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Just saw this, but I say that not just because of those he banned, but because of his "freedom of speech, not freedom of reach" policy which is nothing more than shadow banning like Zuck does. He has made it so that people are heavily restricted on who can see what they write. It's more...

After doing the research on chicken diet I'm scrapping this plan. So little of their nutritional needs would be met this way. So back to a more traditional setup.

Will that drive the tracks as well as supply pressure to the boom? Will it be connected to the controls for operating the boom?

That would be even better if we could convert our excavator and skidder to electric. I wouldn't have the first clue how to start doing that though. But would love to learn.

Buying at least one of the ribbed plastic burial water tanks this summer. Probably won't put it in the ground until next summer though. Gotta keep that water from freezing in the winter so planning on digging a hole under the frost line, pouring a concrete pad, pouring some concrete walls...

Okay, I see the confusion. Thanks.

You think giving the options you think are better for defeating EMP than faraday cages would derail the thread about defeating EMP?

Somebody will correct me if I'm wrong, given that I'm a neophyte. But assuming you're riding daily, and you want to charge it with 10KWh daily (so you have that buffer), then you want a solar system that can produce 10KWh a day. Assuming that means winter and rain, I'd recommend: Use PVWatts...

What ways do you advocate instead?

Ha, I can assure you that I'm not overthinking it. I'm too ignorant to really have much in the way of thoughts. But based on your comment I'm guessing you think the design should be fine? Makes sense to think of it from a fence perspective with the posts, but the difference is those solar...

I'm not sure if they make beams smaller than the ones here. Running it at an angle would mean doubling the I-beams and then some (since I would imagine with the angle it would need to be longer than the vertical beams). Probably cheaper (and less shading) to just increase the size of the...

I have 14 x 440W bifacial panels currently straight up and down and pointing directly south on a snowy day. Yesterday it was overcast the entire day and the panels produced about 6.5 KWh of power for the day. We have 12 hours currently between sunrise and sunset. In case that gives you some...

If so, how far down did you put the I-beams, did you use concrete, and how has it been in the wind? I'm thinking about doing five arrays of seven doing the same thing Dave did with the same beams and same Renogy brackets, but with a couple differences. Some differences in my setup (other than...

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...

That's good info to know. Not the info I'd like to know, but glad somebody tested it out.

Nice. That would be awesome to only need one motor and a couple bearings. I wonder if any of the plants would get caught up in the mesh while it was rolling on them though. Some of that is going to happen either way. But probably wouldn't be a big deal. Your idea has a lot of strengths...

Because: But I see what you're saying now. Make the run a cylinder of mesh and let it roll on the ground over the garden. That could work for the run, but the hutch would still need to be lifted while it rotates, or it would just need to be elevated slightly off the ground permanently which...

The hutch is connected to the run....And the whole thing rotates. How on earth would all of that rotate around the field without being lifted or having wheels, simply by changing the hutch from a square to a cylinder? The whole thing in red lifts up on three wheels (the wheel on the end of the...

How does the hutch being a cylinder rather than a square simplify it? Seems if the coop is a triangle, a square, or a cylinder it would work the same. The hutch will be lifted (along with the run), then will rotate on wheels.

Maybe I'm not understanding. My thought is a buried colony in the center, and a hutch over top of that. The hutch and run rotates 360 degrees. By doing that, they always have access to the underground warren while their access to the garden rotates. It will roll during rotation because all...

That would be simpler, but I want them to have an underground colony (that I'll make) so that they have some place warm to go in the winter. So I need to keep the pivot point over their entrance to that. Plus I don't want to manually have to roll anything, I want to automate it.

Nah, I'm a huge fan of the ermines. I cannot imagine killing one simply for its fur. They are incredible predators for sure.

The wired bottom in the run is the plan. I've got to size the holes of the mesh properly though...big enough for the chickens to get at the garden, but not so big as to let an ermine in. I imagine ermines will be my number one threat. Then again, it might be the many bears we also have. The...

For the base I might actually use 4"x4" pressure treated lumber. Then mill 3x3 for the shelf lumber.

The bracing is just the bottom part. The shelves with the battery are up top and will be accessible. I already have the batteries hooked up and I've got the connections working and the bus bars and fusing and such. I'm just trying to design a more robust shelf that I can more easily insulate...

Shelves are 2" thick. All the posts are 3" x 3". You think plywood to cover the base is better than using 3x3 diagonal bracing (this just shows the front, I'd also do the back)? It would be easier to just use plywood.

I wonder what kind of bracing would be better... Something like this: Or something more like this?

Of course I can, I have YouTube! I bought a welder but have never used it (turns out it wasn't powerful enough for the reason I bought it). I haven't welded anything since the 7th grade in shop class, and I remember the teacher wasn't overly impressed with my work. But I have a Wood Mizer and...

We probably want to buy a shielded CAT5 cable for going from the master battery to the Cerbo. And then will drill a separate hole in the top for that cable. The 16 4/0 cables will go through that shown hole up top. I'll foam that hole after getting the cables set to trap heat in. When we had...

Hopefully this base made from 3" x 3" lumber will be enough to hold the 1400 pounds of batteries up. I suppose I might need some kind of cross bracing on the base though.

This chicken coop is starting to become quite the marvel (in my mind anyway). We'll see how much of this dreaming actually becomes reality. I'm now thinking the coop will be 10' x 10' and super insulated in the center of a 100' diameter chicken pasture. The rotating run will be pie shaped and...

I've never noticed our batteries even being warm. And the internal temps don't seem to really rise much either, although I did notice when they were getting hours of 7KW of charge coming in that they did increase the internal temps. Although sun hitting the metal siding on the shed may have...

Yeah, but if caught fire it would almost certainly burn down the solar shed and everything in it and depending on the wind and season it might start a forest fire that would burn down our cabin and be much worse. Again, I'm banking on these systems working properly as advertised given I don't...

No firefighters out where I'm at... Thinking we might put some of those balls of fire extinguishing agent in a net above the cabinet so they might do something. And above the batteries the celling/floor will have a couple layers of firebird. I guess something is better than nothing.

Good to know. I've thought a bit about fire suppression methods, but at the end of the day, I just don't think there is anything affordable. My batteries will be well protected in a root cellar, have the Victron system only charging them according to what the batteries demand since they tell...