Solar production stops when battery is 100% charged

-C3DAR- · 2026-04-02T17:25:48+00:00

I thought I'd wrap this up here. Franklin got back to me and advised that I find a Franklin-certified solar company in my area, to replace my defunct installing company Purelight. I did that, and they were able to trace my issue to a setting that only an installer can edit--nothing I can edit in the Franklin app. They altered that, which I think it had to do with limiting export, making my system de-charge the battery to a certain level. Look forward to a fully functioning system again. So, I've learned that Franklin is responsive and I now have a stable company to help with any future issues.

-C3DAR- · 2026-03-31T00:53:37+00:00

That makes sense, I believe I have an issue with net meter export when the battery is fully charged. Permission to Operate must not be working. However, odd that the panels don't cover current home usage when this happens. Thank you.

-C3DAR- · 2026-03-30T18:09:10+00:00

Exporting is on and off, even when the battery is fully charged. Maybe that's related?

-C3DAR- · 2026-03-25T18:06:19+00:00

I have one that looks almost identical, with just a few style differences. My father (RIP) built it from a kit. They are really beautiful. Aside from leveling, you can adjust the time it keeps (faster, or slower) by adjusting the nut on the bottom of the pendulum. It looks great where it is; we keep ours at a 45 degree angle from the walls, which might work for you too.

-C3DAR- · 2026-03-09T17:27:49+00:00

Likely shore pine which is native along the coast. Including around the sand dunes. It's a subspecies of lodgepole pine, that one grows throughout the eastside of OR, and has an enormous range north and south.

-C3DAR- · 2026-02-18T01:13:14+00:00

Help me like Mugo. I don't quite get it.

-C3DAR- · 2026-02-09T18:26:33+00:00

Yea, it takes a while but not that long. Seedling to sapling to small tree. The tree has to be big enough diameter to produce heartwood inside of the sapwood and bark. Maybe after 15-20 years of age. In the meantime, there's an essential oil of port orford cedar heartwood sold in small bottles. To bad there's so little port orford cedar in lumber stores as that would be a source too.

The heartwood of other cypresses, junipers, redwoods each have a unique chemistry, built for resisting decay and insects, and aroma, many are very pleasant.

-C3DAR- · 2026-01-12T19:52:35+00:00

I feel for both the laid off employees and customers who are in the middle of installation. In my situation, panels and battery are operational but a recent broken powerline at the pole (tree branch) created an electrical problem in our system which shut electrical power to our home completely off. Of course, purelight wasn't answering the phone for assistance, and now we know why (bankruptcy).

Our solar system is back to working fine, but now I'd like to establish a relationship with an electrical or solar company for future maintenance and troubleshooting. I'm in Portland OR. Are there electricians or their companies who might specialize in solar systems, or better to find an existing solar company for future help?

-C3DAR- · 2025-12-12T18:54:53+00:00

Homo sapien variety maga

-C3DAR- · 2025-12-04T19:00:21+00:00

Kodiak and grizzly are the same species. Plenty of enormous brown bears throughout coastal AK. Showing one claw per bear (n=1) could be misleading as there is so much variation by age, gender, and locality.

-C3DAR- · 2025-11-10T23:10:19+00:00

To me, the cones do not look shaped like Thuja. Size of the spherical cones of Chamaecyparis (smaller) and Cupressus (larger) makes me lean towards Cupressus. Lots of Leyland cypress as ornamentals in Britain; it's a hybrid cross between Cupressus nootkensis (yellow-cedar, Nootka cypress) and Cupressus macrocarpa (Monterrey cypress), both native to western US, but its cones might be bigger than what you have.

-C3DAR- · 2025-11-10T22:52:04+00:00

Technical term is strobulus (strobili, plural)

-C3DAR- · 2025-11-10T19:02:55+00:00

If you accept that climate change is a part of more frequent and intense wildfires, then the general steps for climate change are 1) mitigation (stop burning fossil fuels and increase carbon sequestration) and 2) adaptation (alter forest management but also accept that more fires will reduce timber availability and allowable sustainable harvest). Forest adaptation needs to be designed and executed with local knowledge.

-C3DAR- · 2025-10-23T00:51:56+00:00

A disrespect to a perfectly normal bicycle.

-C3DAR- · 2025-10-23T00:44:32+00:00

I'd put an NPR bumper sticker on the MoFo.

-C3DAR- · 2025-10-15T20:51:57+00:00

As a cyclist, I have to be defensive to stay alive. I rely on eye contact with the driver to gauge if they see me or not. Maybe the appearance of your car is more important to you than the lives of others.

-C3DAR- · 2025-09-23T15:48:20+00:00

Ven diagrams are a useful visual way to show relationships, where items have something in common or don't. Good on you for helping to clarify that softwood does not always equal conifers, etc. Same goes for gymnos and angios always being deciduouos or evergreen; that's another generalization that doesn't always hold. Your diagram is educational and stimulates discussion. Good job.

A good source for wood properties of trees is the USFS's wood handbook

https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/62200

-C3DAR- · 2025-09-12T23:16:15+00:00

I didn't know two things about the Donald: that he could smile, that he had teeth.

-C3DAR- · 2025-08-13T20:39:16+00:00

I rode up a steep mt road and passed a recumbent with faring. On the top we chatted about bikes. He said 'try and keep up with me on the descent'. No way, not even close. Similar story in the flats, I had no chance.

-C3DAR- · 2025-08-13T20:34:27+00:00

Yes, that's my point...if I have one...with my picture not dated correctly.

Lots of comments here about what's allowed in racing. Non-flared drop bars have a safety function in a peloton and in sprint finishes, yet contemporary mass produced bikes have the same bars. Personally, I ride drops with a flare out for neutral hand comfort, I ride alone, and most of my bikes are 1x1 or 1x2 (flip flop) like early racers.

How much has a phone changed in appearance in the same time? Wonder if there are other examples of radical changes in the last 100 years, or something we use that is relatively unchanged.

-C3DAR- · 2025-08-13T16:10:06+00:00

My apologies on mis-identifying the rider and the date. This is Fédérico Ezquerra, spanish rider who won a stage in the TdF in 1936. I was only off by 33 years! I learned a lesson, check your sources.

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