payneib

Still not flown since the May bank holiday. Was keeping my fingers crossed for Sunday, but the forecast is looking like another wet weekend.

I've only used start/stop with a manual - it requires the car in neutral and foot off the clutch to work, not sure why that's coming on whilst you're parking. Lane assist seems ok, and I've heard a few people say they've been saved by auto braking. One thing I thought I'd never use, but now really love is a gear indicator on a motorcycle. Really handy to have a quick glance at the dash when something/someone interrupts your flow. Also as a biker, I absolutely love blind spot warnings on cars. Apparently the art of, "turning your head to look out of the window" is dieing out, so it's really nice to see a line of little yellow warnings pop up in wing mirrors (that are also very rarely used), as I'm filtering past traffic. Hopefully they'll come up with something soon that stops, "sudden acceleration syndrome" in automatics. The only thing I can think of is stricter application of age related medical disqualification.

Soon be midweek again, bright sunshine, dead calm, and I won't even be able to see it through a window.

I've not flown at all for the best part of two months now. I got as far as attempting a fast taxi last time out, but had an issue with a defective retract unit. I doubt I'll bother trying the Hurricane again this year - I'm just not practiced enough on the sticks to try anything remotely interesting, like maiden flights on over weight warbirds. There's no sign of a let up in the weather forecast for the foreseeable, so I reckon my season is done.

Because some people have more than one kind of switch - switching on a Powerbox Digi switch is exactly that - a long press followed, by a short press. An easy mistake to make when changing between models. The lights are also difficult to make out in bright sun. Ultimately it was a friendly heads up that there's a potential issue with these switches depending on individual set ups. Obviously that's gone down like a lead balloon on this famously "friendly forum". 🙄

Which is all well and good until you activate the lipo mode by mistake. But what evs.

Or you're running a 6v NIMH pack, or you have a battery fault? Would you rather maintain control or not?

And if you're using a 5v regulated supply on a small model?

The problem is, I don't think there's a way of setting them to anything other than 2s, so if you're running a 6v NIMH, or a Lipo through a regulator at 5v for example, it'll cut after very little usage, trying to protect lipos you're not even using. It's also easy to put it in "Lipo mode" by accident.

I've got a few of these. One thing I will say, is to make sure you do NOT use the "lipo mode". It cuts the power at a set voltage to protect your battery - great on a car or boat. Not so great on things falling out of the sky.

You can't see the relevance between the original question of, "Will there be affordable second hand electric cars for poor people?", and a screen shot of affordable second hand electric cars available for poor people? I don't think I can help you with that. As for if they're much use at that price: anecdotally, a recently divorced friend of mine bought a £1500 Leaf, and uses it for her 60 mile round trip commute, "granny charging" over night every night, from a 3 pin domestic socket, saving £200+ a month on petrol. That £400 car available on eBay requires a £200 part - not dissimilar to my first car, which cost £400 and needed £200 worth wheel bearings and axle bushings to get it through a couple of MOTs.

I'll post this simple search for you again then. 👍

And no-one has seen fuel cheaper than £1.40/L in the last couple of years. So the point stands, electric is cheaper than petrol. Odd that you're not so angry about the price difference between petrol and diesel, when not everyone can use petrol. 🤔

Do you not have electric at home in Scotland? I'm currently paying 21p/kWh. Maybe look at more than one data point when you're cherry picking.

When you talk about gas, are you talking about natural gas, or petrol? Because the price of natural gas isn't relevant to the discussion of electric vehicles Vs ICE. Unless you're running your car on natural gas (does anyone still use LPG or not? Haven't seen it in years), or using a gas fired home generator to charge your car, it's entirely irrelevant. If you're talking about petrol, then electric is definitely cheaper.