cheap solar panels at Home Depot, with a catch ( mouse.mousetrap.net )
TL:DR: I saw a set of cheap panels with weird specs at Home Depot. I bought some to experiment on and to use as portables to augment my mounted solar....
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TL:DR: I saw a set of cheap panels with weird specs at Home Depot. I bought some to experiment on and to use as portables to augment my mounted solar....
House Bill 1365 was filed in January. It prohibits camping or sleeping on public property without a permit. The bill would give local municipalities the power to designate specific areas for sleeping or camping. Such properties must have restrooms, running water, security, and access to health care for mental and physical...
This is probably worth considering in general, but dealing with financial lockouts on the road is a particular kind of dumpster fire....
Like an idjit I smoked my old shunt by shorting it while moving stuff around. I eventually replaced it with the Aili type....
... in which I camped in a spot infested by mule deer, picked up spent brass, and trusted the local forecast enough to do my cooking off solar....
... up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine....
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a swamp cooler and humidifier of this design are doing the same thing: blowing air through a wetted, porous medium. The goals are different (humidification vs cooling) but the mechanism is the same.
in which I bumblefsck through figuring out why my solar setup no worky
I did this because the hotplate was a bit more than my offgrid rig could handle comfortably. Been using it at ~500w to very good effect.
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This year was more tumultuous than usual. A couple things were literal once in a lifetime events.
I believed the forecast, which said it would be partly cloudy. In reality it was overcast all day, no blue sky at all. It was lightly raining most of the time. Pic to the right (PF parking lot) shows how low the cloud cover was. Clouds were obscuring the top of the nearby Franklin Mountains.
I just realized it’s been two years since I installed the LiFePO4. No regrets.