Off The Grid

Growing our own food here, kids are liking it so far... Learning the circle of life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TRHZaWYNdA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0jx0CuhmB4

As much as I don't favor the all in one solar "generators" such as bluetti and eco-flow, lots of people have bought them. The issue is that although they are cool looking and nicely packaged, they don't offer true bang for your buck. Frankly they are 100% convienent but over priced for their output. They have vendor lock in for batteries. The newer models do offer split phase now so you can use them to run your furnace fans in the winter for example. The best piece of equipment is the one you already own... so if you have one of these units, run what ya got. Some creative youtubers have discovered you can use any LFP 48v battery with the newer models so that helps with breaking thru vendor lock in. It also allows you a path forward if you decide to get a "real" inverter system later on because you can continue to use the LFP server rack batteries moving forward. If you don't have one of these units, skip over them and get real inverters like XP6000, XP12000, or victron gear. Better in the long run.

Worth considering.....?

https://youtu.be/sfbD9YEwQeU?si=hs3ULvETZ2PMWR7L

Please be cautious when you see these, not only to prevent yourself from inadvertently getting poisoned by them, but to also contribute to others who may not know this when the sticker comes off. The same as true for decorative plates and whatnot, but with those little cookie skillets out there that are food safe, these may be hard to differentiate between without the stickers. Personally, I feel like they should be required to cast the warning into the design or etch it, but I don’t make the rules.

Cattle panels mounted outside green house to keep deer out.

SEIZE AND DESTROY: SC hemp farmer gets legal win against SLED in 2019 farm raid lawsuit It's taken seven years for Trent Pendarvis to free himself from a SC Law Enforcement Division prosecution and to get his civil lawsuit to a jury trial after agents raided his family farm and mowed down his hemp crop in 2019. Pendarvis' latest court victory moves his lawsuit against SLED and the SC Department of Agriculture one step closer to trial. FULL REPORT: https://www.qcnews.com/news/investigations/seize-and-destroy-hemp-farmer-scores-legal-win-against-sled-in-2019-raid-lawsuit/

Note that I call instant reads of watts by the prefix of POWER... and accumulated power is called by the prefix ENERGY.

Then if you look under Settings->Devices&Services, you can create a helper using "intergral sensor". Point it to the "sensor node" for power you created in node red and it'll do the accumulation of Wh for you. The advanatge of this is that home assistant already has a way to store the values of these helper variables in it's infrastructure, so these accumulated numbers survive a reboot. Previously , I had been sending values from node red out thru MQTT and looping them back in to home assistant... but that is clunky.