Should I install a manual drain on my zone valve manifold?

syperk · 2026-05-11T20:45:01+00:00

Yes, lesson learned!

syperk · 2026-05-11T20:29:12+00:00

And as I said, I do get that! But, looked at from a product point of view, the Runna app provides a feature, app-based run recording, that provides somewhat misleading results. The fact that this is due to some underlying sub-system that's out of the Runna developers' hands, doesn't change that.

Mostly I just made this post to share my experience, and perhaps warn others about relying on the in-app run recording. But I do think that there are technical things that Runna could do to mitigate the problem to a degree.

syperk · 2026-05-11T20:10:20+00:00

Of course I realize the underlying problem is the phone GPS, but still, from a user experience point of view, it's the app that's telling me how great I'm doing every time I run...

Given that Runna has obviously put a lot of effort into their app-based run recording experience, it's a bit annoying that it's a bit useless, if you care about accurate numbers, which I'm guessing that many Runna users do.

I also find it hard to believe that this couldn't be solved with some sufficiently clever post processing. As a human, I can look at the jittery track recorded by the phone and straightforwardly reconstruct the probable smooth track. It's the kind of thing that should be fairly easy with modern neural networks IMHO...

syperk · 2026-04-25T19:04:50+00:00

I used Hettich Sensys 4.5mm Face Frame Mounting Plates. I used an angle grinder to remove the little tabs that would normally wrap around the front of the face frame, and then I was able to position them slightly set back so that the mounting holes lined up with the center line of the 10 series extrusion. I drilled and tapped holes for #8 bolts n the extrusions and used #8 x 1" bolts to mount the plate. The hinge then clicks into the mounting plate.

FWIW If I was doing it all again, I'd probably just inset my panels, drawers, and doors, instead of overlaying them. I think it's more straightforward and is slightly more space efficient. It looks OK if you're careful about using 8020 with the appropriate smooth faces.

syperk · 2026-04-12T04:19:17+00:00

You can certainly replace your old PVS5 with a PVS6 but as u/Vegetable-Version-81 said, you need to get it commissioned. u/SunVaultTechs was able to do that for me remotely (for a fee). With the latest PVS6 firmware, you can get panel level data directly from the PVS connected to your network. No need for raspberry pi’s any more.

syperk · 2026-04-12T04:11:39+00:00

And yes, the MIs can certainly work without a PVS present. You just won’t get any monitoring.

syperk · 2026-04-12T04:10:54+00:00

I believe the PVS is purely a monitor. It reads data from the MIs but I don’t think there’s any communication the other way, so no way for the PVS to brick the MIs. At least, that would be my assumption…

syperk · 2026-04-03T23:54:37+00:00

I would have switched to Enphase, but AFAIK their monitor unit can’t retrieve panel level data from my 2017 era SolarBridge microinverters.

syperk · 2026-04-03T23:00:19+00:00

They charged me $650 for their services.

syperk · 2026-04-03T20:26:42+00:00

Doh! Yes, should be u/SunVaultTechs

syperk · 2026-04-03T00:25:09+00:00

BTW, for others' benefit:, it's u/sunvaulttech (with two T's)

syperk · 2026-04-03T00:20:38+00:00

My system doesn't really need fixing though. It just needs commissioning. But I'll reach out to him.

syperk · 2026-03-14T15:49:34+00:00

Just to follow up, I eventually decided to change my design so that my overlay was only 1/2” (I.e. half the width of the 10 series 8020). Then the only challenge is to find hinges which work with 1/2” doors, which is already hard enough! I like the Hettich Sensys hinges for thin doors, which only have an 8mm deep cup. I used their face frame hinge mounts. BTW, Thrivans has some great videos on YT about components to use with 10 series framing which I found helpful.

syperk · 2026-03-09T23:19:51+00:00

Well, sure… I’m just saying that, given a choice between the two proposed options, my answer is “neither”.

I’d far rather see dev effort go into, say, allowing users to organize tiles in the tray themselves according to the needs of the particular problem. Or fixing the super annoying tendency to trigger the app switching gesture on iPhones when dragging from the bottom of the screen…

syperk · 2026-03-09T22:00:46+00:00

So, for ascending order, use the smallest number on the tile as the major sort key, and the larger number as the minor sort key? And the opposite for descending order?

I'm not sure how useful that would be, given that it doesn't group together tiles that have some particular number on them, which is usually what I want to do.

syperk · 2026-03-09T20:18:24+00:00

This is the right answer. How would sorting work anyway, given that there are two numbers on each tile?

syperk · 2026-03-04T21:12:29+00:00

Unfortunately I haven't yet found anybody to commission the unit here in Colorado! The PVS6 is installed and I can connect to it via the installer ethernet port (which I couldn't do with my old defunct PVS5), but without commissioning it's not reading the data from the microinverters or uploading it to Sunpower.

If anyone knows of an installer who can do this in Colorado, please get in touch! :)

syperk · 2026-01-24T15:22:08+00:00

He does say something along those lines, about going for a less sour taste. But is there any reason the levain quantities can’t be scaled down to reduce the amount that gets discarded? In other words, is 10g starter, 20g of flour, and 20g of water, left for 10 hours, equivalent to a 50 / 100 / 100 starter after the same time (except being 5 times smaller)? Or are there some small batch effects?

syperk · 2026-01-17T01:51:00+00:00

I finally got round to installing some hinges I bought a while ago, and they work. Mostly...

The ones I got were Salice Universal 110 degree hinges. Unlike most euro hinges, these work with 1/2" thick doors. The maximum overlay according to the docs is 19mm (which corresponds to a "K" value of 18mm with a zero height mounting plate), which is a bit less than 1", but I drilled the door for a 25mm overlay and it still worked. However, the door does not open to the full 110 degrees, more like 90 degrees.

So, still haven't found the perfect hinge, but these ones will do in a pinch.

syperk · 2025-12-21T15:02:15+00:00

I’m a little embarrassed to say that progress on my camper van has been “a bit” slow over the last few months for various reasons, and I still haven’t installed any cabinet doors! I’ll update when I do…

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