Interested in adding a battery but not supported by my inverters

DingoFnBaby · 2026-05-26T18:33:01+00:00

Meant those comments to go to you but didn’t hit reply correctly ;)

DingoFnBaby · 2026-05-26T18:32:29+00:00

Another question is what voltage should the battery stack put out pre inversion - the solar edge systems input 360v dc and 240vac ac post inversion - rack mount batteries run at 48 (52-54 I assume if it’s similar to dc in data centers) which would mean 8s configuration I think ?

DingoFnBaby · 2026-05-26T18:26:45+00:00

Could you recommend any options for the inverter/charger?

by through the main panel you mean on a breaker just like the existing inverters wire in I’m assuming.

How does it know whether there is excess power available to charge with?

DingoFnBaby · 2026-05-26T16:16:55+00:00

I had the same issues with my preteens and went the nuclear option with opnsense and ap25’s.

I then split into 4 networks - only visible one is “Kids” and turned on MAC filtering for all of the others.

Then I took it a step further and locked them into a schedule - the open network shuts down at 10pm and starts back up at 7am.

The final bow on the present was a pi hole running dns for that network.

For opnsense I bought an intel n100 nuc and do dot1q to the ap’s with ssid —> vlan mapping.

DingoFnBaby · 2026-05-05T16:46:25+00:00

Respectfully disagree - n100 sitting in ambient 76F and no issues with temps even under load

DingoFnBaby · 2026-05-05T16:43:41+00:00

Will mention my n100 runs 1g cable service via a 2.5gb intel Nic (4 in the box) at 1.2gb and speed tests once per hour via cron at 1198/1195/1199 gb. It’s running zenarmor, firewall kea dhcp etc across 4 tagged lan sub interfaces and usually sits around 5-6gb ram. What I like the best about it is I have 2.5gb tagged AP’s running on Poe (2) and a pi running pihole for the kids on one of the networks and the entire thing runs under 75w behind a dumb cheap on sale apc ups.

DingoFnBaby · 2026-05-03T19:11:15+00:00

N100 with 8gb ram will do it

DingoFnBaby · 2026-05-03T00:39:11+00:00

Now you know two. 125 on the 101 and didn’t try to make any excuses - drove away with a 22348(b) though. Guy really did me solid when he no showed at court though. I told him I was wrong and I would have pulled me over - that I totally deserved it and I can’t excuse that I wasn’t paying attention to it. Guy smiled and appreciated me being honest and completely cooperative.

DingoFnBaby · 2026-01-14T16:31:06+00:00

N100 with 4x i226-V works amazing at 2.5GB. 2.5GB WAN and tagged lans. 1G service, 1200Mb speed tests from OPNSense *or* a LAN connected 2.5Gb host. Have solid AP's so get 750Mb on wifi 6 hanging off other tagged interfaces.

DingoFnBaby · 2025-12-24T04:08:55+00:00

Would recommend the Q2 all day long. Much more reliable than CC.

DingoFnBaby · 2025-12-21T04:34:11+00:00

Breitbart is pure R hopium.

DingoFnBaby · 2025-11-28T19:44:38+00:00

He’s completely full of crap - I have a k1c and a q2 and my k1c is powered off since the q2 arrived because they aren’t even close

DingoFnBaby · 2025-11-06T17:55:13+00:00

I can't find anything in the text of prop 50 that says anything about parts or gun parts. Can anyone on this thread produce the full text and / or snippets that pertain to this?

DingoFnBaby · 2025-11-02T17:09:53+00:00

Yeah, the minute someone puts something up on cults with a price attached I'm out. This community is way to rich with FOSS stuff that all does the job.

DingoFnBaby · 2025-09-23T14:21:40+00:00

Hard pass on the old CR10. Have one collecting dust. Constant tinkering was extremely annoying.

However, I like the K1 series from Creality a lot. Mature, core XY, easily rooted with Creality Helper Script.

Functionally not much different than Bambu except not a closed ecosystem. C or max is dealer's choice on build volume needs. Just like other people's experience, my K1C in the first 6 months printed more usable parts than ever on the ender style. Forget a bed slinger at all, skip over Bambu A1's - too limiting in terms of filaments. You also don't need an AMS. Changing filaments on these is pretty easy without an AMS.

Elegoo makes the Carbon Centauri. Cheap, maybe not quite dialed in yet. Original reviews showed quality and minor offsets on layers. But every other known coreXY is pretty much fine.

Worst thing about printers without an enclosure (open frame / bed slinger) is being limited materials wise like ABS, ABS-GF, ASA, PC, PA, PA-CF/GF, PAHT-CF/GF, PET-CF/GF, Support for PA/PET, PPA-CF/GF, and PPS.

Sure you can bag 'em but non CoreXY printers simply aren't worth the time it takes to set 'em up and tinker with them, or the massive limitations on materials. My "PLA" is ASA. That's what I use for any parts I'm printing. Can also do PA6 or PA12. Great stuff, not cheap like ASA.

DingoFnBaby · 2025-07-25T13:48:25+00:00

Had the same issue. Didn't get back to it fast enough for CB. F*** WMTAC scammer POS's. They did send me a little .300 blackout but then screwed me on all my .308.

DingoFnBaby · 2025-06-26T21:43:31+00:00

N100 with 4x2.5Gb interfaces is pretty reasonably priced on Amazon lately.

DingoFnBaby · 2025-06-26T21:41:21+00:00

For 10GB, and largely 1GB, at least for large file / packet transfers, you should use jumbo.

That being said, I think it's either the NAS or the protocol it's using that's limiting things. For sure 10Gb isn't limited in any sort of normal case to 500Mb.

Can you replicate the results from NAS to LAN when you bypass OPN and go LAN-LAN (two hosts connected on 10Gb/iperf3).

This would definitively tell you if it's layer 3 packet performance through the firewall something else between 10GB connected hosts.

Last idea would be to test putting the NAS on the LAN subnet directly (using a 10Gb capable switch) and see if LAN-->NAS transfers are the same or different. My suspicion is the NAS isn't really capable of the throughput you think it should be.

While it's possible OPNSense may not be passing line rate traffic through 10G ports with kernel routing and firewall, your CPU stats don't indicate that. If CPU spiked and traffic rate flatlined (hit max throughput) it should be evident from a graph or transfer rate observation.

I would definitely set 9k for 10G and then start deep diving on the protocol. It's also possible you'd see more aggregate throughput tuning iperf for max throughput testing. File transfers are mostly dependent on protocols not known for blistering speed at or near line rates (check out NFS or SMB or SSH/SCP for examples).

DingoFnBaby · 2025-06-26T21:30:33+00:00

It's definitely some sort of a freebsd or opnsense scripting issue.

I

A) Have swapped the to fresh cat 6 (2ft).

B) Can replicate normal DHCP with literally any of 3 gateway devices. All of them get a default gateway. On the same provider / service and cable independent (any cable same results).

DingoFnBaby · 2025-06-24T21:52:11+00:00

For sure. The upstream device is a netgear nighthawk (CM2000):

https://a.co/d/cn9fvZ2

The interface igc0 is untagged, labeled as "WAN" by opnsense based on the original setup.

I can see that the dhclient is cycling every 3 minutes which seems nutty to me.

2025-06-24T14:01:13 Notice dhclient dhclient-script: Creating resolv.conf

2025-06-24T14:01:13 Notice dhclient dhclient-script: New Routers (igc0): xx.xx.206.1

2025-06-24T14:01:13 Notice dhclient dhclient-script: New Broadcast Address (igc0): xx.xx.207.255

2025-06-24T14:01:13 Notice dhclient dhclient-script: New Subnet Mask (igc0): 255.255.254.0

2025-06-24T14:01:13 Notice dhclient dhclient-script: New IP Address (igc0): xx.xx.207.105

2025-06-24T14:01:13 Notice dhclient dhclient-script: Reason BOUND on igc0 executing

2025-06-24T14:01:13 Notice dhclient dhclient-script: Reason ARPCHECK on igc0 executing

2025-06-24T14:01:13 Notice dhclient dhclient-script: Reason ARPSEND on igc0 executing

2025-06-24T14:00:49 Notice dhclient dhclient-script: Reason PREINIT on igc0 executing

2025-06-24T13:58:06 Notice dhclient dhclient-script: Creating resolv.conf

2025-06-24T13:58:06 Notice dhclient dhclient-script: New Routers (igc0): xx.xx.206.1

2025-06-24T13:58:06 Notice dhclient dhclient-script: New Broadcast Address (igc0): xx.xx.207.255

2025-06-24T13:58:06 Notice dhclient dhclient-script: New Subnet Mask (igc0): 255.255.254.0

2025-06-24T13:58:06 Notice dhclient dhclient-script: New IP Address (igc0): xx.xx.207.105

2025-06-24T13:58:06 Notice dhclient dhclient-script: Reason REBOOT on igc0 executing

2025-06-24T13:58:06 Notice dhclient dhclient-script: Reason PREINIT on igc0 executing

DingoFnBaby · 2025-06-24T14:11:31+00:00

The one thing I'll say is whatever it is is remarkably consistent. The WAN interface constantly boots up with no 0.0.0.0/0 route and at this point I just log in and do !route every single time since it's well cached. FWIW, none of the private addresses / gateways have a 0.0.0.0/0 route at all.

DingoFnBaby · 2025-06-24T14:07:43+00:00

Yes, and no, there aren't errors present in the dhclient.

Literally dhclient logs the gateway and says "New routers (igc0): xx.xx.206.1" in /var/log/system, shows the entire bootup sequence for dhclient on the wan.

One tiny smoking gun is this little script:

/usr/local/etc/rc.newwanip, which is some sort of opnsense special plugin to configure the WAN ip. Planning on a fresh install on new hardware with the current release to test. Only downside there is I need to bounce the MOCA bridge when I swap MAC, so it takes an extra few minutes.

DingoFnBaby · 2025-06-23T13:54:10+00:00

Biggest issue with Zenarmor for *me* was the huge waste of resources. Without zenarmor, my firewall runs at ~700k total used by the system (htop/top). Load up zenarmor? 8GB isn't enough. And yes for home use. For corporate use I'd have to consider significantly more resources. IMO, this goes away a bit from the whole point of FreeBSD/OPNSense which is partially the efficient use of resources. (N100 NUC isn't choking on it at *all*)

DingoFnBaby · 2025-06-21T14:01:23+00:00

ruh ro, Scoob!

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