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Tuesday SOTD Thread - November 07, 2023
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I usually end up trick-holing when I use Hamami. It's such a unique scent. I wish the Noble Otter aftershave formula was a bit less rich. I know a lot of people appreciate that, but my skin doesn't need all that stuff and my face gets shiny.
I bought and installed a small solar setup in my shed today. I still have some tidying up to do, like mounting the panel to the side of the shed instead of having it on the ground, but it works. I also need to buy more batteries, because right now I only have 1 car battery which was replaced because it couldn't start my wife's car. Either way, I'm pretty excited to have electricity there. I got a 100W panel, a charge controller, and a 1000W pure sine wave inverter for about $400 USD from Harbor Freight. Much cheaper than hiring an electrician, getting permits, etc.
Nice! I had a smaller setup to power the lights, water pumps, and moisture sensors on our balcony garden (#cityLife) before Djunior claimed the balcony as play area. It was fun to set up!
It's super fun, not going to lie. I was ready for it to be really confusing, online order only type of stuff, but I was able to grab the stuff from a store 20 minutes from me.
Right now I'm using the old battery from my wife's car which is sufficient for basic shed stuff, but it's already 3+ years old. I'm going to check the water level, maybe that'll bump up the capacity. Otherwise I should probably get a Deep Cycle battery, which will add $160 to the cost, but in the long run is much better.
That's what I bought, a small deep cycle battery marketed for RVs. Worked like a charm. Enough capacity for hours of light, pumping water, measuring temperature and soil moisture, running a little LoRa node to send the data home
I did end up purchasing one today. It's advertised as having 105 Ah, which is great! I thought about connecting the old battery in parallel to get more juice, but there's no point.
Today I moved my soldering equipment out there and soldered up some new connectors for my RC charging setup, which is also now out in the shed. I'm super excited about having this little solar setup.
RC? As in radio controlled?
That's right. I have one of these which I haven't flown in a while, and one of these that's a lot easier to throw in the car and go.
Nice! I only ever had RC cars, this seems like a lot more fun!