Off The Grid

Here's a shipping container with a sliding wall cover on tracks. When you cut out for the patio door, save the wall material and mount it on tracks. Now you can slide the door shut when you are gone. From a distance it'll look a normal shipping container.

Sausage recipie.

Goat day.

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Here's a survey for everyone which one is correct number one or number two please leave your comments below I will answer tomorrow

UK to eliminate jury trials and right to appeal. Nothing to worry about, similar magistrate cases were upheld 40% of hte time under current system. 60% were overturned. Nothing to see here.

If you have to lose your guns in a boating accident, it's probably time to use them.

Well today was the winter solstice for the northern hemisphere. My system made 124.9kwh on the shortest day of the year!! My summer time record is 162kwh. My intent was to make the same amount of power each month of the year instead of lots in summer and none in winter. So this is 25% less in winter.... not so bad. Also it takes about 55-60kwh just to run the house, so if I can make more than this on the shortest day of the year, that's a winner for the long haul.

The right tool for the job. I need a bushing inside a square tube to keep bolt from crushing it.... hobby lathe and bobs my uncle.

Today I helped the same guy as yesterday... we pulled two 1AWG, two 2AWG, two 6AWG from his meter base on the house out 125' to the shipping container that will have the inverters and batteries. What a booger. We eneded up pulling the straight section 100' under ground and then feeding it thru individual 45's and 90's in teh conduit to get to the wall connection on the shipping container. No way we could have pulled end to end thru all those bends. He's using two 10,000kva victron inverters, so that's 10kw of reactive power, but only 8kw per inverter of "real" power. So his maximum current will be 83amps @ 240v. We're using aluminum wire because it's so much cheaper. Since the standard length used in electrical code is for 100' runs and we are at 125' I had to do a separate voltage drop calculation. We were right on the hairy edge for 2AWG so I opted for 1AWG for the L1 and L2 wires (ie the two hots) and 2AWG for the neutral and ground. The two 6AWG wires are for a 50amp feeder to the inverters for emergency charging of the batteries on cloudy day. Here's a voltage drop calculator for wire runs longer than 100'. https://www.southwire.com/calculator-vdrop

Though I never saw it done.

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