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This nexus straight up was pretty neat.

My last pic straight up before I gave up. We are in 120' firs.

That is a Thunder Mustang, my pic at a fly-in. They are a 3/4 scale replica of the P-51, complete with a custom 640 HP V12 engine. They outperform a mustang at a fraction of the price. They even make the righteous sound. Gives me goosebumps every time.

If interesting includes pain in the lower back, that's me crouched down and head out the window so I can almost see what I am doing. They stripped the forms off that pool wall and we got a couple of pieces of 8" sch 40 PVC in. The long factory bell joints do not push together by hand, so in...

Hello all. I was always going to do grid tied solar PV on the new home, but lately I am getting excited about vacuum tube collectors for my hydronic heating. Happy to be here and I'll get to reading up what is going on.

@AlaskanNoob , Approach the problem from another direction. How much of a hassle is it to Shut down and later restart your equipment? Now, how much of a hassle is it to replace a significant amount of hardware? Those are the questions. If I were as concerned as you seem to be, then I would have...

We are south of Tacoma right now, but the new place? It is 20 minutes from the Black Ball ferry dock in Port Angeles!! We are in the heart of the rain shadow just south of 101 in Sequim. How about them apples? I can't wait to bring our 5th wheel across and just leave it there one summer. I think...

That's what I do for a living, put things in the ground. My plan is to over-loop it. I will use PVC conduit sweeps and bring them up in the equipment room, and have (5) 600' home runs for 5 tons of capacity. Then I will put in 2 loops of storage, the same way. I do not like fusing to a header...

The civil engineer emailed the final stamped stormwater plan yesterday. I have to do a few edits of elevations on the print and draw in the new side sewer. Just a quick sketch and I will shoot that off to a Dropbox file I share with the lady in the city office. Send her an email and then the...

Work can be interesting. I am the operating engineer at a commercial plumbing contractor. This job was for a live seafood processing facility. Rules for construction: 1) deep stuff goes in first. The site contractor was trying to dig these sumps in hardpan with a mini and a smooth bucket. I...

If the roof has slope and you have a few inches of space under the panels, it will start a convective current through there and siphon the heat out the top. A breeze can also act on that setup. Down tight to the surface is bad for the panels, they groove on cooler temperatures.

Thank you. I designed the house using the prescriptive design standards in the IBC. it is a simple pitched roof but I made it asymmetrical to get more area for solar. The second floor south roof measures 20' by 36'. I have a decent playground to work with. I have a 20'x18' lower roof that is...

I agree in the sense that the system gets more robust rather than less. I disagree when I consider how dependent people seem to be on every last little bit of tech, and you practically have to beg somebody to put the !#%^^% smart phone down and have a nice social family dinner. It just fries my...

Hey don't short sell Reba!!

I just got here @G00SE . I start my pension in April @63-ish, and will start building our retirement home soon. I will keep working part time until I can't take it anymore.

@AlaskanNoob The sun has been doing this since forever. We figured out how to detect and measure it when Carrington happened. Since the grid has existed the operators have been finding out the hard way what makes it vulnerable and they have been actively patching it up as they bring the grid...

I picked this up yesterday, a 28-350 Rockwell 20" bandsaw. It needs new tires, blade, a fence, and a pulley for the new single phase motor. I found all the parts at one vendor online.

Nothing recent on the current house, I remodeled it in 2013 and 2015 and built our own kitchen cabinets. Shaker maple with a built in fridge that shares some depth with the walk in closet behind it. I have other pictures but not online ATM.

as many others have pointed out, it is hard to beat the energy density and cost of a bottle of propane. Don' take this wrong, as I travel with a pair of 100s loose and an MPPT controller on our 5th wheel, but not for heating things up. I don't bother with mounts because the best camping spots...

new install with all new equipment. It is not a good thing, but you can get bad gear out of the box. Do not obsess about it. Gather data for a while and then inform the installer of the discrepancies.

We are building a new home in the Olympic rain shadow, where the sun shines more and it rains less than anywhere around it. It has a less than ideal roof pitch for flat collectors at 3:12, but this is a better pitch for my personal safety :) I am using standing seam metal so I can employ the...

The panels are about 21% efficient, and the rest is heat.

you and me both^ I have not seen them yet, but we are about retired and that is a bucket list trip for us.

It depends on where you usually camp. The site I go to every July, roof mounts are worthless. The RV is parked firmly in the shade of the trees. I have loose panels that I can get about 6 hours of good sun on if I move them frequently.

you probably figured out I have an interest in aviation as well :) I have never been in an 8 or a 6, but I got wedged into the back seat of an RV4 and did half Cuban Eights until my middle ears got angry. Commercial SES SEL MEL Instrument airplane instructor single and multi. Not current but...

I have a pair of 100W renogy that I slap together with some clamps, and do the dance to stay in the sun. 120' trees.

That is the business end of a Thunder Mustang. It was at a fly in at the home airport. They got it all right with those, even the sounds.

Excellemt outcome!! As the customer, you were right to insist on getting what was designed and permitted. Thanks for reporting back.

not my plane, my pic. I fly an old 310.