Aside from doing some minor code cleanup and bugfixing on a personal project today, I also found the time to test my new 850 mAh S2 LiPo with the two-motor powered BR 101 locomotive.
The first two waggons (the long ones) are quite heavy but the two motors pull the train at an acceptable max. speed.
The LiPo and the LiPo "beeper" (battery charge monitor) nicely fit into the 6W loco as well.
#AFOB
#Lgauge
#BlueBrixx
#Train
#BR101
#6W
#LiPo
#2decimal4ghz
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Annual reminder to test and check the storage charge on your LiPo and Li-Ion batteries, especially during the winter if they’ve not seen use for some while.
Quad batteries normally should retain charge well when charged to storage capacity, and should never be stored long term at high or low charge.
gestern Nacht am Bahnhof habe in ein einmal #Vape gefunden - das Ding hat ein 1 Zoll Farbdisplay und reagiert auf die Wärme meiner Finger. Ein Einmal-Artikel. Ich werd nicht mehr!
#Lithium #LiPo #recycling
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Wer Lipos für 2026 braucht, der sollte jetzt auf jeden Fall zuschlagen.
#CNHL #Chinahobbyline #FPV #drone #Lipo #BlogDrFrantic77 #justRAW
@heiseonline deshalb bin ich für ein #Verbot von #Lithiumakkus wie #LiIon, #LiPo & #LiCo-Zellen und verpflichtende werkzeugfreie Entnahme- und Tauschmöglichkeit bei allen Geräten!
People recommending you manually use a CC/CV power supply are not helping you 😉
Good chargers will let you set what *type* of battery it is, and will correctly charge all major types. I've got a four-cell (four independent charging circuits) that will happily charge NiCad, Nickel Metal Hydride, LiFePO4, Lithium-ion polymer, and a few others. It mostly autodetects the correct type.
They're not stupidly expensive. The model I have is currently $37 Canadian from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.ca/Battery-Charger-Digital-Display-Universal/dp/B09FHSYLTG
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter By Li Bai (Li Po), translated by Ezra Pound (1915)
Some poems arrive like a sudden tide — they rise in your heart before you even understand why. The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter, written by Li Bai in the 8th century and translated by Ezra Pound in 1915, came to me that way.
When I read it for the first time, something inside me stilled. I felt an ache that was both personal and universal — the kind of longing that crosses centuries and continents, binding us to someone who lived long ago and yet seems to be speaking directly to us. By the time I reached the final lines, I wanted to cry.
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
By Li Bai (Li Po), translated by Ezra Pound (1915)
While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead
I played about the front gate, pulling flowers.
You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse,
You walked about my seat, playing with blue plums.
And we went on living in the village of Chōkan:
Two small people, without dislike or suspicion.
At fourteen I married My Lord you.
I never laughed, being bashful.
Lowering my head, I looked at the wall.
Called to, a thousand times, I never looked back.
At fifteen I stopped scowling,
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
Forever and forever and forever.
Why should I climb the look out?
At sixteen you departed,
You went into far Ku-tō-yen, by the river of swirling eddies,
And you have been gone five months.
The monkeys make sorrowful noise overhead.
You dragged your feet when you went out.
By the gate now, the moss is grown, the different mosses,
Too deep to clear them away!
The leaves fall early this autumn, in wind.
The paired butterflies are already yellow with August
Over the grass in the West garden;
They hurt me. I grow older.
If you are coming down through the narrows of the river Kiang,
Please let me know beforehand,
And I will come out to meet you
As far as Chō-fū-Sa.
In just a few stanzas, we witness an entire life unfold. The young wife begins in childhood, pulling flowers by the gate while her future husband plays nearby. She remembers the shy awkwardness of marriage, eyes lowered, uncertain. Then love deepens until it becomes a vow of permanence — “I desired my dust to be mingled with yours… forever.” And then comes absence: the months apart, the quiet changes in her surroundings, the way even yellow butterflies wound her because they remind her of what she is missing.
Ezra Pound’s translation preserves not only Li Bai’s imagery but also the emotional heartbeat of the original. His free verse is plain, unadorned, yet every detail feels weighted with meaning: the moss grown too deep to clear away, the sound of monkeys overhead, the paired butterflies drifting through August air.
What moves me most is the steadfastness of the wife’s love. She doesn’t simply miss her husband — she carries him with her, shaping her days and her memories around his absence. In the end, she reaches outward: “If you are coming down through the narrows of the river Kiang, please let me know beforehand, and I will come out to meet you as far as Chō-fū-Sa.” It is not only a plea; it is an offering, a willingness to bridge the distance between them.
This is why the poem still feels alive today. It is not about an 8th-century river merchant and his wife alone. It is about how love endures across absence, how memory keeps someone present even when they are far away, and how longing itself becomes a form of devotion.
My Takeaway
Reading this poem reminded me that connection is not always about proximity. Sometimes the truest form of love is the willingness to hold another person in your heart, trusting that the bond will endure until you meet again. And in that waiting, there is beauty as well as ache.
Until the next page turns,
Rebecca
Genre Note
This poem belongs to the tradition of “classical Chinese lyric poetry”, written by Li Bai (701–762), one of the great voices of the Tang Dynasty. It is also an ”epistolary poem”, written in the form of a letter from a wife to her absent husband. When Ezra Pound translated it in 1915, he shaped it into “modernist free verse”, blending the intimacy of Li Bai’s original with the clarity and immediacy of early modernist style. Thus, the poem lives at the crossroads of traditions: classical, lyrical, epistolary, and modernist.
#EzraPound #LiBai #LiPo #ModernestPoetry #Poetry #PoetryInTheAfternoon #PoetryInTheEvening #PoetrySalon #TheRiverMerchantSWifeALetter
Aviation weather for Brescia airport in Montichiari area (Italy) is “LIPO 070920Z AUTO VRB02KT 9999 NCD 17/10 Q1022” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/lipo/en #montichiari #italy #bresciaairport #lipo #vbs #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek #airport vl
Aviation weather for Brescia airport in Montichiari area (Italy) is “LIPO 070920Z AUTO VRB02KT 9999 NCD 17/10 Q1022” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/lipo/en #montichiari #italy #bresciaairport #lipo #vbs #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek #airport vii3
Shit like this is why I think #BEVs using #LiIon / #LiPo / #LiCo #batteries are a mistake only topped by #Tetraetyllead and #Freon / #CFC11 when it comes to the #Envoirment and #Safety!
Wow, the battery came with a strong safety warning of #FT817 / #FT817 #LIPO batteries from a particular ebay store "rd-experts".
![Back side text:
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I disassembled a single use vape, so you don't have to. For some reason, the app is troubling me with alt text, so I'll make a thread and describe the pictures... #Vape #SignleUseVape #Umbrella #recycling #battery #LiPo #DIY (pictured: an Umbrella single use vape, a green cylinder with a mouthpiece on it's side)
Aviation weather for Brescia airport in Montichiari area (Italy) is “LIPO 060820Z AUTO 05005KT 020V080 9999 SCT062/// 26/18 Q1020” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/lipo/en #montichiari #italy #bresciaairport #lipo #vbs #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek #airport vl
Un interessante articolo sulla carica delle batterie al litio con grafici e soglie di tensione e corrente ricavati per via empirica.
https://jumpjack.wordpress.com/2018/07/28/tensioni-di-massima-e-minima-carica-batterie-al-litio/
Here's a question. Does a battery take on it's maximum charge on the first charge, or does it need exercising a bit?
@Niall @hyc @tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org @adapalmer either way #Lithium batteries like #LiIon / #LiPo are a such a safety hazard that all fire brigades in my area are instructed to wait for the #HAZMAT platoon and not engage the fire or the white vapours of hydrofluoric acid for their own safety.
And the HAZMAT will merely throw dry (!!!) sandbags on top, stick a temperature probe in it and wait till it's fully glassed and cooled enoigh to be dumped into a sandbag-lined, explosion-proof container.
La météo aéronautique de aéroport de Brescia à Montichiari (Italie) est “LIPO 230950Z AUTO 04004KT 310V110 9999 SCT035/// 29/19 Q1012” : Ce que ça signifie sur https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/lipo/fr #montichiari #italie #aeroportdebrescia #lipo #vbs #metar #aviation #meteoaero #avgeek #aeroport vl
