long time no bloggage !

well here we are again ,ages since i put pen to paper ,so heres a little update ..

the last time i wrote was i think ,about summer last year ,since then i have fixed the cave up a little more,
double glazed the windows (elastoplast)
rigged up remote control of the exhaust extraction fans ,cooling fans ,and compressor .
painted the floor and made steel plates to fill in around the dyno .
painted the console black.
done extensive work with andy's help on the analog circuit boards of the dyno ,he kindly made me some chips (with that) to replace the dead 604 ones ,but upon testing it still went wonky ,we assume some of the other ones on there were still dead ,,so i banged in the spare boards and it worked ok ,i estimate i took those original boards in and out about 6.458k times in the end, ooooh my back !!

now i could finally test the dyno ,which was done with my astra ,

http://s32.photobucket.com/albums/d44/ivanhoew/?action=view¤t=059.mp4

it worked ok ,but made a nasty rattling noise at 95 mph ,so i decided to take it all apart and replace the bearings ! this was a bit of a job to do n my own ,and i went away for a interesting christmas ,then ,on return ,got it apart ,then had great fun trying to get the correct bearings ,which i did in the end .
so put them in ,after of course ,digressing into the world of roller restoration ,so out of all this came two shiny silver rollers ,and two mega stonko grippy ceramic gritted rollers !! .



























software wise ,a fully understandable hiatus ensued ,so in the meantime i did a bit more research in this area .. i found dynertia, a company in aus , but they cant seem to do a coast down addition of the neg voltage for losses on each run ,also can't afford it lol ,apart from that ,a tat dyno system was on ebay ,but went to 1100 quid ,second hand ouch !
then sophie popped up again ,and was into working on it some more ,blimey,i'm about as much use on this as a quark at a meson convention ,but i am a great cheerleader !rah rah ,etc .

so ,the new rollers ,apart from trying to emasculate me ,went in this week ,i will leave them a week for the epoxy grit things to harden ,then get my car on there again ,and see whats what . i may even get to calibrate it .

thanks for reading .

robert