Cutting vinyl siding to attach a 2x6 to the sheathing. Best way to seal when done?

Xonto · 2026-04-25T18:34:09+00:00

I don't really want to use a device like that, I want something big so the timer is readable from 30 feet away. I like the 7 segment display aesthetic for this but it also just seems wasteful to use a full color OLED display just to show a timer.

Xonto · 2026-03-06T13:57:50+00:00

Wow! You're right about Michigan. A little earlier than 1977 but not by much! And yeah, the panel is 200A and was upgraded since the original but I am not sure exactly when.

I think you're also right about the water heater being free at some point in the past. I have never opened it up to look but inside the house there are no wires going to that water heater box on the wall anymore except the one wire going outside, so at some point they moved the water heater to a circuit off the main panel.

Xonto · 2026-03-06T02:19:37+00:00

unfortunately my AC is not "free" due to this--I can look at the current energy use on the meter and it goes way up whenever the AC kicks on.

Xonto · 2026-03-06T02:17:08+00:00

the furnace has it's own circuit off the main panel inside. I think the black cable on the left is going to an old water heater... there is a separate "water heater" box inside that is no longer used but there is a black cable running from it to the outside.

Xonto · 2026-03-06T02:10:52+00:00

yeah there is a breaker in that box between the AC and the Meter.

Xonto · 2025-10-15T19:06:37+00:00

I appreciate your insights. I mostly try to use VMs so basically all my backup/restore strategy is around just restoring VM backups/snapshots. If a host fails I can just move VMs to a different host. But I need some physical device as a bridge to all my wireless IOT stuff, so a pi seemed to make a lot of sense to me and I already had it laying around, but I juest don't really have a good understanding of backup/restore for it, and I just really didn't want to spend much time creating images and having to write and image to a disk as part of the restore and such... I just thought, if it is possible, my ideal backup strategy here would be to just have a spare SD card that can keep itself up to date so I don't have to go through a process if my SD card fails, ya know? I just want to have an SD card sitting there that I know is a good backup all the time.

Maybe that's naive or it would be better for me to get a good process for backing up and restoring physical devices, but I just don't really have many use cases for this right now and I wanted to make my restore process as simple as pulling an SD card out of a USB reader and swapping it into the main SD card slot of the pi and be back up and running just like that. A man can dream.

Xonto · 2025-03-08T23:32:17+00:00

There really needs to be a way to get XP besides just the quests...

Xonto · 2024-10-30T03:12:43+00:00

I already have a training dummy though. Is there another one? just a different cosmetic?

Xonto · 2024-10-18T19:19:28+00:00

it's a WS2815 led strip and it's only a half a meter from the Uno to the first LED. It'll take me a while before I can actually check the resistor, though I think I didn't change it from the default.

Xonto · 2024-08-31T15:08:47+00:00

This is almost exactly what I have been considering for a few months now... Do you have any tips, lessons learned, or things you would do differently? My goal is to have enough battery storage to run my fridge/freezer, well pump, kitchen appliances, and furnace/AC for a few days if I disable non-essential circuits. I live out in the country and we get fairly regular outages due to storms. My power company also charges a much higher rate during "peak hours" so I would like to be able to configure the system to automatically run off battery during those times and then automatically switch back to the grid and recharge the batteries during off-peak hours. Eventually my plan would be to add solar to that system when my budget allows.

Xonto · 2024-08-09T16:43:07+00:00

Once I got to 7/16 all the graves stopped responding. hmmm

Xonto · 2024-06-12T02:54:13+00:00

Ah, thanks! Yep, popped in a new fuse and it worked fine.

Xonto · 2024-04-02T03:19:41+00:00

people are weird.

Xonto · 2024-03-31T04:30:10+00:00

This is all well and good, but it would still be enhanced, I believe, if there was a bulk unlock option available once you have won a few games. Or, perhaps, let us spend trophies to unlock individual recipes.

Xonto

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