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« Reply #675 on: October 02, 2018, 08:10:04 AM »
To be honest, I would love to see Glort commenting on powerforum, it would surely ruffle up some feathers! If he gets banned, no skin off his teeth, he has that great Aussie site to fall back on.  What do you call yourself there?

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« Reply #676 on: October 02, 2018, 08:22:14 AM »
Same username as here: EdDee
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« Reply #677 on: October 02, 2018, 10:39:53 AM »
Oi!

Don't insult my local language!! Bwahahahah....

Geyser is the local term for a water heater....you guessed right!

Most of the topics are quite basic, but there are some learned chaps there, as well as some blowhards, inevitably.... Unfortunately, its one of those sites that seems to breed questions from questions... Ask a simple question and get a myriad in reply...

Excess solar? Bank it in anything you can... Heat a pile of bricks, charge batteries, whatever.... anything that you can even get partial energy back from.... Just use your imagination and whatever you have lying around... If you have to pay to heat your water, every degree up you can put into it, is a degree you don't have to pay for.... It might not be the most cost effective method you choose, if you bought the panels and kit new, but if they are lying around doing bugger all.... well... nuff said!

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« Reply #678 on: October 02, 2018, 02:49:28 PM »

The reality is, apart from the small technical drawback of being highly Illegal, Growing weed would be perfect.  Power intensive, low setup costs, good returns at the end.


Believe it or not.... The local governMENTAL twats have just legalized it here.... "For own consumption on your own property" ... of course...

As if the local, lazy, good for nothing, population needed another excuse to mellow out.....
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« Reply #679 on: October 03, 2018, 11:17:31 AM »
Silly question for Glort! If your supply company changed your meter so that you could no longer get a credit from power going to the main how would you utilise your power then?
In the UK most if not all electricity supply meters have been changed so that they do not run backwards. We have a system. which is currently being phased, out called a 'feed in tariff system'(FITS) which was introduced to encourage the installation of solar PV on properties. Every PV system has a meter which records all power produced, any of this power not used on the premises automatically feeds into the mains system. Readings from the generation meter have to be supplied every 90 days to the company operating your FITS scheme.The property owner then receives a payment(fixed by government) for every unit produced then a further payment on half the units produced, which are deemed to have been exported to the mains. This second payment is usually around a quarter of what the supply company charges for power and is paid irrespective of whether any power is actually fed to the mains. Needless to say there are various devices developed to try and ensure that all power produced can be utilised and nothing is fed back to the mains!
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« Reply #680 on: October 03, 2018, 01:01:54 PM »
Hey guys, a very good and trusted friend of mine has been growing weed for his own consumption for the last thirty years. He has a terminal disease. I have never seen him wasted or impaired by his use and if it gives him some pain relief without having to pay big pharma good for him. Might consider it myself but I think my head is probably too far gone to cope with anymore drugs! (Pharmaceutical)  :laugh:

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« Reply #681 on: October 03, 2018, 01:42:18 PM »
Hey Glort...

Wanna come round for some tea and cookies?...... As long as you don't want to take any home, it's fine!

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« Reply #682 on: October 03, 2018, 02:04:41 PM »
Many years ago a friend of mine, who was a chef, got pulled at JFK airport. They asked if he had any meat, vegetables or fruit in his luggage. His reply was: "if you want a three course dinner you`ll have to come to my restaurant". That got him the full rubber glove treatment, didn`t stop him being a smart arse, just stopped him going to America!  :laugh:

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« Reply #683 on: October 03, 2018, 10:45:17 PM »
Hey Guys....

It rained today...my stash got wet...couldn't get it lit.... worked on software layouts a bit instead...

Take a look at: http://www.digipoint.co.za:85 and browse through the semi completed dashboards I set up for the solar stuff....feel free to tear my crappy layouts apart and set me in the right direction!

I finally found what I was looking for in banggood... a 24 to 48vdc variable input voltage/output current/output voltage, 1500W boost converter... ordered, hopefully soon to arrive... I am going to use it to hook my 24v blow gennie system as an auxilliary  charger to the 48v battery bank on the main inverter system....

Nuff sed.. time to see if my stash is dry and go read some SF....

Keep it smoking...

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« Reply #684 on: October 05, 2018, 03:18:33 AM »
Here in Tennesee, United States, North America, Earth, the Solar System, Milky Way Galaxy, possession of weed will get your property, possessions, money etc, confiscated by Law Enfarcement, to be used in the War On Drugs. War is a Fucking Joke. Control is the correct term.
 If you have a legitimate need for THC to combat epilepsy, Parkinson's, horrible pain that the Govt sanctioned opioids (very controlled and expensive)
won't touch, then you are a criminal and as such "Shit out of Luck". I really hate the way our government has been stolen and bastardized.
Wow, I am coming across a little Bitter, sorry.
Ron.

PS. In my defense, I am under the influence of those same aforementioned opioids due to "Balloon Sinuplasty" earlier today. Yes it hurts!
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« Reply #685 on: October 05, 2018, 03:42:47 AM »
Many years ago a friend of mine, who was a chef, got pulled at JFK airport. They asked if he had any meat, vegetables or fruit in his luggage. His reply was: "if you want a three course dinner you`ll have to come to my restaurant". That got him the full rubber glove treatment, didn`t stop him being a smart arse, just stopped him going to America!  :laugh:

Bob

Yes.  My partner and I travelled to America just a few months after Sept 11.  Same treatment.  Missed ongoing flights.  Treated like cattle etc (To be fair the Airport Secirity folks were treating Americans just the same).  I have never gone back and don't plan to.  Travelling to Europe we just fly through Asia (where they welcome travellers) instead

Interestingly, my most vivid memory of America is waling home from the old Whiskey Ago-go at about 3 AM and crossing the street to avoid the commotion outside a cowboy bar where some six-foot-eight cowboy (stetson hat, pointed boots . . .) was engaged in kicking another to death in the gutter outside

I kinda like it down here at the Bottom of the World where the cops don't have guns and the airport secirity folks understand the "polite" part of "Firm but Polite"

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« Reply #686 on: October 07, 2018, 02:47:52 AM »
Here ya go Glort.

Pot is not treated equally by all state marijuana laws. Tennessee’s marijuana laws are highlighted in the table below.

Code Section
   

39-17-401, et seq.

Possession
   

Possession or casual exchange of: Less than .5 oz.: Class A misdemeanor and attendance at drug offender school and minimum $250 fine; Casual exchange to a minor from an adult 2 yrs. his senior and adult knows minor is a minor: felony; Subsequent offense: $500 minimum; Third: $750 minimum; Two or more prior convictions, then Class E felony; 20 plants to 99 plants: Class C felony, fined up to $100,000.

Sale
   

.5 oz. to 10 lbs.: Class E felony and/or $5000; 10 lbs. + 1 g. to 70 lbs.: Class D felony and/or $50,000; 70 lbs. + 1 g.: Class B felony and/or $200,000; Over 700 lbs.: Class A felony and/or $500,000; Sale to minor under 18 or in drug-free zone: one class higher than amount required; Minimum penalty amounts: 1st drug felony offense: $2000; 2nd: $2500; 3rd: $3000


See how tolerant we are here
Ron
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« Reply #687 on: October 07, 2018, 10:13:13 AM »
Hey guys...

Here's something off the current convo stream to add to the "pot"....

As usual, heading off at a tangent, made a few alterations to the solar monitoring software, grabbed a couple of screenshots, each worth a 1000 words or so, so I guess this is one of the longer posts... (Ron, saw you poking around in there a day or two ago!)....

This is still live at the moment: http://www.digipoint.co.za:85 for those who want to see the live monitoring of the system...

Cheers
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« Reply #688 on: October 07, 2018, 01:13:53 PM »
Hey Glort,

I have only played with this particular inverter, an AXPERT 5Kva Solar/mains input so far with this software... But, that being said, Emoncms is a universal package, the dedicated bit is the Solpipmon software which talks to the inverter(and a couple of other brands too I think) and feeds the data to the Emon software database... There are numerous raspberry things out there software wise to log data... There are even "stand alone" wifi/wired type sensors that can be hooked up to the raspberry as well... Having the "driver" software for the pip4048 makes things a lot simpler and easier via SolPipMon...

The tricky bit is taking the few data streams you have, combining them, then getting unique and useful output... Just takes a bit of time away from browsing porn on the web (guns, diesel engines, new mechanical ideas....My porn!) .... and then invest said time into a bit of creative software prodding and bit bashing!

The short answer is yes, this can be used with anything from weather station data to your good old lister to log its doings.... Would I use it on a lister that I ran once a week....no... on a weather station or solar setup thats on 24/7.... Well, there the setup effort makes it worthwhile! Would i trust it to control something that could do 100's of K's worth of damage if it locked up in an unfavorable condition?...HELL NO!

Cheers
Ed

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« Reply #689 on: October 10, 2018, 09:19:12 AM »
Hey Guys....

And now for something completely different: A man with 3 ........ (Monty Python at his best!)

Did some more work on the 'fuge last night, got the cube chassis/frame welded up, the spindle mounted, made the motor mount, banged it all together and run it up to 25% speed - around 11 to 12K rpm.... Worked well, no holes in me or the roof, it was a good evening... The little VFD drive looks like it will have enough grunt to do the job, so bonus - No smoke escaped!! There was no perceptible vibration either, it was standing on a metal welding table, highly resonant, and besides a bit of noise from the motor bearings(It's well used, pre-owned, and newly recycled) the unit behaved above my expectations!

Next thing I suppose I better do is clean the rust out of the catch casing - wouldn't help to start the tests with a whole lot of frangibles in the way I suppose!

Time to get out the runcible spoon and start scratching about in there, I think!

Keep it spinning...

Cheers
Ed
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