Took out my JL 1000/1 v1 from Red. Had a problem with major noise introduction whenever the left RCA input was connected. Found someone had been in there before and goobered up a "repair."











Looks like the solder blob they added on top was being contacted by the center pin after they twisted an RCA upon insertion/removal. Quality work. Will repair this today.

And made a few garage upgrades over the last month. Added a Harbor Freight upper cabinet. Been trying to add another one but apparently the supply shortages have kept these things in the Pacific. I grabbed the last one from a store a distance from me because the closer ones were out. On the wall I mounted my power supply for coding, programming, testing, etc. Got tired of it sitting on the work bench and the cable is plenty long to reach most areas of the garage so I made a mount for it. Used some audio box carpet to dress it up before throwing it on the wall.







I'll be 40 next month and am tired of pushing vehicles up a sloped driveway to get to the garage. So I added a winch, naturally. Went with a 12v because they are substantially cheaper for more pulling power vs 120v. This setup works awesome and had no problem pulling the E70 up the driveway. I need to add another set of anchors in the front of the garage so we don't have to push at all, but for now this will work.



Those are the anchors/bolts I ordered off Amazon. Also pictured the N52 timing tool set that I need to repair the commonly broken 4 front head bolt problem on my wagon. It's puking oil out of the front after warming up.



Made a plate to mount the setup on. I wanted a nice chunk of steel, but holy crap are those expensive. Ended up sandwiching some quality ply between 1/16" (maybe 1/8"?) steel plates. Works fine.



I'm going to mount all of this on wall next to the garage door in the future. Only having the power leads for the motor coming down. This should help the range of the wireless remotes too (nice feature to have). But for now...





That battery is an old dead POS (keep it as a core) so had to use the power supply that's mounted on the wall to supply 14v to use the winch. I have another battery that will be better suited to this purpose. Will need to load test it, but it seems to hold voltage after sitting on the shelf.

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