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Yeah, I've been amazed how tough those batteries are - still not killed one. I don't leave them unattended while charging, but they charge quicker and that's probably only my paranoia.
The only downside is they are shit when cold. Need to leave the lights on for a minute or so on one of mine before it will turn the engine over, then it's fine.My Duc has a persistent draw - the wiring is such a mess I ended up putting a -ve isolator switch on it as a short term fix - it's easy enough to reach under the seat and turn it off.
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Li batteries need a certain voltage to charge - if they're deeply discharged, connect them in parallel with a regular battery, then hook up the charger and they'll charge up as normal. I've done it a bunch of times and it's always worked. I've got two shorais that are almost ten years old and still going strong.
And, yeah, sounds like you have a current draw when everything's switched off.
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Yeah - just very windy and heavy smoke where we are. Both the Palisades and Altadena look awful. Huge burns in both.
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There's so much smoke at the moment - it's dark outside at 9am.
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There's been some skirmishes on that front already, though I suspect Musk will be pretty keen that the revolution will not be televised.....
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Space-X and particularly Starlink are worth an absolute fuckton. Tesla's valuation continues to be about the greatest consensual hallucination in the US equity market (IMO), but that's not the only horse he has in the stall. As long as he continues to cut Trump in, I expect his DOGE bull-shittery will direct ever more public coin into his pockets over the next few years too....
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Yeah, hope so. I think they're a pair of basic swindlers but the supporting cast seems to take the authoritarian bit more seriously. Trump only ran to stay out of jail. I imagine with some of the shit they'll get up to this term, (Elon included) there will be an even more powerful motive to put the finger on the scales of the next election. Musk is Trump's conduit to monetizing billions out of Truth Social, still think it's likely there will be some sort of X / Truth / Tiktok tie up, that's going to take a while though.
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I think Trump will continue to use Elon as a chaos agent, floating balloons to see how much further right they can shift the Overton window, and administering the occasional slap down, all while bleeding him financially. He’s following the Putin model, and he only started defenestrating Billionaires when they crossed him politically (see Khordokovsky et al.)
No doubt he is ruthless enough to jettison Musk, but he won’t do it until he has solidified his grip on power and extracted a lot more dough from him. ETTD….
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So many nice bikes from SERT over the years.
https://www.asphaltandrubber.com/racing/suzuki-endurance-racing-team-historic-bike-photos/
I’m not sure he understands or cares about the effects of import tariffs on the economy other than as a good tool to leverage personal money and influence from US corps, looking for carve outs.