Nice. Yeah, that's what I'm looking to do. Grid is just there when I'm not generating enough onsite.
The good thing is there seem to be plenty of options these days.
IcedRaktajino
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Yeah, that's a good place to start. Seeing that it costs almost $50/mo just to run my server/network gear was really eye opening. The stack averages about 290 watts (thank the gods I downsized when I did!) which comes out to:
(290/1000) * 24 * 30 * 0.23 = $48.02/mo
Still cheaper than cloud subscriptions, though.
Yeah, I was looking at Anker's version of that, but it doesn't have quite as much flexibility as some of dedicated hybrid solar inverters I was looking at. I haven't read the specs for the EcoFlow version, but Anker's is positioned more as a UPS/backup power for your house rather than primary power (unless you're fully off-grid).
The hybrid inverter I was looking at can be configured in "UPS" mode (backup if your power is out) or only to use utility power if there's not enough PV and the batteries are low as well as some other combinations.
I'm still in the planning phases since I don't want to be installing on the roof or burying conduit in the winter lol.
Thanks. And yeah, being able to install solar eventually was one of many factors when I decided to buy a house on a whim rather than rent (not so much a whim as "ahead of schedule" due to unforeseen circumstances surrounding the house I was currently renting).
$0.56/kwh power
Jesus. My condolences. I hope anything you feed back is credited at retail rate.
This has been the push I've needed to pull the trigger on installing solar. My electric rates have gone from $0.09/KWh to $0.23/KWh in the last 5 years. Just got my bill after reducing as much as I could (my house is all electric sans the furnace). "Surely it'll be under $100 this month," I thought. Nope.
I've got 800W of PV currently in an ad-hoc setup* but I'm putting together the plan for a 3.2 KW system that can auto switch between battery, PV, and grid without backfeeding. Minus the batteries, the whole setup is going to cost me about $7,000. (Batteries aren't required and will be added later)
Grid-tie is technically legal in my area, but the hoops you have to jump through are insane and there's a high likelihood of being denied by the power company over the most bullshit of minutiae (seriously, they treat someone possibly feeding back 400 watts the same as if you were a MW-scale solar farm).
*The ad-hoc setup is just 4x200W panels in a 2S2P config. I charge an Anker PowerStation from that and use it to power random stuff. It's currently powering my server stack while charging from the panels. :)
Nope. Lived on the coffee table and was mostly (almost exclusively) used for IMDB lookups when we're watching a movie or something and one of us is like "is that...?"
I've got other SSDs that are 10+ years also fine. And I've had some last less than a month (note: never buy Silicon Power brand drives).
Woke up the laptop this morning and there were a bunch of kernel messages about the root volume being inaccessible. Power off and back on: BIOS doesn't even detect the drive. Pulled the drive and USB->NVMe adapter also doesn't recognize it from my main laptop.
This SSD was bought in July and had otherwise been performing great. Luckily still had the old one (it didn't fail, just upgraded from 256 to 500 GB) and threw it back in and re-installed Ubuntu.
:shrug: You win some you lose some lol.
I kinda feel like Revolution may have done better on SyFy or FX rather than NBC. Was canceled after the second season.
Because:
- I'm not a lazy, smooth-brained rube.
- I'm not in the business of selling AI to lazy, smooth-brained rubes
- I have no stake in the supply chain nor do I stand to profit from those selling AI to lazy, smooth-brained rubes.
Furthermore:
- I don't trust "AI". If I'm going to have to fact check it anyway, might as well just do it myself and earn the damn knowledge.
- AI does not work for me (or you). It works for the companies who are forcing it on you and sucking up your data.
- The energy costs and water requirements are mindbogglingly staggering
- I refuse to feed or ride any hype train
- It's creating scarcity of things that could be put to better use (energy, water, computer components, land, talent, you name it).
- It's not even AI. It's just a dead-end bullshit generator
Wear it with pride. I can't take any person, ban, or post from .ml seriously.
Ain't that the truth 😆
and "crisis actors"