Recent content by PreppenWolf

New outhouse with Port-a-potty inards for students to use and my wife's new greenhouse half assembled.

Is solar hooked up to this? If so the case of the inverter is likely going to be energized. And if you don't have grounding rods it will energize the container.

My favorite type of previous owner is "I have 7 different types of fasteners, but only about 3 of each. That's OK, Let's modify the house"

The tire and rim are 650lbs. I have a chain hoist to raise and lower the spare along with a 25 ton jack and cribbing to lift the axle.

Exhibit A. I had to chip out 6" of slush turned ice to water the pigs this morning.

I would have loved all snow. The ice is everywhere and dorking up my endless projects schedule 😂

We had snow, rain, ice, then snow again. Because we knew there would be ice I bumped our battery bank up from grid overnight in case it turned bad. Of course nothing happened and today was 100% Clear skies. So I probably would have made 60kWh, but instead I hit 100% after only 30kwH because I...

56,000lbs of I'm coming through 😂 She has a 24V solar system. Panels on roof.

Nice. This is Dozer, our custom camper built on a M916 chassis.

The two farrowing huts will basically be cabins. 8ftx12ft with front to back sloping 7.5ft-5.5ft roofs. They will share a side wall. I'm reusing the sliding barn doors. There will be power inside with a 3ftx7ft bunk to sleep on that doubles underneath as a heated area for piglets. You have to...

It's was 30% of new material cost for us to dismantle and move the barn 3 hours away to our house and build the farrowing huts the way I want them. Large lumber and metal roofing are ridiculously expensive still. All the wood was in excellent condition and the roofing had no leaks.

I have (8) of these BMSs and they are pretty accurate for live draws, but your SOC/Ah long term tracking will be trash. You have to hit the reset button in the app to get the Ah to refresh to proper values because the BMS is tracking voltage and extrapolating Ah, which it doesn't refresh in its...

My son and I took apart a three horse barn in NW VT. The materials will be used to build large farrowing (birthing) cabins for our pigs.

16 months in and we're at 93 battery cycles. We are current in 3rd winter. It snowed again last night. Still zero faults/shutdowns since going live. We've lost grid power probably 20 times and the switching has been flawless.

If you really wanted over amp protection beyond the BMS, you could put individual T class fuses or DC breakers on each bank. If it were me and I had such a large array with that small of a battery bank, I'd just raise the min voltage cutoff to 51V. This prevents draining the battery and...