So the morning turned colder, of course. Not real cold, expect it’ll warm up pretty well once the sun comes up. Hopefully the place will dry out enough it’ll make sense to clean the mud off my boots.
But right now, what with all the moisture, everything and its brother is covered in thick frost.
The past couple of days I’ve been cocooning in the Lair and watching the weather be miserable. Timely, really, since after Wednesday’s adventure I’d normally be inclined to do that anyway. But not having been out and about more than absolutely necessary I hadn’t gone into the powershed. So every morning – yes, even in the gloom, which affected my tentative diagnosis – my battery voltage was down a couple of tenths and I had begun to speculate that maybe one of my second-hand batteries was giving up. Didn’t occur to me to check if I’d left the damned powershed light on again. Which I had.
They’re two exterior 12v LEDs, not very bright but quite frugal. Still, if you leave them on for days your overnight battery voltage will notice the load. I thought for years about putting them on a timer, for the many times I’ve left the powershed with some entirely other project on my mind – the powershed also being where I store my tools and parts – and forgot to flip the damned switch off.
So this morning while I was thinking about it, I put one of these in my Amazon cart…
🙂 That’ll fix it.
There were actually cooler and cheaper electronic switches listed, but I’m not sure those will work with 12 volts. Sometimes it’s smarter to just keep things analog.
Yep, that will solve the problem.
Heh, I think I have a photography mechanical timer somewhere in the basement, same principle, spring loaded and ticks down from where you set the pointer then shuts off the enlarger. That is much more reliable than electronics and I doubt you will wear it out with a visit or two a week. Small box on the way with some useful stuff and some for grins. Oops Ground so likely your drop will see it by 26th give or take.