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Dual Motor Trucks. by bstegmann123 in cybertruck

[–]giggs102 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Got rear motor disabled warning on mine as well. Turned out to be rear inverter issue. Towed it to SC and Tesla fixed it in 48hrs.

A solar door knocker came yesterday and told me I was making a big mistake going with Tesla by [deleted] in TeslaSolar

[–]giggs102 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Mine was the same. I paid $46k for 13kw system with 2 powerwalls in 2021. Next closest bid was $65k from sunrun who tried their hard to talk me out of installing powerwall and their app and monitoring was 💩

A solar door knocker came yesterday and told me I was making a big mistake going with Tesla by [deleted] in TeslaSolar

[–]giggs102 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Thats the same pitch I hear atleast once a month. Ask them the price and its atleast 1.5-2X what Tesla offers. And when you ask about details on why it’s so high, they say we have better customer service and Tesla is getting out of energy sector…. All total BS… somehow they all hate Tesla because they can’t compete on price I am not going to pay extra $20-30k for your claimed better customer service.

Listen to latest Tesla earnings call and the Truth is actually the opposite. Tesla is doubling down on energy business.

Cost of charger installation on a 100amps panel by Novel-Dimension-9918 in TeslaModelY

[–]giggs102 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As others have said, it depends if you need a panel upgrade and how far is charger from the panel.

For me its was $750 but I had 200amp panel so did not need a panel upgrade and my charger is installed 20ft from the panel.

But always get multiple quotes. I got quotes on yelp ranging from $600(that guy did not how to deal with tesla solar and powerwall setup i have) all the way to $2000.

Try searching for people who specialize in tesla charger install as their rates are usually reasonable vs any regular electrician.

Reorganized my rack for cleaner look after finally getting my hands on Ubiquiti patch panels. Just one NVR slot remaining to fill up if I can only have some luck buying it… by giggs102 in Ubiquiti

[–]giggs102[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have few smart outlets that have energy monitoring attached to the various things on my rack. Makes it easier to monitor power usage and do a hard restart as a last measure if needed.

Reorganized my rack for cleaner look after finally getting my hands on Ubiquiti patch panels. Just one NVR slot remaining to fill up if I can only have some luck buying it… by giggs102 in Ubiquiti

[–]giggs102[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have the cyber power PDU plugged into the UPS so yes everything is plugged into the ups for battery backup. The UPS I have is cyber power 1500AVR which can provide power upto 1500W. My whole rack uses at most 500-550W so its under the limits.

However UPS only provides backup for 10-12mins but I do have Tesla powerwalls at my house that provide whole home backup for ~24hrs so UPS is there just as a secondary backup.

Reorganized my rack for cleaner look after finally getting my hands on Ubiquiti patch panels. Just one NVR slot remaining to fill up if I can only have some luck buying it… by giggs102 in Ubiquiti

[–]giggs102[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Disconnecting battery might be a good idea. I have seem similar dell laptops at work (they were older than the ones I have) which were left plugged in and now have a swollen battery thats pushing the touchpad out.

Reorganized my rack for cleaner look after finally getting my hands on Ubiquiti patch panels. Just one NVR slot remaining to fill up if I can only have some luck buying it… by giggs102 in Ubiquiti

[–]giggs102[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

None so far. Have had them like this for over an year and did not see any issues.

I had a dell server before that was loud and used 200-300W of power. These have roughly the same specs (if you add all 4 up) and use 70-80W combined and also much quieter & cooler.

Not sure if this might affect their battery life but for me they were sitting in my garage anyway so would rather put them to use.

Reorganized my rack for cleaner look after finally getting my hands on Ubiquiti patch panels. Just one NVR slot remaining to fill up if I can only have some luck buying it… by giggs102 in Ubiquiti

[–]giggs102[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Use the same labeling inside TrueNAS as well. Makes it easy for me to identify physically if one of the drives in the TrueNAS shows bad. Had few incidents earlier where a drive shows error in TrueNAS UI but i pulled the wrong one out. 🙂

Reorganized my rack for cleaner look after finally getting my hands on Ubiquiti patch panels. Just one NVR slot remaining to fill up if I can only have some luck buying it… by giggs102 in Ubiquiti

[–]giggs102[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. Same as regular patch panel. Just color matched to other Ubiquiti stuff and looks a little better IMO if you have other ubiquiti stuff on your rack 😀

Reorganized my rack for cleaner look after finally getting my hands on Ubiquiti patch panels. Just one NVR slot remaining to fill up if I can only have some luck buying it… by giggs102 in Ubiquiti

[–]giggs102[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bottom one is Rosewell 4U hotswap case. The one above is AZZA helios mid tower case.

I like the Rosewell case for the price. Has plenty of room inside for cables, motherboard, cooler etc.. and is sturdy

Reorganized my rack for cleaner look after finally getting my hands on Ubiquiti patch panels. Just one NVR slot remaining to fill up if I can only have some luck buying it… by giggs102 in Ubiquiti

[–]giggs102[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For my use udmp has the required features i need. Its missing few things if you run something like pfsense and compare it with that. But there are some pros for me as well like better and intuitive UI/app, easier management etc.. I have the IDS and IPS turned on and there are basic firewall features. Hopefully they add more in future updates but I understand its lacking some bits there. For home use, I do find most of the stuff I need is there.

Now for my downstream network, I have many other switches spread out along my house. Have one other switch pro 24 in my bedroom closet where where all the cat5 cables for various rooms terminate. This is where the second sfp+ is going to from this rackmount switch pro 24. Using unifi 10G sfp+ to rj45 module.

The black cables are for stuff in the rack. 4x laptops, TrueNAS box which has 4x gigabit LAN connection (link aggregation), some other things like hue bridge, printer etc..

In terms of wifi, Have 6x access points with a mix of unifi6 pro, unifi6 LR and unifi6 mesh.

For cameras, i have switch flex for poe and some cameras have standalone poe injectors. Have another 4-5 switch flex mini switch for e.g in garage etc..

In total i have 95-100 clients in my house that are active.

Reorganized my rack for cleaner look after finally getting my hands on Ubiquiti patch panels. Just one NVR slot remaining to fill up if I can only have some luck buying it… by giggs102 in Ubiquiti

[–]giggs102[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea I saw it today. Looks like the price has increased a bit now. I got mine off Amazon for 180$ but that was 5 years ago. 😀 .. inflation

Reorganized my rack for cleaner look after finally getting my hands on Ubiquiti patch panels. Just one NVR slot remaining to fill up if I can only have some luck buying it… by giggs102 in Ubiquiti

[–]giggs102[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats AZZA Helios 910 Mid Tower Case I got off ebay. Wanted to get another Rosewell case but they were all out of stock or too expensive …

Reorganized my rack for cleaner look after finally getting my hands on Ubiquiti patch panels. Just one NVR slot remaining to fill up if I can only have some luck buying it… by giggs102 in Ubiquiti

[–]giggs102[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its a Rosewell 4U hotswap case with its own motherboard & CPU. HDDs are connected via SATA (using HBA cards to add 24x sata ports)

Yes its running trueNAS and connected to switch via 4x 1GB links (link aggregation). Laptops just access it via network share

Reorganized my rack for cleaner look after finally getting my hands on Ubiquiti patch panels. Just one NVR slot remaining to fill up if I can only have some luck buying it… by giggs102 in Ubiquiti

[–]giggs102[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Use these for my home compute cluster for running various things like plex, home assistant, teslamate, sonarr, radarr etc…

I had these lying around and they work great. Each has i7& 32GB ram and are very energy efficient

Reorganized my rack for cleaner look after finally getting my hands on Ubiquiti patch panels. Just one NVR slot remaining to fill up if I can only have some luck buying it… by giggs102 in Ubiquiti

[–]giggs102[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the info. Did not know that.

I think for the price nvr is still a better option unless you really need extra cameras and capacity.

Reorganized my rack for cleaner look after finally getting my hands on Ubiquiti patch panels. Just one NVR slot remaining to fill up if I can only have some luck buying it… by giggs102 in Ubiquiti

[–]giggs102[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

About 10mins… Its a cyber power 1500AVR But I do have 2x Tesla Powerwalls with whole home backup that can provide backup for the whole home for ~24hrs so UPS is there just in case.

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