u/Polar_Ted

New to charcoal and Kamado's. Got the lil guy to play with.

I got coals burning. When I added wood chips I got good smoke.

Should I open the top vent more or the bottom? I don't want to send it to the moon.

When I started up this morning it went to to 600°F l wide open. I closed it up to a finger on the lower door and 1/4 on the top and left it ride down to 250 over a few hours before I put the shanks on.

Body and lid is warm but less than it was a few hours ago.

Still definitely getting air flow through. Just lost on the best move to warm it up to 200-225°F I know nothing good happens fast. Baby steps.

I decided to try the Rivian chargers today.

Pro - it's fast. 300kw not that the Lightning will pull over 175.

Con - Tried the pull in stalls but you have to drag the cable around the bumper and it will just barely reach.

Nobody was using the towing charger so we went for it.

Had a plumbing project and figured why borrow from friends when you can spend $500. Ouch.

I picked up a couple Stanley spoke shaves this week.

Am I correct in thinking that someone put a 51 iron into this 151 handle? It has no slots for the adjustment screws.

Should still work fine without the adjustment screws right?

Finished modding my ISKARNA lamp.

These lamps are 24v and use non addressable LEDs.

I put a QuinLED-ESP32 in with an Adafruit NeoRGB WS2811 board inside wired to the OEM LEDs.

The NeoRGB boards are only rated for 16v but that's a limitation of their 5v regulator. The mosfets for the LEDs can handle 30v. I wired the 24V to the LED array anode and let the WS2811 board shunt the cathode to ground for control.

I tried using the lamps built in 5v power supply but it couldn't give the ESP32 enough power to function so I put in a 24v-5v buck converter. It also powers the WS2811 board.

This left the oe control IKEA board with no purpose so I cut it out of the harness, jumpered it's button to a gpio pin on the ESP32 and set it up as a button in WLED.

It appears to be completely stock and runs off the OE 24v power supply.

Costs

QuinLED-ESP32 $6.50

Adafruit NeoRGB Stemma (WS2811) $5

Buck converter $1 each (Had to get a 6 pack of em though)