Things That Amuse You

[TBS]

Oh yeah, came to post this


DigitalDrew was on to something

[KQ]

[emoji16]

Those were the days of trying to get to a particular song within the track

[old goat]

I'm proud to say I never owned or played an 8 track tape. We do however have a lot of VHS tapes and several still working players. Also a shitload of DVD's, CDs, and 33's. But we never play or listen to any of them. I have two cabinets, each a half cord in size full of that stuff.

[halliday]

I'm proud to say I never owned or played an 8 track tape. We do however have a lot of VHS tapes and several still working players. Also a shitload of DVD's, CDs, and 33's. But we never play or listen to any of them. I have two cabinets, each a half cord in size full of that stuff.

It's time to clean house. My wife has EVERY charger that ever came through her hands. And she has the box that her first cell phone came in, with the receipt, but not the phone. Fuck.

[KQ]

I'm proud to say I never owned or played an 8 track tape. We do however have a lot of VHS tapes and several still working players. Also a shitload of DVD's, CDs, and 33's. But we never play or listen to any of them. I have two cabinets, each a half cord in size full of that stuff.

I don't get it. Why are you proud? Cars came with them, at least the ones we owned when I was a kid.

[The AD]

I don't get it. Why are you proud? Cars came with them, at least the ones we owned when I was a kid.

Your parents must have been fancy. I remember a couple of our cars only had an AM radio. I think having a radio at all was an option on some economy cars. My dad worked for the State of Michigan and had to travel for his job fairly frequently. He always complained that the shitty cars they had for the motor pool didn't even have radios. We're talking in like the mid-'80s here!

[singlecross]

[emoji16]

Those were the days of trying to get to a particular song within the track

Hot Poop record store is an amusing place to spend an afternoon. I had a great long conversation and tour of the place with the owner when my Kid was checking out Whitman College. Highly recommend if you find yourself in Walla Walla.

[riser4]

In 2010 a Teton County WY deputy lost a box with an oz of methamphetamine while training his dog.
The box was marked “meth”
To my knowledge it was never recovered
https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/news/...1e0e6978b.html

Sure he 'lost' it. Uh huh. Right.

[AlpiNord]

This can’t be true:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBHs_...44MXcwd2lscHVy




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[old goat]

I don't get it. Why are you proud? Cars came with them, at least the ones we owned when I was a kid.

The proud part is sarcasm. But I went from AM radio in the family car to AM/FM in my first car, a 73 Pinto (the exploding kind) to casette to CD to Sirius XM/ (I need to check by 2018 Forester to see if it has a CD slot. If it has I've never used it.)

It's time to clean house. My wife has EVERY charger that ever came through her hands. And she has the box that her first cell phone came in, with the receipt, but not the phone. Fuck.

At least keys that don't go to anything but you're afraid to throw away don't take up much room. We have boxes of chargers that might (but actually don't) go to something we use.

[toast2266]

This can’t be true:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBHs_...44MXcwd2lscHVy




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I know nothing about that truck, but an ICE engine running an electric motor that spins the wheels isn't all that uncommon. Plenty of vehicles operate like that.

*which isn't to say it's a good (or bad) idea in this particular case.

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[skaredshtles]

I know nothing about that truck, but an ICE engine running an electric motor that spins the wheels isn't all that uncommon. Plenty of vehicles operate like that.

*which isn't to say it's a good (or bad) idea in this particular case.

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Almost all locomotives do this, I think.

[XXX-er]

8 tracks had pretty good sound cuz of higher tape speed than cassette ( 1 &7/8 vs 3 & 3/4 IPS ) but the deck was always eating the tape or they were playing slow but of course as a budding HW guy I had it figured out, just wank about with that continuous loop, if a tape broke just tape it back together with scotch tape and if you had to cut out some mangled tape no worries eh

MacDonald's was giving out these springy metal rulers which we would get cruising the mc D so if you folded that ruler up in the correct way and jammed it in the RH side of the tape player to load the case against the pinch wheel your tape would usually play pretty good

I found the 8 track case with a small pinch roller didn't work worth a shit whereas the 8 track case with the large roller always worked pretty good SO just open up the 8 track case and swap the entire loop eh

So I would swap loops around in the cases depending on what I wanted to listen to ,

Which means whomever smashed my vent window to steal my 8 track tape collection got a bunch of mislabeled 8 tracks

[MontuckyFried]

This can’t be true:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBHs_...44MXcwd2lscHVy

Isn't that basically how the Chevy Volt works? Seems that was a pretty good system.

[BCMtnHound]

Almost all locomotives do this, I think.

Mostly yup. Big diesel gennies powering electric engines. Much better torque for those big loads.

[BCMtnHound]

MacDonald's was giving out these springy metal rulers which we would get cruising the mc D so if you folded that ruler up in the correct way and jammed it in the RH side of the tape player to load the case against the pinch wheel your tape would usually play pretty good

Packet of matches from the bar, wedged in the same way, worked just as well. Gotta love the idea of a one-sided tape. Sorta like beta vcr, great idea but poor mass execution.

[AlpiNord]

I know nothing about that truck, but an ICE engine running an electric motor that spins the wheels isn't all that uncommon. Plenty of vehicles operate like that.

*which isn't to say it's a good (or bad) idea in this particular case.

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I get that, but to convert gasoline into electricity to run the truck is even less efficient than simply powering the truck with a gasoline (or diesal) engine. Kinda defeats the idea and concept of e-vehicles…..ideally from a renewable source.

Mostly yup. Big diesel gennies powering electric engines. Much better torque for those big loads.

That part makes some sense and having a ‘extended range’ for hauling would be nice…..but low mpg overall. The weight of these trucks and cost must be up there.

A hybrid truck does make a lot of sense.

Isn't that basically how the Chevy Volt works? Seems that was a pretty good system.

Interesting, I’ll need to check it out, along with the Ram truck ‘generator’ engine.

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[TBS]

Which means whomever smashed my vent window to steal my 8 track tape collection got a bunch of mislabeled 8 tracks

I caught a guy in the process of boosting my 8track deck and a bunch of tapes. Deck was stashed in the glove box. Must have been a tape visible to tip the guy off.
Girlfriend forgot to lock the door on her side which gave him access.

We came back and I could see the glove box open from 10’ away. Guy in the car next to me was a little figity. Looked in the back seat of his car and there’s my deck and a bunch of tapes.

So I opened his door and said “that’s my tape deck and tapes in your back seat.”

He got out - was fuckin hudge- and said “sorry man I didn’t know.” Gave me my stuff back and left.

It was nice of him to remove the deck from its mounting rails using the wingnuts, and use the quick disconnects rather than just cut the wires.

Also nice of him to not kick my ass. Not at all sure I could have won that.

[toast2266]

I get that, but to convert gasoline into electricity to run the truck is even less efficient than simply powering the truck with a gasoline (or diesal) engine.

Is it though?

I don't know, but it seems plausible that you could make an ICE really efficient if all it had to do was serve as a generator. And then let the electric motor do all the peaky output that's usually inefficient.

Maybe the whole idea is bullshit, but they're advertising a 690 mile range with a 27 gallon fuel tank. That's a good bit farther than you'd get in an all gas Ram 1500 with that size tank.

Ultimately, it's kind of irrelevant because I'm not paying $60k for a (base model) pickup truck.

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[Mustonen]

I get that, but to convert gasoline into electricity to run the truck is even less efficient than simply powering the truck with a gasoline (or diesal) engine. Kinda defeats the idea and concept of e-vehicles…..ideally from a renewable source.

Electric vehicle efficiency is in no small part because it uses all of its stored energy to do work, whereas a lot of the stored energy in an ice engine is wasted most of the time while in operation. Maximizing that energy capture as a generator rather than to propel you forward, and storing some of the excess energy expenditure for future use, seems like it could make sense.

[MontuckyFried]

I don't know, but it seems plausible that you could make an ICE really efficient if all it had to do was serve as a generator. And then let the electric motor do all the peaky output that's usually inefficient.

Again, See: Volt. Watch this for a quick primer.



Really was a good setup that I'm surprised didn't catch on more. While you can end up rarely using any gas if you top off the battery at home, when running off generation only, it still gets pretty good mpg. I believe somewhere around mid-40s with a fully depleted battery. Perhaps some former Volt owners can chime in. Either way, this is now kinda old tech by car world standards, so fast forward a decade and I bet they can make the generation even more efficient than it was back then. Makes a LOT of sense for a truck because you can have a tiny, fuel efficient engine humming along at a constant speed but get the benefit of the great torque off the bat that electric motors provide. I think the idea is quite sound and hopefully Dodge nails the execution.

[AlpiNord]

@toast2266 & @Mustonen, the hybrid concept sounds good, but also sounds like a big generator and only nets 25mpg at a large cost. It’ll be far less hauling a big load. Between batteries, electric motor and gas engine, weight seems like a factor. My F150 V8. 5.0L has a range of 730ish (35 gal @ 21 mpg) if no load. Maybe 400ish if hauling our light camper. I’d be curious as to the range hauling various loads vs a Ford Ecoboost, too.

As an aside, during a recent a 3,000 mile trip, my mpg got worse the farther I got from elevation in Colorado through the plain states and WI. They dropped even worse coming back with a small U-Haul trailer. I’m not sure what make to of that. Not sure if it’s elevation, ‘inaccurate octanes’ or percentages of ethanol, but nothing was consistent.

Analogous to a truck as a generator, during power outages, I ran my truck (15mins/hr or so) to charge a LiFePo battery and 2000W inverter to keep our boiler, fridge, lights & internet/comm system going for almost 2 days. On idle, it consumed far less fuel than I expected. During a 90hr outage, I used 2000W Honda that ate up the gas.



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[AlpiNord]

Again, See: Volt. Watch this for a quick primer.



Really was a good setup that I'm surprised didn't catch on more. While you can end up rarely using any gas if you top off the battery at home, when running off generation only, it still gets pretty good mpg. I believe somewhere around mid-40s with a fully depleted battery. Perhaps some former Volt owners can chime in. Either way, this is now kinda old tech by car world standards, so fast forward a decade and I bet they can make the generation even more efficient than it was back then. Makes a LOT of sense for a truck because you can have a tiny, fuel efficient engine humming along at a constant speed but get the benefit of the great torque off the bat that electric motors provide. I think the idea is quite sound and hopefully Dodge nails the execution.

Thanks for that and I do hope they did get this right and it’ll improve.

Along with the regenerative braking/charging, why can’t hybrids and e-bikes) recharge while coasting downhill?

Edit: I’ve always understood, that creating energy from another source was on the order 10% efficiency vs direct use of that source. Think direct solar gain vs active or PVs. Coal to electricity, etc….Solar panels are hitting 23% now, not sure on gasoline or LP generators.

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[Grizz]

12 men = 5 yards + 4 seconds off the clock.

[skaredshtles]

Is it though?

I don't know, but it seems plausible that you could make an ICE really efficient if all it had to do was serve as a generator. And then let the electric motor do all the peaky output that's usually inefficient.

Maybe the whole idea is bullshit, but they're advertising a 690 mile range with a 27 gallon fuel tank. That's a good bit farther than you'd get in an all gas Ram 1500 with that size tank.

Ultimately, it's kind of irrelevant because I'm not paying $60k for a (base model) pickup truck.

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Not to mention that if the battery range is reasonable, probably 90% of the trips that the average suburban soccer mom takes would be handled by electric power only.

I always thought that putting a tiny, super-efficient 2-cylinder motor or the like into a hybrid kinda made sense - get rid of the complexity/weight of a big engine/automatic transmission and just use the small engine for electric generation.

Ultimately, it's kind of irrelevant because it's a Dodge.