December

Ride with Bernard up alternative route and over Lion's Head mountain 獅頭山. There is a lot of construction and damage on the road on both sides of the mountain. The weather was cool and misty at the top.

Yonghe No. 4 Public Park Eco Herb Garden

Garage door motor repair

The garage door motor starting capacitor has failed. A replacement capacitor of the same specification and size is needed - a 37 μF 250 VAC 8.5 x 3 cm capacitor.

Upstairs apartment

The upstairs apartment is not fit to live in. Work is still in progress in all rooms. Some rooms have not yet been painted. The only bathroom, in the master bedroom, has no functioning bath or toilet.

Ceiling fan

Hike above garden city

Late afternoon hike with the dogs looking for connection from the Lanxi 蘭溪 bridge up to ChangXing Road 長興路.

Community garden visit

Morning visit to the community garden to bring kitchen waste from the Peace Cafe and dry leaves down and harvest a small bunch of bananas.

DLink router repair

D-Link AirPlus Xtreme G+ DI-724P+ High-Speed 2.4 GHz. Wireless Router
Does not start at full power, so does not boot and run
The 5 VDC 2A DC power supply initially outputs only 2.85 VDC to router. After no less than 10 minutes, voltage from the power supply has reached a maximum of 4.44 V
The NIKOS L1085XG 3A Adjustable Low Dropout Linear Regulator (LDO) shows thermal damage. When initial system voltage is low, there is no output from the VR. After 10 minutes, the VR is converting 2.38 V to 1.2 V
the router than has to be restarted hot to operate