Joe Wamsley

I have given up on gloves at this point. I used to try to find some good ones, spent sooo much money. Now I just get the cheapest ones when the big box stores have them on sale. I have some blackberries with huge barbs. I think chainmaille or welding gloves with a thick jacket.  I generally am just really careful and just accept it's gonna happen. Usually I end up with them on my shoulders or in my hair rather than my hands so maybe it's just a skill issue.

Thanks David, I know about the ghosted and cob webs. According to my power supply studies we aren't varying at the plug by more than +/- 1V pretty good. The frequency is stable within 0.1Hz according to my calibrated fluke.

I can literally hear the machine dithering solenoids to reduce flow rates.

It is a multi plus. I have 6 kW with 18 kW of surge capacity. The sleep function was the first thing I confirmed was off. I've never had a good experience with those.

I'm an electrical engineer... trust me... power isn't the issue here...

Didn't anyone see the Australian government talking about how great their program to turn people's hot water heater off at night went? Hasn't anyone noticed anything with some smarts to it won't work unless you are plugged into the grid?

Let's talk about that hot water heater some more. It had a shut off valve to literally shut off the outlet. At some point I had the idea to remove the grommet so it could not actually fully shut off. So it stopped firing because... the shut off valve had failed. I literally just put everything right and plugged it into the grid at someone else's house. The electricity was way dirtier there and it worked without a hitch.

Are all you commenting on power hooked up to the grid for backup? Can you run an experiment where you remove that for a month and see how many appliances work?

John, too many kids to make that work in the winter. I have a huge one for the warmer months.

I've got a victron setup, plenty of pure sine power.

1st my on demand hot water heater did use a plug and I had enough power for it, it was  propane and it had everything it needed. I gave it to a buddy who is on grid we hooked it up and he hasn't had a problem.

2nd, we weren't able to get the old style speed queen unfortunately.

3rd, yes the pump has plenty of flow. I can fill the washer in a matter of minutes from the same tap just you know... if I disconnect and run the old fashioned way. Plus we have enough pressure tank capacity to run like 10 loads...

Hi Fellow Permies,
So I started with my off grid house and I got a realllllllllllllly good tankless water heater. The damned thing kept closing the outlet valve and shutting off the hot water even though the pipes were empty and there were hot water valves open. I eventually replaced the thing with an RV style hot water heater that was 1/10th as good but it actually works so it is 10000x better.

I've had this constant issue with the washing machine. I have 50 PSI at the water line I can fill a bucket in no time. But... the speed queen keeps refusing to fill. I have cleaned out the inlets and honestly there isn't anything wrong with anything except the washer.

Has anyone figured a work around? There has to be some grid based capacity communication that is limiting these beaugy appliances. I can run saws, air compressors, weld... I have water, and I don't have any issues there. Gas runs through the pipes no problem...  my dryer works just fine.

Is there another box I can put on my grid that tells these appliances they have 100% capacity?

Oh just noticed a disparity in the OP. The liquid was what came out of the butter. It is not butter or cream or milk. It has been separated then beaten till it was butter, then kneaded out of the butter.

So after making a lot of butter I put the remaining cream/milk or whatever into a jar and left it on the counter. This was fresh raw milk to start and was never pasteurized. The stuff separated into a lowest jiggly goop, a pinkish liquid (this appears to be spread out into the lowest jiggly goop but not the top layer), and a cream at the top.

What can I do with this?

Add: The liquid was what came out of the butter. It is not butter or cream or milk. It has been separated then beaten till it was butter, then kneaded out of the butter.

Skandi Rogers wrote:
I think you may have misunderstood that there is no way they need 13km/s to work that's 29082mph  They're not making turbines for Jupiter. However 13m/s is very high for a starting speed that's 29mph wind. If they mean km/h then 13 would be a very nice and low starting speed.

All I know for sure is my drill couldn't spin the things fast enough to get get more than 6.5V.

Michael Qulek wrote:I did almost the same thing, but I found a local seller off Ebay that was willing to do local pickup instead of shipping.  With that sale I got 1000W of panels for exactly 400$.  I paid through Ebay, then I drove over and loaded them on the back of my truck.

Last year I found another local seller marketing left-over installation panels.  Was getting 1000W of panels (four 250W grid-tie) for 220$, cash and carry.  Tried to buy enough for both myself and all the neighbors that wanted any.  Wish now I had bought even more!  They are the highest quality, highest performing panels I own.  Sadly, that seller has moved on.

Today I'm seeing higher prices, ~75$ for a 250W panel, or about 300$ per 1000W.  Still far better though than just 1W/$.

That's even better. I didn't take out a loan for my system so I scaled it up. First set I was able to buy from a local company for pretty inexpensive. That wasn't an option the next year. The second hand panels are way lower cost though (18 cents/watt including freight. They seem fine and have been in use less than a decade.