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Took the modified Toyota Prius out on a roadtrip. Bonham, TX to Houston, TX and back.
Configuration: Rebuilt 140,000+ mile HV Battery pack, with two replacement modules from another pack with similar miles. Piggybacked onto the HV Battery is a capacitor bank, and a lithium battery bank. Also attached, is a lithium battery bank, piggybacked onto the aux 12volt battery, of which is trickled charged with a solar panel in the back window. The gasoline was 87 octane regular grade with 10% methanol.
In the photos, you'll see what the overall trip MPG average ended up being. Factors that I believe hurt the results were the start/stop highway parking lots in Dallas and Houston, both there and back, along with the fact, I ran out of gasoline, on one leg of the trip, and had to have BetterWorld Auto Club, deliver 3 gallons to get me on the road. I drove for several miles on battery, to get to a rest area, and it took quite awhile to get the battery recharged once on the road again. NOTE: Car is empty when it shows 1/4 tank, learned that the hard way.
I averaged 65mph, on the highway, crawling speeds in the 4 lane parking lots, and you'll see from the temperature display, I had the A/C running as well. Keep in mind this is a 2001 Prius, that doesn't have an electric a/c compressor.
Anyhow, Does the trip MPG Average seem OK?
Seeing as a fresh new InterConnect livery has appeared - and I've gone for several uploads now without featuring one of these Gainsborough 67 plates - here's a classic InterConnect 100 photo of MMC 10899 getting away from Lincoln, seen on Saxilby Road at the Grandstand, on 1.8.23
As yet I haven't seen any photos of the repainted InterConnects on Flickr, so you might well be wondering "what new livery?", but yesterday on Bustimes I spotted that a few of Skeg's Scania E400s have been treated to a fresh coat of two-tone purple. It's essentially the same as the TwoFifty livery except purple; following the standard SC Local/Specialist/Distance layout but having its own dedicated colour.
It'll probably take me a while to see said new livery, unless I decide to have an impromptu visit to Skeg, but when I do I'll be sure to engage in my usual waffle about what may (or may not) get painted and what Stagecoach's thinking behind it could be. Whether the 100 will be a recipient of the repaints we can only wait and see, thanks to Stagecoach's scattergun approach to just about everything.
YX67 VCM
No sign of Interconnect branding logos on the front of this Bus, however this Bus can go on any route it wants to as this ELC Vyking is owned by Lincoln depot, previously been with Grimsby depot not long ago
Stagecoach East Midlands ADL Enviro 300, 27190 (SL64 HXZ), is seen at Riverhead Exchange in Grimsby on 21st February 2017.
Currently allocated to Lincoln, it has recently become a regular vehicle to see use on the Interconnect 53 between Lincoln and Grimsby.
New to Stagecoach South Wales 2014.
Branded for Interconnect.
Stagecoach East Midlands
Scania N230UD/ADL Enviro400
YN64AOZ (15179)
Lincoln Central bus station, Lincolnshire
16 February 2018
I won't show you my solderwork because my old teacher could find this site and would surely shake his head in shame when he sees what happened to my skills (we made a deal back then: i would never weld something, and he would give me a decent grade because i was good at soldering). The parts are very small. I used to solder SMD components and when we need some cables at work i'm usually your go-to guy but these connectors are so small and fragile.
FX53TXB Volvo B7TL / East Lancs.
Stagecoach Lincolnshire (Grimsby) 16908.
Lincolnshire inter connect service 3 during March 2010.
Neil Forrest uses various systems of interconnecting nodes that spread in a matrix. These are generated as dimensional field ornament that corresponds to the distinctive curved space produced by arabesque and muqarna of Islam. Forrest’s work presents a detached ceramic ornament in response to the changing typographies within contemporary architecture - expanding systems intended to modify the psyche of space that is distinguished by lightness and openness. Forrest’s architectural ceramics are porcelain scaffolds, resembling coral environments and truss-like vertebrae.
Working from Gottfried Semper’s analysis that the dressing or decorative surface perform the spatial essence of the wall, and emphasizing the architectural significance of the ‘joint’, Forrest presents a tectonic and nomadic ceramic ornament. The project of ‘colonizing architecture’ is a theory of connectedness enabling close independence, which embraces the principle of non-hierarchical pattern behaviors that largely underpin the decorative arts.
Here ornament is understood as the libido for contemporary architecture, and can be tasked as having increasing utility to the organism of architecture, ready to engage an elegantly engineered world.
Neil Forrest has exhibited and lectured in North America, UK, Europe and Asia, and is currently Professor of Ceramics at NSCAD University. His most recent exhibitions were Wurzelwerk, Scaffs and Thicket. His ceramics have been published in books, craft magazines and architectural journals. Forrest studied at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Alfred University and Sheridan College of Crafts and is involved in several research collaborations that examine ceramics for architecture.
Neil Forrest uses various systems of interconnecting nodes that spread in a matrix. These are generated as dimensional field ornament that corresponds to the distinctive curved space produced by arabesque and muqarna of Islam. Forrest’s work presents a detached ceramic ornament in response to the changing typographies within contemporary architecture - expanding systems intended to modify the psyche of space that is distinguished by lightness and openness. Forrest’s architectural ceramics are porcelain scaffolds, resembling coral environments and truss-like vertebrae.
Working from Gottfried Semper’s analysis that the dressing or decorative surface perform the spatial essence of the wall, and emphasizing the architectural significance of the ‘joint’, Forrest presents a tectonic and nomadic ceramic ornament. The project of ‘colonizing architecture’ is a theory of connectedness enabling close independence, which embraces the principle of non-hierarchical pattern behaviors that largely underpin the decorative arts.
Here ornament is understood as the libido for contemporary architecture, and can be tasked as having increasing utility to the organism of architecture, ready to engage an elegantly engineered world.
Neil Forrest has exhibited and lectured in North America, UK, Europe and Asia, and is currently Professor of Ceramics at NSCAD University. His most recent exhibitions were Wurzelwerk, Scaffs and Thicket. His ceramics have been published in books, craft magazines and architectural journals. Forrest studied at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Alfred University and Sheridan College of Crafts and is involved in several research collaborations that examine ceramics for architecture.
Carbon nanotubes grown in contact holes
for nano electronic applications:
how to prepare TEM samples by FIB?
Carbon nanotubes (CNT’s) grown on silicon-based substrates are of great importance because of their potential use as an interconnect material in next-generation device technologies [1]. Samples in this study consist of layered structures on a silicon substrate, where arrays of so-called “contact holes” are present. CNT’s are then grown inside the contact holes after catalyst particles have been deposited in the contacts. In order to investigate the structure of CNT’s grown inside the contact holes, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is used.
Studying the CNT’s as well as the catalyst-CNT interface in a cross-section TEM sample requires a dedicated TEM sample preparation technique. An electron-transparent lamella needs to be prepared from a defined zone with minimum damage. Here, focused ion beam (FIB) milling is used for this purpose. Using TEM, we will show that this is a good approach.
For the FIB preparation using a FIB/SEM Dual Beam system, in situ electron beam deposition of a platinum cap layer is applied. This layer is intended to protect the CNT’s from the damage that is caused by the usual ion beam deposition of the platinum. The advantage is shown in Figure 1, where a comparison is made for a sample, where platinum was deposited by the ion beam in the FIB without any protection layer (Fig 1a) and with a dual cap layer deposited with the electron and ion beam (Fig 1b,c). After the lamella is extracted by in-situ liftout and mounted onto a TEM grid, it is roughly milled down to a thickness of about 100nm at a voltage of 30kV (Fig 1a,b). However, the ideal sample thickness for high resolution TEM (HRTEM) is approximately 50nm. Since CNT’s are easily damaged by high energy milling, final milling is carried out at lower voltage. A voltage of 5kV in combination with small current is applied to the lamella from both sides to obtain a final thickness suitable for HRTEM (Fig 1c).
As-prepared specimens are investigated by advanced TEM techniques, including HRTEM, energy filtered TEM and high angle annular dark field scanning TEM. Figure 2 reveals that CNT’s inner shell structure close to catalysts is well preserved inside the contact hole after FIB preparation. These measurements show that the use of the FIB to prepare cross-sectional TEM samples containing CNT’s is a very useful approach.
4 of Stagecoach Manchester's close top enviro400H's moved down to Skegness. these tend to do a variety of services usually 1,2/A or 59.
12024 is seen here on the 59 to Mablethorpe
12024 OU10 GFX
YX67VCL - ADL Trident 2 / ADL Enviro 400MMC.
Stagecoach East Midland (Gainsborough) 10898, interConnect livery.
Arrived in Cleethorpes on the new X90 from Gainsborough via Market Rasen.
The InterConnect brand is used by Stagecoach on several of their bus routes in Lincolnshire. The original InterConnect livery is simply a monochrome purple version of the livery known as the Beachball livery.
Scania N230UD/ADL Enviro400 15811 (FX12 BBV) is one such bus to wear this livery, being seen on Lumley Road in Skegness last month with a service 1 from Chapel St. Leonard's to Skegness Interchange.
Neil Forrest uses various systems of interconnecting nodes that spread in a matrix. These are generated as dimensional field ornament that corresponds to the distinctive curved space produced by arabesque and muqarna of Islam. Forrest’s work presents a detached ceramic ornament in response to the changing typographies within contemporary architecture - expanding systems intended to modify the psyche of space that is distinguished by lightness and openness. Forrest’s architectural ceramics are porcelain scaffolds, resembling coral environments and truss-like vertebrae.
Working from Gottfried Semper’s analysis that the dressing or decorative surface perform the spatial essence of the wall, and emphasizing the architectural significance of the ‘joint’, Forrest presents a tectonic and nomadic ceramic ornament. The project of ‘colonizing architecture’ is a theory of connectedness enabling close independence, which embraces the principle of non-hierarchical pattern behaviors that largely underpin the decorative arts.
Here ornament is understood as the libido for contemporary architecture, and can be tasked as having increasing utility to the organism of architecture, ready to engage an elegantly engineered world.
Neil Forrest has exhibited and lectured in North America, UK, Europe and Asia, and is currently Professor of Ceramics at NSCAD University. His most recent exhibitions were Wurzelwerk, Scaffs and Thicket. His ceramics have been published in books, craft magazines and architectural journals. Forrest studied at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Alfred University and Sheridan College of Crafts and is involved in several research collaborations that examine ceramics for architecture.
LJ#3.3b RCA Interconnect Cable, based on Canare AV cable (brown). The realy "best buy" interconnect. More: RCA LJ#3.1, RCA LJ#3.2, RCA LJ#3.3.
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Stagecoach East Midlands ADL Enviro 400 19196 (NK57 DVZ) is seen at Skegness Interchange on 13th October 2023.
Working a service 56 to Lincoln, via Horncastle and Wragby.
New to Stagecoach North East 2007.