Living in a stick and brick, and My van neglected, my Fan projects became less important than new interests.
That is until I ran out of functional backup fans for the garage.
Months ago, My 120mm x 36mm Jaro fan's voltage bucker too a dump, and it got put in a box.
I had other fans, and other projects.
More recently One of the 140mmx 36mm fans I use to blow over the powertrain of my electric skateboard, took a 6 foot fall onto concrete, and the Bucker ejected some capacitors.
This caused a lack of acceptable airflow, which needed to be remedied and improved, along with the dormant other fan projects.
So the Jaro fan and the 140mm fan just got new XL4005 Buckers, and I am using the gorilla glue version of Amazing goop/e6000. It stinks far less than either and dries a bit clearer and is a bit less viscous. The buckers are now protected from fingers or falls with sections of the casings of the multiple failed 92mm fans
I have the MOAF 140mm x 50MM 24v delta fan on a gooseneck. I completely forgot why I stopped working on this fan, but as far as I can tell it is because I wanted to apply epoxy to teak before stuffing the buck boost converter and potentiometer inside of it and Dialing it in. It was put in a box and forgotten about too.
I kind of try to use excess epoxy on such tasks, rather than mix a fresh batch just for it, and it got tabled and forgotten, even though I would have benefitted from its superior airflow.
I had a 120mm Delta fan on my 3 fan intake shroud fail in California before I left nearly 2 years ago, but no Time to investigate its failure then.
I did get another delta fan, and even hardened it, but never installed it.
It too got put in a box and forgotten about.
It is now back in the 3 fan shroud and that shroud is now the improved, and is main garage ventilator, but can be returned to the van, should I ever actually use the Van again.
As far as the 18v nominal power tool batteries go, as pocket fan power sources, to aim at Fiona if she overheats on a long walk, well, we don't take long walks anymore. We roll to the parks or to the watering hole, or Just roll to roll, because walking Kind of sucks.
My electric skateboard has been our ticket to sanity, and we ride no less than 10 miles a day weather permitting, and somedays we have cruised upto 30 miles, recharge the 10s2P battery 3 or 4 times and head out again and bark up the hood.
I could power the skateboard with two Power tool batteries in series for 36v nominal, and a small, simple 3s1p 11.1v nominal battery can power any fan I choose to carry, but when we can roll at 20Mph, we pretty much always have a 20 mph breeze, so who needs a fan?
The Van is reregistered Here in Florida. I Have driven it perhaps 10 miles since it has become legal 2.5 months ago, but part of that is No AC, it is Florida, summer is ridiculously hot, and my driver's side window motor took a dump. I thought I could fix it with new brushes, and I did get it to function properly with new brushes, but only if I ran it on a voltage booster at 22+ volts.
I'd ordered a Dorman replacement motor, but it was a plastic POS, that would need a bunch of precisely sized shims to even begin to operate properly without binding, so I sent it back.
Hurricane Debby dropped So much rain inland, and caused so much flooding there, that it basically caused toxic water to flow to our watering hole. I disallowed Fiona from swimming in it, but one day she put 4 feet down, and refused to budge, and I allowed her to swim in water that looked a bit clearer.
6 hours later one of her mammary glands had swollen to nearly the size of my Fist and I took her to the emergency room.
They kept her for 6 hours running all the tests they recommended and which I authorized, and she quickly improved.
A week later the emergency room vet called me and said the culture came back, and that they had never seen, nor heard of t this type of bacteria in a dog, and that she needed to be put on different Antibiotics immediately, even though the mammary had responded to the other antibiotics and she seemed to be doing pretty well.
The Bacteria Culture was Vibrio Vulnificus, and Google AI will tell you it is impossible for dogs to contract this bacteria.
It is the bacteria which infects raw oysters and kills 30% of humans who are infected with it.
Cholera, is Vibrio bacteria.
The Water is still nasty, and she is not allowed to swim in it, but is doing pretty well, but it did seem to age her. Its been nearly 3 weeks now, and the recent visit to her regular VET they said she should technically be spayed and have all her mammary glands removed, but that she has such a 'High quality of life right now' that the vet could not recommend these major surgeries.
We've not gone kayaking for a few months now, unfortunately. We both miss it.
We roll nearly all the way to the Watering Hole daily. I put some 8x3"Pneumatic turf tires on the front truck of My skateboard, and some 12" tires on her chariot and we can roll the whole 1/4 mile crushed shell trail, but usually walk the last 80 yards or so, So she can squat and hunch, before Awaiting the passing Cormorants and Pelicans.
Awesome dog.
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