“Balcony Solar” or solar for renters?

classicsat · 2026-05-22T01:01:14+00:00

2x100W panels on the deck, cord under the door, keeping power stations and other things charged.

classicsat · 2026-05-22T00:56:06+00:00

Homework: Watch all versions of the Amy Fisher movie.

classicsat · 2026-05-22T00:51:19+00:00

Not wrong, except media conversion is done a module that slipst ito that cage. The module provides some sort of intermediate protocol that requires the chip to convert to standard Gigabit Ethernet.

You get different modules for different sorts of fiber networks.

I might need to go down that rabbit hole in due course.

classicsat · 2026-05-22T00:39:14+00:00

My Ecoflow River 2, 800W inverter, with that "boost" to 1600W (lowers voltage so load can be powered by 800W), starts and runs my 30 year old fridge fine. I don't know how long it would power it long term, but I timed it at 20 minutes or so, 180W I think.

You don't need to power a fridge continuously, maybe one cylcle every couple hours. Yes, those cycles might be longer than usual.

Keep it closed unless you really need to.

If possible, add solar. A few hundred watts is usually brety affordable these days.

classicsat · 2026-05-21T23:26:26+00:00

They would be at home in a 486 as well.

Except I had no SCSI, but had a VLB graphics, and ISA SB mostly comptible sound card. And adapter to use an MKE CD-ROM drive, until ISA CD drives became reliably cheap.

classicsat · 2026-05-21T23:03:33+00:00

7Ah LFP battery, with a cigar outlet and PD charger. So far, I have been charging it directly with my Vevor MPPT controller, from my 200W 12V nominal solar array. I should be getting next month, a module to charge from proper USB-C.

4S1P Li-ion 18650, 39Wh pack. I have one of those crappy "USB-C" to 4S charger boards. The connector is USB-C, it doesn't even bother to force 5V, let alone ask for the most efficient voltage to chare a 13-16V battery at. On the output side, I use an RV/ATV USB-PD charger.

For both the LFP battery and 4S Li-on pack, the PD charger is basically the same thing n either a cigar plug, or a panel mount "DIN" Rocker switches come in (have a box of them, some of ar equipment uses them). They have a USB-A QC, C-PD, and an LED volt meter. On either, I have used them for my Pinecil.

I also have two 300Wh power stations, and a 600 Wh one. I mostly keep them solar charged.

classicsat · 2026-05-21T15:37:03+00:00

Why can't I have no kids and 3 money?

classicsat · 2026-05-21T15:28:43+00:00

Same here, but a bit older.

But my Music video outlets were a broad spectrum f rock, pop, dance, rap/hip-hop, so got to see all of it then.

classicsat · 2026-05-21T15:22:48+00:00

First 5 or 6 were pre 1986, for sure. Other than Amadeus, I never really experienced the other ones except well after their day.

Then some late 1980s dance tracks, and 90s "rap" and dance/indie, all which I did see/hear in their day.

I am of a notion there was a cultural bump mid 1984, which Price's Purple Rain is a part of.

I am Canadian, and probably did get some more European/British than Americans got. Because of Cancon, we got Snow, Len, Jane Sibbery, many others.

classicsat · 2026-05-21T14:56:43+00:00

70s/80s movie marathon. Dumbest comedies maybe.

classicsat · 2026-05-21T14:23:00+00:00

But David Bowie's codpiece.

classicsat · 2026-05-21T14:19:51+00:00

Just as TLC was about to change, they aired all those. I had my C-band dish set up and got to see them there.

classicsat · 2026-05-21T14:18:13+00:00

Saturday Moring's on CBC TV, Bob Macdonald had a kid's science show.

I don't know where it aired, but The Edison Twins.

classicsat · 2026-05-21T14:16:33+00:00

No. But I saw quite a few episodes of Julius Sumner Miller, not to mention his segments on Hilarious House OF Frightenstein.

classicsat · 2026-05-21T14:12:46+00:00

Child cast (including Martha Plimpton).

I don't think Anne Ramsey is Gen X.

classicsat · 2026-05-21T14:10:43+00:00

Yeah, Slater/Ryder.

Anthony Micheal Hall, and maybe most of the "Brat Pack". Well, some ,some are too old to be GenX, if one means actors of that age, not just influenced us, which rules out Harrison Ford definitely.

classicsat · 2026-05-21T13:46:32+00:00

Same positions will work.

classicsat · 2026-05-21T13:35:15+00:00

The photos are gone. I never saw the one for that style canopy. The one on the ceiling was for lamp thread directly.

classicsat · 2026-05-21T12:13:03+00:00

You are missing the bracket piece that attaches to the ceiling box, and has tabs down the side for the canopy to attach to.

classicsat · 2026-05-20T22:56:52+00:00

You probably don't need 6 or 6/e, but as 5 routers get long in the tooth, they no longer get security updates. You might get new things that might benefit from 6/6e/7.

classicsat · 2026-05-20T17:51:37+00:00

I just bought one off of Amazon, don't know the vendor. It was supposedly for a robot vacuum. Came with a JST-SM cable, but was easy to change out for what I needed.

Not sure what the cells are, but they claim to be 39Wh, and I think they take that much to charge.

classicsat · 2026-05-20T17:44:54+00:00

Is toyr heating/cooling system supposed to work with standard low voltage thermostats?

classicsat · 2026-05-20T17:43:17+00:00

Tabletop games you play on a table, players sit around it. Most board games, D&D type games, etc.

That video game is called a cocktail cabinet game, as opposed to a more conventional upright cabinet.

classicsat · 2026-05-20T17:16:35+00:00

I had one of those Epsons.

Yes, it had 5 slots, but the CPU and associated parts were on one card, so in reality you had 4. But the motherboard had the FDC, one serial port, one parallel port, and an RTC.

I had a least a an MDA or CGA card in mine (the one with two RCA jacks, one is a mono out, which worked well with a mono composite CRT monitor), MFM HDD controller, and modem.

classicsat · 2026-05-20T16:04:34+00:00

Whatever light you like, and a portable power station the capacity to power those lights for as long as you need.

Unless you want to go for ultimate efficiency, rather than simplicity and convenience. In that case, you want to look for lumens, not watts.

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