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Is right on point -- and you are the "example" for how it can be done. That being said, there are plenty of "Keyboard Warriors" who are self-taught and make a good living writing code. There is a shortage of people who really know how to write good code. Though I suppose it wouldn't be the...

er Um Will has already "done it" and continues to. He was many admonishing people who seem to be expecting a handout rather than a hand up and working on bettering their "lot in life". Will has put a lot of work into it and shared much of his journey often saying "If I can do it in my...

And that is why "Marketing" "sucks"! From my point of view this "Forum" is meant to be an information source so using the terminology correctly is rather important. Presently there are other similar things that irk me about this type of thing for example: "This CFL bulb is the same as a 100...

It might be a matter of adjustment - they often have a gross adjustment screw to change the range - this link has a good indication of it https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/guide-to-set-internal-chest-freezer-thermostat-to-32f-eliminate-external-control.249612/ so if it has an...

There are plenty of social science degrees worth something maybe pay attention to the rest of it beause there are many liberal arts that don't lead to Employment Sorry Auto-correct strikes again (i definitely know the difference between possessive and contraction and with dyslexia it annoys me...

If you have ever opened an upright freezer door with bare feet you will feel the "cold" escaping this "colder air is replace by warmer air entering, which then needs to be re-cooled. this doesn't happen with a chest freezer. Notice that retail uses "open top" freezers to sell products...

of course the freezers have more insulation because they are often designed to keep things <0F and the "refrigeration system" is designed to remove more heat that most "refrigerators"

There is lots of FOG there at times so you will need some sort of back-up power for those days. Also, we have caculated for you that its 1700W x 12 hours = 20400Wh per day usage You have an average of around 5hrs a day of light and not all of that is productive in winter or when there is fog...

Actually I was hoping Will would be interested in doing a video or two on 2nd hand or repurposed cells from whatever sources exist. There are going to be lots of batteries from vehicles and whatever uses. These cells shouldn't be ending up in landfills which is going to be a large problem...

I've been looking for the "old" kind with out all the "Fancy" electronics for some time and haven't located a manufacturer - maybe the way is to try to obtain one from the "3rd" world countries

well its not "powerless" is uses the force of running water aka gravity

They did because the Chineese government said either they share it for free to get access to China or they could sell the Patent and at least get some money for it. Since patents have a limited number of years selling them for something is better than giving them away for nothing, and the...

Did you ever try this water powered pump?

SO you also need to tell us your Latitude and do you plan to run it at the same rate all year or does it take more in winter when you have less sun to power it etc. Maybe you can reduce your power needs ? LED grow lights tend to use less energy to operate fore the same amount of illumination...

There are several people using a super/ultra capacitor bank to run things that have motors check out this YouTube video his capacitor bank allows him to run a cement mixer The advantage to Supercapacitors are that they don't suffer from low charge and cycling degradation like batteries

Me to I sort of feel its like any other "low-infomation" name used by "Marketing" and then the "vlugar" ppl presume that name for the thing. I tend to think of 2a. when it applies to electricity (converting mechanical energy into electricity - generally by the effects of magnetism) Rather than...

Liquid cathode and anode batteries are coming there is nearly no cycle life considerations density is an issue however. (some people refer to these as Flow batteries) This video has a good example of how many of these batteries work.

I'm not sure about that however the main draw is that the "cold" stays inside when you open the lid so it limits the "warm" from entering it or the "cold from escaping. This reduces the amount of time the compressor would need to run to chill the chest

Specifically "Liquid batteries" This video has a good example of how many of these batteries work Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/AagO07cHRG8 - Note most of these batteries have very long life spans as there is no significant degradation due to cycling and fully discharging doesn't damage...

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If you want to cool there are systems that use Heat to generate Cooling. For example there natural gas powered refrigerators. So cooling using a "sterling engine" powered fan(s) and Heat based refrigeration is probably better than changing "heat to electricity to cooling"

I suppose one uses an auxiliary thermostat and "mains power" disconnect as to not "modify" the original unit I'd be more tempted to connect to where the "Freezer's original thermostat" operates to take advantage of the rest of the compressor operation intelligence

I would charge and if it holds then I would hook them together and balance them before doing anything else. Once balanced I'd do a capacity test to see if the reading stays nominal (after discharged and recharged) if it doesn't I'd consider it used/defective relative to the others.

Just wondering if you in tend to use it as an "attic fan".

I was also thinking some "water based heat exchanger"