 Ah, I got the propeller on there. Oh, and I just shoved the boat back so it just down and put the propeller on the water right here. Let me show you. There it is. Let's see what happens when we turn it on. Full power would be four solar panels, like at noon. I haven't hooked up the batteries yet. And the batteries are hooked up charging. They're just not motor-controllerized yet. I'll worry about that later. Well, good. Still floats with all the weight in the back. Should still float with me in there. So I was thinking, maybe I should test my solar boat propeller tomorrow. Yeah, definitely tomorrow. Oh, look at that sky. Yes! Just had two and a half days of rain and clouds. And I have a new GPS thing that seems to be more accurate than the old one that's like 10 years old. Someone sent me some Bitcoin and I was going to get a handheld GPS, you know, those ones you use for hiking. But they're all like, they're all used like AA batteries, which is such a pain. So instead, I got a tablet for much less Bitcoinage. It was refurbished. I got it on overstock. Don't ask me if it's any good. Ask me in like a year. I don't know. It seems to be working so far. All right. Speed zero kilometers per hour. All right. Let's go hit the water. Got my thing on. Got some open water head. Don't hit some clouds. Blue sky over there though. Let's wait for that. Hmm. Maybe I should just go finish putting my speed controller together so I can run on the batteries. Nah, I want to do a solar test first. Oh, seriously. It is so cloudy right now. All right. I'm going to wait a bit. Maybe I'll go work on my speed controller. Probably get that done by the time the sun comes out. Just need to pay attention. When I see some bright sun jumping the boat. Oh, sun's out. Move it. Move it. Move it. I think the problem with the vibration. I mean, part of it is just that things are not perfectly balanced. But also the motor is not getting up to fast enough rotational speed because the propeller is not low enough pitch. It's too high pitch. Or the blades are too big. I need to adjust the propeller anyway. I just took it off and bent the propeller blades. So instead of being more this way and now they're more that way. Let's just give it a quick test here. When it's in shallow water like this it'll suck up bubbles and you can see where the water's spraying. Oh, back to clouds. Whatever. Just a quick low power test. The vibration is dying down so I think it does have a lot to do with this propeller. The one for the pedals. Of course there is always that possibility that it just plain sucks. Alright, while I'm waiting for the clouds. Let's get the speed controller situation under control. This is the throttle thingy. I've actually been using heat shrink tubing. I bought some a little while ago. Keep it dry. Now I'm just going to follow the rest of the instructions. Put this stupid thing together. What is this? Pile of wires. Now I got the speed control totally hooked up. And if I turn it on. Down here I get blinking green, red, red. Green, red, red. And I looked up what that means. It means low voltage. And looking up here I've got 27 volts. Which is plenty for a 24 volt thing. So I got this from someone else. So whoever else got it must have ordered it programmed for a different voltage. So I need to reprogram it. That means taking off this little plug. And there's one of those USB printer cable thingies. I have to connect that to my computer. After I go to the website and download the program and blah blah blah blah blah blah. I'm doing that later. So why did I attach the speed controller to the lid? Well it was either that or stuff it back there where I can't reach it. Or make a whole other thing. So the lid is fine. It doesn't hit anything when it closes. I have a super old solenoid here. I don't know where it came from. I bought it surplus for like a dollar or something. And then here's my throttle control. I even shrink wrapped all my wires. I did that on all my wire connections. Very nice, very nice. So this right now I'm just going to put it on there and then turn it. I might make it like lock in here at some point. The thing is the way it is right now it's spring loaded. So I have to hold on to it anyway. So you know it's fine that it's just sitting there. That way it's easy to put away too. I'm done with this for today. I'll look up the speed control program tonight. It's on their website. Oh and I've been waiting for the sun all day. Oh and look who just came out. Except it's way low in the sky. It doesn't really help right now because it's like 4 in the afternoon. So yeah I'm done. Play with this more tomorrow.