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Finally the "beno shed"
Can't upload a 17k picture ? Something's playing up?
Make sure your shed is strong, see 25mm steel pipe is necessary against a huge wind sail on the ends.
What a fruit fly proof shed is all about, and this one cost me over AUS800 dollars so far, The 10m by 10m mesh was only 134 dollars, than there's the rest of the shed.
Inside the shed.
On the way to a nearly completed "beno"
No drop in water level. Yeah...it's OK now.
Looks small hey? It's actually 4metres in diameter and 600mm deep.
The goose pond leaks,\nso 4 bags of cement mixed with concrete this time, plus a cost of bitumen, should help problem tomorrow.
Residual current circuit breaker with overload protection (RCBO) Type F,\nis what I need for each circuit, one rated for 2.5amps, the other three rated for 4.0 amps, which is just under the limits of the Inverters. These (RCBO) Type F, are new technology and very expensive, designed NOT to trip when sensing inductive loads from motors found in washing machines for example. Can't find where to buy them.
Unusual storm , see red arrow, as we drive West to Emerald.
I see a reply from "reply to #jy527ya" for just 1 second and than it returns to my own timeline feeds? Is something wrong with my old browser. I also am experiencing shopping on the Internet problems too. Why do we have to upgrade to new browsers? My only way to shop is to email, and BSB direct payments to the company. Shopping cart does not work anymore in my old browser? And now that I purchased from RV caravans, ever AD that comes over the Internet, is guess what, stupid RC caravans. What a silly world we live in.
Trying to obtain a Residual Circuit Detector (RCD) that also doubles up as a Circuit Breaker (CB), a device that switches off when overload current happens. My problem is dealing with peak power and continuous power from Inverters. I have no experience with this. I have found suppliers who make 5, 10 and 2.5 RCD, so they also limit current, but what to do with peak and continuous loading?
Thanks for your comments everyone, in "mentions". Pity the software doesn't attach the "replies" directly under your own feeds. Shy people do not normally go looking for other people's comments in the normal world. Come to think of it what is the "new normal" anymore? Like "hardly normal" LOL.
Wife felt weak and ill today, took time off to sleep. I also felt weak and sleepy that day too. Is there something going round that makes you weak?
Just thinking...hmm? can't Internet spiders crawl over twtxt.net and make the information these bots collect public, sell it, and therefore still use the info against you in the future? Wonder what my Son will say to this?
The yellow weird thing over roof is a the solar panel array, angled 23 degrees to north, and pitched east and west, so one bank of 4 panels gets sun from 6am and the other bank of panels gets sunlight right to 6pm. There will be 20mm rods concreted into top beam of the room (a top knock out lintel all round) and through roof, to hold steel C beam for solar panels. Pictures will show things better than words.
wow 100K upload in 4 seconds. Must be bandwidth issues. It's 4 am here right now. This is an update of the power room, and the cost of materials is bad. Might cost over AUS 3000.
Looks like getting Besser blocks is expensive. Bunnings sell them in Rockhampton for AUS3.10. Emerald sells them for AUS8.00 each. Go figure. What a greedy world we live in. I could hire a 7.3 m large tray truck for 2 days +fuel for $800, but its a lot of trouble. And save myself AUS1000 dollars doing transport myself. Hmmm??
I forgot the washing machine. You can get washing machines that run on 1000W and peak to 1200W only. There are many examples of such machines. I will make two power points for "c", day time for washing machine, night time for lounge room. \n\nNotice in all these examples, you cannot use any appliance over 1000 W. No electric toasters, no drills (I have one at 750W) and no circular saw, and no electric welding. These have to be done from a 2.2 VA petrol or diesel generator.\nSo going off grid means adjusting to a particular life style.
Wall mounted "a" .The 24/1200 Inverter will service one power point at 240VAC to lounge room.\n\nWall mounted "b" .The 24/1200 Inverter will service one power point at 240VAC to kitchen room.\n\nWall mounted "c" .The 24/1200 Inverter will service four power points at 240VAC to water room.\n\nWall mounted "d" .The 24/800 Inverter will service one power point at 240VAC to kitchen fridge.\n\nThese wall mounted inverters are cabled by 8mm cable, four to be soldered as one for battery rail, allowing each end for each inverter. \n\nI also have 2 invertors not used in storage.
46K file is all I get.\nSO this is a brief overview of design so far. Colour coded floor in room. Blue is for water pumps.\nBore pump is 300W and House Pump 370W. Yet to buy Bath Pump and Windmill pump. \n\nThe storage area is for new appliances.\n\nThe red area is for power. 20 cell Nickel Iron battery bank. The power board will hold 4 Victron Inverters, which I just purchased for 3,100.
Can't upload 100K image, taking over minute, and still going??
Can I get a URL link to me?
So far I guesstimate the following:\n\nBattery bank $9,000\n\nExtra solar panels $2,500\n\nBuild besser block power room $3000\n\n2400 W 240VAC, 24VDC Inverter - wall mounted - Victron $2000\n\nPower miscellaneous $1000\n\nTOTAL cost somewhere north of $20,000\n\nThis is cheaper than my solar system kits (that do not include power room) one from Rainbow Power company was $25,000. You are better off to purchase the parts yourself and keep things simple, and use less technology. I will show you what I mean.
The alternative is Lithium Ion Polymer, this one is only 6 unit storage costs with rack $3000. Cheap and bank is lively . Guaranteed in theory for 10 Years, but fine print is only 5yrs, and you require a certified technician to validate your warranty. I am installing my system myself, and up to 24Volt can be DIY. I will take you all on this journey so you learn what off grid systems mean.
My friend has 12 AGM gel led acid batteries 1000 Amp hr, 24 Volt system, each cell is 2.25 Volt and this bank cost him $8,000. He reckons he will get 15 yrs from batteries, assuming you do not cycle them below 80% fully charged, this might work OK. But for the same price, I can take Nickel Iron down to 20% fully charged, no problems with battery chemistry life. And I will get 100 years of life.
This is what Nickel Iron Battery 1.2 volt cell looks like. This will cost me $325 dollars each, and it weighs dry weight as 25 Kg. The only thing that wears out in these batteries is the electrolyte and thus replace every 10 years. You can abuse your bank as much as you like, it doesn't care. You do however have to properly check battery levels for distilled water top up. And remove Hydrogen gas from the room.
We had a drop of rain, 20 mm. Nice. Decided to go with 500amp hr nickel iron, for convenience, one off purchase, for next 30Yrs. This cost $9,000 which is OK, cheap enough, allows up to 12,000 watt storage, and can run 500 watt continuously. Our only needs are fridge (1.5 unit over night), bore pump (1.5 unit over night) taking 3 units from the batteries. So every day the bank will suffer to 75% full and with my solar array of 8 units of charging, take only 2 hours to fully charge the batteries in winter, or 1 hour to charge the batteries n summer.
Our goose pond tank has a crack and does not hold water for long... bummer...
The total cost would be $15,000 or so, not much different to the Nickel Iron cost, but the system should last 20 years because the system never goes below 95% of full charge.
Our toilet has a 220AMp hr AGM lead acid battery currently 6 years old and still going strong. The only continuous current draw is a computer fan is say 0.25 amp, or 6 amp over 24 hours, so the battery storage drops to 97%. So from experience, if you allow AGM batteries not to drop more than 95% of their total storage they will keep their chemistry going. So to use only 300 Amps per day you need 6000 amps of storage, so that is roughly 50 batteries, and 25 batteries in parallel, making a 24 volt system.
The replacement cost of AGM every 2 yrs is about $600/yr, but these batteries were not tested much with an invertor. Lithium ion polymer, only guarantee for 5 yrs, not as they say for 10 yrs, the fine print has too many rules. So I still like the nickel iron, peace of mind, 300Amp hour, 20 cells, 400KG battery bank, total storage of 7,000 Watts. Using invertor can run, 500 watts 240V AC continuously for 12 hours, or 2400Watts for 2 hours.
Alone Season 3 with teams ended, basically both teams were starving to death. Both lost almost 20% of their body weight. Having trouble figuring out a reliable off grid power system.... The lithium polymer batteries just aren't not up to the guarantee they say, ie 10 yrs, reading the fine print gives most of them a life of 5 yrs. I still prefer the Nickel Iron batteries. They are able to last over 100 years, in other words they last.... so much peace of mind.... sure they come with some maintenance, like topping up distilled water, and replacing electrolyte after 10 yrs
Quite a few to prepare, 50 in all, all kinds, hopefully will grow better now getting water twice a day, every day.
And here. Also installed their new drippers, and set water controller.
Like so
Also that weekend, I cut the weeds around our new fruit trees.
The chook house is a part of the 100yr old barn, have to finish the rest.
with geese too !
What a lovely place to build a chook yard?
After dozens of cement wheelbarrow loads, you get this:
Cut out lip so the geese have a gradual entry and exit
This technique save hours, use screws instead of wire and 2 holes.
Wire secured to tank
The drainage pipe placed in
What was about to begin
A new day with new challenges and new mercies, but my muscles are sore already
The smaller green tank is out bore water tank, 8,000 litres. The big tank is over 30,000 litres, I moved to align with the other tanks.
A picture of a big tank I moved using my tractor, digging a hole by hand to place it in, and having guttering set up to collect rain water. Two storms now, we have 2 feet water in our big tank.
@ionores not really, trying to set up things
Quite a big goose pond, 4m diameter and over 600 mm deep, will use the water as part of aquaculture, and show you off-grid -living using this system.
Have to cut the tank down 4 inches more, and cement line it this weekend. A busy day coming.
Looks small? But its 4m by 16m in size, and over 100 year old, and full of memories from the past.
\nThe barn as it looks now, removed dead tree, braced it from falling over, walled up sides for chook shed,
Bad storms hey? we got nothing here :)
Notice the power left in the batteries that are old.\n76% left in one and about the same in the other, which I never used, but loses charge every night over.
No smell, you can make the log and big as you like. LOL
That's the little blue house, if people can't see it, a compost toilet, with a 24hr computer fan in the stink pipe, that sometimes on windy days, blows backwards into your toilet pan..... the effect?
Everybody needs a loo, my wife wants an outdoor loo, she loves these kind of country living memories.
The file was cut and pasted 40Kb, and camera is sensitive to clicking, no indication pic is taken.
\nToday I am digging a new goose pond, 4 m diameter and about 400 deep, the sides go out another 200 making the pond quite deep. Cement lined metal tank.
We had a planter box, 4m by 2m and was large enough to grow all your vegies for a family of four, the Diggers Club says such a small space is enough, we just need to be organized in our seedlings.
My PC, bit old, still running Windows 8
A 4 Kb file of me from my new moto phone, thanks to James. Had to copy 5Mb file into Paint and rename it to a smaller file. In Paint a 5Mb file is about 2 metres wide and 10 metres long. Wow. Now the image pixels are 12mm wide and 25 mm long. Way smaller picture.
For example surfing the www in Blackwater on 4G between 6pm and 9pm is a total waster of time, the town has a population of about 2,000 people and it's so slow you can't even view downloads using HTML. I gave up. So I surf at 3AM in Blackwater, and everybody reckons 5G is great. Give me a break. The WWW will never be anything more than 20Kb per second, people will flood the network with video files, both upload and download. \n\nThis planter box is nice job, a less than 12 Kb file.
Those of you who think 5G is fast, try uploading 100Mb video files to a computer in the middle of Australia at any time. I surf at 3 AM for a reason. At Dululu I doubt hardly anybody is using the silly bandwidth. It takes 2 seconds to upload a 20K file, and over several hours to upload a 5Mb file, go figure.
The picture files were copied into paint and renamed into a tiny 12K to 4K file, not that silly 5Mb file, who wants print copy quality these days, when you have digital world viewing of files? Why don't cameras have options. I can't stand 5Mb files, simply because my 3G Network cannot handle them?
Kate has nice planter boxes, grow your own vegies. That's nice.
Drat, the phone takes 1 to 6M pictures, not the usual 20K pictures I prefer, hence the upload is way too slow, and my 3G is not uploading the files. Bother
Well I figured out with moto E6s help on www, to change my settings for charge cord to FTP file transfer\nand transfer brand new files, thanks to my Son for this gift.
Off to Dululu this weekend to round up all the geese and chooks for the big move.
A Practical Comparison of Mastodon and Micro.blog. It seems TWTXT is not the only alternative to tweets out there?
Actually 3:38 am my local time :)
Finished bracing the chook pen, walled up sheet of roofing iron, fixed door, made a window\nThe 100yr old barn, can't continue falling over any more.
I hope somebody one day, loves this old 115 yr old house number one, as much as I did renovating it. She was originally built in 1917, and added to in 1952, with pennies in the walls to verify this fact.
\nDane wants me to build one of these/ have the frame, roof. Have to make some wagon wheels.\nOur pressure pump ran out of water. we finally are taking out more water than it's flowing in.\nThis is a problem for any off grid living, learning to live within your means.
Sorry James cannot create account in Belong.com.au, not sure why, press Create account and go over the same menu to create Account.
Tried out a brand new hedger the Stihl ASA 8500 nice light very quiet. \nCompared to the Stihl ASA 8600, little heavier (400 gram more) and older, hence louder.\nBoth electric 18Volt, both nice.\n\nThe long 12 hour day went nicely :)
my mobile phone last night had a wash in the washing machine, the screen got water logged, and now the phone is RIP. Where do I buy another $10 phone from Telstra from? Mine older one was unique I an sure, maybe even a dinosaur :)
@prologic_blog Nice 57 video on TXT.social. \nMaybe get an expert to do video slides and add video to the video, rather than black screen. Place same words under the video, you need a video editor of course. Give Emmanuel Higgins a call. He is one I know does a good job, your cousin.
Get new assistant, called wade , a 19 yr old country boy from Nanango
Nice rain, nice sunny day, nice smell of fresh. What else for new mercies every morning?
\nWe got a nice storm today 25mm rain. How good is that! Rain in our new rain tank.
How do you know a person to follow if you can't read them first?
\nWife and I want to plant more. We have our own bees now too.
\nOur flower cottage garden is coming along
My camera cable doesn't work anymore. Darn.
Except my wife has never downloaded an app before, nor have I?\nGrace on your new job. New mercies every morning is a promise from God.
wow goryon is finally here!
The idea that Ingenious Aborigines were smart, clever famers does not surprise me, farming bundles of native grains as far as the eye could see, according to some historical accounts. Good on you Bruce Pascoe.
Many mock his findings and research, but Bruce is getting a following even if some of his ideas are stretched.
Bruce Pascoe wrote a great book called the Dark Emu. It's about aboriginal lands that were cultivated using native seeds, and ground to make bread. The first Australians assumed wrongly the Aborigine was mostly primitive. Not so it seems
@prologic I wouldn't say that... Trump is a good guy draining the swamp as He told us....
@felixp7 The different strain is called “D6-14G” and could be even more infectious than the original virus. "\n\nWith the family of 32000 bases of genes, and sexual recombination's possible all the time, trillions of different strains are possible. After all COV19 is one of 57 family members, 6 are called virulent to man, and most of them are like H1N1, Sara, Mers , Pneumonia and Bronchititus viruses, these are all COV19 related. SO folks we are just talking about a influenza virus here. Of course you can get reinfected....
\nOur own bees we found at Blackwater, enjoy our flowers nearby.