I remain impressed with Victron equipment. There's a noscripting language built into their inverters. You can write noscripts to activate various things based on temperature, load, SOC, etc. The only quirk is that when you write the programming change, the inverter will stop putting out power while it reboots. Another soution is to program things to happen based on a switch input and control the switch from their Cerbo processor.
The Cerbo is a glorified Raspberry PI. Matter of fact you can run the victron software on a RASPI but once you add CANBUS and RS485, you may as well just buy their hardware.
Additionally, the cerbo can be programmed to interface with your MQTT server so you have full control and monitoring from home assistant. Very flexible.
The Cerbo is a glorified Raspberry PI. Matter of fact you can run the victron software on a RASPI but once you add CANBUS and RS485, you may as well just buy their hardware.
Additionally, the cerbo can be programmed to interface with your MQTT server so you have full control and monitoring from home assistant. Very flexible.
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We honestly deserve the upcoming collapse 😔
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We got a skid steer adapter for our older tractor. Just installed it yesterday, took about 20 minutes. Easy Peasy. Now to take the pin mounted bucket to a welder to get the skid steer plate welded on.
That tractro has the 3rd function on the loader, so now I can use a grapple with it, in addition to the hay spear and articulated bucket.
That tractro has the 3rd function on the loader, so now I can use a grapple with it, in addition to the hay spear and articulated bucket.
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Went over to the solar project's house last night. He's got two 10000va victron quattros and we had left them idling all night the night before. Each one pulls 125w at idle, so 250w will heat up a 8x8 room in a shipping container pretty damn good. He had 3" of open cell foam sprayed on all 6 walls of that room. He has ZERO worry about batteries getting too cold in winter. All jokes aside, my inverters are in the outer ring of my basement so I had no idea inverters would warm up a small space so much.
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Last night I programmed his inverters to be split phase and programmed them to charge from grid when battery is low. To talk to the inverters you need their MK3 USB-C adapter and it connected right to my phone. Their software walked me right thru setting up and at the end offered firmware update. BOOM done.
The MPPT chargers connect by bluetooth, same, it said firmware update? BOOM done.
As I connected inverters, MPPT, shunt to their cerbo controller things just populated on the screen. BOOM done.
Sure, these systems are complex and intimidating... but the setup is the best I've ever seen. Quite refreshing. Highly recommended.
The MPPT chargers connect by bluetooth, same, it said firmware update? BOOM done.
As I connected inverters, MPPT, shunt to their cerbo controller things just populated on the screen. BOOM done.
Sure, these systems are complex and intimidating... but the setup is the best I've ever seen. Quite refreshing. Highly recommended.
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I can't believe what I'm seeing... it's 360 days until Christmas and people already have all their Christmas lights up.
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Forwarded from Working Men Memes (Atomic Rooster)
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Food for thought for ICF houses. You can do the floor for the 2nd floor and/or the roof with litedeck ICF blocks. These don't have to be mcmansions... they just make a really well insulated house. Any size house. ICF is the trifecta.... air tight, insulation and thermal mass.
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TLDR: ICF house with 4800sqft used 8kwh for heat, 1500sqft used 24kwh.... 3x the power for 3x less sqft. So this makes ICF 9x more efficient.
Tale of two houses. House 1:1500sq ft total, two separate buildings 900+600sqft, total of 250ft of perimeter wall. Wood construction with spray foam insulation. In fairness, he's got two separate buildings so he's got excessive perimeter walls.
House 2: 4800sqft, 1/3 in the earth, 200ft of perimeter wall. ICF construction.
Coldest night of the year so far. Heating energy used in house 1: 24kwh, house 2, 7.88kwh.
The photo is my neighbor's newly commissioned solar, he has 64kwh of battery and began the night with 93% battery, 60kwh. His minisplits pulled 24kwh all night, lights and fridge pulled 4kwh.
ICF for the win.
Tale of two houses. House 1:1500sq ft total, two separate buildings 900+600sqft, total of 250ft of perimeter wall. Wood construction with spray foam insulation. In fairness, he's got two separate buildings so he's got excessive perimeter walls.
House 2: 4800sqft, 1/3 in the earth, 200ft of perimeter wall. ICF construction.
Coldest night of the year so far. Heating energy used in house 1: 24kwh, house 2, 7.88kwh.
The photo is my neighbor's newly commissioned solar, he has 64kwh of battery and began the night with 93% battery, 60kwh. His minisplits pulled 24kwh all night, lights and fridge pulled 4kwh.
ICF for the win.
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Forwarded from Purpose Driven Homestead
We have a tradition. Every New Year's Eve, we throw two Tomahawk ribeyes on the smoker grill and thats what we have for dinner. We can only afford it once a year but man is it special! Whatever you all do each year for New Year's... I hope it was safe and spent with family surrounding you. May God bless your 2026 and I pray that he will direct all of our paths.
Whether you follow our family's journey of transforming a farm into a regenerative agriculture model or if your a casual Telegram user that happened to see this post... thank you for being part of our lives and we wish you the very best in 2026. Find a way to pay it forward this week. Do something kind for someone with no ulterior motive. We need less griping and more doing.
Whether you follow our family's journey of transforming a farm into a regenerative agriculture model or if your a casual Telegram user that happened to see this post... thank you for being part of our lives and we wish you the very best in 2026. Find a way to pay it forward this week. Do something kind for someone with no ulterior motive. We need less griping and more doing.
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Got 2nd wall done. We dug a trench under the walls so the clear panels can sit in the dirt as an air seal. Also notice the screw pattern.... I'm screwing every other rib, but I stagger by one rib on every other course of screws.
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I'd like to give this guy a plug. We ordered our skid steer adapter from him and ordered the version without the extra steel plate. The plate is included in cases where you want to convert your existing bucket to fit back on the skid steer adapter.
Once I got the box open, I realized the plate hadn't been included. I had ordered the wrong version. So... called him to see about getting the plate. He was super nice about it and told us the plate is $100 and he'd split the mistake with us.... so $100 for the plate and he ate the shipping.
You rarely find customer service like that these days. https://asktractormike.com/
Once I got the box open, I realized the plate hadn't been included. I had ordered the wrong version. So... called him to see about getting the plate. He was super nice about it and told us the plate is $100 and he'd split the mistake with us.... so $100 for the plate and he ate the shipping.
You rarely find customer service like that these days. https://asktractormike.com/
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