Pray for the G-Wiz

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So, Nikki – amazing person that she is, gave me a Reva G-Wiz for my mum, well, gave my mum it. It requires some work being a first generation G-Wiz, and a complete new set of batteries. The set in there at the moment are dying and while they do short distances okay, longer drives (over a few miles) are going to push your luck.

So today after it’d sat all week I went out to look at what’s required to get it back on the road. It also needs a corner of the battery tray welding, which I knew…

So I whipped out my ramps and planned to shonk it up onto the ramps. When parked up a week ago it had a full state of charge, after a week it’d dropped to 3/4 – a factor of the sickly batteries. And it turned out it wouldn’t move. Charging it has made it happier – it needed about 2 minutes of charging before it suddenly went – oh! I can move!

So I’m trying to set up a laptop with the Reva software on it, so I can poke it and see state it’s in before we whip out the batteries. This is more complex than it sounds. I dug out the old Dell to see if I could set it up with Win 98SE. I found the windows disk. I then spent an hour trying to (and eventually succeeding in) find(ing) the cable.

Now it’s set up I recall than I need a specific device driver disk for it. Which means getting the ancient and terrifyingly virus-able object onto the internet :(

What is good is that this morning I’ve laid half the tile for the hallway. ‘Ray!

KateWE

Kate's a human mostly built out of spite and overcoming transphobia-racism-and-other-bullshit. Although increasingly right-wing bigots would say otherwise. So she's either a human or a lizard in disguise sent to destroy all of humanity. Either way, it's all good.