Off The Grid

Difficult to see in this picture but this shows one panel putting out 571w. A moment ago it had been 575. There are low rolling clouds and above whispy feathery clouds so we wont get all we can today. These are aptos 550w bifacial panels. Rated for 550w on the front and an additional 130w from the ambient light on back side. Theortical max is 680w but they are sold as 550.

Damn it all.... they found my house.

Are victron and SMA solar systems scaleable? Here's a system that's outputting 52kw to loads... and 22kw of it comes from battery. It's a giant system. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/s8n3eeIem6E

Definitely badass.

OMG... New hobby....

OMG this is a good idea.... heating sand thru the day inside a well house to keep it from freezing overnight. https://youtu.be/PC2K3Qrb8U8 250w solar panel and a quartz tube as a heater.

Tee Post Puller

Neighbor making his solar array out of 2" schedule 40 fence posts. 40 degrees on the nose. Now that he got enough up to test mount the panels we'll work on the other 2 arrays.

Here's a guy who charged a LFP cell to 10v (nominal is 3.2 to 3.6v) and shot it with a rifle. It did burn, but not vigorously like 18650s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_B_O8SvCZM

Here the full film, very good and funny way of giving people their first red pill.

Also.... mice in my workshop gnawing into sacks of chicken feed. I setup one of those flip and slide 5 gallon bucket traps last night. Checked it a few times. Caught one about every 30minutes. Gave the chickens five wet and dead mice today. So much better than poisoning the mice becuase that makes my chickens sick.