Author: John Martin
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Day 5 – Travel Day, Ypres to Charleroi
Post Views: 48 So the day was a perfect travel day. Grey and just sort of thinking about drizzling as we put our stuff away. But before we left the Ypres area we had to do one more cemetery and memorial – Essex Farm, to the north of Ypres. Essex Farm is a smaller site,…
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Day 4 – Ypres War Memorials pt2
Post Views: 75 Today was another day of visiting the Belgian War Memorials around Ypres. In numbers, very stark numbers, 200,000 Commonwealth men (it’s almost exclusively men) lost their lives in the 1914-1918 war in Belgium. A further 500,000 were lost in France and of all those 700,000… 300,000 have never been found, let alone…
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Day 3 – Memorials Around Ypres pt1
Post Views: 36 It’s been a poignant day today. We’ve spent the day cycling around the memorial graveyards to the east of Ypres. The campsite we’re staying at is a two minute cycle ride from the Hooge Crater Museum and Memorial. The Hooge Crater was created early WWI when the allies dug a 60m tunnel…
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Day 2 – Northants to Ypres
Post Views: 34 Today has been a travel day. We set off from Northamptonshire at about 10, Chunnel at 15:30 and set up camp by 18:30. A pretty uneventful day, drizzling until we got past the bottom of the M11 but beautiful now here in Belgium as we sit with a beverage. Thurrock services were…
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Day 1 – Still in the UK
Post Views: 110 Ok, so this is a bit of a cheat. We’re still in the UK. We’re taking the opportunity to swing by my (John’s) parent in Northamptonshire for a night, before we head off properly on the trip. But we have started and we are fully packed, except for the stuff we’ve forgotten,…
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Summer 2024 Drive to Greece – Overview
Post Views: 132 So… we’re driving to Greece… as you do! We have a villa booked in Corfu for 10 days in the middle of September, and in some Cliff Richard-esque Summer Holiday vibe, we decided to reduce our carbon footprint and drive instead of flying. Unlike Cliff though, we had planned to do the…
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PTEVIS – Progress #1 youTube Video
Project sEVen progress video covering the purchase of the Caterham project car, road registration, IVA considerations, and early setup for the electric conversion.
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Putting the EV in sEVen – Lowflying part 5 : Spring ’24 Progress
Post Views: 179 So, it was about time I did an update for the Caterham and Lotus Seven Club magazine, Low Flying. This article is the Spring 2024 progress update and covers: Scanning the Car Component Configuration CANbus Configuration Suspension Logger
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PTEVIS Suspension Logger Mini-Project
Post Views: 269 As part of my Putting The EV in Seven project, I decided I needed a big detour into suspension travel on a Seven. That sounds like a good route to getting my project finished quickly, right? Well, it goes a bit like this. In a non-linear-timey-wimey sort of way of looking at…
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ELECTRIC VEHICLE COMPONENTS – YOUTUBE PTEVIS 2.2
Second Project sEVen electric-vehicle explainer covering the major EV conversion components, including battery, motor controller, low-voltage systems, charging, and supporting electronics.