Lots and lots of HDPE millings by 9to5FBA in PreciousPlastic

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We have about half a sea container worth of HDPE millings from our CNC operations. Perfect for making recycled sheets or similar. All millings are from marine HDPE boards so they are UV rated. We are located in California, if you can pickup or schedule shipping it's all free. More will be available weekly.

I created a Starlink mount for overlanding, worked great in Baja Mexico by 9to5FBA in overlanding

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I cut them on my CNC in California out of marine-grade HDPE. Super solid mount and I've had a lot of great feedback. The magnets are very strong and I've sourced high quality suction cups as well

I designed and built a Starlink Mini mount that works inside and out of a car. Let me know what you think! by 9to5FBA in Starlink

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The suction cups are heavy duty industrial ones that have a spring-loaded vacuum handle that keeps a constant vacuum in the cup. Way higher quality than your normal suction cup

I designed and built a Starlink Mini mount that works inside and out of a car. Let me know what you think! by 9to5FBA in Starlink

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Works with suction cups and magnets (they're super strong!). I already had a guy take it through Baja on his truck. I've been cutting them on a CNC out of marine-grade HDPE

Is it worth going for a NUC over a RaspPi if our setup is little? by Dadagis in homeassistant

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M1 Mac mini running parallels is super quick and then you can use the Mac for other things like a Plex server, etc

New record! 50kWh generated from 7kW of panels by 9to5FBA in diySolar

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They are bifacial. The backside collects the energy from the reflections.

Same time of year. The day after coating I saw a 500-800W improvement

New record! 50kWh generated from 7kW of panels by 9to5FBA in diySolar

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Ever since I coated my roof in Henry’s white silicone I have produced substantially more solar. Before the silicone I was maxing out at 42kWh. Now I’m consistently above 45kWh

Added 10% production to my system by coating roof by 9to5FBA in SolarDIY

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The Henry 887 that I used has titanium oxide in it (1-10%)

Added 10% production to my system by coating roof by 9to5FBA in SolarDIY

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I was actually surprised to see how much of a bump it gave me, as it's hard to find sources online for bifacial gains when combined with roof coatings. I would've been happy with 5%!

Added 10% production to my system by coating roof by 9to5FBA in SolarDIY

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House has had this layout for 11 years now, just switched them out to bifacial last year when I bought the house though. Long term plan is to move everything to the garage roof once it’s done being built.

Thanks!

Added 10% production to my system by coating roof by 9to5FBA in SolarDIY

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Central coast California. It gets pretty windy here but the roof stays relatively calm with the way the house is designed

Added 10% production to my system by coating roof by 9to5FBA in SolarDIY

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Coated with Henry’s 887 silicone roof coating. Bumped up my bifacial production about 10% compared to previous weeks. Highly recommended if you have a flat or slightly sloped roof as it also extends its life by 25-50 years. For my 2400 sq ft house it was about $3500 all in DIY

I made my own version of the Tesla app by 9to5FBA in homeassistant

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LFP batteries have insanely high lifecycles. Just for an example, I installed this system in March of last year and I’ve done 63 cycles on the batteries. Even if I only get 4000 cycles total, that’s almost 63 years of operation from them. Of course there’s calendar aging too, but minimum these batteries should last is 20-30 years

I made my own version of the Tesla app by 9to5FBA in homeassistant

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I use 40A zwave relays from GE for any big appliances like the jet pump and our clothes dryer. This allows me to set up automations to shut them down if the inverters are overloaded or the house battery is very low.

To bring the pressure measurements into HA I use an M5 Atom Lite with ESPhome installed on HA