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Each block requires 10mm mortar, a thick tile (red arrow) and use string line to lay blocks. Easier this way.
This building is cheaper than poured concrete trenches, plus concrete floor. Carpet will achieve same job as concrete floor. The power room needs to be moisture, insect and vermin proof. Having a dirt floor will help draw moisture out of the air.
Concrete in bond beams OK, some dry batches, but hopefully OK. Also welded frame for door, 1.6 high by 600mm wide, notice the 25mm angle iron hugs the blocks. Door not standard 1.8m and starts 200 off ground, so respectful to enter.
Ready to pour concrete mix. By hand of course, and all batches must go in a quickly as possible.
Red arrow shows some blocks rise up too much, by 2mm, the blocks need to be level within 4mm tolerance, ready for concrete.
Like so
Now ready for reo to go in, wired together with 600 by 600 angle bent Y12 rods. You need only one rod, and fill bond beams with concrete.
Red circle shows the tools you need to lay blocks, two small spirit levels and a block hammer, and a trowel.
Other red arrows show other sites that require more or less mortar as required.
When you lay the mortar I remove one block at a time, not as bricklayers do...on a hot day the mortar goes off fast. The red arrows show the amount of mortar required and the position the block needs to go into.
The arrow shows the gap for the mortar to fill. I use steel straight edge rather than string, a straight edge does 2 jobs at same time. Task is to get blocks laid in mortar to within 4mm level.
Hard to speak of images you can't see right now?
when pouring your concrete strip, the inner edge is moved along, see red arrow.
To begin my course of laying blocks
Yes Rigid makes a 24VDC brushless motor compressor uses 2 to 8 amps, 200W, with 455Watt of cooling, about 1/3 size of Mitsubishi Heavy Avanti of 2000 Watt cooling. Have contacted them for price and products.
Talking to James about Mitsubishi Heavy Air conditioners, the smallest is Avanti with 2.0 kWatt cooling.\nJust found one that is 300Watt cooling. \n\nhttps://www.rigidchill.com/micro-dc-aircon/ \n\nWill email and check price, 24V DC and uses a compressor. Wow. Rigid Chill .
each fruit tree is looked after reliably. Lost plants from cheap water controllers, blocked sprinklers, ie bore water blocks things. What to do? Stay tuned to off-grid-living for ideas.
When I came to this water line, nothing was proper. Taps too low to the ground, so I raised all the taps costing me heaps. People don't like to do things properly and spend to money. Water controllers are a worry. Stupid things. No point buying cheap ones, only the 150 dual ones are best, but battery replace?\nBetter off purchasing 4 of 6 valve water controllers @ 400 each and running 25mm pipe to each fruit tree. They are 240 volt, but run on 24 V, so I can hook them directly to battery without inverter. Long term solution. Might cost me 1000 dollars but 24 water lines
Always use 40mm blue strip poly even if you don't need this. Its rated for 30PSI and does not rot in UV, tough etc. Now do I rip out the entire system and replace the lot with 40mm poly? What to do with poor quality work? Sure it costly slightly more, but lasts forever. Now I have a leak, that's costs me 300 already, plus water mains I didn't have to install. So always use 40mm poly blue strip when doing plumbing up to 200m away, or use the 50mm poly for longer distances. Don't be a cheap skate. Otherwise you get leaks to fix costing you money.
We have a leak in our pipe network. Power bill was 300 more than it should. The pressure pump is on 24x7 and using 300W continuously. So I bought 3 water mains, at cost of 100 dollars, to isolate the problem of leak. The leak is somewhere out back. Silly people place pipes underground. Do NOT do this. Place your water pipes along your fence line, underground crossing drive way, foot paths, yes, but cover with mulch to remove UV attack. This makes servicing for leaks so much easier. And do not go cheap. Silly people here have 3 different sizes, none of them strong enough
I was thinking of using twenty 24 volt water pumps at 60 dollars each, rather than one pump at 300 each, but the price and age of the pumps is same, no better reliability. Inverters are now 98% efficient, so this makes 240 appliances cheap to use rather than 24V DC appliances which are more costly usually.
Weird, the big green tank looks sloping inwards, went out to check. Nope, the tank is exactly vertical to the smaller green tank, so the photograph is wrong.\nWeird, can't explain this angle. There would be 20,000 litres of fresh water in this tank now, ready to connect fresh bath water...Yah...!! Bore water does not lather well and makes hair funny.
Any bowing in formwork sticks, place to outside, and pour concrete next to formwork making it level. Notice yellow spirit level to check top of formwork.\nUse concrete blocks to hold formwork sticks in place.
Formwork stage, cheap as I can, use the timber edge to get a level top for concrete blocks, to within 5mm and make concrete base 400mm bigger than it needs to be. The blue carpet is for water works. The power room will not have a concrete floor, only a carpet floor, in case water pipes need accessing. Also cheaper. Hard to get concrete in the country. All mixed by hand.
Lovely 30mmm rain as storm late night, our big tank is nearly full, about 2/3
The terminals are very big, 20mm nuts and with huge stainless steel metal bar joins them together.
Our batteries arrived into our shed today yesterday, have to pick up other half of them. Heavy 400Kg , making each battery weigh 35Kg.
Too busy to upload another image?
We stopped for the night at JollySwag. The digital guide leads up into a 8 way intersection, hard to follow digital things, Di can't navigate, nor could I, notice the pattern of how we took up this challenge. Lucky the road wasn't busy for Saturday. So I looked for Kenmore Hills, on digital maps, and thought, can we do this? Stress? Sorry folks, but I must buy a paper map. It's easier to rotate paper.
Lovely well behaved grandkids for Mum on our get together 14 December.
Mum bit slow, arrives today we think?
On our way to Mum in Tenterfield, for early Xmas, and see grandkids.\nStaying at Toowoomba for now
The link shows the picture OK
That might be a clue James, the link didn't resolve the picture?
Over two days, the upload feature is busy. !(https://twtxt.net/media/KuGwrmFJvpahhaJJsFPXKK) No comments in console.\nThis is a picture of Beno, out shed that has nice peaches in it. We ate some last weekend, without no fruit fly larvae in them, nice and yummy.
Notice trench made by ramming timber, than form work to make level top, and concrete mixed by hand, into that, than start making knockout bottom layer, with steel (Y12) in them to hold bottom course together.
Another 40 degree weekend, our blocks arrived. The footings get preparations. Decided to make building 4.2m by 2.8 m.
Our blocks arrived today, now the building of the power room can start.
@kt84 nice on. Lovely size too.
in fact I have written 1575 webpages, and with thousands of tiny images, the website totals only 38MB in size. In average that's 25,000 bytes per file. I think it takes roughly 8 bytes to make a single letter, so that's 3,000 letters per page, or assuming on average 4 letters per word, 800 words per webpage. Hmm? In today's world, most people do not like to read anymore.... maybe I should make videos?
Problem is clicking on his JS mouse over, yields nothing for me, so the navigation is impossible.\n\nI like to keep things simple. My biggest webpage is just 73Kb in size, and that is because it maps the entire webpage by indexing over 1500 webpages by certain words.
Just checking out my nephew's website Eastward Missions, the home page is 250,000 bytes long, while my own website in Spiritual Springs, is just 25,000 bytes long, a mere ten times smaller, which is a lot. Emannuel has lots of JavaScript and CSS style sheets, while mine has nothing but simple HMTL code.
What a process to get a SIM phone number, stupid Telstra process, even though I have an account already, I had to sign as guest, new person, add my drivers licence, get sent and email, than ring #100# to recharge my phone, and all this without instructions, pure guess work.... 90 minutes later even for computer fossil like me...LOL
I spoke to an electrician today and learned a few things. The inverter has two modes of current, continuous and peak. The peak allows to handle big loads for a few seconds. The circuit breaker is sensitive and must allow peak current flow.\n\nSo for a 24/1200 VA inverter, that means 9.0 amps (don't think they make a 9 amp CB) and for 24/800 VA inverter, that means 6.0 amps (they make these ones). \n\nHowever still not sure, if a load increases to 8 amps for 20 seconds, the CB allows this, but the Invertor won't like this, so burns out?
I also plan 30 fuses which are resettable, some rated at 50 amps , some 40 amps and some 20 amps.
There are also 9 hall effect ammeters to gauge the currents coming in, and currents going out at any time, These sit all the time in the circuits, but not part of circuit, they measure flux around the wires, ie hall effect.
The 20 cells hopefully fit across width of room, they have 32mm PVC pipe to draw off H gas using computer fan. Placed high so easy to top up with distilled water, weekly. The power in with 3 solar controllers. The power out with four Inverters, RCD and RCBO rated at 6.0 amps.
A rough idea design of the interior of the power room and layout of components.
@prologic No JS errors, only that warning about cache
What an image?
40kB file showing console code warning. Upload OK
Picture of where I work, messy due to others.
Looks like if I add code (showing javascript) here I get access blocked. \nCOnsole shows warning : disabled back and forward caching.
The rocks show where I need to level up more foundation soil, etc, to make natural ground level.
Upload OK\nThe old shelter over bore pump removed, Concrete posts dug out.\nTemperate was 40 degrees, hot day.
Well the problem of upload is not firing up my PC, first time, clicking on Twtxt.\nAnyhow busy it is...
Wow 52KB file upload, I also study Hebrew, looking at why Gen 2:17 is different to other phrase.
It's OK if you only pulling out 1 - 3 amps into each wire or so. Not good if you require and inverter removing 40 amps though
This is a terrible way to make wired connections to a house, however it worked fine for several years.
No upload again for a 28Kfile? Hmm?
The geese pull the water out faster than the evaporation does. And yes, it was hot today, still 30 degrees I kitchen.
Image upload on my two systems.
Looks like pond held water, only lost 12 inches in a fortnight, geese would have pulled that out splashing, maybe?
TLDR? Top Left Down Right?? LOL
It needs to charge to 33.5V not 27.0 volts, for my Ni-Fe batteries.
I emailed DE manufacturers of Steca 24/20 asking if there device has manual adjustable means for charging voltage. Seems it might have. I have to go and get the device and see.
@birb I don't know why my Interne is sooo slow. Telstra was my bungle configured to 3G, not 4G. Any computer nerds know the theoretical maximum speed for uploads in 3G? Does anybody remember 3G? LOL
Hopefully now my Besser blocks can be ordered.
Getting close to the complete wiring of the power room
This picture was photo shopped in Paint, a primitive image program.
The men, Dwight and Daniel
The uploading feature is too busy, now and stopped.
We explored bat caves
Again, the girls.
Wow, 1 second upload, the grandkids from Hannah
Wow the kangaroo uploaded.
Nope no upload again, at Blackwater and is 3:07 AM. Nice holiday, good to see grandkids.
Nope the file is not going to upload
I just upload the 24 KB file using FTP to my website it took 0.2 sec speed was 35.88KB/sec to FTP. So nothing wrong with my computer hardware?
Football on the beach, no upload.
Grandkids in their own cabin...surprise arrival !
Wife in cabin
Holiday weekend
Nope, no upload images today, its 3:32 AM here.
Nope not uploading? do I need a new laptop? Had to restart, and my Netbank timed out.... Getting old like me?
My work place in Blackwater as a Gardener.
Nope not going to upload today.
Actually 27kb file, icon is going round and round as busy, it's 4 am here.
Something wrong, image upload taking too long to upload 14 kb file?
The chook pen from inside looking out
Still working OK, with uploads, Console says Warning. DOM7011. The code on this page disabled back and forward caching. For more information, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=291
