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Morning view out the back bedroom window. Man it’s good to have no regrets stepping out of society.

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What a way to visualize packets moving though the meshcore network. This is eastern Tennessee and north Georgia.

Harvest Guard reusable mason jar lids are NOT good. We canned tomatos yesterday and 40% of cans didn't seal. Additionally, my wife has been dehydrating squash and she's had trouble with on of the harvest guard lids staying sealed... so I put olive oil on the rubber gasket and it stayed sealed for about a week. Guess we're back to one time use lids.

I've been tinkering with this how-to document for a couple of weeks. I realized that I go though the same steps each time I do a consult with someone about getting solar. This document isn't glitzy or polished but it contains the steps I take to specify a system.

Standard terms and conditions may apply, I have not covered all the gotchas but this certainly will get you going in the right direction.

One of our group members has just returned home from a quick trip to Houston TX. He saved a lot of money on shipping by driving there. He has just returned home with 90 580w panels, 5 16kwh batteries and a pair of 12000xp inverters. I can't wait to see this system up and running.... it's a monster. 54kw of panels and 24kw of inverters.

Edit: Panels were $6045.00 for 3 pallets. 93 panels. Batteries were $8800 for 5 of the docan 16kw batts.

Note the distances involved here. And these are 1watt transmitters.

Homemade Liquid Fertilizer - 4 Do-It-Yourself Options.

Its a beautiful morning

Planning 3 sites for meshcore nodes to fill in gap around me. Here's a composite coverage model of three locations that are >100ft up. Brighter red indicates overlapping coverage areas.

Anyone looking for a killer deal on panels....

Two "mesh" networks have emerged.

Meshtastic, every client device can repeat messages. It’s a true flood mesh—messages propagate through multiple paths simultaneously. This provides excellent resilience; even if several nodes fail, messages find alternative routes. The downside? Massive network traffic. Every device receives and potentially re-transmits multiple copies of the same message. De-duplication algorithms try to manage this, but you’re fighting against the basic architecture.

MeshCore takes a hybrid approach. Client devices (what they call “Companion” nodes) never repeat traffic. Only dedicated repeaters forward messages. This means:

Far less network congestion
Lower power consumption on client devices (not constantly re-transmitting)
More deterministic network behavior
Easier troubleshooting (you know exactly which repeaters are in the path)
The trade-off is you need to strategically place repeater nodes. But honestly? That’s good network engineering anyway. You want to know where your infrastructure is. Repeaters can be solar powered and placed in trees on or grain elevators.