I'm almost baaack!
Since my last post I’ve shirked my photography and dedicated myself to being able to survive 5+ days without grid power or gas for a generator, as we lived through hurricane Milton. It’s hurricane season again.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1036137793
We now have a system that will allow us to have power at a reduced level after a storm with whole house battery backup. These last two months I designed and installed a system to monitor the grid and automatically turn off the major watt hogs like hot water, well and pool pump, etc. if the grid is down for 10 minutes, so that I can manually budget our usage at night while charging our batteries during the day (Z-Wave run off two Raspberry PI processors). We generate more than enough for normal operation during the day and sell our excess to power company.(at wholesale rates dammit)
Now maybe I can get back to my photography!
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