And then as most driving is done on the traction battery there's no alternator charging up the 12V one.  Instead there's a low current DC-DC converter.  Sort of obvious in retrospect.

Now the internet says that converter only runs when the car is in 'ignition' mode but it appears to also run at least a little when everything is supposed to be off as the car slowly recovered functionality over the evening and night.  Annoyingly at one point it wouldn't even let us recharge the traction battery via the cable as the car wasn't giving the 'OK to charge' message back to the wall charger.

The lesson learnt here is never run accessories off the 12V supply of a PHEV with the 'ignition' off.

Going to do a test drive next IF it will run, right now it's refusing to talk to the App.

You need the Haynes manual….

[Steve]

Trying to sort out the mess that a Plug in Hybrid can get itself in.

Seems they have a 12V battery but only a small one so when you use an electric pump to sort the tyre pressures it flattens it very quickly and then nothing works.  Mrs K was locked in the car for a while and then we were locked out of it as you have to part dismantle the door handle to use the manual key  .

On the KIA the '12V Battery ' is actually part of the main traction battery but they have a 'boost' button or summary if it goes flat...

There's definitely two different batteries on Toyotas.  The HV traction battery also starts the internal combustion engine so the 12V battery can be much smaller.  And then as most driving is done on the traction battery there's no alternator charging up the 12V one.  Instead there's a low current DC-DC converter.  Sort of obvious in retrospect.

Now the internet says that converter only runs when the car is in 'ignition' mode but it appears to also run at least a little when everything is supposed to be off as the car slowly recovered functionality over the evening and night.  Annoyingly at one point it wouldn't even let us recharge the traction battery via the cable as the car wasn't giving the 'OK to charge' message back to the wall charger.

The lesson learnt here is never run accessories off the 12V supply of a PHEV with the 'ignition' off.

Going to do a test drive next IF it will run, right now it's refusing to talk to the App.

You need the Haynes manual….

Well it has moved but it is doing strange things via the App

[Nick]

 

[Steve]

So to test the car we went for a drive to Tenterden and bought some Uranium

yes really


(just a very very small amount of uranium oxide glass)