Electrical
Finally received everything I needed to finish this project. The pictures above and below show every wire and every connection. I used a Wago for the black wire running back to battery negative or busbar because that wire needs to be installed after we mount this module where we need
News
When our provider ceased operations, we lost our blog. These interruptions keep happening and we got tired of it so we decided to do everything ourselves. This new blog now runs on our own MacMini server, connected to our cable Internet ISP. This will also replace our Facebook page that
Hydroponics
Testing the new Kratky grow pod with spotted pea microgreens seems to be going pretty good
Electronics
During my time as an ISP I used to have a datacenter filled with rows of 19” cabinets that housed servers, disk systems and routers as tall as a fridge. Today I got my newest setup online: a small shelve with the smallest server I ever had, a tiny MacMini
Electrical
I designed a mount for the Blue Sea Systems Remote Battery Switch (RBS) that includes a junction box, fuses and communication ports for remote control.There are two RJ11 modular jacks that can be used in a daisy chained configuration that includes multiple RBS modules, multiple remote switches and multiple
Hydroponics
Here is our next generation of the hydroponic micro greens grow pod. I think this will be the final version: it’s a Kratky setup that you setup to go from seed to harvest in one go. It has a reservoir that has just the right amount of water to
Woodworking
Ceiling trim with two coats of varnish. It needs a light sanding followed by a third coat but the varnish is still too fresh for sanding so we’ll let it cure a bit more. We did receive the fasteners we selected and I think they look great! The strange
Electrical
Engine start inrush current measurements.The scope is at 50mV/div. The shunt is 50mV for 500A. On the time axis we have 200ms/div. We see around 60mV so 600A inrush, quickly reducing to 300A after 200ms and the engine is running after 800ms.This is a large 5.