Recent content by Madcodger

I've used three Emporia Vue devices in three different buildings (two properties) for well over two years. Works well and aligns with what the power company charges me for overall use in each building. The measurement for the heat pump circuits in each of these buildings seems correct, and I...

Read this whole thread, and still not a clue about how to reasonably protect a working system.

Warning - bit of a rant here. So... We (our country) wants to encourage more energy from sources other than fossil fuels. To do that, we need things that produce that energy (solar cells) and a way to store that energy (larger storage batteries). So what do we do? Make them more expensive! What...

Went out to see if any more "northern lights" and.... nada. Helloooo, pillow.

Not that I can tell. Just a lot of alarms on the UPS devices that were connected to the grid. Saw friends for breakfast that live near the main branch of the grid and they said nothing at all at their house. We're the last property down a long stretch of the smallest circuit they run, so maybe...

Well, at least I can turn the UPS's back on this morning. They were going wild. The one at my wife's desk beeps at almost any grid fluctuation, and the one for the router is also sensitive. But I have a couple of others from which I've never heard a peep after several years no matter what's...

My Starlink seems OK, but the UPS powering the router (I don't use the SL router) is going nuts along with others. Everything touching the grid here is going nuts, but the off grid buildings on our property are undisturbed. Pretty wild...

I posted this pic and a couple of others in a thread in the general discussion area, but thought I'd post this one here for the EMP afficionados. Every UPS in our grid-connected house has been going crazy for almost an hour now with this G4 solar storm tonight. I had to shut two down, and think...

A couple more shots for you folks...

One of the pics I snapped outside our house a few minutes ago. Every UPS in the grid-connected buildings was beeping like mad (Had to shut two down) so the grid here in Maine going crazy. But my Victron equipment (off grid "shed" buildings on the property) and everything attached to it...

I live in the epicenter of the PFAS problem, in rural Maine. This whole issue with PFAS started (basically was discovered) here because years ago the state encouraged farmers to take sludge as a great source of fertilizer. It isn't really the US EPA that's "shutting down" farms, so much as some...

Hmmm... Some differing info & opinions here. Please note, I understand why a mfr might select ~ 16 feet for convenience and profitability, but that's not my question. I'm wondering about being able to install a future unit (e.g., a Pioneer or similar) in a similar install setting, and NOT have...

DIY mini-splits (Mr Cool or EG4) both have ~16 foot line sets as standard when they ship. I just installed an EG4 In a location that needed only about 8 feet of line, and of course now I have all that mess coiled up behind it. I know I can't cut that, but in thinking about future mini-splits I...

Also saw it and thought, "Multiple pumps, and they have no money to get this certified. They need to sell out to someone." Then I saw that they're using all off-the-shelf parts and I thought, "Hmmm... Any real IP there?" I dunno... Seems like a nice topic for a YouTube guy to do a video, but...