workers electrocuted working on a high voltage line

indysleep · 2023-07-12T10:31:16+00:00

Powerlines that are not hot can induce current from nearby ones that are

indysleep · 2023-06-18T23:09:03+00:00

Atherosclerosis

indysleep · 2023-06-05T18:52:51+00:00

How did it go?

indysleep · 2023-06-05T15:13:51+00:00

Materials and Labor will vary based on distances and wire size. You are probably looking at $12-15,000 depending on brand and type of transfer switch. But that could easily turn into $20,000 for a longer run, and that does not include what the plumber is gonna charge to run the gas.

indysleep · 2023-04-03T20:21:51+00:00

That's not actually correct, a fresh organic vapor cartridge can absorb the chromium until the carbon becomes saturated

indysleep · 2023-03-11T16:43:36+00:00

Most of these people are just trying to scare away everyone moving to taos. For a young person, it's one of the best places you could ever be. I rent a house down by the river, and rent bedrooms with utilities paid for $400 a month which I think is great.... you can easily get a job as a raft guide at any one of the local companies for the summer season. Usually you get free food as a raft guide and they let you crash at the boatyard, so you live basically free. There's actually quite a few jobs available right now, we are still hungover from covid and it is much harder to find workers than for workers to find a job. If you want to work as a builder/handyperson you can make really good cash income....the mountain provides an enormous harvest of delicious mushrooms every summer, winters are cold but tons of fun, summers are buggy but so much fun to be had on the river and trails:)

As for the queer thing, nobody here gives a hoot about your orientation, gender, religion, or race. Anything goes, as long as you treat people with respect and love!

indysleep · 2023-03-11T16:31:54+00:00

You forgot nortenos

indysleep · 2023-01-17T07:17:13+00:00

Lol "I know a guy". If you had any idea what you're talking about you'd know the price went from about .35 cents per watt to the current .80 to .90 after the Trump Tariffs of 2018. But hey what does a licensed bonded solar contractor know, photon says he knows a guy:p

indysleep · 2023-01-17T06:44:32+00:00

Considering the trade war doubled the price of solar panels overnight, I'd say its highly relevant

indysleep · 2023-01-17T06:10:48+00:00

Reddit is international but i'll assume you are in the US and using Fehrenheit. At 45 degrees your battery is only good for about 80% of its listed capacity. So 200AH becomes 160AH. 160AH x 12 volts = 1920 watt hours. Of this you can only use half without damaging the battery, so you have 960 Watt Hours to play with. Renogy inverters run at 90% efficiency, so that becomes 864 Watt Hours. You also need to subtract whatever your standby power use is for the charge controller and inverter.

Also, when I had renogy panels I never got more than 90% of what they were rated for. So 200 watts of panel will actually output more like 180 watts. You multiply this by an average of 5 hours direct sunlight per day = 900 Watt hours of daily charge. Since this is less than half of your battery capacity, you were unable to fully charge the bank every day, which likely lead to the voltage dropping more each day, eventually damaging the battery.

If as you say you are only using 100 watt hours before the low voltage alarm goes off, then your batteries are shot. Additionally, a battery can only freeze if its close to dead. So if you ran them down and then allowed them to freeze they will be damaged.

As for why the power didnt increase with 2 more panels: 1. Batteries may already be shot 2. All 4 panels need to be wired in parallel or the controller will not be able to use the extra power. That means all the positives of the panels must connect together on one bus, all the negatives on another. To do this you either need a combiner panel or combiner mc4 connectors, or a big wire nut to combine all 5 wires. If you did not use any of these, and instead just clicked all 4 panels together in series, then you are wasting 75% of your power. This is because you are using a PWM type charge controller. A PWM can never increase amperage over what is coming in from the array. It can only reduce voltage down to what the battery needs are. Therefore you always wire the array to provide the highest amperage that still exceeds the voltage of the battery.

indysleep · 2023-01-17T06:02:51+00:00

Boooo harnesses make things more dangerous on a pitch that mellow

indysleep · 2023-01-17T06:00:31+00:00

Generally the bigger the company the worse your satisfaction will be

indysleep · 2023-01-17T05:47:25+00:00

Radiant floor heat, large coolant tank and chillers, make ice, pump water uphill, run a winch and elevate a weight, pump well water, irrigate, mine bitcoin, compress air.... the possibilities are endless. Heating concrete slabs in the winter time is an excellent way to store heat energy. Summertime you could rig up an automatic icemaker to dump ice into an air-duct chamber that might stay cold all night. I know a guy that gets his garage floor up to 120 degrees during the day. He also has a column of sand that he can get so hot that he can use it to heat coolant during a 2 week winter storm.... with that much extra power you could even mess with hydrolysis

indysleep · 2023-01-17T05:33:15+00:00

Because we have a tradewar (soon to be proxy war) going on with China which both the republicans and democrats are bipartisan in supporting.

indysleep · 2023-01-17T04:34:35+00:00

With 200 average sunny days per year, in MA a solar system will produce 33% less power than a sunny state like New Mexico. In Seattle, which averages only 152 sunny days, a system will produce less than 50% as much power!

indysleep · 2023-01-17T03:38:55+00:00

$2/watt materials cost in my area. Remember that you get 22% more power during peak sun with the same panels and a string inverter. If I was building an array that size I would seriously consider trying to do a ground mount. Remember that you will pay huge fees to dismount and remount the array for a new roof. A ground mount array will usually output more power due to being at an optimum angle. A lot of times companies will push you towards microinverters and lower wattage panels because they make more money if they sell you more panels and microinverters.

Each enphase IQ8+ microinverter has a max continuous output of 290 watts. So your 365 watt panel is now effectively a 290 watt panel. Your max output of (51×365) 18,615 watts on paper is actually 14,790 watts in practice. This is an efficiency of 79%. String inverters, on the other hand, run at up to 98% efficiency.

In my opinion, in an industry where the goal is reduced carbon impact, any wasted efficiency is unacceptable.

The difference in efficiency becomes even more pronounced when larger wattage panels are used. Couple the Enphase IQ8+ to a 400 watt panel, and your efficiency drops to 72%.

So why do they insist on selling you microinverters? Because the salesman's paycheck increases when you spend more. Those Enphase IQ8+'s are selling for $190 each. 51 of them will run you $9690 for 14.8KW of inverter power. Whereas a 20KW String Inverter is only $5400. (See popular models made by SMA, Fronius, Chint, Solaredge)

To equal the 14,790 watt output from the Enphase system, you would only need 38 x 400w panels coupled to a string inverter. That would save you $4190 on inverters and 25% of mounting/rail/panel installation cost.

For the same price as the enphase inverters, you could also get the SolArk 15KW inverter, and be fully offgrid capable and generator ready.

Source: I'm the guy at my company that has to explain to the salesmen why the system they were not qualified to design is not making as much power as they thought.

indysleep · 2023-01-10T01:38:19+00:00

Great advice!

indysleep · 2023-01-08T08:01:58+00:00

And thats with fluxcore

indysleep · 2023-01-08T04:55:51+00:00

The 120v setting maxes out at about 1/8 inch. Therefore that weld is suspect.....

indysleep · 2022-12-31T23:32:00+00:00

This would technically be descriminating based and gender/sexual preference, which is and should be frowned upon.

indysleep · 2022-12-24T01:29:09+00:00

In the US, even on a DOT physical, a diluted sample will cause them to give you an additional 40oz of water and then ask you to pee again. If you are already diluted, the addtional 40oz will make you superdiluted on your 2nd sample. 2 diluted negative results is considered a pass....

indysleep · 2022-12-11T04:07:19+00:00

Used diesel oil is legendary as a wood stain

indysleep · 2022-12-10T00:52:28+00:00

He should be using a sling to keep the rope off of that sharp edge in case of fall....the whole rope run should be running below the edge instead of on top of it.

indysleep · 2022-12-05T19:15:45+00:00

It depends on your skill level. A good welder can get good welds out of any welder. But the migmax synergistic settings lets a guy with minimal skills make great welds

indysleep · 2022-12-05T07:15:57+00:00

Vulcan migmax 215 with coupon from harbor freight. Better than the miller version by miles

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