One of the nearby farmers reached out to me to ask about solar. This is as easy as it gets... He sent me his power bill and we can see he needs 2200kwh in june and 1260kwh in february. All we need to do is plug in some numbers into the PVWatts website https://pvwatts.nrel.gov/pvwatts.php and play with the tilt and number of panels until we cover those two months. Just play with the tilt from 15degrees to about 45 degrees in 5 degree increments. When you nail it down, add 20% power production to the system and off ya go.

So we just came out of three or four cloudy days in a row. I had to buy back some of the excess power I've previously sold to the power company. 14kwh one day and 31kwh the next. This brings my total to 71.9kwh that I've had to buy back because I don't have quite enough battery. an additional 14kwh battery would have covered everything except yesterday, where I would have needed two more.

If the grid was down in the future, I would have had to run the generator this year a total of 14hours. She burns a quart an hour, so that's somewhere between 3-1/2 and 5 gallons of diesel this year.

Pretty damn good.

I'm on the fence about sharing this one... on the one hand this guy has built a monster system and he did everything over the top. On the other hand, it's so over the top that the price might scare you and I want ya'll to know solar doesn't have to be expensive. This is a hell of a project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO7KdMe6kYM

Geez I hate unserviceable items. Dishwasher is leaking. Last week I replaced the door seal because it dry rotted. One week later, there's a new puddle on the floor. The pump housing seal is leaking. I can buy the top part of the casing for $58, but the seal is attached to the bottom part and the pump, bottom and seal is $290... and the seal is not available separately. That seal is literally dissolving.

This frustrates me because even if I fix this seal with caulk, how long before the next one fails?

https://github.com/sijones/DiyBatteryBMS

You can now use a victron smart shunt with EG4 inverters.

https://youtu.be/KCKua0hrCrM

This makes a 33lb 15kg block that sets up in a few minutes and fully cured is 2 weeks. 37kg of gypsum, 2kg of cement , 5 liters water and the balance of foam makes three 15kg blocks.

Batterycable chart

UHI Electric Mini Excavator Review Good for a Small Farm?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW0w2LSraic

https://youtu.be/6lS6IAoxd28

You don’t need a large back up generator. You can combine power from certain inverters with generators to make more power on demand. When the demand is over the generator simply charges the battery. I do this with my system. A 5kw generator is blended with 12kw of inverters. In an emergency 5kw x 24 hours is 120kwh a day and we’ve never used that much power.

https://youtu.be/448u7KBl0Bw

Laying out a tiny house?

Block and beam construction.

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