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    New Tariffs in the States

    I heard the battery packs for some of these BEVs cost upwards of $20k by themselves. If that's true, I can't imagine an entire car for $14k with any sort of real range. Cars cost too much these days in part because of all the mandatory radars and specialized cameras and stuff. Thousands of...
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    New Tariffs in the States

    What is a "large battery" That's what I want to know.
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    House burned down

    Boom
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    House burned down

    Yes but if you have something (like corrugated metal roof) between the tank and the arc, it won't catch. Use metal supports for everything. Nothing flammable.
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    House burned down

    Outdoor in open air there should never be enough concentration of propane to ignite if something arced. Put a metal roof material between the panels and the tanks to create a simple barrier.
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    House burned down

    Huh. What about people who have propane grills in tiny city lots where you really don't have a 15 foot radius of nothingness? As it is, I have a typical suburb lot and having a 15 foot radius from my 20 pounders is going to be difficult due to house, trees, shrubs, etc. I suppose if I put them...
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    House burned down

    So uh where are you supposed to store propane tanks? <eyes the 20lb tank in the garage>
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    circuit breaker spark

    I may have done something similar once, and I may have needed to replace the fuse in my meter a while back. And, being an analog meter at the time, the needle may have slammed itself momentarily to the far right peg...
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    Signature Solar Supply Store...a prototype??

    Maybe that's why they had that crazy sale that then they wouldn't ship out stuff to a bunch of people ("sold already")
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    House burned down

    He already said there's no insurance issue.
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    House burned down

    People do uninspected work on their homes all the time. Sometimes horribly. And sometimes it goes horribly wrong. I have never heard of insurance refusing to pay over that. I'm sure the banks would love to have insurance not pay.
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    Luyuan battery case

    It absolutely is.
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    4 X class solar flares to impact this weekend.

    It is very windy today. Solar wind? Darn sun farts.
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    4 X class solar flares to impact this weekend.

    Get to live to die another day.
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    New Tariffs in the States

    Truth! Oh good. I hate waiting. Right. :ROFLMAO: Love it, so true!
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