NSMS Alternative Fuel Technologies

One of our experimenters, Vendel in Rosebud, Texas, has an auto shop where he performs cell installs and things related.  He came up with a great modification to the COSM that we've coined the Vendel-Mod which provides low voltage pull-up.  Here is a link to his mod from atfab's web site:

http://atfabcrafts.tripod.com/photos/index.album/cosm-lla-with-vendel-mod?i=2

 I recently shot video demonstrating the Vendel Mod:

 Here is a somewhat blurry (sorry) photo of the simple modification I made to my COSM-IIA's circuit board to implement the Vendel-mod.  The modification consisted of soldering the anode lead of a 1N4001 diode into pin #5 of the NE555N chip, bending the lead approximately 85-90 degrees so that it clears the surface of the PCB, installing heat-shrink to insulate it from any chance of shorting, then connecting to a low-volt adjustment potentiometer and then on to the wiper of the power output potentiometer.  This is a very easy modification to make and adds low-voltage pull-up to the COSM: