No pictures today. Spend some time filling the dirt along the 100' long walls of the green house. Made a jig to allow us to dump dirt between the posts and screed it off. then tamp it down and screed again. Maybe tomorrow I'll get to put the skirts on the walls. Once that is done we can move forward with moving top soil inside.

Interesting shotgun round.

Question for the peanut gallery.... what about using fiberglass batt insulation in a shipping container used for storage? Not for living but for storage. What about condensation on the walls behind the insulation? Talk to me.....

exciting day today.... OMG.... things come in threes and I got all three today.
1) wife accidentally cracked the mirror in the bathroom medicine cabinet.
2)dishwasher (not wife) tailpipe slipped out of the tailpiece of the kitchen sink and water ran into the cabinet under sink and thru to the basement. Easily fixed. The weight of the dishwasher drain hose causes the slick plastic tail pipe to gradually pull down until it slips off the bottom of the kitchen sink. I've now ziptied the dishwasher hose to the cabinet wall to take the weight off it. Problem solved.
3) This week I've been working on programming one of my 48v MPPT units to be controlled by home assistant and at the moment between the batteries being 100% and before the inverter could go on grid, the MPPT drove the battery voltage far too high causing my SMA sunny islands to shut down for overvoltage. When I restarted everything, the inverters kept saying the grid was no stable (not valid) and had me in a complete panic. After about 20 minutes of sitting a watching the grid go valid / invalid, it finaly settled down. I can only expect that the utility grid was actually unstable and preventing me from joining it. After my 20minutes of panic, all is normal again. I gotta hand it to SMA... these inverters are built like sherman tanks and take a good amount of abuse. Battery voltage shot up to 63v from it's normal 55v-56v. When LFP batteries are above 3.45v per cell (55.2v), there's really not much capacity left to fill up... if you are pushing 6kw into batteries they will go to 63v rapidly. Very rapidly.

So... it's dark, the day is over and fate has slapped me three times today. Tomorrow is a new day.

Sometimes we talk gardening here. Some times we talk solar. And sometimes we talk politics that are related to why we want to separate from the system. Watch this video and ask yourself why didn't folks in 1933 revolt when FDR took their gold. The answer is everyone was reeling in the middle of the great depression. Poeple were financially "distracted" and it was easier to just accept the new law and move on. Hell I should not even say new law because Congress didn't vote on it. FDR signed an executive order May 1 1933 making the possession of gold punishable by jail time.

The takeaway from this is that they never make these changes when it's a nice time for the citizens. It's always when you are reeling from some huge financial problem that they caused. Keep your ear to the ground for what's going on now and BE PREPARED for the day when a bank holiday is declared and you find your bank account has been converted to some digital dollar.

Got all holes augered today and excess dirt moved away. Pallet of concrete finally arrived at 2pm and we only had time to set one row of posts.

The way we're setting posts is mixing 4 bags of concrete in a mixer and dumping it in the hole. I've got strings run at the top and bottom of the corner / end posts. I simply lower our pipes into the wet concrete bobbing the pipes up and down to get concrete inside them as well. When they almost touch the two strings, I know they are plumb. Got 9 posts in a perfect row today.

Tomorrow we'll do the other row of posts and mark the holes for mounting the panel supports with a laser level.

Although he is building 3 identical arrays, I want to build one complete to make sure there are no unforseen issues before we build the other two. We'll have a concrete party one satuday with some local guys in the community.

Good info. https://youtu.be/V4UM7GB2wsg

This is exactly why I do not like this battery style I have seen this happen a hundred times not only to myself but multiple other people do not buy batteries like this only by the ones with studs on the top do not buy the ones with bolt holes either Wes can say and tell you they are nothing but a problem also you only want batteries with studs already put in

And yeah if you get lucky and get them all installed they won't last very long because these batteries do expand and contract as they charge and discharge and yes flexible connectors do help but it's never an end stop they will eventually fail and then you have to replace and rebuild the whole pack