Home School your kids.

This is a very basic look at running a small cabin with very limited / basic appliances. Skip to 5minute mark to get to the relevant stuff

https://youtu.be/a-l8EFQkIKQ

I posted a few days about about running saws and drills that use brushed motors on 120v dc. I just revised that article to reflect some additional info.

Brushed “universal AC” motors are series wound. That means the coil and the stator are in series with each other and oppose each other until they make a certain strength magnetic field. Until that magnetic field reaches its peak, they will draw more and more power. If the voltage is low they will draw more amps. Twice as many amps means 4x the heat. This is why long extension cords melt. Long cords mean less voltage at the far end and the motors draw more amps.

So don’t be afraid to feed them voltage just a hair over 120v.

https://t.me/OffTheGridOfficial/6681

Raising daughters.

Very similar to what I did on my barn.

https://youtu.be/_YrUGntVCzo

My wife told me she'll slam my head into the keyboard if I don't get off the computer.

I'm not too worried.

I think she's just jokinsdnbfjadskbngfsjkgbsafgfsgadfgdfgdf

This is used for soundproofing but it also works for stopping thermal conductivity.

https://pvwatts.nrel.gov/pvwatts.php

You can plug your address into PVwatts, tell it the kW of solar panels, look in the advanced section and put in your DC-AC ratio, and it'll use historical cloud cover for your area to make predictions for solar production. How accurate is it? I plugged in my system and it gave me results broken down by month. December should see 100.55kWh per day and according to my own calculations, I'm averaging 99.59 per day since Dec 1. I'll call that a win.

Europeans: use this link https://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pvg_tools/en/

A note about DC - AC ratio. If you look under advanced parameters, you'll find DC to AC size ratio. One on my arrays has 19.5kw of solar with 15.8kw of inverters. That's 1.23. Another array has 11kw of solar with 6kw of inverters and that is 1.83. Be sure to select ground or roof mount and bifacial in the advanced section. Everything else is pretty much good to go.