Starlyte Hi

Steve Zoma wrote:Reminds me of the gateless fences where a person can step through, but animals will not because off the odd arrangement for their hooves/paws/etc.

As others have said, pretty hard to enter that door with a weapon in your hand on a deadly charge too.

Speaking as a father though, what a great way to have your twelve children living in the house and not have to yell at them for slamming the door!

I don't know if they had dogs or goats, but both can go literally anywhere, from my past and current experiences... (no more goats but one dog that climbs on any and all furniture in storms!).
We know so little about their religions, as any libraries were destroyed, by us, or rather our ancestors.
I reckon that like most beliefs (i.e. no pork in desserts. It goes rotten and toxic in the heat, etc)that they may be a religious idea based on healthy air circulation.
Or for easier conservation of food in cellars?

Mike Haasl wrote:Had an idea.  Is it possible to modify a standard 40-50 gallon electric water heater to also run on solar?  Currently it has two heat elements.  Can you disconnect one and leave the other one to be controlled by the water heater brain.  Then replace the other one with a DC heat element (if there is such a thing???) that runs off a dedicated solar panel.  

Then I could turn off the breaker for the water heater in sunny seasons.  The sun would heat the tank up (I hope) and if company comes and we need more hot water, turn the breaker back on.

Has anyone done something like this?  Do they make DC replacement heat elements?  Can a water heater work with one element hooked up?  Should the upper one be on solar?  Would one "standard" panel do enough or would I need a bunch of them?  

Thanks!

The panels have the heating properties, like from 0 degrees to 20 (centigrade) in the details, but I'd use a 12V heating element, and an electric thermostat (very cheap) that cuts the pwer when you get to the temperature you want. If you have enough sun in the day, and bury your tank in some sort of isolation, or the ground and cover it with an isolated panel it should keep hot or warm through the night. You'd only need one solar PV panel, a small one, and, on a farm you must have a battery or two lying around. You need a charge controller (ebay) and a 12V regulator, idem. I don't know if you have water pressure or not... without it you need a 12v pump too. If you want I'll do you a plan if you cotaact me through FB.