Day 3340

 I woke up at 7, played games until 8, and then got up for pet stuff and breakfast.  After that it was a little surfing before I got out the Rubicon.  I glued the magnets onto the body posts and then had to wait until the glue dried. 

I got out the BBX to make sure that it had been programmed.  It was acting weird.  The steering would work, but the throttle wouldn't.  Getting to the electronics in that car requires partially disassembling it.  When I did the light on the ESC was blinking.  I went to the computer and called up the manual.  It said the blinking light meant "low voltage".  Clearly that wasn't true.  Then I had an idea.  I looked up the voltage for the ESC.  It's only 2S.  I was using a 3S battery.

I put a 2S battery on the charger.  After that there wasn't anything I could do except wait for the battery to charge and the glue to dry.  I decided to surf some more and have lunch.

After lunch we went to HEB.  We needed several things and it's better to go on Thursday rather than Friday or the weekend.  When we got home the glue was dry, but the 2S battery was still charging.

I put the Rubicon body back on the car.   The front lights worked fine, but the back ones didn't.  After some checking of the wires I noticed that light from the LED's showed out the back of the enclosures.  I removed one of the enclosures and found that I hadn't punched a hole through the body so that the light could be seen from outside the car.  I'd been in a real hurry to finish the Rubicon before we left last year.

I removed the other enclosure, punched holes in the body, and reinstalled the enclosures.  The lights now look fine.  Then I put everything involved with the Rubicon away.  The 2S battery still wasn't charged, so I watched videos until it was.

I hooked the 2S battery to the BBX.  Everything worked fine.  I didn't feel like checking its programming though, so I just rearranged everything for tomorrow.  From looking at the transmitter I think that the BBX has already been programmed.

When we got back from HEB the steam punk thing had arrived.  Ellen immediately started work on one part of it.  She's really enjoying herself.  She spent the whole rest of the afternoon and the evening working on it.  It's quite detailed and will take a lot of work to get done.

Ellen fixed hot dogs for dinner.  After dinner I watched videos and surfed for the evening.