Day 2918

 I woke up alittlebefore8 and played games until almost 10.  Then I got up for pet stuff and breakfast.  After breakfast I decided to finish the wiring on the BBX.

Most of the work wasn't hard, but it was tedious.  I soldered another 3 resistors and stripped the 9 negative wires.  I twisted them together and then tested every thing to make sure all of the individual LEDs were working.  They were.  I partially soldered the negative wires together and twisted the resistor leads together.  That's when things went south.  Suddenly the lights didn't work.  They flashed briefly and then wouldn't work again.  I thought I'd blown everything.

I untwisted the resistors and started testing each one.  At first nothing worked.  Then I moved the connection to the negative wire.  Things started to work.  The partial solder job wasn't good enough.  I completely soldered it and things started working.  I learned that twisting that many wires together didn't make a good connection.  I twisted all of the resistors back together and soldered them.  Everything still worked.  Finally I connected the receiver and plugged in a battery.  That worked, too.  SUCCESS.

I put everything away.  I still felt like messing around, so I got out the SCX24.  I'd run across some axle extensions for it while I was getting stuff together for the BBX.  I figured out how they worked (no instructions) and installed them.  While I was doing that I noticed that a screw had fallen out of the suspension.  Of course a search through everything found that I didn't have a replacement.  I had to order some from Amazon.

While I was doing that Amain sent me a email with some discounts on a SCX24 parts.  I decided to buy a few upgrade parts to make it more competitive with the FX24.  They should be here in a few days.

After that I was finished with RC for the day.  I spent the rest of the day with a little surfing and a lot of videos.  There might have been a nap in there, too.  Of course both lunch and dinner were leftovers.