LordKitsuna

Oh, well that's stupid and overreaching regulation. I can only imagine what the services cost when it's forced like that probably worse than around here. Imagine not being able to install a new light circuit because you aren't a certified electrician that's nuts lol.

I can fully understand the roof part, that you can always get a roofing contractor for installing they will do it for a lot less and likely much better than a solar installer will. But the wiring is incredibly simple there's literally just positive and negative on the solar panels. You just put them in series until you hit your desired voltage, then parallel strings after that. Solar panels use nice simple connectors that literally just click together, you plug those into some nice disconnect switches near the inverter and then from the switch to the inverter.

I did explicitly specify a non grid tie unit. An off-grid unit that does not do any grid feedback is literally no different than plugging a UPS in to back up your computer in terms of the impact on the grid . It will accept the grid as an input to pass through but it will never feed power back into the grid thus a lot of the red tape goes away.

Maybe it's different in the UK but for the US a self consumption off grid inverter you do not need to even inform the power company much less be any type of electrician it's only if you are doing a grid tie inverter that will put power back into the grid that suddenly there's a lot of requirements.

DIY is the way to go. You will be able to get a dramatically larger system for the same price. I do not recommend grid tie it's not worth the rebate there's a ton of red tape and you will have to install an insane amount of extra equipment if you want to be able to actually have power during a power outage. Using an off-grid inverter with self consumption means that it's basically just a computer UPS on steroids and it also removes a ton of the installation red tape that exists for grid tie inverters.

They are actually quite simple to install correctly to code and then for extra piece of mind you can have it inspected by an electrician which is way way cheaper than having them do the installation. I decided to spend roughly $20,000 on solar and for that money I got an entire pallet of solar panels 50 of them 30 KW hours of battery and 12kWh of inverter output.

Getting the solar panels installed is a hell of a lot of manual labor that's for sure definitely one of the better workouts I've had in a while but when I compared what any solar installer in my area would give me for that price? It was a fraction of the system less than half the total solar panel output half the inverter output no batteries and most companies don't want to talk to you about a system unless it's gridtied.

Which is also exactly why it will never be popular. People don't want to have to deal with jumping around instances, dealing with the poor discoverability of the fediverse, etc. Even lemmy has that issue, I'm here because im a linux nerd so there is a decent amount of content i want here found easily but for anything else might as well be worthless.

I do notice that a lot of these flashlights reference protected versus unprotected cells but I'm not 100% sure what they mean by that here is a picture of the cells I have I don't know if those count as protected or not

Wow thank you for the detailed reply the guide and the specific recommendation this should help me find exactly what I need to start making use of at least some of these cells

Pivoted off a cliff with swift lmao.

I've unfortunately gotten tired of ironfox, some of the crap they change for "privacy" (doesn't exist on the internet and all attempts to block things actually make you MORE identifiable) just break too many websites. After the like 30th time having to switch to nightly to make something work i just said fuck it.

They really need to be more careful about actual functionality if they want to take over as the main version of ff. Don't get me wrong I use ublock origin, decentraleyes, clearURLs etc. But i use them for performance not privacy, blocking all the bullshit sites load to eat my battery. They work without constantly breaking basic sites unlike whatever ironfox does

Being able to hide it in net worth is the bullshit loophole, regardless of it being straight income or not having that net worth affords him the ability to get monstrously expensive things no other person could ever even dream of and he's enjoying that life and everything in it while paying basically nothing in taxes

https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/driver-shot-at-for-going-too-slow-eyewitness-says/804586303/

Boom, it happened one time so it will happen every time

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