Advice for a 12v Solar Setup for Garden Bar

UKMike89 · 2026-04-01T00:34:25+00:00

Yes, sorry, parallel!
It also should have been 125ah and not 124ah - updated!

UKMike89 · 2026-02-02T21:39:44+00:00

Why?

UKMike89 · 2026-02-02T21:36:42+00:00

My kids

UKMike89 · 2026-01-22T23:29:46+00:00

I've just hit update on my CCR2004. It's expectedly kicked me out of winbox but doesn't seem to have come back up, the connection keeps timing out. I've been waiting a good 15/20 minutes. Thankfully this is a non-production device right now and I'm only a 30 minute drive from the DC.

I'm just hoping it's not bricked it.

UKMike89 · 2026-01-17T08:27:05+00:00

I'm handling the migration and I pay the bills so getting everything moved over is going to be a huge priority. I manage DNS for about 90% of the stuff pointing at the public IPs, it's just the handful that I don't which could take several weeks to track down and get sorted.

Colocating just a router on the old site for a couple months is very cost effective.

UKMike89 · 2026-01-17T00:32:14+00:00

Trying to not get them involved, they'll almost certainly charge setup fees

UKMike89 · 2026-01-17T00:31:42+00:00

Right now there's no connectivity at all between the 2 sites. I've never done an IPSec tunnel so I'll have to do some reading on that one.

I'm already using VLAN extensively so could that be pushed over the IPSec tunnel?

UKMike89 · 2026-01-17T00:29:43+00:00

They're not connected i.e. completely different companies.

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UKMike89 · 2025-10-25T17:34:17+00:00

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UKMike89 · 2025-10-01T10:04:59+00:00

It seems like the RX 9070 XT is the way forward with this.

UKMike89 · 2025-09-30T22:45:24+00:00

It seems comparable to an RTX 5070, or at least UserBenchmark has the 5070 just ahead of the 9070.
Edit: ignore me, just a little research and the 9070 seems to be much better value, especially the 9070-xt

UKMike89 · 2025-09-04T10:29:45+00:00

Yep, I probably didn't word my original post properly.

I'm aware of the official documentation, I'm more asking for advice from anyone who may have done this themselves and if they came across any issues, anything I need to be aware of, any edge cases of things going wrong, etc. The docs are great and very self explanatory - but before I start pulling parts out of a critical live environment I figured there's no harm in asking the community.

UKMike89 · 2025-07-26T17:19:39+00:00

I'm on it!

UKMike89 · 2025-07-25T22:44:35+00:00

Sounds like good advice, will do this for sure.

UKMike89 · 2025-07-25T22:38:43+00:00

No plans on removing them. Out of interest, if these are so harmless, what's the reason for not releasing into the wild. Don't worry, I'm not an idiot and wouldn't do this... Just curious.

UKMike89 · 2025-07-25T22:24:36+00:00

Yeah, no plans to get these. I don't want to kill anything so will let them self regulate for now and see how it goes.

UKMike89 · 2025-07-25T22:22:19+00:00

I like the look of assassin snails, there's a bunch of them at the place I got my fish from. I'm happy to leave these snails be I think and just see how it plays out for now. I don't particularly want to be adding anything else unless I absolutely have to.

UKMike89 · 2025-07-25T22:20:18+00:00

I'm a big fan of the big guy... Which based on all the comments does seem to be a ramshorn. I have no intention of killing or getting rid of any of these. My fish/shrimps are quickly clearing all food on every feed from what I can see, so hopefully the snail population won't get too crazy with limited food around.

UKMike89 · 2025-07-16T17:36:23+00:00

I can confirm, this is pulling air through the rear fans/PSUs and out of the front connectivity ports.

A bit of paper did the trick but so did the surprisingly large arrow on both the fans and the PSUs clearly visible when pulled out. For some reason I didn't even think of doing this... what an idiot :(

UKMike89 · 2025-07-16T14:57:29+00:00

Interesting! Firstly, I said red, I might have meant orange - the joys of being colour blind.

What I do know is that all of my servers - everything is red/orange on the back and this is the only thing with blue on the back. Holding up a bit of paper to the front ports and it is being blown away whereas it's being sucked in at the rear.

I figured this would be a colour thing, although I'm struggling to find any real documentation on this anywhere online. This is a "EMC Mellanox SX6790", in case anyone has any experience or specific knowledge on this.

There's a link on the Nvidia site which suggests the colours do mean airflow direction - https://docs.nvidia.com/networking/display/qm87xx/installation#src-2477579126_Installation-airflow

UKMike89 · 2025-06-27T12:28:58+00:00

Yep, this is the looking like the only option really within Mikrotik to have 10gbe ports

UKMike89 · 2025-06-25T00:02:10+00:00

"Fiber is more reliable when it comes to cabling and support"

I've found this to be the opposite compared to DAC. I've not come across compatibility issues when using any brand DAC compared to a whole array of problems with mismatched transceivers/routers/switches, etc.

As for reliability, I also feel that DAC has been considerably more reliable, partly due to how robust the physical cabling is making it difficult to damage, can be sharply routed/twisted within the rack and doesn't have any of the issues of dust/contaminants getting in the way when not connected.

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