These are excellent units!!!!

"A threat to our democracy". With Colorado not allowing Turmp on the ballot and now Maine not allowing him, that's 14 electoral votes he can't get to get to 270. Do they want a civil war? Do they want several states to secede again?

A functioning AR-15 with a lower and buttstock made entirely out of legos that are superglued together

Gun Control can’t keep up with a man's willpower to stay armed.

Onions make you cry?!
They make me laugh!🤭❤

Thot thought she could control Big Chingus but Big Chingus can't be controlled

Progress in the basement today... finished tidying up the conduits connecting the diesel and LP generators to the inverters.

Yesterday I wrote code in home assistant to make the house connect to the grid in the morning when the battery gets to 98% because that implies I can sell power. Well, 1/4 of my system is on teh inside of the inverters, and 1/4 of my system only got the batteries to 93% today. The other 12kw inveter is connected directly to the grid. I'll change the programming tomorrow to include that power in the calculation. Eventually, I'll rewire panels of the roof to divert 13kw into the house and add a few to still be able ot export 6kw. But I gotta sort out that damn ground fault problem first.

Getting basement wall tidy. Above inverter is a WiFi point, the egauge that tracks the house, heat pump , car charging and solar production. Also two small white vented looking things are tiny esp32 processors that query the 5 battery BMS units every few seconds and forward the data to a database.

Some more fun stuff.... flipped my ankle in a hole one of the dogs dug. I'm in a walking cast for about 5 more weeks. Sure screws up plans to go on the roof to address the solar panels.

Fertilizing where the high hoop green house will soon be.

Today's progress.... it's fully time for indoorsy winter projects. We replaced the back door of the house a few months ago and kept the old door and it's frame. So today I reinstalled it in one of the side bays of my workshop. We now have a "clean room" that won't get dust from cutting and sanding in the main shop. So my wife started sanding on an old church pew. We'll polyurethane it with some spar poly starting tomorrow.

I spend more time in the basement tidying up wiring and putting temp wires into conduits. Only one more run to finish, the hot water heater. Last year we replaced the LP instant hot water heater with a heatpump water heater. The LP water heater only needed 120v for the pilot ignition, this one needs 240v. Before I even put water in it, I replaced the emergency heating elements with 1500w to be mindful of the solar inverters. When in heatpump mode it pulls 360w, when in conventional heat pump mode it pulls 1500w. It's a far cry from 4500w of a normal hot water heater.

And the whole design goal for the solar stuff was that if the grid was down nothing in the house would change. Tested it tonight... wife cooked dinner and had kettle boiling water for tea, toaster oven on, crockpot.... the house heatpump was running as was the hot water heat pump. Everything worked, nothing tripped out. We were running a steady state of about 8kw, only 2/3 of the inverter power.