Food Wastage and the Torch Project

Last night's TV News had an article about the amount of food in fridges that gets discarded and how it might be utilised instead.  Jan wasn't particularly impressed as very little food gets discarded in this house.  If it's edible and surplus, then it tends to get get recycled.  Her latest two cakes are an example.

Jan baked me a lemon cake using one of the lemons from the tree in our front garden.  The other was for herself.  A coffee and cabbage cake with marmite icing.

As you can see from the above photo I'm powering through my lemon cake.  Jan is fortunate because I hate the taste of coffee!

Our home orchard is progressing.  The mulberry produced a large amount of fruit.  Most of which Jan ate whilst I was in Taiwan.   The apricot has three fruit.  Hopefully we will get them before the birds.  The tree was only planted 12 months ago and still very young.

Two years ago the mango tree was dying.  Jan nursed it back to health and today I noticed it was bearing several small fruit.

The Pink Lady apple tree has seven small apples and the Red Fuji apple has 12.  It's still too early for the peacherine  and plum trees to bear fruit. 

The postman delivered another component from Aliexpress for the torch project.  The Battery Management System (BMS) printed circuit board.

Some modifications were made to the pvc insert allowing it to fit.

The wiring was then completed

The board will be glued in place before being covered with duct tape.  But not before the led bulb arrives which will enable me to complete a test to ensure the modification works.

I've also been thinking about how the battery charger can be connected to the torch.  I found a large metal washer in one of my "that might be useful one day" containers which is an exact fit into the torch base replacing the spring.

I'm thinking it might be possible to run the positive and negative wires through the hole in the washer to a socket stored underneath it.  When the batteries require recharging the base and washer could be removed to gain access to the socket.  Might work…. time will tell!