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Let's Overthink This
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From an over-thinking mind comes a channel dedicated to over-thought projects, including an off-grid workshop and tiny house build deep in the desert near Joshua Tree, CA! As a product designer/engineer and world-wide exhibited kinetic artist, you might say I have a unique perspective on things ;) Please join me!
Off-Grid Joshua Tree Ep. 2 - Land Grading
Breaking ground is exciting because you really see things start to change. Join us as a parade of heavy equipment prepares the pads for the auxiliary building and the tiny home in the desert near Joshua Tree.
Prequel - Well Drilling 1: ruclips.net/video/384ZHLjO6ag/видео.html
Prequel - Well Drilling 2: ruclips.net/video/pI8rN56jj1I/видео.html
Ep. 1 - Survey Markers: ruclips.net/video/gkRREAG-uhs/видео.html
Ep. 2 - Land Grading: ruclips.net/video/jaGcha9yP4k/видео.html
*Not* a sponsored video but if you use my Amazon links, you pay the same, but as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
Video equipment used:
Most high quality video and stills: Fuji X-S10 mirrorless camera amzn.to/...
Prequel - Well Drilling 1: ruclips.net/video/384ZHLjO6ag/видео.html
Prequel - Well Drilling 2: ruclips.net/video/pI8rN56jj1I/видео.html
Ep. 1 - Survey Markers: ruclips.net/video/gkRREAG-uhs/видео.html
Ep. 2 - Land Grading: ruclips.net/video/jaGcha9yP4k/видео.html
*Not* a sponsored video but if you use my Amazon links, you pay the same, but as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
Video equipment used:
Most high quality video and stills: Fuji X-S10 mirrorless camera amzn.to/...
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Off-Grid Joshua Tree Ep. 1 - Survey Markers
Просмотров 2,4 тыс.8 месяцев назад
It begins!! We drilled the well over a year ago and since then have been designing and preparing for our off-grid (tiny) home and workshop; a place to enjoy nature, look at the stars, and make crazy art. We're *finally* through architecture, engineering, plan-check, and have pulled the permits! Join us for this journey, and in this first episode where I explain the use of building corner survey...
Buying a Kubota L3302 tractor from a flood auction. Will it run? Am I nuts?!
Просмотров 138 тыс.9 месяцев назад
I bought a flood-damaged brand new Kubota L3302 in an auction. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?! :) If you’re as curious as I was about how a tractor arrives at the dealership or how I went about seeing if this tractor was going to run, I hope you enjoy! FYI this is *not* a comprehensive run-down on tractor PDI/dealer prep nor on tractor maintenance. As mentioned in the video, this amazing (and tr...
Off Grid Solar Powered WiFi Mesh and Camera station, Part 2
Просмотров 16 тыс.Год назад
(find part 1 here: ruclips.net/video/Iq-K7g5BNfc/видео.html) Our off-grid homestead moves along with this project for a solar-powered wi-fi mesh and camera station. In this Part 2 video, I narrate our way through the mechanical prep and physical on-site install of the camera/wifi pole, electronics box, solar array, and connecting conduits/wire. *Not* a sponsored video. If you use my Amazon link...
Off Grid Solar Powered WiFi Mesh and Camera station, Part 1
Просмотров 18 тыс.Год назад
Our off-grid homestead moves along with this project for a solar-powered wi-fi mesh and camera station. In this Part 1 video, we walk through the project goals and the electrical hookup of the main components, with special attention on the implementation of DC-powered POE and the use of a bluetooth-enabled solar charge controller. This video is a bit more "classroom" discussion than normal, but...
Testing the water from my deep desert well near Joshua Tree, using TapScore
Просмотров 64 тыс.Год назад
An analysis of the water testing process for the deep desert well that was drilled in these videos: Part 1: ruclips.net/video/384ZHLjO6ag/видео.html Part 2: ruclips.net/video/pI8rN56jj1I/видео.html Includes an overview of the TapScore water testing product and what the results and treatment might look like. Turns out if you go looking, you might find things you didn't expect ;) 00:00 Intro 01:0...
No-Drill Shipping Container Solar Panel Mounting!
Просмотров 15 тыс.Год назад
In search of a way to semi-temporarily mount some solar panels to a shipping container without drilling any holes in it or resorting to complex racks, I came up with this system using magnets! Not the right solution for every case, of course, but I hope you find it useful. Products used/shown (not sponsored). If you use my Amazon links, you pay the same, but as an Amazon Associate I earn from q...
Well drilling near Joshua Tree. Did we find water? (part 2)
Просмотров 627 тыс.Год назад
More than 99% of my viewers aren't subscribers and it would really help me to convert some of y'all so please, please click the subscribe button so you can keep on top of my new content! Thanks for watching! View the part 1 video here: ruclips.net/video/384ZHLjO6ag/видео.html Did we find water? How much PVC goes into that hole?! What pump did I use? Watch this part 2 to find out! *Not* a sponso...
Deep well drilling in the desert near Joshua Tree (part 1)
Просмотров 1,3 млн2 года назад
More than 99% of my viewers aren't subscribers and it would really help me to convert some of y'all so please, please click the subscribe button so you can keep on top of my new content! Thanks for watching! View part 2 here: ruclips.net/video/pI8rN56jj1I/видео.html Let's learn about drilling a deep, DEEP water well, through mostly granite, in the middle of the desert in Southern California, ne...
Jokari Cable Stripper: How did I not know about this?!
Просмотров 18 тыс.3 года назад
With tons of wire strippers in my drawer, I didn't know what I was missing by not having this cable jacket stripper! Jokari model T10160. It even comes with a spare blade. Who knew?! If you're interested in picking one up, try my link: amzn.to/3giR7jn You pay the same, but as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
OPTE makeup printer: What is this thing doing?!
Просмотров 4,7 тыс.3 года назад
An engineer and product designer's look at how this crazy makeup printer actually works! Including a cool shot of the makeup actually being shot from the print-head. For a live chat about the OPTE with a real user, including a conversation about its industial design, check this out: ruclips.net/video/WOMGXa41tA8/видео.html To see how well it works, check out my girlfriends post on actual use: i...
"LUMENous GARDEN by FoldHaus" Kinetic Origami Exhibit at Pacific Place, Art Basel Hong Kong
Просмотров 1,6 тыс.5 лет назад
Video Credit: Pacific Place, Hong Kong I help lead the all-volunteer kinetic artwork collective, FoldHaus, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Recently we were hired to bring 2 of our "Shrumen Lumen" works and one "Blumen Lumen" together to form a mini origami garden at Swire's Pacific Place in Hong Kong. Aided by Art Partners HK and SPARK in New York, we are super grateful to have the opportu...
Burning Man 2018: RadiaLumia, by FoldHaus Collective (drone edit)
Просмотров 5 тыс.5 лет назад
I am one of the leads of a group we call "FoldHaus Collective" which creates large-scale kinetic origami-based works of art for Burning Man and beyond. We're all volunteers, and with many of the us being professional product designers, engineers, or software developers, the works are very heavily "engineered." Our last work, Shrumen Lumen, is a grouping of large, moving origami mushrooms, which...
Why your "Peanut Butter" might not be Peanut Butter
Просмотров 2,1 тыс.6 лет назад
[4/17/2021 update: This video was published when the channel was still called "Jesse MAKES"] NOT a video about organic or "natural" peanut butter or about stir vs no stir. Instead, let's take a look at the "Standard of Identity" for Peanut Butter which gives the FDA's legal requirements for a product to be called that. And in the process, hopefully learn why all of the words on food labels mean...
What it looks like inside a dust collector (my hack for adding a viewing window)
Просмотров 3,1 тыс.6 лет назад
What it looks like inside a dust collector (my hack for adding a viewing window)
Bosch 10.8v vs 12v batteries: what's the difference?
Просмотров 158 тыс.6 лет назад
Bosch 10.8v vs 12v batteries: what's the difference?
Get it straight! (How to Mill Lumber/Wood)
Просмотров 1,6 тыс.6 лет назад
Get it straight! (How to Mill Lumber/Wood)
Ember Coffee Mug Review: Things you need to know.
Просмотров 126 тыс.6 лет назад
Ember Coffee Mug Review: Things you need to know.
congrats from Iraq-Baghdad, your videos are so educational, one question please, the water is potable? sweet or salty? thanks
Nice procedure! here in greece we put metal pipes in the wells because if there is an earthquake and we have plastic pipes they rarely need to be replaced.
What information or facts satisfied you that the risk of a dry hole was worth it? Also, can you tell us the cost of the well including pump purchase and installation?
Some of those military boxes go for a song at online auctions, they are pretty stout and would probably hold up better when burried.
Good call!
Very cool and informative video. Thanks. Do the drillers scoop up all the gray sludge and level everything out again??
I like this simple idea inspite of the negative or overthinker comments
Thanks for ruining my desert with your house. Google Earth shows the extent of this relentless greed. The quality of aquifers is dropping across the country, much of it to boost the production of corn, corn for biomass, biomass to create gasohol. I guess I should be thankful it will just be your idiot green lawn, next to your idiot wood frame, in the middle of my desert.🏜
pakah waktu mengebor tidak memakai air?
wonder if it will hold up on a suv going 80mph
Wouldn't risk it. It won't fail gracefully.
Thank you for taking the time to simply explain this situation. It enables myself and probably others to use old 10v batteries with 12v Bosch drills etc and vice versa.
You're welcome! Same problem here and that's why I wanted to share that people don't have to worry about it!
I'd like to know about the type and make of the 3D printer and your unif wi-fi network. is the network in your Container. It would have be nice to have that info to go along with the source of the patterns for the clip. were some great ideas for those of us who do not have the design ability to do it ourselves. Thanks for the videos of what you did share.
600ft to reach water? that is insane. what altitude? That seems like a heavily exploited region.
Well the static water level is about 180 from the surface so it's not as bad as that. The area isn't that exploited at all. It's just a desert and has been for a long time.
Nice set up. Not sure what your mesh speed is at the pole. I assume you have enough speed for your cameras. For about $200 dollar retail or $100 on eBay you could use a pair of m5 nanostations and make a point to point connection. Maybe if you go farther you could consider this. Additionally, maybe you should consider putting all of the electrical components in a separate waterproof box.
how long did you run it off before you tested?
You just blew my mind, thanks for this. I was thinking of glueing wood to the roof and then drilling into that but this is way better. I think instead of mounting brackets I will use hinges so I can still tilt my panels to the sun in the bleak English winter
How much time it takes to drill a well?
This was just a few days (about 3 to drill and another to install the pump) but this will change a lot depending on depth and geology and equipment used I think!
@@LetsOverthinkThis Ok, Thanks 👍
Looks like a fun project.
It was! And still runs like a champ.
Why no prices ,😮
I'm not selling anything!
If you wanted to run this 24hrs how big of bank would you need to hold it up for 3days?
Like assuming no solar at all?
@@LetsOverthinkThis 2 days(easier math) it would stay up with little to no sun.
Id have to pull the logs to see the actual watt draw these days but my guess is you'd need 150-200 ah to last 48 hours with no solar input at all. And the napkin math makes sense... Assuming about 40 watts full draw including power loss in the power injectors etc. 48 hours x 40 watts is about 2000 watt hours. Which is about 160 ah @ 12v. Again, just napkin math.
@@LetsOverthinkThis Thank you for the answers, it really helps ~!
how deep usually can find water in the dessert
I don't think there is a "usually"! And I'm guessing in some deserts you won't find any at all.
@@LetsOverthinkThis understood
Great video ! I’m installing a similar situation in Costa Rica where we’ve got lots of sun as well. I will be adding a Pepwave BR1 for 5G Internet. With everything you have in the video plus a Pepwave Router, how long would all of that last during days of overcast with the battery that you chose? Also, if you didn’t mind day only camera transmission could you power the camera directly off the panels without a battery and possibly less hardware ? So as the sun comes up , the cameras all wake up too ? Any help appreciated!
I don't know how much wattage the pepwave pulls but if you add what I have up (G5, G4 Pro, Flex switch, and U6 Mesh) you're at about 34 watts. The POE injectors are not 100% efficient at all so lets call it 40 watts. The battery has about 1200wh of energy so if it was 100% you could theoretically power it all for about 30 hours. Unfortunately this stuff is hard to calculate in REALITY because I don't know where you are in the world, which helps determine how many solar hours you actually get, plus your panels may or may not be aimed right for each time of year (mine are not). Mine is fine with overcast but in the winter mine has a few days where it can't keep up if I get more than one day of dark stormy clouds in a row. As for your second question, maybe but it's not straightforward. The cameras need 48v from POE and the panels only put out around 40v with 2 in series so you still need something to boost the voltage (the poe injectors I have do this). But yes, you would theoretically do away with the charge controller and the battery and the POE injector would turn on when it has enough voltage and current to do its thing. I don't know if it would last as long.... not all electronics are meant to be undervolted every single day, but it's possible!
Gracias desde España.
De nada!
I could not see the finished product out of drilling, i wanna see the water flowing from the pipe or a faucet
The water storage tank and pressure pump haven't been installed yet. You can see water coming out of the well in my water testing video though.
Screw you
I would definitely have a good filter system
Yep! Definitely R/O for the drinking water and something like a softener and some carbon and sediment for the household use. Thx for watching!
So what was the cost? 20 years ago I had to replace my well pump,which was over 300 feet deep and that still cost $6,000.
Here in South Africa, that will be stolen the same day it is put up
Some places are like that. But also you'd have to find it. Nobody unknown has been here in a year.
What are the 3 pins on the back side of the battery?
They forgot the centering rings that keeps the pipe centered in the well casing.
Does it matter? (Genuinely asking) Water just needs to seep into the tiny slits and it'll do that even if touching on one side because of the roughness of the hole and difference in diameter. Can't think of why it matters to be perfectly centered.
I don't know if it matters or not to tell you the truth but our well is bored though granite and that's possible why there are pipe centering rings every 20' on ours or it's possible because our pump is 1 1/2 HP. You could always ask a well driller about centering rings.
Lots of love from Botswana 🇧🇼🔝🔥... I'm planning on moving to my family land for farming about 30 hectares, and first things first we need to get water , nice informative series
I don't understand but i do understand why he's doing mesh wifi, but doing UBNT PTMP would be so much better. it would come to 26-35watts for everything. if he ran fibre or stung fibre alone poles to the main and tallest pole, the fibre ptp uses only 5V/3.5watts at load and brings 1gb or can bring 10gb depending on SFP module. Just need a trench and conduit run that single fibre to the main tall pole and then use a UBNT 120 or 90 degree all in on sector which are cheap and then use nanostations for each camera/wifi/sensors pole. these poles can be 10kms - 40kms away with enough bandwidth for those two cameras or three cameras with the wifi also. this all using 35watts-45watts-55watts depending on which equipment is used. But a wireless PTMP with proper equipment for PTMP would be so much better for this project. Truly. I have my own 56 acre land here in Australia and we have one 120 degree sector but using a rocket ap 5GHz for the PTMP which has 44 clients and we use solar panels and also use hydro power for the equipment near the river that never stops flowing our equipment is usually in the middle of the pole besides the batteries. we have close to 140 cameras on our property, sensors for automatic gates, sensors for water levels where we can push a button an the water will fill the bath back up. we have so many sensors over the property we hvae close to 300-350Mbps coming back to the house and roughly around 40Mbps going out.But out property is a smart farm with auto feeders, auto lights, auto fill stations for water, auto almost everything. IT was a HUGE project I went on I might have to post this on reddit and show the map and photos of certain locations. IT's been running perfectly for over 5-6 years no issues besides my side losing street power. everything else ran no problems due to solar panels and batteries. We now have UPS on the main house side and the UDM PRO so everything keeps recording and running our lenovo and raspberry pi server. It works perfect I also used fibre ptp to run from my home to my front gate for cameras and gate control and controlling lights and doorbell and intercom, we have 4 cameras on the gate and 5 cameras along the drive way from gate to house we used fibre, we did this using a multi core fibre so each pole/light had a camera and a box for battery and fibre converter. it just worked. it's complicated but works. at the end of the day I would go fibre to the main pole and do UBNT PTMP for these cameras it will be cheaper and work much better. Truly.
Wow that was a rant! 😜 I appreciate that wired (incld fiber) always works better but it's not like trenching here is easy or cheap and although it would work better I don't need any more than I have. Dealing with renting the trencher and having to manually jackhammer every rock i come across that it can't move just to have higher bandwidth for my 2 cameras is not objectively better to me even with the bandwidth. Agreed that using a ptp radio would be better for bandwidth and reliability as well (mesh isnt great for bandwidth I know) but all that station needs to serve is the 2 cameras and a person or two taking a wifi phone call while on the build site and it's worked great for those. Your situation clearly does call for the bandwidth! So I don't disagree technically, but I do disagree whether it's worth it or necessary, you know? Either way much appreciate the comment 🙏 (Btw there is no main pole...im off grid 😁)
The end reminds me of a song about a place in a little town where the waters VERY HARD TO DRINK.
I feel like I should know this song! What is it?
How much did you pay ?
Answered many times below. 🙌
I'm not sure if this is true but I heard that when you drill for water the ground shrinks. In California this has been proven to be true with farmers drilling for water
Well the ground doesn't really shrink but since part of what supports the surface is the layers below (including water) if you remove a lot of water, the surface can lower. And yeah, it's the case everywhere a lot of water is being pumped from the ground and is a real problem. My tiny personal well that is just for a house of 2 and no agriculture isn't contributing to that but it's a phenomenon for sure.
Very nice project!
Thx! Still working perfectly.
wow 600 ft ! i use to have twenty acres near Lake Orville and wells there at about 800 ft elevation off of the valley floor were consistently in the 300 ft range . the rock was granite and the water crystal clear . i think i got about 15 gpm which was very good in that area . i'm amazed that there is ANy water at all where you are . congratulations
Thanks! We don't get anything near 15 gpm so everyone has a big water storage tank that the well fills slowly and then the pressure pump system pulls from that for the instantaneous usage. But yeah, thrilled to have water! Thx for watching and commenting!
I was looking for this info. Thanks for the discharged stats too!
The reason your tubing string from the pump to the surface is Schedule 120 pipe is because you are almost 300 psi, likely a little more, at the bottom of the string by the pump. A lot of pressure for plastic pipe.
Good call! At .43 psi per vertical foot it certainly adds up. I will say also the pump and all of that pipe are HEAVY and every pipe and fitting has to support in tensile strength all of the weight below it but the psi you mentioned is definitely a factor. Thanks for commenting!
Hello, my 10.8V battery has died. Can I use 12V?
Lol. Guess you didn't watch?
6:39 plane on sky
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@@LetsOverthinkThis a plane moving by. 6:23 turn on full screen
Well, that's a pretty interesting video but I was left wondering: How many Gallons Per Minute did this Joshua Tree Well produce?
The wells out in the desert are very low producing... In the 2 to 4 gpm range so everyone has a big water storage tank. The well can produce at a low rate but for longer, and a pressure pump pulls from the storage tank for instantaneous usage. Totally fine for a household but not suitable for agriculture, etc. thx for watching!
@@LetsOverthinkThis I posted before looking at the comments where it revealed a Part 2. Watched it also. Answered a lot of questions....
Is the depletion of aquifers/fossil water/groundwater, that is, the naturally stored water in the Earth's crust, part of the reason why certain parts of the Earth's crust are sinking (southern Sweden) and sea levels in certain parts of the world are rising by 1 mm per year (magnetic anomalies) regardless of how the polar ice caps fluctuate, as well as the glaciers on land fluctuating over millennia?
I'm not a geoscientist but my understanding is the first part, yes. Pumping out extreme amounts of ground water does lower the surface level in some places. My tiny well is not really contributing to this, more agriculture and huge developments. The second part, no. The ground is lowering because the thing underneath it (water) was removed. It's not displacing anything that would cause the sea level to rise. That, to my understanding, is both ice melting but more that water (like everything) expands when it gets warmer so when a planet worth of water goes up a degree or two it takes up more space. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Artesian Well south of Baghdad. 2400 GPM 24/7
Yeah that's a whole different story 😅
How much was it to dig that well? ..they did nice job
Answered below in the comments. But yes, they did!
Great part 1 and 2 but whats your actual internet service/modem?
Starlink! Works great but only option out here anyway.
how much did this cost, all-in?
Looking forward to future content. So far everything you do has been interesting to me 👍.
Names are only gimik
True but there is some logic here.... Nominal vs max voltage for this number of lithium cells.
You hired real professionals … worth every penny
Agreed! Thanks for watching.
Wow ni!