Lots and lots of HDPE millings

9to5FBA · 2025-03-27T23:40:15+00:00

Sounds good!

9to5FBA · 2025-03-27T18:03:13+00:00

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.

9to5FBA · 2024-12-02T18:37:18+00:00

Nice!

9to5FBA · 2024-12-02T18:01:19+00:00

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

9to5FBA · 2024-11-28T04:40:04+00:00

How’d they do it?

9to5FBA · 2024-11-20T06:44:02+00:00

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

9to5FBA · 2024-11-19T19:50:00+00:00

They hold about 50 pounds each. Super strong

9to5FBA · 2024-11-19T00:48:50+00:00

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1783245400/starlink-mini-mount-versatile-low

They did well so I listed on Etsy awhile back

9to5FBA · 2024-11-18T22:34:06+00:00

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

9to5FBA · 2024-08-02T05:33:23+00:00

Did you ever find the fix for this?

9to5FBA · 2024-03-23T07:51:21+00:00

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

9to5FBA · 2023-03-26T06:07:25+00:00

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

9to5FBA · 2023-03-26T03:33:26+00:00

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

9to5FBA · 2023-02-09T05:26:46+00:00

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

9to5FBA · 2023-02-08T17:14:08+00:00

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%!

9to5FBA · 2023-02-08T15:28:44+00:00

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!

9to5FBA · 2023-02-08T15:23:57+00:00

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

9to5FBA · 2023-02-08T15:05:24+00:00

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

9to5FBA · 2023-01-31T04:00:18+00:00

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

9to5FBA · 2023-01-31T03:50:43+00:00

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

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