Welcome back Rob! Hope you're feeling OK.

In other news... prototype 1 of my new lighting system was completed tonight. The batteries are charging now and I'm gonna be in the countryside tomorrow night for the trial run. Hopefully I didn't mess up on the calculations and wake up to find a mess of melted plastic and battery acid tomorrow morning!

Turns out my old light (Marwi Nightpro) wasn't working 'cause the cable was shorted somewhere. Too bad 'cause I liked the slick connections and coiling and I wanted to re-use it for this project. Ah well. This time it's done up right with proper soldering instead of crappy crimped connections. They just don't make stuff like they used to!