Recent content by dweick

Good story except the SS COLA is based on a measure of inflation that includes energy and food costs, to be specific they use the CPI-W. So does the government published CPI number most commonly used, the most recent being a 0.4% MoM for Sep 2022, called the CPI-U. The index that excludes...

Yep, for the money I would expect Tektronik. For a lot more money I'd expect Textronix.

We fly with two of these: https://startpac.com/products/model-li2800qc-28-5/ we use this https://startpac.com/products/quick-change-y-connector/ So we can use both in parallel for our starts, saves paying lots of money for a power cart start at remote airports

Sell them on Alibaba as Grade A cells.

Doesn't need to be particularly high capacity, I did it because the LiFePO4 batteries last longer and properly swapping the 12V battery in my Tesla is not a simple process so after my original battery died I replaced it with a LiFePO4. Newer Teslas come with a lithium ion, probably NMC...

Get a BMS that has a temp sensor and disables charging below 0C

I would think strong proponents of the right to bear arms would be happy to see armed IRS agents, the more guns the better Thanks, like I thought not a tax increase

Any specifics on how it raises taxes down to the $20k income level? Or is that just something you heard? I suspect you are getting confused, there are no changes to federal income tax laws that target anyone at the $20k income level but there are almost certainly SOME people who file returns...

I agree that the causes of the current world-wide inflation are complex and not entirely due to the last administration's massive deficits.

Then a good thing this bill reduces the deficit by spending less than it raises

I can only speculate that PayPal freezes their accounts, it appears that is what happened when I paid them. Originally they wanted me to wire them the funds because of an issue with their PayPal account and when I declined they got another PayPal account that I made my final payment to but...

How did you measure SOC?

They seem to have to keep creating new PayPal accounts which require new email addresses, delivered fine for me though.

The new IRA bill makes this an even better approach than in the past. Previously you had to have solar to get a tax credit for batteries and NOT charge it from the grid but now you can build a battery only system and charge from the grid and get a 30% tax credit

Because they are junk batteries with high self-discharge? or you are fooling yourself and not really getting them to 100% SOC I'm going to go with junk batteries, no decent vendor selling good batteries delivers batteries with 0% SOC. Probably were at 0% SOC because of high self-discharge