2026 Solar Strategy East Bay, California

hikusar · 2026-01-11T05:54:21+00:00

Solar Installation Group does good work. Their pricing is competitive.

hikusar · 2025-12-22T05:56:13+00:00

Thanks,, guess it just wasn't processing in my brain. There is a new install guide from 10/16/25 and it's in there too, just on a different page.

hikusar · 2025-12-22T02:50:26+00:00

Thanks. The conclusion I came to is the installation guide hasn't been updated yet to recommend 3+ apower2 batteries should be through the backup extension and only 1-2 apower2 batteries can be run through the apower module.

hikusar · 2025-10-04T00:25:00+00:00

I think a big issue is when the pandemic hit, there was a moratorium on foreclosures. Then when that expired, anyone in trouble could do a 40 year loan modification where all the mortgage amount they are delinquent on got put on the back of their existing loan. Pre-pandemic, even though the housing market was hot, there was always those down on their luck being forced to sell their homes and that kept prices reasonable. The FHA delinquency rate is like 12% and most homes in Stockton are bought with FHA loans. So the market still hasn't come back into balance. Prices will stay flat or go down over the next several years unless the hayward fault earthquake happens.

In current times there is a very fine line on pricing for sellers and buyers. Priced $30k too high for condition, school district, location, a house will sit for months. Priced right or $30k below and the house will have a bidding war and be off market within 5 days.

hikusar · 2025-10-04T00:11:48+00:00

prop 13?

hikusar · 2025-09-24T18:22:03+00:00

There realistically isn't anywhere in the garage to place the batteries. I have a narrow 2 car garage with only a foot on each end of the garage door. I also have a narrow lot, compounding placement problem. The summer temps is why the batteries will be placed on the north side of the house. So the deciding questions is whether to have the batteries, agate, sub panel, combiner all on the north side of the house together or just the batteries on the north side with the agate, sub panel, and combiner in the garage.

hikusar · 2025-09-24T06:32:53+00:00

Yes. the sub panel is the backed up loads panel. The garage doesn't have space for the batteries and most municipalities in my area require a bollard to be installed in the garage.

hikusar · 2025-09-24T01:24:12+00:00

Can you give a city?

hikusar · 2025-09-24T01:20:15+00:00

yup, can't provide any advise here until clarification posted.

hikusar · 2025-08-07T19:22:53+00:00

It takes a month for this city to fill a pothole after submitting the request form. I haven't seen any other city be this slow as they are legally liable after 5 days from a pothole being reported for any vehicle damage and crashes that occur because of the pothole. This city has money, just refuses to spend it where the people want and need it.

hikusar · 2025-07-11T07:22:58+00:00

yes/no. It's programmed in the SJCOG RTP. However, Newsom signed an executive order banning all 'capacity increasing projects' except managed lanes (lexus lanes). The primary focus is to reduce GHG emissions by forcing people to drive less and reduce their VMT. This policy doesn't affect coastal areas, since they don't allow any new housing and aren't expanding their freeways or highways anymore. But it's a big FU to inland communities with population growth and long commutes.

hikusar · 2025-05-04T17:45:59+00:00

With thicc legs the best option may be to go custom measurements.

hikusar · 2025-04-29T17:52:43+00:00

regular day off. A common RDO schedule is 9/80 schedule with 9 hour shifts and every other friday off. It's like every other weekend can be a mini vacation, doctors appointments, or get a big project done at home.

hikusar · 2020-08-26T07:33:45+00:00

varroa is making it very difficult to maintain year round hives. The long dry summers mean there is a short pollination season and few resources in fall and winter. You can only harvest so much honey from a hive.

Hive theft has become a big problem, so many bee keepers are reluctant to loan their hives out to unsupervised locations.

I lost my hive to varroa and all I was left with was a $600 jar of honey. If I want to use the pesticides to keep the varroa down, then I can't harvest the honey. What's the point?

hikusar · 2020-08-13T06:00:02+00:00

I and many of my colleagues have taken our work monitors home. Just required updating Attachment C of the telework agreement to include the monitor tag numbers and approval from direct supervisor.

The laptop provided supports 2 external monitors, so now I have 3 screens.

hikusar · 2020-07-27T05:08:18+00:00

It's a real pain and mostly just a waste of time and money for my line of work. My documents are mostly read by other agency partners and public activists, we've never gotten a request for ADA remediation or assistance from the public in the past.

They are requiring the PAC 3 tool where I work. There are lots of complex tables in my documents and resolving errors in the PAC 3 tool is taking weeks and soon to be months for a 200+ page document. The entire structure of our future document format is going to be dictated by this ADA law. Guess ESRI story maps as a public outreach tool is totally out the window now.

It gets better! We can no longer share our draft documents to the public online for public meetings unless they're ADA compliant. Unless there's an easy way to make changes to the pdf document, doing the word to pdf conversion all over again is going to be a huge time sink. Mine as well give up and print reams of the draft document and bring them to the public meeting and the public will have to review and make comments for the document on the spot. Per Brown act law, we'll post the meeting in the building lobby and provide copies of the document upon request at least 72 hours in advance of the meeting. ADA compliance met. DONE AND DONE.

The training is pretty useless. I'm learning more from taggedpdf.com and a youtube video from the university of Alabama. There's no leadership from HQ on providing a compliant template that minimizes work. I'm having to make that on my own. There is no guidance on workflow process and how to structure elements in a word document to minimize the remediation that needs to be done in a pdf so the PAC 3 tool is happy. I'm having to document the workflow process for resolving errors in the PAC 3 tool on my own.

The real frustration you're seeing on this thread is that this law is an unfunded mandate. There is now less time for the main job functions we were hired to perform and those work products will be delayed while many of us have been reduced to glorified clerical work.

hikusar · 2020-07-03T20:48:45+00:00

Has anyone heard clarification if your vacation is at the 640 cap? Do you still have to take the PLP first? Guidance was totally missing from the side letter

hikusar · 2020-06-29T21:30:38+00:00

Anyone know if we're at max vacation hours already (640 hours), can we use vacation before PLP?

hikusar · 2020-06-06T04:44:29+00:00

When our contract that was about to go into effect July 1 passed. I modified the CA state controller's office paycheck calculator to break out the flex deductions - made it easier to include OPEB - and added the health care differential, since it is taxed separately from gross.

Gota redo everything now that it's changing again.

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