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

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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.

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.

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...

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

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...

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

He already said there's no insurance issue.

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.

It absolutely is.

It is very windy today. Solar wind? Darn sun farts.

Get to live to die another day.

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

Thanks for the info. I still have noticed almost no effects here. One brief internet hiccup last night, but that could be anything.

There is. But they cost more. The other thing is I was not planning on buying more yet, so not really in the budget either. By the time it is, stateside cells may be much more $. Blah.

I want more batteries now but don't want to order them then get hit with an import duty for $1800 or whatever they push by the time they arrive stateside.

I don't even know what that means 🤪

Yeah. Seems to be. My hair glowed a funny color when I walked outside but it is ok otherwise.

Just making sure it wasn't stupid politician math.

Aliens.

So a 100% tariff on batteries would mean doubling the cost for us? I am not sure if there is some funky math that makes it 100% on a particular portion divided by the chance of a full moon on a stormy summer evening in Nebraska or other weird illogical math these guys like coming up with.

If you shut it down for only what 10 seconds to plug in the cable, are the capacitors going to discharge that quickly? If they do, what's the harm in just precharging again?

Took put the dog and saw the sky started getting more purple again. Ran back in, told my wife, shut off the outside light again... and the 1 year old woke and cried. Dang it... I did grab this from our back yard when I had the dog out.

I was able to see something faint. Camera got it a bit better than I could see. There is an annoying security light just down the road.

Maybe they did that when I wasn't looking. I have seen nothing every time i look out there. Figures I'd miss it.

Dang it. Guess I'm just too far south

Just dark skies out there. No pretty lights still. I feel like I've been ripped off. But wait, there's another X flare! Ok.

Dang it Amazon.

I'm connected to the grid and not worried. Even our cheap LED fixture that routinely pulses and flickers has been flicker free tonight. Heh. I should go take a peek out the window again. Seen nothing so far.

Does that mean they come out already hard boiled?

MAJOR SOLAR EVENT! *crickets

Bah, they said as far as Alabama at first, now only the furthest north states may see anything at all. Lots of fuss about nothing!

Nice knowing ya.

I'm still standing by my statement. Bring on the lights. My luck, it will be cloudy and rainy when it hits so we can't see nothing anyway. Darn it Ohio.