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I've loved solar power, and have been playing with it since I was a kid. Now, I have my own place, and a few extra dollars, so I put together a little system, it backs up my essentials, but it's more just to play with. My power really never goes out, I live about 2 minutes from the electrical...

I've personally interacted with @Will Prowse and I can guarantee that you weren't talking to him. Was there any contact made directly from his channel, or was it all from another source, like a phone number? The grammar doesn't line up, and neither does someone like Will, who's weekly income...

I get frequent brownouts, but blackouts for over a minute here aren't super common. However, yesterday, my 5 year old woke me up to tell me that the power was off and had been so for a little while. I could hear the neighbors Generac chugging away, and the rest of the street was dark. Boom...

It's hard to put a price on having power when others don't.

That sounds like a thinly veiled threat not to get the credit card companies and PayPal involved. By your own admission, you got in over your head ("I am working diligently to get both resolved but, unfortunately, the scope of each of these messes is just overwhelming and together pretty...

I think there is a massive point that's being missed by most in regards to "climate change". Factory farming, fishing, and deforestation. Half of the debris in the oceans are from fishing boats (nets and trash), plus they cause massive amounts of damage to wildlife (plants and fish) with...

I wanted to build a high output, portable, lithium battery for work and car-camping. I already had eight 100ah CALB Cells, and a plastic Plano box that they fit almost perfectly into. The project was more about condensing and putting my system into a portable box, I already had most of the...

I think this is how you would properly store the amps, not so sure about the watts though, you might need a battery for those.

David's technical inaccuracies have been brought up multiple times on this form already. To me, he's the definition of "paid product reviews". I wouldn't take any advice from him.

Search for them on this forum. There's a bunch of very bad experiences. The owner was even publicly arguing about what I thought was an honest review Will P left little while back. You really only hear about bad experiences with ordering from China on here. People post when they are upset...

Yeah, my "ROI" would be about a 48 hour power outage in the middle of summer or winter.

I'm in the process of converting a small tow behind trailer into a camper. It had an unpainted aluminum roof that would get up to 160°f on the surface, and heat the internal temperature of the trailer to well over 120°f. I have fans inside, but no AC; so in the sun it's completely miserable. I...

Isn't the road to hell paved with good intentions? I genuinely feel bad for Mike, the catalyst of the situation was something completely outside of his control. Had none of this happened he might still be considered a reputable vendor here. That being said, the resolution of the situation WAS...

Back in the good ol' days, when I used to order weed on the internet, I learned some valuable lessons. I see a lot of parallels here too. People are reputable, until they aren't anymore. There were established cannabis dealers making hundreds of thousands of dollars a month on different...

I wanted to put on rubber gloves just watching that.

That would be a good business model. Replace packs every XXX thousand miles, before they get too trashed, and have them certified for residential or commercial energy storage. Car companies could make a little extra money selling (or installing) the used packs, and in a perfect world they...

I saw a short circuit test of a CALB 180ah cell on YouTube. He pulled 2500 amps on a dead short with a wrench. That's about 13c. Round up to 20c for a safety margin. That's also an older model CALB cell, so newer cells could potentially push out way more than that, especially ones like headway...

These cells will EASILY push over 20c during a short circuit. This was a single 3.2v cell, imagine a 12v-48v pack with paralleled cells. When the ROMEX got too hot, it melted the insulation inside of the sheathing, and caused an additional, "internal" short. All it takes is a few seconds to...

The funniest part about that is I went and tried to Google for "dangerous lab leak conspiracy" and 99% of the articles were from the past few days. However, head over to the way back machine (archive.org) and search, I see that those same sites were saying that it was a "dangerous conspiracy...

I think a fire blanket (fiberglass cloth) would have been incredibly useful here. Toss it over the flaming pack, and it probably would have prevented almost everything from flying off. I think I'll toss it extra one in my vehicle today.

I think the NEC is there for good reason, but it's also naive to think that big companies don't try to influence codes to increase product sales.

Oh, no. Someone asking me to pay them with friends and family is enough to stop the deal right there. That's not a red flag, that's a stop sign.

My take-away from this is to buy panels locally if possible.

All jokes aside, I prep some food, and the investment has about doubled since I packed it. Most stuff was packed between 2015-2018, and bought in bulk, on sale mostly, back when food was cheap. I've also got a stabilized drum of gas that I filled for, IIRC, about $1.30 a gallon. It's done better...

The statement about that pack being built for somebody else was a little scary. OP, please don't take offense to this, but the lack of proper safety features and best practices show that you have no business building batteries for people yet. It's very fortunate for the owner of the cart (and...

I try and go after the information presented rather than the presenter. A lot of people on here take advice from Will P, myself, and others on this forum, who are not licensed master electricians.

The regular news is dying, and doing anything they can to get the views that YouTube, IG, and Facebook took from them. They will literally say anything just to get a pageview. Check out the articles about the FLU they (the regular news) pushed every winter before 2019; you would think the world...