Dauntless! How the heck are you lol?! We've missed you around here- the place somehow just didn't seem quite as bubbly/ friendly without you
. Thanks- yup, actually arlo's doing great. I had him down at the dog park this afternoon and he was chasing and trying to hump all the other dogs for hours
. I just let it go because I'm going to have to get him fixed for health reasons, a hormone thing, so I couldn't bring myself to stop him this time lol. I think the other owners were getting annoyed!
Thanks Hansrad and Greg!
O no Greg- not at all, no worries!! I was honestly cacking up
. I'm not easily offended anyway, not at all. My friends and I are always joking around / ripping on eachother, etc. Plus your post was'nt offensive at all lol, I was just laughing cause my first reading of it was like, man that's gotta be the most friendliest, subtle way of saying 'ok already, frick'n move it along!' Lol. Then I was like, man he's right lol!! All good buddy, was funny
. Thanks again for the kind words.
After the dog park we swung by a pet store to use their bathing facilities, WAY easier, and when we got back arlo passed right out lol. I was a hot mess from the muddy dog park and from bathing him- it's like bathing a furry, unwilling person lol. But I still needed to go do laundry because I had no clean clothes to change into after I showered- I packed up all the laundry but then I was like- 'meh, I'm just gonna go set all the stuff up on the bench for when I get back lol... And next thing I knew I was just tearing down the wiring to redo, organized in a way that works for this idea. I had to know if there was room in the output- because there's essentially gonna be three or four accents if you count the bank's blue/ red status indicator, and I realized it was gonna add up- plus I found out that the main led was actually running hotter than I first thought. The time really got away from me lol. Took me a while to realize what the smartest layout was for the wiring, so that everything would fit obviously, but also so that things could be removed/ installed without big ordeal, etc. Was tricky getting all this in and getting right distances of wire for things to do what they needed to do without getting in the way... Hard to explain, but Because of the positions of some of the components relative to eachother, and because of how I chose to wire it, the wire really goes back and forth, back and forth in there a bunch, squeezing through an awful lot of stuff all relying on same tiny through ways lol. And putting it in reminded me of doing a rubix cube, or a game of chess against the computer on expert- every move had to be perfect lol, every call about wether to go this way or that way around or over or under that connection or this one proved to be pain staking to say the least! I actually had it about 80% in and realized a couple splices should be moved so had to take it all out again (which takes longer than putting in, it turns out lol) and redo. But I got it
!! I've got everything hooked up, and it's all set so that when the AV and extensions arrive I can solder in with much less fuss. And even better news, is everything can run off the bank's output and then some. I had the two red accents, and obviously the bank's led, plus another salvaged accent (in case I want to put one in the port hatch when I get there, I need to know it's doable now), plus the main led, plus I wired in an illuminated momentary I had here but just the accent posts to stand in for the latching one that's on the way- all running no problem.
Thrilled!!! If someone would have been watching it would have looked like I spent hours redoing the same stuff into diff versions of the same thing, and not having much to show from it- but for me, this was the most singular 'victory' type moment of the whole project, because once I figured out that it could in fact JUST be made to fit, and when I saw those lights all come on and stay on, that was the exact moment that I knew this whole project was actually going to work lol!! Up until now it's just been a wing and a prayer kind of thing, flying by the seat of my pants and being pretty sure it'd work- but the more elaborate my ideas became the less I could really say for sure one way or other. This was where i officially knew I could pull off. Was a battle but totally worth it... Even though now that I'm finished its 2am here, laundry mat's in my small town all closed, so I'm stuck in a ripped up pair of old drawers I thought I already threw out and a dirty t shirt till morning lol. But I'd do it again
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