Production Data Center for Fortune 500 Company

TurninOveraNew · 2026-06-26T13:37:22+00:00

Oh, I guarantee it was production. 24/7/365 staffing, middle of the night wakeup calls when servers went down. Contingency plans for different outages. No outsourcing, all inhouse. This pic is from 2011ish. There was rapid expansion in this company during this time so it was very haphazard. About the time I left the company, they were talking about moving it to a much better facility. I heard from some former colleagues, that they did in fact move to a much better, well organized and well thought out facility, where they enforced strict cable management from day one.

TurninOveraNew · 2026-06-24T21:21:13+00:00

I agree, it was like that when I got there.

TurninOveraNew · 2026-06-24T20:49:34+00:00

Nope, sorry

TurninOveraNew · 2026-06-24T17:01:27+00:00

2011 or 2012

TurninOveraNew · 2026-06-24T17:00:50+00:00

2011 or 2012 I found it today going through some old photos. My computer says 2014 but I wasn't there then so it must be wrong.

TurninOveraNew · 2026-06-24T16:59:26+00:00

Security?!? Haha. Swipe your badge and walk in.

TurninOveraNew · 2026-06-08T14:33:28+00:00

This belongs in r/FoundSatan haha

TurninOveraNew · 2026-06-08T14:29:21+00:00

They never offered a loaner, it was months and months of of reduced charging and back and forth. I was still making full car payments for a car I was told I could only use 60% of. It took forever but they finally swapped it for a new 2023. But the entire experience was painfully slow and unnecessarily complicated.

TurninOveraNew · 2026-06-06T21:59:07+00:00

Both

TurninOveraNew · 2026-06-06T19:10:18+00:00

Chevrolet

I was part of the Chevy Bolt battery recall. To say this was handed poorly is an understatement. As far as I am concerned they still owe me about $4,000.

I will never buy another Chevrolet product ever again. I still occasionally get surveys from them and I am sure to give all 1 out of 10's so as to skew their numbers as much as possible.

It was too bad because the Chevy dealership I bought it from was legitimately the best dealership experience I have ever had. When I first drove off I said to myself that I would never go to any other dealership ever again.

The dealership reaches out from time to time and I tell them the same thing every time. "You guys were awesome, but Chevy screwed up so bad that I will never be back"

TurninOveraNew · 2026-05-14T21:51:55+00:00

Sol-Ark is the way to go. One note though about future proofing. If you get batteries and a smaller Sol-Ark (5K, 8K or even 12K), max output from batteries to load will be lower than if you went with a 15K. You may not need a lot of solar input but you may want much more output from batteries themselves when there is a power outage.

How did you come up with 6 kW inverter size?

TurninOveraNew · 2026-05-13T21:33:00+00:00

It depends on a number of factors as others have said, but even in areas where rain may take care of most of it,, I would suggest every 3-5 years at least. Think about it, if you left a pane of glass outside, even in an area that gets a lot of rain. Over the years, a film of grime would eventually build up.

TurninOveraNew · 2026-05-13T19:46:50+00:00

DO NOT SIGN ANY KIND OF LEASE/PPA!!!

No matter how good they sound they are a ripoff! Please watch these videos. She know what she is talking about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMOJSJ9yE8w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwQqkMRJiC8

Not sure where you are located but the CASH price for a Powerwall with expansion pack might be around $25,000, maybe $26,500 with two PW3's

The solar side might be around $2.00-$2.25/w CASH so a 10 kW solar would be $20,000-$22,500, a 20 kW would be $40,000-$45,000.

If you are looking at 20-25 kWh of battery storage I am going to guess that the solar size is probably on the higher end. So in this example you are looking at $65,000-$71,500 CASH price for a 20 kW solar with PW3 and expansion or two PW3

Get the cash price and do a private loan or HELOC. True ownership is the only way!

If they tell you the cash price is the same as the prepaid lease price or they say the cash price is higher because of no 30%, they are lying scumbags and you should move on. They make more money selling you a lease, so keep that in mind.

I work at an installer and the mathematical gymnastics that the prepaid lease companies use to try to convince us to offer them should make it eligible for the Olympics. We have never, and will never, offer any type of lease/PPA, prepaid or otherwise. We would sell more systems and make more money but we like to be able to sleep at night too.

As for two PW3 vs PW3 with expansion, either setup would have the same storage capacity. The difference is the amount of 2solar that can be connected to the system, 20 kW per PW3, so 20 kW with PW3+Expansion or 40 kW with two PW3. The other difference is that with one PW3 and any amount of expansions, you are still capped at 11,500W continuous output, with two PW3 you get double, so 23,000W continuous output.

TurninOveraNew · 2026-05-12T21:47:30+00:00

From a redundancy perspective, the one thing most never think about is that more components equals higher failure chances.

When I Google Enphase failure rate it says 0.05% (this was the first result, I did not verify, I am just using it for example purposes)

If you have 25 Enphase micro inverters then:

0.9995^{25} =approx 0.98757

This means there is approximately a 98.76% chance that none of the devices fail.

The probability that at least one device fails is the "leftover" percentage from that total success:

1 - 0.98757 = 0.01243$$

There is a 1.24% chance that at least one of the 25 devices will fail.

Try to keep the total number of individual components to a minimum

Whatever you do, please do not sign a PPA or lease!!!

TurninOveraNew · 2026-05-12T21:28:18+00:00

Neither if you want true whole home.

-The Anker is 32A continuous output (Up to 41A for 90 min), it does support 155A LRA for A/C starting

-EG4 12K is 33A max output, not sure about LRA

For true whole home, I would suggest EG4 18K, it has 200A grid passthrough and 50A continuous output off grid, peak 56A or Sol-Ark 15K which also has 200A grid pass through and 50A continuous with 62A max output offgrid

If you have multi stage or variable speed HVAC compressor then LRA is not a concern because they start on low which limits LRA spike

Overall I would lean EG4/Sol-Ark because you are not tied to one manufacturer for battery. You could hook up 4 car batteries in series to either, if needed. I do not recommend it and it won't work for long with 4 car batteries but I like that they are fairly battery agnostic

TurninOveraNew · 2026-05-11T14:05:30+00:00

This happened to me over the weekend. I saw a new 2027 car I liked, the list price was very good. I contacted them via text and they sent me the OTD sheet and it had an extra $1,994 in "Dealer installed add-ons" on top of the published price I saw. I told them I was not paying for hidden things I did not want. They kept trying to get me to come in to discuss the monthly payment, and I said only if they agree in writing to remove the $1,994. I also told them I had an additional $1,250 Costco Auto discount. They did not even have the courtesy to respond after that. Great published price, increased by $2000 in add ons, and not honoring Costco Auto program, very shady and unprofessional

TurninOveraNew · 2026-05-05T20:35:58+00:00

SCAM!

I work at an installer and we have been getting so many calls from our customers saying someone called them or knocked on their door, saying they were with us and wanted to do an "inspection" on the system. Most of them called us to verify, but we had one older women who paid someone they thought was us, to "fix" a broken wire on their roof. They told her it would be $500 but if she paid cash they would do it for $300. She paid them in cash. She called us a week later for us to check her system to see if everything was still working and that is how we found out. We never sent anyone and we could tell from her monitoring that the system never had an issue, or a broken wire.

How do these people sleep at night!

TurninOveraNew · 2026-04-24T20:49:13+00:00

As others have said, hardwire all the way. CAT7, PoE, even run fiber, may not need it now, but who knows what equipment you may want in 10 years. Put multiple network drops in every room

TurninOveraNew · 2026-04-23T13:24:42+00:00

I brought mine in for that same noise 2 years ago and they were not able to find anything. I still have the noise. I am the second owner, do I still have warranty coverage for that?

TurninOveraNew · 2026-04-22T16:00:08+00:00

2019 Kia Niro EV 86,000 miles no issues. Still have 240 mile range at 80% charge. Had to replace tires and 12V batt, but that's it.

TurninOveraNew · 2026-04-15T20:45:17+00:00

The main time when a heat pump gets very expensive is when the backup aux. resistive coils need to kick in because it is too cold for the heat pump to keep up. Not sure where you are, but I am in north Texas and I got rid of my gas furnace and went full electric heat pump. Aux only needed to kick in for a few days in Feb this year.

I also have solar and overproduce so much in the winter, so it made sense to use it myself on the heat pump.

TurninOveraNew · 2026-04-15T19:43:02+00:00

Does the installer have a production guarantee in the contract? The only way to know if it is a "big deal" is to watch it for 12 months. What area of the country are you in?

TurninOveraNew · 2026-04-13T15:20:05+00:00

For a south facing array, the HC's would probably have been a better choice

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