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I can highly recommend this First Alert/BRK #3120B photo & Ionization dual sensor (not a carbon monoxide sensor) Just don’t do any heat shrinking, soldering or smoking anywhere near it. But that’s what you want, the earliest heads up you can get. No alarm without a reason whatsoever in over a...

We used to keep metal turning in a “chip shed” outside. One day I found the barrels gone and cyclone fence ripped open, probably by a chain and truck. I made temporary repair of the fence with mechanic’s wire and baited the trap. We filled a bunch of 55gallon drums with beautiful aluminum...

Hot air fryer. Bought it mainly for less grease in my food and didn’t think about energy consumption. Realizing that it’s not really throwing much heat out the back and mostly recirculating it thus putting it into the food. I put it on the counter with the rear towards the oven...

Several years ago I got fed up with over priced cable with poor quality service and found a deal with T-Mobile high speed home internet. At $50 a month and no data caps it was a deal. It worked fine for a few years but others found out about it and it started to slow down to crawl 20Mbps or much...

If I see the northern lights, I can cross one more thing off my bucket list.

Looking back two years ago and what Signature Solar’s website looks like today, the difference is amazing. The growth must be overwhelming. I work at an established company and we can’t find people to just maintain our current levels let alone expand. Only one in ten people that HR finds pan...

When I had my boat I had three 8D Vmax 310 Ah AGM’s on inverter duty. What always struck me was how much power was wasted round trip. At the time they were pretty much the best standby power you could get. They were the heaviest of their class. I’ve got the hernia scars to prove it. Not kidding...

Commissioned my third battery build and like always a little drama. The batteries arrived from Eel batteries in 4 days and 4 of the sixteen cells were damaged. They were dropped upside down and the 2 bolt terminals were bent almost touching the case and others were dented by an nimrod that...

Probably the most common new home move in problem. Refrigerator tripping the AFCI. A quality GFI will likely be able cope with it but people are just replacing the breaker with a standard one. Unintended consequences. Don’t have to be off grid to have problems with those things.

Mine are all 16 cells, 8 up and 8 back

Oh, and by the way I glad you’re not hurt and nothing else burned up except for the bms

It’s the old saying ; “Do you trust your government?” Definitely not in California if you’re middle class. BOHICA

Forget about protecting the equipment. Have a spare system in a tight fitting metal box for when the the dust has settled, hopefully not hot. It’ll be cheaper in the long run than trying to harden.On the upside, you got spares.

Typical. The NFPA lumping battery chemistry types together and making an unnecessary ruling resulting in many installations impossible to comply with due to space constraints. The way I understand it, the biggest danger with LiFePO4, is inhalation toxicity and suffocation if one battery goes up...

I fuse to the lesser, component or cable.

When I see two cells right next to each other, one high and the other low, I’m thinking bad connection of a buss bar.

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Today wasn’t a waste, I learned something

Kinda reminds me of history. A new industry entered the market and the existing industry already had the funds as well as the connections to politicians. The existing industry saw the threat and wanted all kinds of restrictions placed on the new. Horse and buggy VS automobile.

Easy for you guys. I’m just happy that SA doesn’t crash and don’t have a clue as to get two programs to cooperate let alone set it to pull data and graph. Just tad bit over this old guy’s head and afraid to FUBAR permanently. But yeah, that it looks good.

Some cheap Amazon no name breakers are notorious for getting hot and dropping power on surge demand. A 50 amp breaker isn’t going to cut it. Years ago I had a GoPower GP SW3000 pure sine. It was rated at 3k continuous 6kw surge. It was had a T class 400 fuse. The only problem I had was every...

Self powered diesel heater (mod)

I can just see Sunshine; “Hey hun, we need to buy this so we have a place to dump our excess solar, OK!” ?

I didn’t notice it before but you have only one battery. That’s a lot of surge for that battery, and it won’t get better at a low state of charge. You still might get away with it with a soft start. Be sure your battery cables are at least the recommended size that the inverter calls for and not...

The voltage difference between the batteries in use and those that were being upgraded tripped the over current when you bought them together. If you have the 150 amp version JK, you should be able to set the charge current to 75 and it should be safe there for continuous use at that level...

I use NO-OX-ID A Special and not changing. Got it from Amazon. This is a result from a marine article where they subjected several types of connection to harsh conditions. https://www.practical-sailor.com/boat-maintenance/conductive-greases-vs-corrosion

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I wanted an early warning so I added these two to the hardwire of the whole house. One is a heat detector and the other is a combination photo/ionizing detector. I got these and 14/3(3+ground) Romex at Lowe’s. Since there’s no internal combustion engine in the garage I’m not worried about false...

I used four zip tie mounts per bms.They have adhesive but they also have four mounting holes of which I use two small screws. They also work as a standoff to allow some convection cooling.

That reform helps protect people from wild tax increases per year, however if you go out and buy a new home, you now have that new annual tax value, and now your rate of increased tax protection begins again from that point. Back in 08 they were slow to make corrections the other way so I had to...