Schools of thought for figuring out the optimal tilt of your panels.

The text book starting point for your panels is tilted at your latitude. For example, if you are in upstate NY, that's 45degrees so tilt them 45°. if you are in finland tilt them 60°(nearly stright up and down). In Jacksonville FL, tilt them at 30°.

1) you want to sell as much power as you can to the grid and intend to buy back your own power in the winter. Make you panels face dead south and make them a little flatter than your latitude. Example, I'm in South Carolina at 33 lat. the panels that were on my roof were at 25° and they make a lot of power in the summer. I would buy that power back in winter. I hardly made any power in December.

2) you have batteries and you want to run the house as close to 100% off grid and only connect to the grid when you are desperate or run a generator as needed. In this case tilt your panels about 5-10° steeper than your latitude. In the winter, you need to make enough to run the house, but we aware in the summer, the sun will be above the panels at noon and from dawn until 10pm and 6pm until dark the sun will actually be behind the panels. But since the days are longer, you'll make enough power, just low and slow... like good BBQ. In the winter you'll make as much power as you can in the short amount of sunlight you have each day. Keep in mind that although the sun peaks out high in the sky at noon, it spends a whole lot of time between the horizon and that peak.

https://gml.noaa.gov/grad/solcalc/azel.html

I just used this calculator to understand which days the sun will be exactly perpendicular to my panels at noon. I'm at 34lat but my panels are a bit steeper at 40°. That means Oct 28th and Feb 7th the sun hits my panels straight on at noon.

Most of the time we think of the sun being at the mid point of it's elevation change at Sept 22 or March 22.... but I biased my panels to be better in winter.

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My projecte today is building a gun room. The door will open outward and I'll use security hinges. they have a pin that engages when the door is closed so it can't be lifted off the hinge by removing the normal hinge pin. To prevent prying the door frame wider with a pry bar, I'm installing horizontal bracing that connects to the other walls in the house. That bracing is at all three hinges and at the strike plate.

Something that's amazing to me is just how complicated our government makes things. Our entire fiat currency system, stock derivatives, investing, government funded organizations, not to mention a bazillion tax loopholes and we are to believe that the "only" thing the government can do to heat up or cool down the economy is raise/lower interest rates. But wait, teh federal reserve isn't the government you say! You are correct... so the next question is why does the government permit this private bank to wield so much power?

Another thing is that of crime. When a government is failing, they know the people will be angry. So to get ahead of that, the government has decided that it needs to do away with guns. To that end, they stop putting criminals in jail and those criminals in turn cause crime and use guns. then the government wrings it's hands and says "if only we could get rid of guns, the crime would go down." Do you see what they are doing here? They act as if there's only "one" thing they can do. An entire societies fate comes down to only one lever they can pull.

Does anyone believe any of this? On the surface if we have people in charge of the government who have only "one" choice for each issue maybe we should unplug it and plug it back in again?

Hey look the dollar hit a new low today.... it only buys 1/2682nd of an ounce of gold.

This is NOT financial advice but you know.... if you pulled your 401-1/2 k money out you could covert that money into tangible goods before the dollars lose more value. AND as a two-fer you could deprive van guard and other investment firms of the leverage they have to push all this rainbow diversity crap on companies like Tractor supply, John Deere and others.

HA! My worse solar day to date.... 9.2kwh produced. I usually average between 110kwh and 154kwh.

Be the extremist the media says you are.

That huricaine came ashore in the redneck rivera of Florida late last night. It's moving fast over land now.... the eye seems to be at the GA-TN state line. The eastern half of the storm gave parts of south carolina a pretty good licking... only 327 people in Newberry county have power this morning.

Guess who does have power?

You guys have GOT to read this. It is eye opening. It is utterly amazing how many parallels in history to the federal reserve and they way they suck the wealth from a country and assassinate those leaders who resist.