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Originally Posted By LeadBreakfast: Looking good! Spending a lot of time up there this summer? View Quote Yep, use it as my office working from home. 8-5 m-f. It’s been really nice. Pretty much peaks at 80* all summer with a nice breeze. Been low 50s a lot of mornings. Heck last week I went back to wearing pants and a jacket instead of shorts. In august. |
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Born with a low tolerance for bullshit
KY, USA
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Originally Posted By taliv: https://i.ibb.co/f9LK3z6/IMG-3248.jpg Freakin bear walked across my panel. Looks like he walked up the right side across the top and ran down the left as best I can tell Got a game cam pic of him on the porch lol. Hes pretty young which is good. I don’t think those panels are rated for full grown bears. Got starlink up there now too so should have some better cameras soon View Quote Will that kind of thing damage your panels? (I look at a lot of Schoolie builds, but that's the most I know about solar.) |
Nobody ever wakes me at 2 in the morning telling me that my grass is out on the highway.~~Radiopat
Wine is sunlight held together by water~~Galileo Galilei Well-behaved women rarely make history~~Marilyn Monroe |
it's possible. someone was telling me about micro cracks in the panels that i can't see but may have now. who knows. at the moment, they're still producing full power though so i'm not super worried
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Glad I found this!
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Critical thinking is dead.
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Born with a low tolerance for bullshit
KY, USA
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Originally Posted By taliv: Reloading bench complete! And already a mess https://i.ibb.co/FKKSkmm/IMG-3315.jpg Thinking I may take the recipe whiteboard down and put some small shelves up on the wall above the bench with a light strip underneath also, haven't mounted the co-ax press yet View Quote Could use the white board as a door for your cabinet and have both. |
Nobody ever wakes me at 2 in the morning telling me that my grass is out on the highway.~~Radiopat
Wine is sunlight held together by water~~Galileo Galilei Well-behaved women rarely make history~~Marilyn Monroe |
Originally Posted By taliv: Reloading bench complete! And already a mess https://i.ibb.co/FKKSkmm/IMG-3315.jpg Thinking I may take the recipe whiteboard down and put some small shelves up on the wall above the bench with a light strip underneath also, haven't mounted the co-ax press yet View Quote I have an old Franfert arsenal stand with my small RCBS press and my Lyman lead bullet swagger on interchangeable heads. I don’t think they make it anymore. But it’s nice to have a portable press. Before that I used a craftsman portable work clamp. I don’t have any pictures of it. That was before digital photos. |
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Chicken Farmer by choice hunter of shade tree's and hiding spots by nature.
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well, storm got me pretty good. we had a wind warning about gusts up to 85 mph "and higher in the mountains" for 36 solid hours. I suspect we had >100mph winds up on top but I wasn't standing around holding the kestrel. we've had a LOT of high winds up there past 3 months but this was crazy.
3 of 6 solar panels trashed. outdoor sink knocked over and 10' away from where it's supposed to be. gutter downspout ripped off. diesel heater duct ripped off. pile of lumber and a vibratory tumbler full of media that was on the deck distributed around the yard. ham antenna down. weboost mast sideways. insulation ripped off water cistern. lot of weird stuff makes me think the wind was coming from all directions. the sink landed on the other side of the chimney so it had to move in a J-shape. one of the solar panels was jammed up against the opposite side of a tree from it's mount, and almost folded in half. so, I'm going to be redoing a lot of stuff and trying to figure out how to fortify it against hurricane winds. i'm also upgrading my battery by almost 600%. |
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Yeah it was tough here in NC. About 10 miles from cabin a twister hit and 1 person died
Heading up Friday to see if we have any damage. Some of our trees are iffy at best near cabin 🫤 |
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looks sturdy!
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Excellent work and plan, better to have it and not need it and all that.
One thing I don't know is how that will impact the life of the batteries. Any insight there? |
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Well when I’m done I’ll have a max of 400a of charging from solar. And 5600ah of batteries. So my max charge rate is .07C (rated for 1C continuous charge) which is almost like a trickle charge and less than 1/10th of max. It’ll be great for battery longevity.
And most days my consumption is maybe 400ah but let’s say 500ah to be conservative. That means I’m not even discharging 10%. But the cells are rated for 8000 cycles (at 8000 they should still hold 80% of the rated capacity, not that they’re just completely unusable.) So net I’m really not cycling them much. They should last a long friggin time. In theory one full cycle per day at 8000 cycles is 22 years. On top of that I’m not going to charge them to 100% or allow them to discharge to 0%. I’ll prob try to take 5-10% off either end. Which again will be good for longevity |
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Wow! Very impressed OP.
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22 years is impressive. Hell, 15 years would be impressive. Batteries aren't cheap obviously but I'd imagine they'd pay for themselves years before they're needing replacement.
Keep up the great work! |
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of course that's my high level theoretical based on their specs. i don't have experience measuring the cells over long periods of time. who knows how long they will really last?
i imagine that over time the chemistry may change slightly affecting internal resistance and causing cells to go out of balance and reduce available capacity of the battery. it wouldn't surprise me at all if say, 5 years from now or 10 years from now, i need to tear the whole thing apart and top balance all the cells again to regain 20-30% of total capacity. but hopefully after "maintenance" like that, they're pretty close to new again |
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With the new Pulse Charge showing promise over conventional Constant Current charging you might get longer than you calculated.
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