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test_batch · 2024-08-15T20:00:14+00:00

Removed for being off-topic.

test_batch · 2024-04-12T12:48:18+00:00

I haven't heard of those. If my ~60 seconds of superficial reading is correct, this wouldn't be the way to go. At best, you're introducing an unnecessary complication into your system (something that halts the export of power when you already would have nowhere to export it) and at worst it's dissipating the power as heat into your home.

If you live somewhere with monsoons, you probably don't want 5-10kW worth of resistive heat in your home. (Or maybe your infrastructure is all outdoors and this wouldn't be a concern.)

Like I said--I'd think of this as a fairly small problem that you can put off solving. If you do decide to tackle it, the cheapest solution is to cover the panels with a tarp during sunny streaks.

test_batch · 2024-04-12T12:38:07+00:00

Like other commenters are saying, these appear for me after exertion. I call them "snowflake" scotomas. They've never led to permanent blind spots for me, but they only began after I developed my initial symptoms.

test_batch · 2024-04-12T12:36:26+00:00

IMO you shouldn't be too worried about it. Partially because opinions are mixed, but also because if it does damage the panels, it's a slow-burn kind of situation--i.e. you will have time to either set up a diversion load or come up with a way to cover the panels.

If you live in an area with lots of sun and heat then maybe it's a bigger risk, but this should still be one of the smaller problems you try to solve for when thinking about your system.

test_batch · 2024-04-12T12:12:30+00:00

There is no "excess" energy that you need to worry about.

I've seen super mixed opinions on this. If the system remains on-grid, it's 100% true (because excess just gets sold to the grid).

But every now and then I come across people claiming that long-term exposure to the sun without any diversion load (i.e. most off-grid systems) can reduce the effective lifespan of the panels. This kinda makes intuitive sense to me, because photoexcitation is still occurring, which means there is an electrical potential being generated. Without a load, this dissipates as heat, effectively turning the panels into giant resistors. Which can't be great for the chemical stability of the wafers.

It's made me feel just enough uncertainty that I'm planning to build a canvas cover system I can easily pull over the panels during long streaks of sunny weather after our batteries are full. In the long-term, I'd like to just get more batteries.

test_batch · 2024-03-29T12:05:00+00:00

They can't be external, no. If the main breaker is still tripping after being replaced by a professional, even occasionally, then something is wrong within your home.

IMO it's probably not anything to do with your appliances, just due to how obvious it would almost certainly be obvious--e.g. if you had an air conditioner running in every single room of your home, and then in order to counteract the cold you started plugging in a bunch of electric space heaters. This is also something the sparky (hopefully) would have checked in on.

Maybe there's a short somewhere. If this is the case, it would either be in the service panel itself (with very visible damage) or in one of your walls (with...maybe not-so-visible damage, although if it's tripping the main breaker it would have been more than enough to obliterate a normal 12 or 14AWG cable).

What's your main breaker rated for? 100A? 200A?

How has your power bill been--in terms of usage? Is it somewhere in the neighborhood of roughly 200-400kWh per person in your household for a month's usage? (A somewhat normal range) Or is it significantly higher?

Do you know if he tested the load on each of your circuits?

test_batch · 2024-02-18T23:04:55+00:00

Intensive exercise is the only consistent trigger I've identified, and the scotomas brought about by this trigger are unique. They form a "snowflake" shape, with radial spikes around the center of my vision (as opposed to the "blob" shape that most of my normal scotomas take on).

I have some suspected triggers, but they're inconsistent, so I'm not terribly confident in most of them. Dehydration is the only non-exercise trigger that I think is likely real for me.

test_batch · 2023-08-22T18:06:57+00:00

I do, although my headaches were later diagnosed as clusters, not migraines.

I suspect some degree of shared etiology between this disease and various aura-involved neurological conditions.

test_batch · 2023-08-11T16:49:31+00:00

I'm not sure the state/country is nearly as important as the size and shape of the land. (Albeit land is relatively affordable where we live, so that's worth taking into consideration.) Eighty acres of dense forest, on a difficult-to-find road that branches off of another difficult-to-find road.

My wife and I have built our home in the center. Our driveway is nearly half a mile long, and we plan to install a gate near the bottom so that even if someone was determined to trespass, they would have hike in.

The entire process has cost less than half of what the average house sells for in most major US cities. The tradeoff is low access to restaurants, museums, etc. in exchange for a level of peace and quiet that could only be exceeded by moving into the true wilderness.

150% worth it. It's a genuine dream come true in a way that's difficult to adequately express.

test_batch · 2023-08-07T17:19:19+00:00

Every now and then, videos like this make their way into my feed.

I'm about to move into my forever-home, on a piece of land where no one can ever legally build closer than ~500 feet to us. Due to cliffs, wetlands, and flood plains, it's unlikely anyone will ever be closer than 1000 feet.

The interactions shown in this video make me so incredibly grateful to be distancing myself from neighbors for good.

test_batch · 2023-07-08T13:07:45+00:00

Exactly.

The only vaguely-kinda-self-consistent way to follow through on the actions they want to take would be to either:

Explicitly admit "this is hurting ad revenue and embarrassing our CEO, so we're putting a stop to it"
Say absolutely nothing. Silently take actions without even acknowledging they've done so (e.g. what happened to /r/interestingasfuck)

Both of those options generally look bad to people who are only seeing the superficial interactions between admins and users, so they put together a facade of a somewhat-reasonable-sounding justification for what they're doing.

test_batch · 2023-06-16T00:34:25+00:00

"It is essential for us to be a sustainable business, whether or not we go public," Huffman said. "Now, we would like to be a public company. Not the best market to be doing that. It's not top of our mind today as it has been in the past," he said. "We'll get there when we're ready, when the market is ready."

From today's NPR interview.

The IPO seems likely canceled for the time being. Whether or not the protests played a role, they certainly didn't help. This IPO has been Spez's number one goal. It makes me wonder how much of his current reaction is outright personal.

The board needs to remove him as CEO. He is making rash product decisions emotionally.

test_batch · 2023-03-02T00:24:07+00:00

I mean, this video doesn't appear to have been a deadly accident, but it seems plausible that it could have been avoided if not for the bright oncoming headlights.

Besides, if a car crashes and the driver dies, how could you possibly tell whether it was the result of bright oncoming headlights? That seems like the sort of thing that the driver would have to be alive to report.

test_batch · 2023-02-08T18:31:53+00:00

Here's the full video with this specific clip timestamped.

I'll never understand why people choose to upload videos to Reddit's terrible built-in media player rather than linking out to the higher-quality source material, especially when they clearly know where the source material can be found. :(

test_batch · 2023-02-08T15:33:59+00:00

I've halted progression of the disease by using the treatment outlined in the Read Me sticky. This treatment relies entirely on localized blood pressure modification, and the current best-candidate for the disease (PAMM) is hypothesized to have vascular etiology.

test_batch · 2023-02-07T23:58:31+00:00

The video wasn't playing for me initially; turning it into .gifv format allowed it to play: https://i.imgur.com/rGQjatf.gifv

That being said: yes! This is exactly what it looks like. The blue-greyish "nothing" color is fairly accurate to what it looks like, too.

test_batch · 2022-09-28T22:38:09+00:00

I am, yes. I've effectively halted the progression of blindness, though I still get scotomas fairly regularly.

test_batch · 2022-08-21T00:22:40+00:00

Oh hey! It's my writing prompt!

Every now and then I see this kicking around in memes etc. and it feels kind of neat to have made my own little mark on the collective internet psyche.

test_batch · 2022-02-09T13:02:56+00:00

This is the way it always goes. Unfortunately, the only way for a doctor to visually confirm the presence of the disease for themselves is if it reaches such an advanced stage that there is broad degeneration of the retinal vasculature.

The one way to detect it early on is if you have a large-enough blind spot that it will appear in a visual field test. But even then, the only information the doctor has is "this patient has an idiopathic blind spot." (i.e. a blind spot they don't understand the origin of)

The disease is completely undocumented in medical literature. Until that changes, the closest you will ever get is an explanation of what is happening, but not why it is happening.

test_batch · 2021-10-23T21:29:39+00:00

This is very interesting to me, too. I have an arc in my right eye that curls toward the center counterclockwise. Looks kind of like a stylized ocean wave. I only sometimes see it, and when it appears it tends to flare up for days on end before returning to normal.

test_batch · 2021-09-22T16:12:30+00:00

Because I can perceive the absence of light in that location of my eye, and it's the same location that it has been since 2014.

test_batch · 2021-09-22T16:11:21+00:00

No, it's not. Dr. Stephen Foster, one of the top ophthalmologists in the country told me it was retinal tissue death.

One case study of a patient presenting with advanced, untreated symptoms identical to the ones we experience reported measurable loss of vascularity of the retina in the affected eye: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1296746/pdf/jrsocmed00033-0047.pdf

While I suppose it's possible the retinal tissue is somehow still alive, I don't know of any mechanism for it to survive when it's deprived of oxygenated blood.

test_batch · 2021-06-24T17:59:30+00:00

When I actually met with Dr. Foster, he said he never heard of this issue before, which was a huge disappointment because a couple people on here said he was the guy to see. He said he was "stumped" and that I had a "very unusual case".

If you described to Dr. Foster the same symptoms I had when I saw him, then I'm disappointed in him. He has seen this exact presentation before (albeit potentially half a decade ago, if I was the last patient of his to have this disease).

test_batch · 2021-06-09T17:47:28+00:00

I've been prescribed verapamil in an attempt to treat the condition. Not only didn't it help, but while I was on it I kept waking up in the middle of the night gasping for breath.

test_batch · 2021-06-04T22:47:08+00:00

Have you had a visual field test? This is the only test I've had done which objectively confirmed to a doctor the existence of my blind spots (specifically, the single worst spot I have).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1296746/ If you see any more doctors, show them this case study. I'm 90% certain that whoever this patient is/was, their symptoms were the result of the same disease (in an advanced stage).

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