I can’t even afford to bid on Grudge’s cat collar lol.

I get that it isn’t the same but when all you have is a garbage version of a memory, I’m not sure or really matters whether the representation is the original garbage or something that makes you feel less regret over not having something better.

In my experience, the worse the photograph the better my memory of it. Probably because my mind is already used to filling in the blanks in the garbage version, so it’s constantly refreshing the memory in my mind to keep it vivid. YMMV obviously. I’m also not much of a shutterbug and prefer to commit moments to memory than try to fight with my phone to snap a photo I’ll probably never look at.

Are you able to tag the appliances after you’ve huffed all the freon out? I’ve got an old fridge in the basement I need to get rid of but can’t until I get someone out to extract the freon and put the evacuation certification tag on it.

DM me if you can help.

Apparently my body is on a 26 hour day because it’s not in the mood at all during the current 24 hours.

This appears to be part of the “Parents Decide Act”

Sure would be nice if parents would decide to parent their own kids instead of making it everyone else’s problem.

“How to Adult 101” and 102. I’m not qualified to teach 103+ though.

I will always use “M as in ‘Mancy’”

Tact

Ah. Okay. I use a client that handles YT embeds so that’s why then. However, when I’m on a VPN, sometimes it puts me through an endless captcha loop.

I’m assuming that’s a VPN problem? They always work fine as embeds for me.

Oh, I’m stupid lol. I was only referring to the PV period from 8-5. On the full 24 hour graph, including the times it’s not on PV, that probably is the fridge

It does kind of match that, energy profile-wise, but fridge was definitely on the power station and isn’t reflected in the graph from 8am to 5pm. I wanted to make sure I could run that from PV alone and after that was confirmed, just kept putting it on PV during the day. That, and the usage graph seems to be averaged over 30 minute intervals, so I don’t think a momentary spike like a motor’s startup draw would show like it would with a realtime graph.

Fridge/freezer is running from the power station, but the huge spike around 6pm is it kicking into its defrost cycle after I took it off the PV.

Literally these.

Once I get the wiring done and everything settled in, I may pick up another set and have a total of four 16KWh batteries and two inverters for a total of 20KW (the inverters can parallel up to 6 units, and the batteries up to 15).

That I’m not sure, but likely various misc/intermittent loads that aren’t running from the power station (bathroom lights/fan, electric range, attic fan, etc). The one right before 8am is probably the coffee machine, and the bump around 1pm is when I made lunch.

The graph is also confusing. Like, I know my homelab runs at about 0.25 KWh continuously but the graph is in half hour increments so shows it as half that.

Are there any platforms you use to try and outmate things yet? Or integrate it to track power usage?

Not yet since I don’t have it yet (should be here toward end of the month), but there are mobile and desktop apps which can interface with it over wifi and serial, respectively.

I’ll definitely be looking to see if there’s a HomeAssistant module or something or if someone has documented the serial protocol so I can write my own software.

Basically I want to be able to change the configuration without having to enter the numeric commands and params on the unit itself. I’m imagining something like a list of preset custom modes I can switch by having a program change the params to a set of predefined values.

Like, I want it to only charge the batteries from the PV most of the time (which is something you can configure), but I’d also want an easy way to tell it to charge from utility in case a big storm is coming or something. Once I have that, I’d like to extend it so that I can watch for severe weather events and if NWS issues a severe storm warning, have it automatically switch to that mode and back once the storm warning has passed.

That’s all down the road, though but definitely something I’ve been thinking about.

The main things I run from it are all downstairs in the basement and within reach of extension cords: homelab, WFH office, washing machine, etc. Those are lazily run through the drop ceiling to not be trip hazards. I did install a second outlet behind the fridge upstairs and ran romex down to the basement for it. That was from an earlier plan to have a subset of outlets that were on a backup circuit, but I changed my mind and opted for a whole house solution. So I just put a plug on the end of that (basically turning it into a sort of heavy duty extension cord) and hook it into the power station during the day.

To transfer them back and forth, I just switch where they’re plugged in. They’re all on UPSs (including the fridge - long story) so there’s no power interruption. For other stuff (like charging the lawnmower and power tool batteries, etc) I’ll just either run an extension cord out of the basement or plug the tool chargers into it (it’s got 4 outlets and can put out 2,000 W).

The graph depicts the utility usage, and the bit in the middle where it’s low/negligible throughout the day is just those “base” loads missing / not using power.

Oh, for sure. If I hadn’t/couldn’t downsize, then I’d just be adding more solar lol.