What have you done today thread?

[Mr. Dazzle]

Been messing around with eco mode in my car and doing sat nav enhanced "pulse and glide".

What's "pulse and glide"? Basically it takes advantage of the slightly quirky efficiency behaviour of piston engines. They're most efficient at higher loads, so you can "pulse" up to high speed and then drop into neutral, kill the engine and glide down again. Then repeat. Hypermilers have done it for years. https://www.economist.com/babbage/2010/ ... -and-glide

So my car can assist you with this automatically. It doesn't call it P & G, but that's what it is doing.

Said car has a ~25kW/200Nm electric motor on the crank which is also the generator and the starter motor. Its the mildest of mild hybrids. The transmission is a conventional slush box auto.

Driving across MK...give it mid level hoof out of the roundabout. Electric motor helps you out so it's doing nlots of the work. At 75mph come off the pedal and the engine switches itself off. The car glides supremely well, easily enough to still be doing 60 at the next roundabout 3/4 mile away.

The really clever bit is what it does next though. It knows there's a roundabout coming up via the navigation system. It waits until you're about 400yds away then drops back into gear, starts the engine and uses the leccy motor as generator. It engine brakes like you've dropped 3 cogs but it's still in 6th doing 1500rpm. You slow down to ~20mph to go around the roundabout, then use all that recovered leccy to blitz back up to 75 again.

Marvelous stuff! Very clever

[KungFooBob]

Been messing around with eco mode in my car and doing sat nav enhanced "pulse and glide".

What's "pulse and glide"? Basically it takes advantage of the slightly quirky efficiency behaviour of piston engines. They're most efficient at higher loads, so you can "pulse" up to high speed and then drop into neutral, kill the engine and glide down again. Then repeat. Hypermilers have done it for years. https://www.economist.com/babbage/2010/ ... -and-glide

So my car can assist you with this automatically. It doesn't call it P & G, but that's what it is doing.

Said car has a ~25kW/200Nm electric motor on the crank which is also the generator and the starter motor. Its the mildest of mild hybrids. The transmission is a conventional slush box auto.

Driving across MK...give it mid level hoof out of the roundabout. Electric motor helps you out so it's doing nlots of the work. At 75mph come off the pedal and the engine switches itself off. The car glides supremely well, easily enough to still be doing 60 at the next roundabout 3/4 mile away.

The really clever bit is what it does next though. It knows there's a roundabout coming up via the navigation system. It waits until you're about 400yds away then drops back into gear, starts the engine and uses the leccy motor as generator. It engine brakes like you've dropped 3 cogs but it's still in 6th doing 1500rpm. You slow down to ~20mph to go around the roundabout, then use all that recovered leccy to blitz back up to 75 again.

Marvelous stuff! Very clever

What car is it?

My Ovlov is a derv auto, I found the engine breaking annoying when I got in it after driving the MB, when I drive the Merc on paddles I get better MPG than the auto (I change up much earlier), but the Ovlov don't got paddles and the only way to manual change is in 'sports' mode which holds the gears longer anyway.

I discovered the 'Eco' button on the V40, it kind of disengages the gearbox when you've been coasting for more than a few seconds... makes the derv engine breaking totally disappear, the thing will coast for miles, much much further then the SL.

[Pirahna]

I've found a new way to make passengers car sick, it's called "pulse and glide"

I've corrected it for you.

[the_priest]

Last night really. I took a Holy Communion service for a lady who has an operation this morning at 7.30am, she will be 101 on Thursday. Some of the joys of ministry. Just a cataract procedure, but she wished to be anointed and have Communion before going under the laser!

Today I take Holy Communion to a lady in a care home who has been dying for the last two years, but somehow has the strength of spirit to stay with us. She wants to go "home", but rejoices that she is yet able to be with her sister and family. A radiant joyful person who puts us to shame with her faith and hope.

Daughter off to uni for the first time in 4 weeks. Really hoping it goes well, her confidence is so weak at the moment, wife is going with her to help her with the train journey there and back. She is on half term and it is good timing.

[wheelnut]

Just spent the last 30 mins talking to a family of evacuees from Gaziantep. Mother and father and two small kids. My Turkish is terrible and their English wasn’t great but it seems most of the wife’s family is presumed dead. Didn’t know what to say. The sense of loss is palpable everywhere here.

[Taipan]

Just spent the last 30 mins talking to a family of evacuees from Gaziantep. Mother and father and two small kids. My Turkish is terrible and their English wasn’t great but it seems most of the wife’s family is presumed dead. Didn’t know what to say. The sense of loss is palpable everywhere here.

Saw some of it on the news last night. The loss of life is so great it's difficult to comprehend the numbers. I saw a man crying and begging for help to recover his dead mother's body. So sad...

[v8-powered]

It's day 1 of over a months work on our house - bi-folds being fitted to wall of kitchen to the garden this week, bet its going to be cold tonight!

[Taipan]

Got offers snd accepted a pack of digestives! Can’t remember the last time I had some!

[Demannu]

been doing a bit of battery gynecology today.
only difference between this and real gyne is the battery weighs 20+kgs, once you take it out you have to put a fresh one back in, and an obgyn can open the hole a fair bit!

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[Count Steer]

been doing a bit of battery gynecology today.
only difference between this and real gyne is the battery weighs 20+kgs, once you take it out you have to put a fresh one back in, and an obgyn can open the hole a fair bit!
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Your next task is to wallpaper the hallway...


...through the letterbox.

Seriously though, don't they ever consider that batteries quite often (relatively) need to be replaced when they design these things?

[Demannu]

been doing a bit of battery gynecology today.
only difference between this and real gyne is the battery weighs 20+kgs, once you take it out you have to put a fresh one back in, and an obgyn can open the hole a fair bit!
20230214_150959.jpg

Your next task is to wallpaper the hallway...


...through the letterbox.

Seriously though, don't they ever consider that batteries quite often (relatively) need to be replaced when they design these things?

just painted it!

as for poor design, the original merc has a larger bonnet space to drop the battery in through. this thing has a letterbox bonnet, which makes something as simple as topping up the washer fluid a major challenge!
Every year Mr MOT gives her an advisory for insecure battery, with the caveat that impossible to fall out though.

[Count Steer]

been doing a bit of battery gynecology today.
only difference between this and real gyne is the battery weighs 20+kgs, once you take it out you have to put a fresh one back in, and an obgyn can open the hole a fair bit!
20230214_150959.jpg

Your next task is to wallpaper the hallway...


...through the letterbox.

Seriously though, don't they ever consider that batteries quite often (relatively) need to be replaced when they design these things?

just painted it!

as for poor design, the original merc has a larger bonnet space to drop the battery in through. this thing has a letterbox bonnet, which makes something as simple as topping up the washer fluid a major challenge!
Every year Mr MOT gives her an advisory for insecure battery, with the caveat that impossible to fall out though.

What's the vehicle? Not sure what a letterbox bonnet is!

[weeksy]

Back on the first evening i met Mrs Weeksy, she was brought to me by Nicki, who is of course @Docca 's wife now.

On that meeting, i made a chocolate cake.... the rest as they say is history.

With today being Valentines and us not doing presents..

I made her the same cake

2023-02-14_04-12-10 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

[Count Steer]

Back on the first evening i met Mrs Weeksy, she was brought to me by Nicki, who is of course @Docca 's wife now.

On that meeting, i made a chocolate cake.... the rest as they say is history.

With today being Valentines and us not doing presents..

I made her the same cake

2023-02-14_04-12-10 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

Aww. You're just a big old romantic scouse Teddy Bear you are.

But...cake...am on way....

[cheb]

And he's marked out the slices too.

[Demannu]

Your next task is to wallpaper the hallway...


...through the letterbox.

Seriously though, don't they ever consider that batteries quite often (relatively) need to be replaced when they design these things?

just painted it!

as for poor design, the original merc has a larger bonnet space to drop the battery in through. this thing has a letterbox bonnet, which makes something as simple as topping up the washer fluid a major challenge!
Every year Mr MOT gives her an advisory for insecure battery, with the caveat that impossible to fall out though.

What's the vehicle? Not sure what a letterbox bonnet is!

Bit like this one but a left hooker

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[636mick]

Today, took the girlfriends TT for MOT, which unsurprisingly it passed after only 560 miles in the last year. Walked 1 1/2 miles to collect it.
Then, I washed my car and her Mini, which actually helped my back.
The gave the TT a good run.
Then drank wine in the garden.
Them finished up with a lovely Indian, nan, poppadums etc.
Happy Valentine’s Day all.
Mick

[Count Steer]

In a truly Valentine's Day romantic stylee I'd booked the car valet to come and do her car (and mine ), then I went shopping for ingredients so that I could cook her one of my favourite meals*. Cooked and ate it.

* it involves salmon, new taters, cherry toms, green beans, olives and anchovies. (And takes 10 mins a hot oven provided you've pre-cooked the spuds and beans ).

[Bustaspoke]

It's err a week late,but I finally took early retirement a week ago today.
Today I had to wait in until 3PM for Parcelfarce to deliver my new 3 man tent.I concluded that my trusty Vango 2 man tent was alright for weekend trips,but for longer tours it gets a bit clostrophobic with all the gear in there.
I'll spend a hour or so tomorrow working out how to put up the new tent..

[Count Steer]

It's err a week late,but I finally took early retirement a week ago today.
Today I had to wait in until 3PM for Parcelfarce to deliver my new 3 man tent.I concluded that my trusty Vango 2 man tent was alright for weekend trips,but for longer tours it gets a bit clostrophobic with all the gear in there.
I'll spend a hour or so tomorrow working out how to put up the new tent..

Happy retirement! May it be long, healthy and fun.