Johncfii
I’m an avid DIY’er. Enjoying now working on expanding our non-grid-tied home solar system. We bought a Hyundai KONA EV (a great car) in October of 2020, and have been successfully powering it almost fully from solar power. My current system expansion should prevent the need for grid charging the EV even in the shortest days of winter.
I devoted a 33-year career to manufacturing management. Weary of that, I left that career in 2012 to take a job as a commercial pilot.
I now have the best job on the world, flying Falcon jets around the world on global air ambulance missions, mostly around the Pacific. We also fly contract flights for US Fish and Wildlife Service from Honolulu to Midway Island every other week, and from Honolulu to Palmyra Atoll once a month. Less pay, but 1000% more fun.
I’ve been “into” electronics for five decades, FIRST IN AMATEUR RADIO, THEN commercial broadcasting, and industrial controls. Now amateur radio call sign K7KEY. Formerly call sign KF7Z, and WA7HXH.
My avatar picture is from Palmyra Atoll .... perhaps the closest place in the world to a tropical paradise.
I devoted a 33-year career to manufacturing management. Weary of that, I left that career in 2012 to take a job as a commercial pilot.
I now have the best job on the world, flying Falcon jets around the world on global air ambulance missions, mostly around the Pacific. We also fly contract flights for US Fish and Wildlife Service from Honolulu to Midway Island every other week, and from Honolulu to Palmyra Atoll once a month. Less pay, but 1000% more fun.
I’ve been “into” electronics for five decades, FIRST IN AMATEUR RADIO, THEN commercial broadcasting, and industrial controls. Now amateur radio call sign K7KEY. Formerly call sign KF7Z, and WA7HXH.
My avatar picture is from Palmyra Atoll .... perhaps the closest place in the world to a tropical paradise.
- Background
- Electronics Technician
ATP pilot, flight instructor
- Current or Future Solar Power System
- Not Grid Tied
20 x Sanyo/Panasonic 220-watt panels
Wired all 20 in parallel.
Outback Flexware 500
2 x FM80 charge controllers
2 x VFX3524 inverters
Mate 3
Flexnet DC
12 x Rolls S6-460AGM wired 24 vdc
Perkins 12kw Genset
Various Perkins gens.
Geothermally heated water
2020 Hyundai KONA EV 100% solar charged
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