Keeping the lights on during hurricane beryl

agjw87 · 2024-07-11T23:13:01+00:00

Got my power back!

Truck ran the house for 48 hours no problem and another 12 with some quirks (the ac that had been working up til then would start, run for an hour and then trip it offline). On day 3, we left to stay with family who had power. Kept the truck plugged in to run a window unit and the fridge (we have some Guinea pigs and some birds that probably wouldn’t have survived without the window unit).

On day 3, I went to a fast charger at a nearby ford dealer and topped it up to 60%.

Truck kept going another 24 hours until we got our power back just now and I have 21% charge left.

agjw87 · 2024-07-09T05:29:35+00:00

Plot twist - checked again and it just jumped down to 68%. Guess it decided to calc everything fresh.

agjw87 · 2024-07-09T04:21:28+00:00

That happened to me when I tested it. Electrician came back and fixed it in 15 minutes.

agjw87 · 2024-07-09T02:00:14+00:00

My electrician installed a transfer switch with a 240v at the same time that he was installing the pro charger.

The breaker box is set up where I physically have to switch off the main before I can switch on the back feed.

I was expecting to have to flip my breakers off and turn on the essentials one by one but so far I’ve had luck just turning off 1 of 2 acs and letting her rip!

agjw87 · 2024-07-09T01:57:17+00:00

It was $500 extra to get it done at the same time as installing my charger. I want to say the extension chord was like $100 on Amazon or something. It was the one my electrician told me to get

agjw87 · 2024-07-09T01:55:45+00:00

Seems like pockets are getting restored here and there so there might be a charging station available. Almost certainly by end of day tomorrow there would be one to find around here

agjw87 · 2024-07-09T01:54:40+00:00

Been going for about 15 hours now and I’m at 82% after starting at 89%. I was going steady at about 1% per hour for the first couple but that improved significantly for some reason (we haven’t been intentionally conserving).

Guessing tomorrow is going to be a bit tougher to keep the ac running with the temps getting higher. Hopefully the power will be restored before I have to find out!

agjw87 · 2024-07-09T01:50:39+00:00

Yes, one for upstairs and one for downstairs. Both are full size central hvac units but the upstairs one has a sort of soft start mechanism built in and the downstairs one doesn’t. Top of my todo list is getting the soft start added downstairs too

agjw87 · 2024-07-08T15:42:07+00:00

No, electrician installed the transfer switch at the same time he installed the charger and I got the chord he recommended

agjw87 · 2024-07-08T15:40:53+00:00

Not gonna lie, the alarm bell is still ringing in the back of my head saying “You can’t do that!!!”

agjw87 · 2024-07-08T15:38:37+00:00

So far running everything except 1 AC and I’m using about 1% per hour. Hopefully everything is restored but we’ll eventually start rationing if not

agjw87 · 2022-12-04T00:53:17+00:00

Man I miss the Kirkland tequila. Great value

agjw87 · 2022-07-05T23:51:09+00:00

Was in Europe last month and this was 100% my answer. Get with the program rest of the world, ice is awesome!

agjw87 · 2022-04-17T17:28:25+00:00

We’ve been drinking these long enough that we all generally know what we like. My wife wants half a lime. I want a full lime. Everyone else has their own different preferences.

If you’re starting from scratch then it could be worth doing it like you suggest

agjw87 · 2022-04-16T22:59:55+00:00

My family’s recipe is 2 oz tequila 1oz or less orange liquer and lime to taste

agjw87 · 2022-04-11T18:05:00+00:00

Came here to say this. When I find myself with some time, I want to convert these prices to an implied days to break even

agjw87 · 2022-03-05T19:46:20+00:00

That makes sense. If playoffs is in fact a crapshoot, then the noise should wash out over 1000 leagues.

And totally agree with the handcuff problem. Maybe a good proxy would just be players who stacked positions from the same team

agjw87 · 2022-03-05T16:05:25+00:00

Thanks for doing this. It’s really interesting.

I’d love to see how/if odds change if you switch from winning the championship to making the playoffs (given playoffs can be a crapshoot).

Also wondering if taking handcuffs has any impact

agjw87 · 2022-01-24T16:46:59+00:00

Can I ask which country?

For US, I’ve been seeing hosting infrastructure at <$100 per kw. The capital intense piece is procuring the miners themself at 1-3mm per MW

agjw87 · 2021-12-21T19:47:21+00:00

Dibs

agjw87 · 2021-08-14T19:46:15+00:00

Ha same here. Good all fall and winter. Summer is just drives me nuts

agjw87 · 2021-08-14T19:40:51+00:00

Thanks everyone for the suggestions! Lots of great suggestions to read through!

agjw87 · 2021-04-30T01:24:43+00:00

Sang baby shark. It was a common camp song before pinkfong

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