KE5EUA's 818 Build

[ke5eua]

After spending about an hour trying to figure out what was wrong I pulled the full specs for the relays to find out they are temperature control relays. Yep not good for my application.

I'll find a use for them, target practice.

 

[Jeepsinker]

Ahhh. An unfortunate waste of funds. At least they looked nice all mounted up. I would probably take a hammer to them after all that work finding out they don't work.

 

[ke5eua]

Ahhh. An unfortunate waste of funds. At least they looked nice all mounted up. I would probably take a hammer to them after all that work finding out they don't work.

Nope, 5.56 will work very nice to rectify the problem.

 

[Jeepsinker]

True.

 

[Tow4]

 

[ke5eua]

The fun part will be removing 32 rivets to get the relays off.

 

[ke5eua]

Better yet, I'm going to take everything but the relays off since everything else is bolted on and shoot the ever loving crap out of the sheet.

I think 500 rounds should be enough. I'll be sure to video it.

 

[mobileauto2000]

Use your 12 gauge removal tool.

 

[ke5eua]

Use your 12 gauge removal tool.

Tannerite removal tool will be used after several .223 attempts have been made.

 

[Jeepsinker]

Wasting more money on it now? A drill bit slightly larger than the rivet shank makes removal a cinch. You think 32 rivets is bad... I have to de-rivet and re-rivet nearly the entire body of my mighty mite. Good thing I learned how to rivet in airframe and powerplant school.

 

[ke5eua]

Wasting more money on it now? A drill bit slightly larger than the rivet shank makes removal a cinch. You think 32 rivets is bad... I have to de-rivet and re-rivet nearly the entire body of my mighty mite. Good thing I learned how to rivet in airframe and powerplant school.

I know but I need something to shoot at, and relive some stress.

 

[Jeepsinker]

By all means then, go ahead. I'm not going to volunteer to be a target.

 

[ke5eua]

By all means then, go ahead. I'm not going to volunteer to be a target.

I have a new sheet of perforated steel that should be here Monday and all the communications gear will be moved over with just leaving the solid state relays.

Figure me and the wife will put about 300 rounds into the plate before I tape some tarnnite to it.

 

[ke5eua]

Went to do a little work on the truck this evening.

Had to try and wrangle the geese first. Needles to say I didn't work on the truck.

Caution, I drop the s bomb at the end. Although if this happened to you, you would understand.

http://youtu.be/8z_KD2UV5jo

 

[Jeepsinker]

It says the video is private.

 

[ke5eua]

It says the video is private.

Just fixed it.

 

[ke5eua]

A little background. Had the dog out and was going to video her rounding the geese up. Geese got spooked and starting coming right for me.

Now most people would say don't worry about it, those people don't know geese. I had a flower box right behind me and a fence behind it.

My dog saw them coming for me and when I got up all I could do was laugh because she had feathers in her mouth trying to protect me.

I was attacked by a gaggle when I was a kid and that all I could think of when I saw them heading for me, hence the "oh s!"

Funny thing is the dog wasn't even interested in the geese till I was in trouble.

 

[Jeepsinker]

Oh, and is that the last time you are going to get your 818 stuck? I had to vote for you because it was a pic of you stuck again.

 

[RAYZER]

LoL!

 

[ke5eua]

Today I got the new box wired, tomorrow and Tuesday will be the relays and Wednesday the truck will be alive.

All switches were supposed to be off, looks like I left the fuel pump in the on position.

Battery switch on, illuminates the bottom light on all the switches.

All switched but the power switch in the on position. This shows that the fuel pump, and engine start need the power switch to be on to operate.

All switches in the on position

Battery switch in the off position with all the rest still in the on position.


Basically one main 12v positive comes in to the battery. Each switch then has it's on independent relay on the electronics panel to handle the load instead of the switch. This also made it easier to have all the switches on one voltage and have the relays handle whether or not it need 24 or 12 passed through it.

The battery switch is going to replace the dash battery switch, and the power and engine start is going to replace the run/start switch.

I have some more switched on the way from the outback to fill the holes and replace the red radio switch with a green one.

The radio is my 900MHz radio, Kenwood TK-981. The two you see in the background, top one is the ID-880H, and under it is the FT-857D, and the Dell laptop sitting on some cans of peas, lol