Electronics

May 21st, 2013

Tweet I am seriously impressed by Drift Innovation! I purchased an older Drift HD 170 stealth digital video camera a year ago from one of the retailers.  The camera worked well for several months and then started having a focus problem.  At times, it seemed like it wasn’t too bad – just not sharp.  This [...]

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January 31st, 2013

Tweet I don’t ride my bicycle in dark very often but when I do, I like to see where I am going. So, I always ride with a front and read LED bike light. I purchased a Blackburn Voyager 2.0  and Mars Click combo light set about six months ago from ChainReactionCycles.com.  My experience with [...]

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December 19th, 2012

Tweet Note from JD: This is a continuation of the previous post titled Solar Hot Tub Heater. The fourth day of testing the solar water heater (continued from above post): At noon, the outside temperature was 41 degrees when the system was first checked.  The water that had been in the collector overnight was pumped [...]

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August 4th, 2012

Tweet Aircraft Spruce recently announced their new Freeflight XPlorer ADS-B Receiver.  Very interesting product. It appears to be quite similar to the Stratus unit marketed by Sporty’s for the iPad.  I’m anxious to see which of the Android aviation app providers interface to any of these units.

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July 12th, 2012

Tweet Now here is a kewl product!! It is called the edifi MultiMedia Tablet from Family Christian. It is an Android tablet with some great apps pre-loaded PLUS it’s locked down to prevent access to the garbage on the Internet.  I suspect this might be a great gift for kids! Time will tell.

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July 11th, 2012

Tweet My Vans RV-3B has a fifteen gallon fuel tank and Princeton capacitance fuel quantity sensor in each wing.  These sensors are connected to a Grand Rapids EIS.  As long as I’ve owned her, the fuel quantity indications have been wrong.  The fuel flow gauge has done an excellent job as a backup but the [...]

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