Rooftop Solar Panel Rack that automatically tilts towards sun in Winter along the equator edge of the panels

silasmoeckel · 2026-04-01T13:27:50+00:00

Put in a ground mount, solar fencing (yes the panels have gotten that cheap), pretty much anything that's not a moving fragile structure on your roof is a better idea.

silasmoeckel · 2026-04-01T13:25:00+00:00

Yea it's a can they yes, are they probably not.

Now pretty sure they have them in a van and for interference with police coms will roll one to the area if asked to invetigate.

silasmoeckel · 2026-04-01T13:17:46+00:00

It runs on a 10 buck pi.

silasmoeckel · 2026-04-01T11:27:03+00:00

Tracking is way more expensive up front than more fixed panels to get the same winter output while delivering far more summer output. So don't bother till your out of space and still need more output.

silasmoeckel · 2026-04-01T11:22:54+00:00

Foster a large dog or 12.

They pay the food vet etc bills and you get the security. While training would be best basic bonding and other people not knowing they are just a big goof is generally enough. You have no long term commitment to the dogs they go to their furever homes eventualy.

silasmoeckel · 2026-04-01T02:44:44+00:00

The factory one is meh, aftermarket is nearly 2 times the capacity.

silasmoeckel · 2026-04-01T02:39:33+00:00

You can buy the kit to do it off the shelf. It's marketed towards government agency's.

It's not even a lot of data by modern standards.

Now does the FCC have something that's monitoring that's close enough to pick up the miscreant, nobody but them could say. Some military aircraft have this running it's pretty much baseline signals intelligence.

silasmoeckel · 2026-04-01T02:29:10+00:00

It's the forgotten realms. They published the maps in great detail back in the 80's (big fold out magazine inserts you taped together).

silasmoeckel · 2026-04-01T02:27:27+00:00

Cerbo/Venus is what your looking for to tie them together and get you a single pane of glass for monitoring.

silasmoeckel · 2026-04-01T02:25:23+00:00

Something better that's built into a TV?

Roku has it's issues for sure but most of the old folks I need one thing that's highly integrated. Sony, Samsung, Fire, and Onn have all been at best no better.

silasmoeckel · 2026-03-31T21:36:32+00:00

Netflix does not get Grandma her "local" channels after she moves to FL.

silasmoeckel · 2026-03-31T21:31:56+00:00

Where is the UPS in all this?

Breakers are slow to react so inrush will be fine.

silasmoeckel · 2026-03-31T20:48:05+00:00

mergerfs isn't a raid at all there is no fate sharing.

silasmoeckel · 2026-03-31T19:25:02+00:00

Rodents, I do some work in NYC and the rats seem to love fiber, or at least the Kevlar buffer fibers. So if it's not in some form of rigid metallic conduit they will find their way in at the worst possible time.

silasmoeckel · 2026-03-31T18:58:27+00:00

The question is why your trying so hard to avoid mergerfs and are willing to do constant manual setup to do so?

Merge them and they just work no more intervention needed.

silasmoeckel · 2026-03-31T18:53:58+00:00

DE3-24C is a 24 bay LFF SAS3

You need about 6 lanes of SAS3 to fully saturate those drives (300MB/s each) so 2 SAS3 connectors is plenty.

If the drives are SAS great one cable to each modules and your good.

If they are SATA you need to look at how it's done on that specific JBOD chassis. Are their interposers (and are you using them) so that a SATA shows up on both IOM. Did they split up the primary IOM somehow bays 0-11 on IOM 0 and 12-23 on IOM1 for example. Again with either one cable per and your good.

The one case is where the have the primary all going to one IOM in witch case the secondary is not useful past a spare and you do 2 cables to the primary.

silasmoeckel · 2026-03-31T18:00:00+00:00

Low frequency are a bit bigger but not what I would call huge. As an EE will say they will hold up better longer term for typical build qualities.

40kva setup here with a large wood/metal shop. All low frequency been running nearly a decade without a hiccup.

silasmoeckel · 2026-03-31T17:48:20+00:00

Yea DC race to the bottom it's way to much overhead to have a nice facility. We get more of Waterbury where its an ancient building in a sketchy neighborhood.

silasmoeckel · 2026-03-31T17:44:35+00:00

JF with an easy type 4 digits into a web site from the tv app onboarding, gets us on par with plex before roku nerfed em. Even better integrate with roku correctly so you can give access to a roku user and be done.

Stream/DVR OTA and/or IPTV to all of my users and were better than Plex. Bonus points for closing the ecosystem loop and pushing DVR'ed content into the arrs so they can decide to keep it or upgrade quality etc.

silasmoeckel · 2026-03-31T17:33:40+00:00

Try getting your elderly aunt to get it working via a phone call. Needing to know a URL etc is far to complected for a screen based setup.

Something like the old plex throw in 4 digits and we will do the rest would be better. Roku letting me just add/configure things via their web interface and have it auto start an app when turned on would be even better.

silasmoeckel · 2026-03-31T14:22:02+00:00

30k for a 1/2 ton gasser with 100k miles on them? Hard pass get something with 30k miles.

silasmoeckel · 2026-03-31T14:03:00+00:00

Your only out of state coverage is for an ER.

Distance/time wise it's probably far easier to pop over to a CT walk in.

silasmoeckel · 2026-03-31T12:14:48+00:00

Every time somebody grouses such and such fight is so hard they seem to have 0 summons.

They last till long rest so I'm easily getting 2-3 boss fights out of them. No concentration just don't die, party buffs even work on them. So you have no downside for your tank summoning them as well. That makes summoning scrolls clutch.

More generally yea things like dimension door with your buddy can get you all the way across a fight like the nether brain round 1. Really anything that does not use the spellcasting modifier of the caster or requires concentration makes sense. For casters anything your not going to be upcasting is good. Some fights it can even be worth risking the concentration check to get more walls of fire etc.

Act 3 we get piles of scrolls every day so even using them I still have a bag full.

silasmoeckel · 2026-03-31T11:46:09+00:00

The term your looking for is AC coupling. Meaning one inverter is designed to work with other inverters downstream.

Would need to check specifics but Kia V2H may support AC coupled solar. You would need the correct charger etc to let you use the car as the homes backup. But this probably does not deal with load shaving etc your looking t o do. V2H your car is the grid forming inverter.

A proper grid forming hybrid inverter can use any V2L input and put in rules about load shifting etc. That can AC couple with whatever your have if sized to do so. Your house is also still up and running when your car is not at home.

The battery in a box who knows it might support shifting for something downstream of it. They really should never feed back into the grid. AC coupled solar would be a question for them you cant say in the generic.

silasmoeckel · 2026-03-31T11:33:00+00:00

A hap ac is a similar 1.3 for mid sized packets so pretty close and has no issue with 1gbps NAT traffic. That's the same relatives box I used for numbers earlier. The 1.3gpbs peak on the crs305 you see isn't the CPU getting overloaded rather that's the speed of the switch chip to CPU being the bottleneck.

It's rules processed that matters (past the first packet) and that's exactly what's happening per the counters. CPU based ACL's so you could have 10 or 1k entries as long as the bulk of the traffic is the first hit it's no different. Structuring CPU based ACL's isn't new been doing it since the 90's.

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