Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Adding a snorkel to a V6 Petrol based Holden Jackaroo


I had seen some snorkel kits advertised  for the Holden Jackaroo, they only referred to  the diesel engine versions, no mention if they fitted a V6 petrol motor. Searched the forums, everyone saying the snorkel kits (including Safari kits) will only fit a diesel engine airbox.
Well, not true, a few simple modifications and I successfully fitted a snorkel kit to my 6EV1 V6 petrol airbox. Now my Jackaroo performs better and getting improved fuel economy on highway trips . Refer  to my write up.

https://www.qsl.net/vk2kfj/jackaroo_snorkel.html

RFI from Halogen to LED downlight replacement scheme

I recently had a brochure dropped in letterbox advertising some new Government "eco-friendly" scheme to replace all the halogen downlight and halogen parafloods in my house with LED replacements for free (except for the charge for someone to come and replace them for a fee).
I thought here we go I went to the trouble to replace my 50w downlights with 35w halogen downlights, I did  consider the idea of using LED downlights to save on electricity costs, but the downside of LED downlights is the RFI generated by them, creating RFI that wipes out HF bands.
It's bad enough with all the houses running noisy solar panel inverters creating wide band RFI noise across HF during the day, then start it all again at night when switch on the LED downlights. Thanks, but no thanks, I'll stick to my halogens and nuclear power stations.