"Please stay on topic" in ALL threads...do we need that?
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Q-Dog
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yes. And we need consequences for those who don't.
... and who decides what is, or is not on topic? While a blatant derailment may be obvious, a slight side-step to the direct subject can often result in a gain to all involved.
42OhmsPA
Who likes Electrical Gremlins?
Shouldn't this be in the complaint corner or chit chat zone since it's not on topic?
fuzzmunky415
Solar Enthusiast
I've recommended before...I prefer the preservation of all posts, but off topic posts can be moved to a specific 'off topic' forum (running tally, no context) to keep active on topic discussion on track. Additionally, the originating poster/topic starter (OP) can request 'no off topic', thereby assuming loose ownership and tone of the thread they create, signaling to moderators to more actively manage their threads.
Went out to pull some old panels off a pole mount and replace them with new bifacials. Thought I had everything ready, nuts, bolts, mc4 connectors, wire, everything ... drat, 1piece short of channel strut and I'm not making a 60mile round trip to get another stick.
Don't you hate it when that happens.
Yeah, that huge banner is space that could be earning some advertiser dollars for the site.
Don't you hate it when that happens.
Yeah, that huge banner is space that could be earning some advertiser dollars for the site.
hwy17
Anti-Solar Enthusiast
I think the point is to stay on primarily technical topics. I don't mind when my threads veer from one technical topic to another. Maybe you start off talking about fuses and you end up talking about charge profiles and that's fine with me. The OP of the thread can say if they don't want to veer.
42OhmsPA
Who likes Electrical Gremlins?
I appreciate the Please in the banner.
It's been a nice reminder for me a few times today.
It would be cool to have some sun rays shining on the banner.
It's been a nice reminder for me a few times today.
It would be cool to have some sun rays shining on the banner.
Hey...
OP as the right to report any off topic posts.
Anything not on topic on posts that the OP does not want we mods will remove.
Please hit the report button... dont make an off topic post saying posts are off topic.
OP as the right to report any off topic posts.
Anything not on topic on posts that the OP does not want we mods will remove.
Please hit the report button... dont make an off topic post saying posts are off topic.
That reminds me of a story. I had set out to install some new solar panels one morning when the phone rang . It was my neighbor and he needed a hand fixing his truck. The truck was a Toyota which as everyone knows is from Japan. Why is it we import trucks into our country instead of making our own?
Should I use a 15A fuse for the parallel connection? or is it better to go with Bifacial panels?
fuzzmunky415
Solar Enthusiast
I mean, we're boomers...complex questions require anecdotes, metaphors and shaggy dogs until we've weaved a novel. lol
NC_hydro
Solar Wizard
That fact that you put 60seconds of thought and typing into this gave me a chuckle
SomethingAppropriate
Cannibalism starts with a kiss.
The banner changed??
I thought it always said that.
I thought it always said that.
Osmethne
Solar Enthusiast
Hey has everyone seen the Dogman movie yet?
I just felt like going off topic. That's cool right?
I just felt like going off topic. That's cool right?
Yes, I too have been looking at laser engraving heads to add to my CNC mill. Decent ones are still quite expensive.
Asking people to help and then getting bent if they ramble while they help seems quite retentive to me. Sometimes good points come up in the ramble that wouldn't otherwise get said.
I give blanket permission for you to all relentlessly hijack, ramble, or otherwise stray off topic on any thread I start. If I care enough, I know how to redirect the discussion.
Asking people to help and then getting bent if they ramble while they help seems quite retentive to me. Sometimes good points come up in the ramble that wouldn't otherwise get said.
I give blanket permission for you to all relentlessly hijack, ramble, or otherwise stray off topic on any thread I start. If I care enough, I know how to redirect the discussion.
So, something like a beer-buying offense?
You have to buy beer if you don't know the beer-buying rules....
OzSolar
Whatever you did, that's what you planned.
What are you talking about? It must be just you who's seeing it.
Haha, when I first saw it I thought it I thought "what did I do to deserve that?"lexio
feel the balance 3.65
if we really stayed on topic this web side had only 5 pages to describe everything more or less 
fatjay
Solar Wizard
I went up on the roof to wire the combiner box. I knew i needed 6 ferrules, so I grabbed 7 "just in case". When I got to the roof, I had 5. Granted it wasn't 60 miles, but it was a 13' ladder and it was snowing and 11pm and 22f outside.
SomethingAppropriate
Cannibalism starts with a kiss.
How do you all compress your diy lifepo4 cells?
I feel like this topic never gets the attention it needs...
I feel like this topic never gets the attention it needs...
fatjay
Solar Wizard
I used 3/8" aluminum plate, 3/8" all-thread covered with 3/8" taigon tubing. On the end I used a fender washer over top of a valve spring out of a 2015-2021 corvette LT4 engine. Cranked down to 10inch pounds for 4 bolts applies the minimum 3000 newton compression. During it's expansion of ~3% the compression increases but does not exceed the maximum of 7000 newtons.
SomethingAppropriate
Cannibalism starts with a kiss.
I like it!I used 3/8" aluminum plate, 3/8" all-thread covered with 3/8" taigon tubing. On the end I used a fender washer over top of a valve spring out of a 2015-2021 corvette LT4 engine. Cranked down to 10inch pounds for 4 bolts applies the minimum 3000 newton compression. During it's expansion of ~3% the compression increases but does not exceed the maximum of 7000 newtons.
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