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Thought about putting this in Beginner's Corner, but I suppose it's more appropriate here. After years, we're finally putting things up on walls. Got our solar shed built this summer, put the 160 pound Quattro 15K on the wall along with one of our MPPTs. Since we could only afford the metal...

Didn't think we would get this done before winter, but we did. Cabin and solar shed wired with breaker boxes and supplying AC power, and we got the panels mounted on our two solar arrays. Next summer, five more... It's super cool to see the ground mount design we made in CAD become a reality...

Got two of these custom mounts but what a pain. Final five will be fixed vertical and much simpler to construct and far cheaper.

Victron fixed the issue. They said they'd ensure the issue was resolved at no cost to us, and the Regional Manager actually offered to provide us a new Quattro 48/15000 230V and pay for shipping it to us, if we'd pay for shipping one of the 48/8000s back to the dealer. We decided to keep one...

It has been years of posting on this forum, realizing I'm an idiot, learning something, then doing something else for a bit and forgetting everything I thought I previously learned, only to be an idiot again and have to re-learn what I thought I knew. Years, and all before we had actually built...

If it can be run in electric only mode (and the gas just sits there and doesn't have to be used) and it plugs in to charge, then it is a PHEV. I had thought I had read something saying it didn't have an electric only mode but perhaps I got that wrong. Edit: I was wrong. According to the...

Government loves "not enforced" laws. They're not enforced until they selectively enforce them. Great way to target select individuals for something that has nothing to do with why they're actually being targeted (expressed views, for example).

Happy to report that Victron reached out to resolve the issue without cost to us. Will update after all that coordination is done.

That's awesome, you've created something increasingly rare in today's America. You offer valuable content, you role model valuing accurate information over appearing to be right, and you have provided a place where people can communicate and stand on the value of their contributions and ideas...

I went to my condo in Florida, or at least tried to, turned out it had moved to a new location so I couldn't find it.

like a Klondike Bar dipped in Coca Cola.

It takes the generator running the 5KW chargeverter about an hour of running to charge that ten percent. Our loads are currently pretty light, so that ten percent buys us about 12 hours of time roughly. I disabled the auto start for the time being though, until I get my batteries in a warmer...

Another thought if you have a heavily forested challenging terrain area like we do and you're looking for a good way to figure out the best place for solar... What we did was we flew a drone to map our property and made a point cloud. Then we put that point cloud into ArcGIS and used the solar...

I have my first batch of pressure canned meat whittled down to only 547 pounds/pints of meat after eating on it for several years. Had over a thousand jars initially, turns out we don't eat as much meat as we thought we would. We use an All American pressure canner. Fits 16 pint jars in it...

Saw a big shadow of a bird fly right by us a few minutes ago and looked out a side window and saw him in a deadwood tree next to our cabin. I made a call and to my utter surprise he flew over and down from the side of the cabin and landed on our deck right in front of us. Maybe ten feet away...

We finally found a solution to keep birds from smacking into our six panels of glass out front. Saw this site about how to make "bird savers" from paracord, but we opted instead to use that design and make vinyl "clings." The view is affected a bit and now it looks like an impressionistic view...

Just tilted one of the arrays for the first time. Just cool to see it work. It's pretty much academic at this point, they do so well vertical and in the summer we don't need any more power until we figure out how to manage a dump load. But just to see what it does. It will be really...

Concur. Thankfully Will has a strong character, very obviously sees the value in opposing viewpoints and differing perspectives, and has seen how human nature combined with Internet forums work and has decided to make one of the rare harbors to be found for expression online with his forum...

Lots of discussion online about vertical mounted bifacials (at least mounted facing east and west). Got a good day to test their ability to produce power on overcast days. March 16th was overcast all day, couldn't even see the mountains. But the 14 panels still produced just over 6 KWh. And...

This recent video supports my point. When they come for your chickens and your gardens, you can be sure they'll be coming for your solar. The carbon tax seems to be the big vehicle for that. They've already got satellite and drone imagery and if you don't comply with their tax or whatever...

I remember when people were rightfully up in arms about our costly blunders in the Middle East, the lies told to invade Iraq, and the neo-con extravaganza during the GWB years. Then Obama said all the right things, got elected, and continued with the same policies and then some. But the...

I would still be burning wood year round, even in July, except that we super insulated our cabin and so the passive solar on sunny days is enough to keep the cabin at 70F and now that we, just yesterday, finally got our heat pump installed....no more wood burning until deep winter if ever again...

Back side of one of our two arrays on this nice Alaska morning. We still have them in the vertical position since we're still getting snow. For those considering bifacial panels, they really do give more power than they're rated for. These two arrays consist of 14 x 440W bifacial panels and...

Agreed. The people pulling the strings are most certainly not interested in providing equal anything to the masses (nor have any Communists been in their failed attempts). They're interested in taking all the assets and control for themselves and impoverishing the rest of us. And they'll nod...

You will give me no answer because it's very clear that your awful expressed view (that innocent civilians being killed along with their children is okay with you because they somehow "enabled" their government) would require you, were you to be principled and consistent, to state either a) that...

That has been my experience as well. Makes sense, it gets so dark that it's a perfect time to travel in deep winter. Snowbirding is a great way to live to keep from extreme cold or extreme hot and lots of folks here are older and retired types who can manage it. Of course that's my impression...

Off grid on fifty acres a thousand feet up on all four sides, with our nearest neighbor miles away and down below in a non-populated area outside of any city or town. Mile and a half tracked vehicle ATV path to our place from nearest dirt road. Once I install the rest of the panels I've got...

The elusive lynx checking out our solar. Much easier to see on thermal. They look much nicer in the daytime. "Lynxie cat, lynxie cat, I love you." You can milk anything with nipples.

Agreed, the market place is likely the best place to solve this issue. But unfortunately liberty-mindedness is in low supply and there's even lower demand.

Any forum that doesn't have a real commitment to free speech will decline over time. We're adults. We can ignore those whose content we don't want to see. Nothing else need be or should be done in my opinion.

I absolutely do not connect our stuff to the Internet. The Internet is no place to connect your power system for many reasons. Next step will be trying to disable all the known pathways in, bluetooth and Wifi. As always, the convenience of "smart" systems comes with a high price. Doesn't...

And our government agencies (which are very Mossad friendly) do the same things as far as intercepting shipments and modifying them. If you buy from Amazon, you're buying from the agency anyway. Anything that seems "crazy" these days is just a few weeks early from the news cycle.

I have long thought a real market opportunity exists in a company that takes vehicles and appliances and disables WiFi and other transmitter "back doors"...but then I realized that such companies are not allowed to exist in our fascist nation. See LavaBit for example.

Initially I attached just one plastic gutter, via magnets, to one of our four roofs on the cabin and would collect water into a 55 gallon plastic drum on our deck. Worked well enough. But this year we had some nice gutters installed that took three downspouts below our deck. The wife and I...

Prices do go up and down with supply and demand. Now take your statement and apply it to the situation. Say there are X houses for purchase or rent. There are Y number of people who can purchase them and demand them. Now UBI kicks in and people who could not afford them before now have more...

Are you suggesting that "still thinks warning someone about a post is worse than deleting that post and all other posts by that individual and then banning them" == thinking "how much worse censorship on X is than it was on Twitter?" I responded to your first claim saying I never stated the...

Concur. I'll go with the cooler weather. Our location has never seen 80F, hottest we get is in the 70s. Coldest is maybe -10F. I'll take it. And digging a root cellar or going underground is a great way to equalize. 55F or so year round is God's climate control.

Honest request, can you point out how UBI would work? It would be a lot of money given to a lot of people. Where would that money come from? Let's say there is the UBI Implementation date. On the day before UBI, rent costs Z dollars a month on average. After the UBI Implementation date, if...

And a law has been passed that makes such systems a requirement...in our "free" country with our "free" market, automobile makers will soon be required to include surveillance systems and control systems in all vehicles. Because what could go wrong with the frequent data hacks that put us all...

I couldn't agree more about the CBDC and what that represents. When it gets adopted, and given that I don't think Americans actually have any real voice I believe it will, then it's game, set, match on our grand experiment that started during the Enlightenment. But some will be able to live...

No idea on the first two questions. As to the third, I'm planning on starting an OnlyFans to fund the ATV. People will give cash hand over fist to watch a middle aged guy groom real Alaskan squirrels.

This is exactly my thought process. Because I only have 3 hours or so to charge in the winter, I want a lot of panels producing a lot of energy, and I want all my equipment to be able to charge the batteries with every single ounce of it. During the planning process we encountered a lot of...

We have three Harvest Right medium units. Thought being they'll be easier to sell if we need to. They have larger units as well that can do more at one time, but their really big one has trays that are likely too big for a normal dishwasher. Agreed on using them in the summer when the solar...

I completely agree. But politicians and corporation are fused together as they have been since the very beginning in our nation, but more tightly now (remember the Massachusetts Bay Company). The mechanisms of subjugation are everywhere these days. Imagine how difficult it will be for such...

Given our solar arrays and heat pump, sometimes it's tempting to think we live in a suburb with a really big yard. But then we're reminded we live off grid in a huge forest. Yesterday we heard a ruckus out front of the cabin and went out onto the deck to take a look. Moose calf was screaming...

I was hoping you were going to take a stab at my question about rent prices. What do you think will happen to average rent prices the day after this UBI payment is dished out to the masses? I have some thoughts on unemployment but not a whole lot. I am only responsible for keeping myself...

Great idea to prepare and my wife and I have been doing it for the last five years. Unfortunately, at the end of the day, I'm not sure if our efforts will really do much. I think the situation may well be far worse than I was imagining when we started. Some of my assumptions were likely too...

Finally had a sunny day. I took down some trees but still need to take down some more to try to milk what little we get in winter. Today our 6KW (front rating of the bifacials) produced just over 11KW of power. Most we saw was 5600W coming in. When we get the rest of the panels up, that...

Good point. No power on the bus bar, no components turned on, but now is probably a good time to break the habit of just letting things lay around...