First of all, thanks to all of you for keeping this forum alive. I have been working 7 days a week to get "Alex Labs" up and running. The goal is a video studio with a dyno so I can continue with electric supercharger development and testing (among other things). It's been 3 years and one month since I purchased to property to build this place on. Well, the building (as you probably know from the YouTube channel), is built; there are some teething issues with it - mostly small water leaks around the windows, which are being addressed one window at a time. But I also want to get going with videos and development as soon possible. I'm literally a few weeks away from being to shoot my first video on the dyno - which will likely be testing the P2 setup blowing into the Sledgehammer in a compound configuration. Good help has been hard to find at any price, and I have had some good help lately, but much of this I have to do by myself. Which leads to creative problem solving. Most recently is was how do you flip a 600lb, 16 foot long 4 post lift runway by yourself without a forklift. That was after figuring out how to get the 2,100 lb lift out of an enclosed trailer with only 1 person's help. And that was after how do you lift a 4,000lb dyno off a pallet base by yourself, again without a huge forklift to do it. Well, all of those things have been figured out, and this is where we're at:
Yes, the dyno will not be centered in front of that garage door (that's only for car exhaust to go out of), because when this place was designed I didn't plan on being off grid, and the solar battery banks got in the way. It should still work ok. The lift is really huge (the vertical posts are 10' apart) and it bothers my low-level OCD a bit, but hopefully I'll get over it.
The dyno electronics have been tested (as much as possible), and all that's left is the lift hydraulics and anchoring the lift and dyno to the floor. Then setting up the dyno and the lights and cameras. Ironically, I should be setup just in time for a fully booked week of actual work in mid June. Just my luck. But work is work, and I'm not independently wealthy, so I'll take what I can get.
Thanks again to all of you.
Yes, the dyno will not be centered in front of that garage door (that's only for car exhaust to go out of), because when this place was designed I didn't plan on being off grid, and the solar battery banks got in the way. It should still work ok. The lift is really huge (the vertical posts are 10' apart) and it bothers my low-level OCD a bit, but hopefully I'll get over it.
The dyno electronics have been tested (as much as possible), and all that's left is the lift hydraulics and anchoring the lift and dyno to the floor. Then setting up the dyno and the lights and cameras. Ironically, I should be setup just in time for a fully booked week of actual work in mid June. Just my luck. But work is work, and I'm not independently wealthy, so I'll take what I can get.
Thanks again to all of you.