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Going over 33 volts means your system falls under a different set of regulations in some places ( maybe not in some or all of the USA ) You may not be able to get insurance unless you pulled a permit and had it inspected. You may run afoul of local electrical authorities with a grid tie system...

By jeep I mean Toyota f80 Here’s a nice picture of me (centre) and the rest of the guys in my dept going to a job Marlene in the back can’t see her…. notable woman….

I could be wrong about the pill maybe I watch too many old movies In every spy movie there is a poison pill and somehow you trick the bad guy into drinking the poisoned glass and the good guy manages to board a train and escape to West Berlin

I used to do business with an old order Mennonite “uneducated religious extremist” Hardly Pacifists and generally charitable, deeply moral and their greatest concern are not about worldly things but rather doing things the right things that will allow them to enter the kingdom of heaven when...

Fancy stuff I had.... Past tense an old timey resistance bridge for doing leads wingdings and connections. I don't recall the resolution on the meter but it needed calibration from time to time and this was never done in a timely manner so when people tell me resistance figures as low as you I...

Lucky I f the can light a fart on fire those guys They will crash everything in the dessert long before they reach any population centres Ukrainians are different High education level technically very savvy and adaptive They could take the stuff those Taliban cave broke and crashed in the...

This is a Chinese electric vehicle range extender. Nothing like it on this side of the pond I am aware of and no venders of this style of generator charger. It uses a PM head so there is no need for field control. The voltage and current regulation is managed by a computer that monitors both...

Just get them as close as reasonably achievable. This is not like fixing a watch or building a ship in a bottle...

I'm off topic and really want to apologize for this but I want to add some more about pressure lanterns white gas and low compression engines. I'm sure everyone here has heard of lead in gasoline. Back way back in the past gasoline was very hit and miss stuff. it was not refined to a very tight...

How you end up developing a load shed system is up to you This is a LOGO There are some as cheap a 60 bucks if you shop around I used these 20 years ago to do simple jobs that in the old days would have required a lot of relays and wires and devices that in todays money would cost maybe a...

There they are all in there glory shiny and new and not mine... Of interest is this also has been upgraded the batteries are larger than the unit replaced the new charger does not have a equalization button. New heavier duty DC rated breakers too. I hate to disappoint, for the most part these...

Alternators are not good battery chargers for any application. The right way to charge a battery requires you to limit the charge current to a level the battery can except for its state of discharge. Alternator regulators try to regulate voltage only. Also your likely to smoke the regulator...

Free air tables can be confusing If it’s a manufactured cable with multi conductors Or armoured cable your rating will be lower than free air. Inside a battery box might not be considered free air You might have to derate based on ambient temperatures or heat generated in devices Lots of...

No don't do that. Octane is too low ( maybe an Onan LK or CCK with 5:1 heads could deal with it but its a bad idea with other sets ) When talking pressure lanterns gas generator is the vaporizer that turns liquid fuels into gas through vaporization and thermal cracking. This gas is then mixed...

Cant see the big chargers in this photo.... After a while motor crews get lazy and don't charge enough. After deep discharges the batteries get weak and are starting to sulphate. That's when they start calling about a dead loco on the track without enough power to get to a charger It seems to...

After my j thought I can see one of the reasons Putin might hate him so much A Jewish comedian that does an act like that Русист ( my Runglish is pretty bad ) Russian fascism cant stand the idea of a man like that and But I am reminded of another comic ( that may have been a Jew too I seem to...

An observation A tool bag you toss over your shoulder to walk, that fits in the passenger seat of a small utility vehicle and contains the bare minimum of hand tools to perform a task is all you need An involved job requires you to get out there and summing up At that point you need to ready a...

Just an observation about Furnaces. They seem to have the worst electronics in them. I am real suspect of Any boards in whirlpool products to be specific The simpler and dumber something is the more likely it is to last. The trade off seems to be lower efficiency in most cases. The highest...

Mostly I'm giving you the gears. There are 3 or 4 different types of J fuse you can get that range form time delay to fast for protecting drives with large currents and high available faults.... Why I bring this up.... I remember these big exide battery chargers I used to fix I think they were...

BE REAL CAREFUL what you buy. Modern machines are very cheaply built and they designs have been made with a consideration towards low water use and efficient motors. This does not equate to a long life or even a good job washing. Your WP is probably a late model of the DD system. These were...

All the electronics and sophistication in the world don’t mean a dam thing if you don’t have the power to drive it You need about 2 hp per kw to run a small generator with good regulation and wiggle room for surges Typically you don’t get that today You typically need a minimum of about 2...

You might have some lagging of issues with microwave and any motor loads You can’t do anything without knowing what your dealing with Nice piece to have around is something like these kill a watt testers...

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Mild mannered Canadian with socialist leaning here…. You Should have blown that thing out of the sky before it crossed the bearing straight. We should have blown the dam thing out of the sky the moment it crossed Alaska Weak political apparatus in can/usa We should have armed Ukrainians the...

Maybe its the water....

I dare not pick it up again

Regular 1/2 sheet gypsum board has a fire rating of about an hour. You can get thicker boards and boards with 4 hour ratings. I think it might be wise to look into that for a battery room in a wood structure and its not that much more expensive than regular dry wall... An Ontario electrical...

A car had 3 independent braking systems front back and parking brake A wind mill should have two Then you know with good maintenance and t should never grenade on you

I have a fluke clamp on that looks like that. I cant honestly tell you what model it is now. I give so little thought to this stuff. When they stop working I hand it into the toolman and he does something with it and I get a new one. Danger comes from being complacent. I catch myself sometimes...