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My offgrid solar setup for under $4000
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powmr.com/products/hybrid-inverter-charger-5000w-48vdc-110vac-for-parallel (make sure to buy the one that can be hooked up in parallel) batteryhookup.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoresifnGVTH3cEyq-iqj2BgfYOgAoAfZUYRj3EtrxQRIa4Wr6Ta (watch occasionally as new stock comes in and gets sold out) www.santansolar.com/product-category/solar-panels/?_wcf_search=solarpanels=345 (lots of various used solar sellers. ...
Hurricane Milton solar panels off grid misconceptions generator
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Hurricane Milton solar panels off grid misconceptions generator
New gold platinum mining refining method using only salt water and electricity rhodium palladium REM
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Been working on a project the past year which took up most of my budget and time. Im taking too long to take it to the final stages and decided to open source it. Still plan on working on it with lots of major improvements to come
stop complaining you make too little money, welder mechanic etc
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stop complaining you make too little money, welder mechanic etc
Which CNC controller to pick? Linuxcnc mach3 grbl centroid fluidnc
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Which CNC controller to pick? Linuxcnc mach3 grbl centroid fluidnc
How to diagnose any diesel engine issues why it wont run/start etc.
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How to diagnose any diesel engine issues why it wont run/start etc.
How to rebuild/repair any Kubota diesel engine Part 2 Cylinder Head
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How to rebuild/repair any Kubota diesel engine Part 2 Cylinder Head
How to easily make the best wild muscadine grape wine
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How to easily make the best wild muscadine grape wine
How to clean/fix/rebuild a spray foam gun, P2, polyurethane
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How to clean/fix/rebuild a spray foam gun, P2, polyurethane
Setting up electric fencing on a pig farm
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Setting up electric fencing on a pig farm
How to rebuild/repair any Kubota diesel engine Part 1 disassembly
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How to rebuild/repair any Kubota diesel engine Part 1 disassembly
Why I sold my working skid steer to buy a broken one
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Why I sold my working skid steer to buy a broken one
Making animal feed from wood chips experiment
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Making animal feed from wood chips experiment
Added golf cart to the farm and fixing pigs waterer!
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Added golf cart to the farm and fixing pigs waterer!
DIY Power Tool Battery: How to Make Your Own Cheap and Long-Lasting Batteries
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DIY Power Tool Battery: How to Make Your Own Cheap and Long-Lasting Batteries
Increase pig farming profits with almost no cost
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Increase pig farming profits with almost no cost
How to rebuild a engine crane cherry picket
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How to rebuild a engine crane cherry picket
WELDING damaged utility trailer repair???
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WELDING damaged utility trailer repair???
FIXING damage utility trailer RESTORATION???
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FIXING damage utility trailer RESTORATION???
How to move pigs across fence very easily
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How to move pigs across fence very easily
RUNAWAY PIG how to find electric fence problems
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RUNAWAY PIG how to find electric fence problems
Making $27k a Year from $3500 and Under a Acre Farming Pigs Profit Part 2
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Making $27k a Year from $3500 and Under a Acre Farming Pigs Profit Part 2
I did find this useful and intend to watch it again. There is a lot to digest. Instead of an RPi, I chose a Beaglebone Black, but I believe the same deal applies regardless what board is driving the thing. I have a Full Spectrum laser they refuse to help me with, and I know it's because I mouthed off, so whatever. I'm stuck with a machine I spent a LOT of money on, that does nothing. So fuck Full Spectrum. I yanked out whatever board they had in there and have been leaping down various rabbit holes trying to educate myself as I go. Thanks for posting 👍
all great information. I've done VERY similar to this set up with nearly the same equipment too. You should do a video of what materials you used to keep the cost of your mounting/racking system down for cheap panels. It looks like 2x4s, some l brackets, and some 4x4 post.
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I love your videos man what’s your INSTAGRAM?
Actually the most common reason for solar farms to replace panels today? Is to increase production and efficiency. There are a lot of farms out there with 300 watt range single sided panels. And it makes a LOT of financial sense to upgrade them to the new 400+watt bi-facial panels. Which can produce over 500 watts with the bi-facial gains.
Thats definetly a major reason. But I dont see the purpose when we have lots of available space to put up panels
G'day mate, Really interesting stuff re the BMS. Already a big fan of active balance and they are so cheap too. I live over in Thailand and a lot of the videos, in Thai, on how to build a battery will most always have an active balance and a BMS. I was a bit blown away that you got your 25KW battery for 1200 bucks and that was a few years ago. Just now I can possibly build a 25KW battery here using 200Ah LiFePo4 cells for around that same price, but year ago add another 25% and 2 years ago add another 25% to the year ago price....A lot of solar gear is a lot cheaper here in Thailand and also shipping from China is cheaper as they can truck it in.........that's why I'm so impressed with those prices you achieved. Well done buddy and best of luck with the membrane :)
sadly battery costs havent changed and in some times have increased. I really hope I can develop this battery technology soon as its much simplier to ship and deploy. All you would need is the fuel cell and obtain the chemicals locally for the solution
Thanks for deep review man. It's really helpful. Subscribed! Good luck:)
Two of my lithium batteries I took the BMS out because all the BMS is is a BS. I just don’t like it.
Yes, when you sell power to the utility you get paid a lot less than when you buy it. That makes sense. When you buy electricity you are paying for (1) someone to generate it, (2) someone to ship it from the point of generation to the point of distribution (called transmission) and (3) someone to distribute it locally (your utility). You also pay for some state and federal taxes. When you sell it you are only the generator and only get paid for generation.
In ten years time the utilities business model will be obsolete. It will end up being cheaper to be self sufficient? Than merely paying them for the pleasure of delivering that energy, before the actual cost of the power is added to the equation. We are already way past grid parity today. The next chapter? Is being called god parity.
Great info. Thanks
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check on Wikipedia for Per Capita Energy Use, for the US it is 300GJ per person per year, of course in the US NE, the spring and fall production is about 25% each of annual, the winter is 8% while summer is 42% giving 5x the energy production in summer over winter. Now take a std 1.5m2 panel rated at 250W peak, it will make 1.1GJ/yr or with some daily battery use maybe 1GJ/yr. So in my case 15 panels on a roof for 5 people only makes about 1% of all total primary energy use. So what is the point, we are ignoring the giant use of energy outside of electric use. So 300 panels per person would make the same amount of total primary energy use annually and it would be hugely skewed to the summer and would need battery to make it work daily except for winter. So glad that nuclear is coming back with Microsoft, Google, Amazon etc, perhaps maybe we can be carbon free and won't need 300 panels of area per person. Also see LLNL Energy Flow Graph, and the free pdf book by David MacKay, "Without The Hot Air"
uh I think you are very confused or misinformed. Not sure where you got your numbers from. I think you are looking at entire energy use. aka what it takes to build the car you use, the electronics, roads etc. US average annual energy consumption is only 4000kwh. Peaks at 8000kwh in some states. Or 11-22kwh per day. 10kw solar panels can be purchased for under $1600. And you would only need 1-2 hours of sunlight a day to generate enough power for your whole home... www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=49036
i see you got my charge controller they kick but i have been buying from battery hook up i put a 10amp balancer only for about 20.00 i stop buying from the hook up and buying new now for as low as 135 a peace now battery i fix that are bad i just replace the bms with battery balancer they work fine
As your batteries age, will need to lower the float down a bit till things balance out on the bunch, that and bulk needs to be adjusted down slightly as they age.
i been buying used i set the controller at 13.9 they seem to balance out at 13.3 and stay their for a long time,even the new ones will charge up at13.9 then drop to 13.2 or 3 they work fine for me off grid buying more batterys and not panels
@@leetaves9143 Running a 48v system myself, and with default settings it was pushing cells so close to overvoltage it made me cringe and got a few warnings, I just turned them down a hair and issue disappeared. It really depends on the cells in your own bank and their status I would assume.
what do you run your48 system at 56v my 24 volt system run during the day goesto28.2 but drops to 26.6@@SarahStuff-p5u
@@leetaves9143 Honestly at this point I can not pull up the exacts on how much lower I set mine on bulk/float sorry, my Growatt inverter is kinda garbage and the display now does not work without a full reboot of system.
@@SarahStuff-p5u i have the cheap battery monitors from ali express on each battery they all do different readings the lowest ready i get is 89% very seldom go below 96% to me the batterys have a mind of their own they say there suppose be 14.2 to 14.6, but at 13.9 i feel safe they do what i want. have a good day
From personal experience, having panels horizontal with no pitch will lead to quite a bit of issues, especially with damaged panels.
Out of curiosity such as what? Have had them for years with no issues. Other than water build up. Definitely would do it sloped next time though
@@Rowow water and nitrogen will end up with algea, if there are any leaks corrosion will occur on the internal electronics as well. Best to shed off the water asap in general.
@@Rowow probably talking about snow issues and didn't pay too much attention to your mention of "Miami".
@@Ulbre never mentioned Miami that's a very sociopathic lie?
@@Rowow except for when you mentioned it @7seconds into the video :)
Makea better mount system...winds will rip that right out of the ground...
Survived 4 direct impact hurricanes already
Whoa! Congrats on the membrain! Did you study chemistry? Hey grab a copy of my "GatorCAM for cnc"...I'll give you a free key. I developed it because all the other CAM for cnc were lacking in one way or another. Cool that you are developing stuff too! Cant wait to see more on that redox battery.
Thank you and no I didnt study chemistry. I have a partner im working with on this project who is more knowledgeable about chemistry. I was looking at the underlying theory for a while and the entire concept and was searching for a cheaper way to produce these membranes when we came across each other. And I really appreciate the copy of gator cam! Ill make a review on it. I havent been working on my CNC machines in a while, been busy with other stuff. My email is irowow@gmail.com
(The link to download is on my channel)
@@Rowow oh just saw your reply. Thanks for offering to do a review! I've been following that iron redux guy but i think he gave up. I'm amazed you got it! That's a BIG deal!!
@@TheRainHarvester yeah that iron redux guy is going the completely wrong path. I'll make some videos soon of really good results
@@Rowow how did you even begin to come up with membranes? I'm not a chemistry guy....just software and electronics.
Are you saying the glass was cracked, or the cell? I dont think cracked glass will hurt.
Cells are cracked in some panels. Some panels its just the glass. The cells still work as long as the metal wire running through them stays. Otherwise the section after the crack isnt connected
50 kW of storage? 😬 You mean 50 kWh.
Bro this is awesome
I picked up seven 250w panels for 60 AUD that had been hit by lightning and were replaced by home and contents insurance. $20- worth of Schottky diodes later I have 1.5kw on my chook pen roof. So over paneled it is nuts but I still have full capacity except for the darkest stormy days. Even that can be fixed by a couple of extra batteries. PS. When we get hail here it is between golf ball and tennis ball size and it can destroy some of your panels but that isn't where the true expense lies. Panels are dirt cheap if you are patient and know where to look but LFP batteries and Victron gear, though getting cheaper all the time, and heavy gauge copper cables are the main expense. Everything apart from the panels is housed within a weatherproof structure so it is not an issue.
Trust me……you can get solar and still be a republican - I’m proof !
Yup, solar don't care what hat you wear, it works either way. ✊
Solar panels won’t run your house unless you have batteries. Without the electric company they won’t work. Most people don’t know that.
Midnite Solar makes the all-in-one inverter which works without batteries, solar, direct if you can believe it. Obviously batteries are a great idea but don’t try to tell people that Solar Panels don’t work if you don’t have batteries because they do.
Great message👍
he says $2,000USD like it is pocket change. i have trouble keeping food on my table. then cal raises your property TAX if you install them. and you still must pay tax on the pa&e you do not use. can not “cut” the wire. even if you have enough batt power to last you for 6-7 days.
If you don't waste money on bs then you'll be fine
If you can't buy 20 panels today, just buy 1. Add over time.
I have been off-grid for 7 years. I live in one of the sunniest places in the world (about 75 mi S of Lost Wages) and 8 310w panels produce more power than I use.
Solar is by far the best option, you’re start up costs might be high but when power is especially for an extended period of time, you can function, combine that with an an independent water supply you can function for weeks on end until services are fully restored. People who invested in solar during this last batch of terrible storms are I would imagine beyond greatful for making the choice to invest
Yeah I’ve been running a small solar setup mainly for garage use. Basically a let’s see how durable this can be test. So far I haven’t had one issue. The panels,inverter and battery and charge controller continue to work 5 years out and I just leaned them up on the foundation. So all the people who claim they won’t last or will go bad obviously have no idea and are just repeating the political garbage out there. Solar is amazing after your initial setup it is literally just forget about it. I believe in 10 years almost every household will be off grid solar with lfp batteries. Grid will only be for commercial/industrial use.
Solar panels cant go bad. Worst case is physical damage. Otherwise they last forever. They degrade 20% of their capacity over 30 years then stay that amount forever
@@Rowowmost are warrantied to degrade less than 20% in 30!years. But they all usually will degrade less than that. But they do continue to degrade with age and theoretically with enough time could degrade to a point where you were not producing enough power to warrant replacing it. But that would be pretty long time. Likely would upgrade before then anyway.
My rv has 3.2kwh solar and 15kwh battery bank. I won’t be going back. Honestly I wish the generator didn’t come with the coach and instead the manufacturers just installed more batteries and full solar panels on the roof like I did. Generators are going away in the next 30 years. Solar with batteries are definitely the way to go from here on out.
My aproach is all of the above. Solar and battery for primary power with grid supplementing as needed. However I keep a small supplemental generator and a supply of fuel because sometimes the sun just does not shine for several days and I can only afford so much battery capacity. Generator mostly just sits configured for long term storage (fuel drained ect) and several cans of fuel in the shed. every few months I refill my car from the cans instead of the pump and refresh the gas cans. Annually I pull out the generator, replace fluids if needed and run maybe a half gallon of fuel though it to make sure everything is still working. Usualy on a cloudy week in the winter when solar input is not keeping up with demand. System only pulls from the grid if batteries are below 50% so may as well get some charge out of the test run.
If having the opportunity then definetly diversity in power source is the best option. But if you are going to spend alot of money in getting a generator installed. instead just go solar is my point. Solar should be #1 option, Grid #2, Generator #3
I do solar and propane generators. I used to do gas, but got tired of keeping up with treating the gas. Propane doesn't have a shelf life. I got a large tank outside and have a company come fill it up when low.
Whats the exact chemistry behind your PGM extractor? I am interested in building something similar for tons of ewaste. This looks much better than making lot of nitric acid.
sodium chlorate is the oxidizer which dissolves the pgms. If you want to understand better research into sodium chlorate or bleach/sodium hyptochlorite dissolving gold. Bleach/hcl is used as a way to extract PGMS from catalytic converters
I built a solar set up for my house. I live in western New York. Not the sunniest place. I do have a duel fuel generator as a back up. I’m still looking for a cheap diesel generator. Then I can make electricity from gas, propane, diesel, but mainly the sun. I’d like to get a small wind turbine and find a way to use my elevation to advantage. There a small cliff in my back yard. I’d love to get a pond to make some hydroelectricity. I also plan on drilling some wells for geothermal heating. Was tinkering with the idea to use the heat from my back up generators to help with that. I will be needing the heat at the same time I will need some extra juice due to the less sunlight.
Since generators waste 70% of their energy as heat that would be the best outcome. A simple heat exchanger on the exhaust. Just needs to be sure it's not leaking exhaust through
@@Rowow with the diesel generator, I really want a liquid cooled engine. Then I can tie it into my radiant heating system.
Great Video, only the stupid who don't know sadly will never watch this as they have already educated themselves to be experts and must love running diesel generators... lol.
Prices have dropped tremendously. I just bought a mixed pallet 16 panels for $600. They range from 325w to 380w. Shipping was ridiculous at $640. It still works out to $77.50 a panel. If you live in Arizona you can pick them up for free from Santan solar. Batteries have dropped as well. The last 4 I bought cost me $190. each shipped free from Amazon. Even the charge controllers have dropped in price. My next purchase is going to be an EG4 24,000 btu hybrid mini split AC unit. That's why I bought 16 more panels. It runs directly from solar
I'm very interested in putting together a solar grid panel(s) together, but I don't understand how to hook these panels together, and then run them into large batteries............. I don't even know what type, kind of batteries and where to buy them new or used............. which ones are the best? Is there anywhere that I could get trained on putting one of these grids together.......... besides RUclips? Where do you buy your solar panels new or used?
What's wrong with YT as a source for information on solar? Everything I learned came from Will Prowse's channel. He also has a forum full of information. Quick rundown for you. The panels connect together with attached MC4 connectors. Depending on the size of your system you can connect your panels to a combiner box, or if it's only 2 arrays they would connect to the Solar charge controller. Batteries would be LiFePo4, lithium iron phosphate. Not sure what the 4 is. I currently have 16 of them. 4 in series producing 48v. 4 banks of 4 for a total of 21.4kw Enough to run 2 AC units along with everything in the house overnight. In the winter without using the AC units I can power my house for almost 3 days on batteries. Even cloudy days the panels still produce some power
Not sure where you are located, but search for a shop or supplier that does it for a living. Sure you could hack together a system that may be able to work for a little while but if you want a system that is going to give you trouble free use, do it right.
plenty of guides on youtube how to diy solar. As for solar panels sources best place is facebook market places. Theres a few used solar sellers and scrap yards across the country. Basically lots of old solar farms replace their solar panels due to warranty and insurance. This has resulted in the used solar market being flooded with panels. Otherwise they are perfectly great
search Will Prowse. i hope i spelled it right, this kid has lots of videos about solar and his battery test are the best out there by far. he goes so far as to rip them open to see how they are built.
14kwh of LFP cells from shenzhen qishou for $1400. DIY batteries have gotten quite affordable. batteryhookup for used packs and cells in the US. i havent seen an affordable flow battery yet.
new batterys for 130 is cheaper then battery hook up sent right to your house with bms
Happy fires!
I'm in Upstate SC and Helene had us fully disconnected from the world for a week, Like you, I have enough solar that I could "budget" my power at night (25Kwh of LifePo4 isn't much) but I had A/C to sleep and ran EVERYTHING during the day for a family of 3, I'm intentionally over-paneled for my needs, 12KW in Marketplace panels, 2 EG46000XP's. If you add everything up DIY, it's still a lot of money for a system that truly works (and I went as cheap as possible). A branch did smash 1 panel in the storm, and I've never had a huge hailstorm, at least I don't have a generator rotting in the corner.
We're living in a motorhome, visiting family in NC, just east of the mountains, so were spared the brunt of Helene. Like you, our solar system met our needs with 23.5kwh of LiFePo-4 batteries, 5,020w of solar and a total of 6kw of inverted power. We have been living completely off-grid for the last 2 years and haven't had to run our generator even once during this time. We have a rooftop mounted, 14.5k btu soft start equipped Furrion A/C up front and a 12k EG-4 28.5 seer-2 heat pump on the rear. It only uses about 1/3 the power as our front A/C but cools just as well. At night, it typically draws about 300 watts in cooling mode and about 500 watts in heat mode, which easily lasts all night with power to spare. We're a couple of retired seniors who designed and built everything ourselves for about $10k, plus another $1,500 for the heat pump. We usually boondock out west, living free on government land, but we're staying in an RV park here in NC now, that is only charging us $100/mo. for a no hook-up site. This saves us $500 a month off their usual full hook-up rate. Our system has already paid for itself and at our age, it should outlast us. Our RV park was out of power for 5 days after the storm, but it didn't affect us in the least. It's nice being electrically self-sufficient.
@@SuperSushidog Smart way to live, keep the costs low 😄
@@BlindedByLogic Necessity is the mother of invention.
Nobody thinks solar panels are going to blow away. Its all fun and games until you have a massive hail storm destroy them. I helped 3 people rip down the destroyed solar panels off their roof. Its like someone hit them with a hammer 1000 times
Like anything in life, all kind of things can happen, a lot of people have had panels for many years with no problems also, you cant just point out the outliners, nothing is 100% full proof.
I felt the same way at first, If I lived somewhere that had frequent heavy hail, I wouldn't go solar. Fortunately it's maybe once a year here, and so far, so good.
any hail that will damage solar panels will also damage your roof....if it is a possibility then either plan for replacing them or insure them. the benefit of lower utility bills and power when the utility company's lines are down is to good to ignore for me.
My solar panels are rated to golf ball sized hail. They have survived several marble sized hail storms. I have a string of 10 leaning across the back fence that got blow over during Helene. 5 of them are leaning vertical, and 5 are horizontal. I noticed one of the verticle was laying face down. Thought it would be shattered. It wasn't. So I laid the other 4 face down. I left the horizontal thinking they woukd blow over. Well we heard a loud crash and when I looked it was 4 of the 5 horizontal all face planted. I just knew they shattered because some of them fell on each other. Went out there and they were all fine. For Milton I laid them down so I wouldn't have an issue. Also noteworthy is even a shattered panel will still produce power. I have 10 laying on a flat porch roof. Fed Ex was nice enough to shatter one of them for me. It's been up there for 3 years producing power.
I have used/damaged solar panels with holes through them that still produce power.
You wouldnt happen to know the torque settings for the injectors, I cant find the spec's anywhere(V2203A)
search on google "kubota v2203 injector torque specs" heres some links Page 1-4 www.shareddocs.com/hvac/docs/2000/Public/02/62-10865.pdf www.kumarbrosusa.com/kubota/torque-pdf/03-03MM%20Series%20Torque%20Specs.pdf
Glad your are doing OK and didn't take damage. How did the pigs do?
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Glad you are ok and doing well.
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I don't know why but you remind me of Giovanni Ribisi... lol
It's not a software limitation it's a hardware development problem. Industrial machines use custom hardware to run code and drive servos and monitor feedback in real time. All of the PC based systems blindly send move commands with very little to no feedback. Servos and closed loop stepers used with PC based systems use drivers that do individual axis level feedback that sends nothing back to the control. Aren't many companies out there want to make the specialized hardware if there isn't a machine to go with it.
Plenty of it being done for 3d printers. And the fluidnc project proves its possible. Just the code like Linux CNC is designed for a outdated model, where cheap powerful microprocessors were not available
@@Rowow Which 3d printers provide closed loop feedback for their motion control?
@@timogross8191 I don't know I dont buy 3d printers I make them. Just add it on its not hard
Linuxcnc does allow real time position feedback. You can have linuxcnc read the servo encoder signal, but most of the time, they will just add scales and leave the servo control loop alone.
Hey great video question the overhaul kit you bought did it come with the gaskets for the oil pump and alternator side
Yes but some don't. It's a hit or miss sometimes. Imo just use silicone if they don't. Works better anyways
Thanks man red rtv silicone is geat to use @Rowow
Mesa actually is very good with keeping products alive. I can still buy the same CF to IDE adapters I've got almost 25 years ago! The problems with availability are probably related to supply chain issues, and they're getting better, and many popular boards are in stock. It's bad luck if the board in your machine dies and you can't get it next day, but usually it doesn't take long until they show up in the store. The cards are not easy to kill, but if your application pushes them to the limits, it's good to have a cold spare on hand anyway.
I don’t want to rely on the internet to manufacture. I want to be able to turn my generator and work in case everything or anything else fails. I want all my manufacture to be isolated as much as possible from the “hackers” “governments (domestic or foreign)” “big corporations” “persons of interest”. Don’t get me wrong, should I fail it’s because of me; not because there is an outage somewhere.
The internet is only a ip connection there are no dependencies on 3rd parties.