Notices by Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org), page 5

@ai6yr @misternineham Pro tip: Don't set a bare 36V pack on your thighs while wearing short shorts on a hot day. Sweat conducts electricity.

@ai6yr @misternineham I can send you some of those if you want! I have a whole bunch of them leftover from a charity sticker drive I did on twitter.

The sticker was inspired by me getting shocked by that very battery pack

Garden things:

A bell pepper i grew in my garden from a plant that is a volunteer

Two of the hybrid squash i created in my yard and gave a friend to grow in her garden

@botvolution Years ago my mom complained that the digital assistants were mostly woman-coded, and wanted to know why so many people want to boss around a woman. I still think about that.

I've never used a digital assistant. I've never said "Hey, Google," or "Hey, Siri" or "Hey, Alexa."

@steter I will see if I can reset it. If not, like you said, new boards are cheap. Though, with tariffs, they seem to be double $15 now

@steter I will look at how feasible that is. The balance wires should just unplug, but the big wires that carry the discharge current seem robustly soldered on

If I can get the battery pack sorted out, but I can't figure out the stupid controller thing, maybe I can remove the motor controller and install a generic one from AliExpress. I would probably lose the torque-sensing, but it would at least be a usable e-bike

I've been given a non-working e-bike with nice specs, but it doesn't work, and it's going to be quite a puzzle to sort out.

It's a beefy commuter-type bike with a 500W mid-drive motor, torque-sending pedals, and a nice big rack on the back.

The annoying thing about this bike is that it uses a Bosch-designed system that makes your smart phone into the controller for the bike. You clip it into the bike's dashboard and you can see your speed, battery level, turn on and off lights, and change assist level from there.

I got it for free because my coworker got it for free, because the guy he got it from couldn't get the phone controller to work. It just says "insert battery." There's no explanation or documentation for what that's supposed to mean.

The other problem (maybe related) is that it has a 48V battery pack, but it only charges to 42V.

Here goes nothing

The battery pack is plastic-welded shut, so I'm going to have to carefully cut it open without damaging anything to see what's going on inside

Surprisingly, i did it without damaging anything

Since I was only getting 42 volts out of what was supposed to be a 48 volt pack, I was expecting to find some dead cells inside, but now that I have it open, I am finding that all the sub packs are fully charged and that there is a total of 52 volts (a fully charged 48 volt pack).

So there are is something going on with the battery management board. I don't know if there's something wrong with it or it's just refusing to release all of it s voltage for other reasons. I'll have to see if I can find out any information about the BMS.

This is the BMS, but there's very little information here

Will I clean this up and make it nicer? I could, but I think I will leave it exactly like this.

A friend made some really spicy pickled eggs he's calling eggs of mass destruction and asked me for a label to put on the jar

@botvolution Send that rug to me so I can match the floor

Solids

@botvolution I can't tell if this a car post or a computer post

Feces! On the sidewalk! With footprints in it ...