Day 3343

 I woke up at 8:30, played games, and then got up for pet stuff and breakfast.  After breakfast I did some surfing.  Then I went to work on Ellen's mini-b.  It was nice not to face another problem with the contraption.

All the work I had to do involved soldering.  I had to put both motor and battery connectors on the ESC.  I also had to put connectors on the motor.  In addition I had a battery that needed a connector.

I'd ordered 4mm connectors for the motor, but they hadn't come.  I replaced the battery connector on the ESC.  Then I did the battery.  After I finished I noticed that connector I'd put on had the wire colors reversed.  CRAP.  I had to remove the connector as well as the one I'd put on another battery awhile back.  I marked the wrong connectors with a big label so I wouldn't do that again.

I couldn't do any more soldering until the connectors came in.  I spent the rest of the afternoon surfing with some videos thrown in.

After dinner the connectors arrived and I went out to get them.  I almost lost Cooper.  He snuck out when I wasn't looking and I didn't notice it.  I walked up to the gate, got the package, and returned to the house.  Cooper wasn't inside when I got back.  After searching inside for a short time I went outside and started calling for him.  I did that for a couple of minutes and then started walking towards the truck.  Cooper was walking towards me across the yard.  He'd been outside for at least 10 to 15 minutes.  I'm very lucky he didn't go too far and came back when I called.

I needed something to take my mind off the near catastrophe, so I started to solder the new connectors on the motor and ESC.  It went pretty well.  The last step will be determining the polarity of the ESC outputs.  They are documented and the wire colors are yellow and blue.  Fucking Chinese.

When I was putting the connectors away I discovered that I'd had a bunch of 4mm connectors already.  Crap.  Getting old sucks. 

The rest of the evening was surfing.  We have to get up at 6:30 tomorrow to take the cats to get their teeth cleaned.  That made for an early bedtime.