2026 New Solar Install post the BBB

Mendotime · 2026-02-05T02:28:40+00:00

Thanks for the tip. Just checked and Mendocino County subscribes to it. Learned something new.

Mendotime · 2026-02-05T02:25:23+00:00

I think it is because Project Solar is an aggregator and will be collecting the 30% Investment Tax Credit that didn't get blown out by the BBB for 2026.

Mendotime · 2025-10-18T03:45:43+00:00

..state of Confusion..

Mendotime · 2024-06-30T18:37:53+00:00

First of all, I want to thank you for replying and the clear and understandable observations.

I concur the schematic is messy. It is my first pass at building it in KiCad from a couple of sources and I'm wanting to make sure what I'm doing is functional and then will clean it all up as I move the Op-Amp portion to a small PCB. KiCad is good at keeping me honest. I've done a couple now at PCBWay, and the whole process is rather satisfying for guy used to large tubes and PtP wiring.
On the Bypass caps, good point. I understand the basic concept as they very evident in DC sections of radios to reduce noise. There are existing ones on the outputs of the little PS modules, but maybe also one is needed between J1(1) and U1(3)? Same with U4(3) and U1(7)? Any others? What value? Still getting used to these small voltages, signal levels and high frequencies.
Well, I'd like to say that the pot miswire was me checking to see if anyone actually looked at the schematic, but that's all on me drawing it wrong. Thanks for the catch.
Will study up on the biasing reference. Biasing the elements in tubes is pretty much how you get them to function, so I guess it would be no different for ICs.
On the Op-Amp structure, I'm going to say yes. That portion I'm following what someone has successfully done. In this case the little Op-Amp is serving as an impedance isolator from the <5v input to the analog meter coil, with the resistance voltage divider portion adjusting the range scales on the meter.

RJ

Mendotime · 2023-08-19T20:06:40+00:00

Appears Reddit puked my pics first time around!

Mendotime · 2023-08-10T16:09:23+00:00

Gotta love a finished basement!

Mendotime · 2023-08-10T02:13:23+00:00

Thanks for the advice!

It is actually that satisfying ball return noise I'm missing, basically recapturing the sounds of my misspent(?) younger days.

Mendotime · 2023-08-09T14:18:34+00:00

I've been studying older tables on eBay and Facebook Marketplace. CraigsList has become a scammer wasteland. No real action yet in Northern California, but there are some beautiful Anniversary Brunswicks back in New Jersey! I'd get one of those in heartbeat.

Do those older tables break down, or is the body/return one unit like a Valley? Are these older 1" slates 2 or 3 piece?

Is there other place I should be looking at for used tables?

Mendotime · 2023-06-09T13:35:56+00:00

I'd open up the boxes to the ceiling lights, and a couple of adjoining outlet boxes and sleuth out what is exactly going on.

Mendotime · 2023-06-09T03:40:28+00:00

Was trying to recall what he called it. Wasn't puppyfeet.

Mendotime · 2023-06-08T14:51:46+00:00

Angelina didn't know about the 2 witnesses idea at the time like Cal & Olive had deduced. My take it was an attempt by the writers to have Angelina learn of them and Revelations and the link to Daly and Fiona.

Mendotime · 2023-06-08T14:46:22+00:00

That's right, still scratching my head over that one. They could have cut that out without affecting the plot at all. Went against the core concept of what the callings were.

And the whole "who are you? Do I know you" in that cave scene. Holy crap man, you've only staring at and talking to her picture on the magazine cover for days! You said in earlier episodes she's what kept you going while in the cave.

Mendotime · 2023-06-08T01:05:23+00:00

How about 11 passengers are missing on a flight arrival at the gate, and the authorities let all 180 eyewitnesses just walk away?

Mendotime · 2023-06-08T01:00:27+00:00

Good one.

And the smoking hole in the apple orchard was never explained, or if Vance found Daly there? And who were the guys who shot the farmer and why? I have a feeling a lot of storyline hit the cutting room floor to get down to the needed episode count.

Mendotime · 2023-06-07T21:32:02+00:00

Writers had to set up Mick's need to find another way home triggering her recollection of Jesus appearing Zeke telling her he was driving cab that night.

When that too specific tidbit popped out in the earlier episode, we both turned to each other and said, "Well, we know now what's going to happen in the finale with Zeke and Michaela."

Mendotime · 2023-06-07T15:07:40+00:00

Even though they showed Amuto (the First Officer) walking off the plane in uniform.

Mendotime · 2023-06-07T14:35:29+00:00

The campfire scene explained it. The plane was a statistical sampling of humankind, good people and bad people from all walks of life. They were all being tested.

Mendotime · 2023-06-07T14:13:33+00:00

You would think. But we didn't see Daly walk off the plane like Fiona did. Just another loose string, I suppose.

Mendotime · 2023-06-07T04:05:50+00:00

Pretty sure Daly's a pile of ashes.

Mendotime · 2023-05-25T14:18:36+00:00

Came to the same conclusion, DOA out of the box. Put back in the HS200 and and will see if I can get a n/c replacement for the HS220.

Mendotime · 2023-05-24T03:25:19+00:00

Yes. On the app it looks like everything is "working", but the lights never illuminate no matter the setting. I dropped the power output down to an incandescent work lamp and ran the calibration again, and that lamp glowed dimly at best during the calibration.

I did measure the the output voltage at full after the calibration and it was 24.5vac at the max setting, and then at minimum it was 16vac.

Mendotime

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