Asus Transformer T200TA and Other Odd Jobs

Our Tidal Hull trip was cancelled this weekend due to the stormy conditions, however this provided us with the opportunity time wise to do some much needed mechanical repairs on the old Mondeo in order to keep her on the road for the next few years.  If the weather is ok in a few weeks time we will go then, however if not (using the same old mantra) there will be plenty more opportunities.

Last Monday I received my new 'toy' in the form of the Asus Transformer T200TA.  It was a toss up between this or the purchase of another Ipad to take to Moonshine, but the Asus was considered to be the winner in what would provide me with the much needed versatility for blogging whilst away from home compared to the limitations on an Apple device. 
The larger detachable screen and bonus of keyboard dock with 32gb tablet and 500gb dock storage is more than enough for my needs, however I would have preferred a 4gb ram rather than the 2gb provided, but unless you have a bucket load of cash you can't have everything. 
The 5mp camera on the tablet doesn't appear all that good, but that was never a factor in my purchase, unlike the battery power which is very favourable.  There are a wide variety of ports on the device (which will be very useful for transferring music to Moonshine's stereo micro sd card), and the larger track pad is much better than it's smaller sibling the T100TA.  Windows 8.1 runs very fluid on this device, however the screen could benefit from an anti glare screen protector when being used in sunlight. Also a car charger will be purchased direct from Asus to allow a fully portable experience.  

Another 5m reel of Fluxia  LED tape light in warm white was ordered via Ebay from Intaaudio, to provide better lighting in the engine room.  The existing lighting was very poor, with just 1x10w bulkhead light fitting facing aft. The new tape light has been cut to size and applied to wooden mounts which in turn have been fixed in the engine room and soldered.  The black mount has been fixed to the forward end of the lifting engine room hatch with the strip mounted at an angle of 45° so all the tape lights shine vertically downwards.  Additionally the bulkhead light fitting was changed for a 600mm super bright Led strip light

New Led Lighting installed in engine room

 

One design flaw in the Seawings 355 are the large sunroof openings and the unsupported flat expanse the canopy has to cover.  Different methods have been seen on various other models but this is what we have designed.  Timber was used to make the supports which lock in place into the drainage channel around the external sunroof opening.  We have incorporated a small arch to help shed water and or snow.  This was finished in black to match the other trims, and the top side was finished in black leatherette so as to prevent any chaffing on the new sunroof cover.  These are removable when the covers are removed.

 

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Another engine room job was to change the air filters.  We have been experiencing low turbo boost pressure on the starboard engine, so before removing the turbo for refurbishment, and after seeing the state of the air filter it may not have been getting enough air in. It is just a process of elimination and it makes sense to investigate the basics first.  Time will tell on the next highly anticipated tidal trip.

 

 

 

The final job of the day was to replace the tv aerial socket. We have a small outdoor aerial which plugs into this socket in the wheelhouse.  We had been experiencing signal problems, so replaced the old with a new flush mounted MK socket which now looks a lot smarter and hopefully will give us a better signal.