Month: August 2020

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies..

Plans: Let the NodeMCU’s and the dehumidifier run until September.

• 01:00 Blogging.
• 05:00 Up drinking coffee and making plans.
• 06:00 Down for a nap
• 08:00 Up and blogging, we missed garbage pickup today.
• 09:00 figuring out my state taxes.
• 10:00 Waiting on my new password, didn’t come…
• 11:00 Lunch
• 12:00 Nap
• 13:00 Spent several hours correcting my State tax return. Boo!
• 17:00 Din DIn
• 18:00 Blogging and cleaning up papers.
• 19:00 Watched Sputnik, Russian movie with English subtitles

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NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

NodeMCU Status: Our air conditioner is limping with a oil logged evaporator until we replace the unit in October. The thermostat is also limping along because of leaking batteries. I’m using these NodeMCU’s to measure the temperature and humidity throughout the house and turn on / off the power to the thermostat.

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DC Power generating and Inverter

Homestead DC Power: The bottom section of the above picture is two 15A 24V power supplies that work alongside the solar panels and provide power for the 300W inverters on the right side. The idea is that during the day a relay connects my computers to the 300W inverter and run them on the solar power. The system doesn’t make as much power on a partly cloudy day, much less in fact. Most days I make about 13 cents worth of electricity.

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About our current racial climate

Narrative: I’ve spent hundreds of hours reading the news about the protesting encouraged by the BLM Corporation International. They are very skilled at mixing “Peaceful Protests” and violence into “Mostly Peaceful Protests”. They are also very good at squashing the media into publishing just their narrative by having people on the ground telling the journalists what they can video and publish under the threat of violence. No one is talking about people are innocent until they are proven guilty by their peers in a court of law, rather they may have judged and promoted immediate convictions based on video they’ve edited/published. They are remarkable in their taunting, then they file complaints against the police and government about 1st Amendment rights being quelled by police brutality, which is the whole reason they are protesting. (Maybe, they still could want a Marxist government that redistributes the money to bring the poor out of poverty and give control of the country to the working class. (DPRUSA?) They have to get the police out of the way before pushing the laws of this country aside with these protests.) The-revolutionary-philosophy-of-marxism No one is talking seriously about the 25 Trillion dollars of Debt we’ve (Politicians) run up as we keep finding ways to give away money. We also seem to be forgetting that a couple of these people (at the root of all this protesting) are convicted felons who’s aggression contributed to the painful loss of their lives in front of a video camera. I did read an article that links a pandemic to protests, apparently the oppressed are motivated during a pandemic to strike out at their government’s misgivings.

Cancelled subscriptions to Newspapers.

I have also abandoned Facebook, Twitter too.

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Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know. We’ve resorted to giving money to the Atlanta Community Food Bank https://acfb.org/ until I can come up with something better.

Tomorrow: Saturday.

Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income.

Project Engineering:

Purchases: Another Dremel tool for mom.

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to be God’s people and do his will.

Family News: Mom’s in a rehab center, hopefully she’ll get home soon.

Arts:

• Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
• Feet swollen today, not real bad but some cause for concern.
  • I measured 20.5″ yesterday and measured 20.0″ today around the foot 2x.
• BP was almost perfect, drinking Filtered water to help kidneys and liver.

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: Looking for land tax bill.

Pi News: I’ve been working with “Home Assistant” software, the Pi’s themselves are in good shape.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.

Plans: Let the NodeMCU’s and the dehumidifier run until September.

• 08:00 Up slept in this morning, drinking coffee and making plans.
• 09:00 Pulled fan from dining room duct and fixed insulation.
• 10:00 Called mom, bought her a couple dresses.
• 11:00 Lunch
• 12:00 Nap
• 14:00 Received the 36V heaters that will be used as dummy loads.
• 15:00 Eating a salad, mom’s Dremel may have been stolen from under the mailbox.
• 16:00 Heavy rain, checking delivery options. Amazon says wait 48hrs.
• 17:00 Dinner
• 18:00 Watched a movie, Heaven Can Wait
• 20:00 Just about had enough of the violence from BLM.
  • Cancelled San Diego Union-Tribune, The Washington Post, Oregon Live.
  • Working on cancelling the AJC, Time, USA Today newspapers.
• 21:00 Blogging

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NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

NodeMCU Status: Our air conditioner is limping with a oil logged evaporator until we replace the unit in October. The thermostat is also limping along because of leaking batteries. I’m using these NodeMCU’s to measure the temperature and humidity throughout the house and turn on / off the power to the thermostat.

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DC Power generating and Inverter

Homestead DC Power: The bottom section of the above picture is two 15A 24V power supplies that work alongside the solar panels and provide power for the 300W inverters on the right side. The idea is that during the day a relay connects my computers to the 300W inverter and run them on the solar power. The system doesn’t make as much power on a partly cloudy day, much less in fact. Most days I make about 13 cents worth of electricity.

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Articles about our current racial climate

Narrative: I’ve spent hundreds of hours reading the news about the protesting encouraged by the BLM Corporation International. They are very skilled at mixing “Peaceful Protests” and violence into “Mostly Peaceful Protests”. They are also very good at squashing the media into publishing just their narrative by having people on the ground telling the journalists what they can video and publish under the threat of violence. No one is talking about people are innocent until they are proven guilty by their peers in a court of law, rather they may have judged and promoted immediate convictions based on video they’ve edited/published. They are remarkable in the complaints that are filed against the police and government about 1st Amendment rights being quelled by police brutality, which is the whole reason they are protesting. (Maybe, they still could want a Marxist government that redistributes the money to bring the poor out of poverty and give control of the country to the working class. (DPRUSA?) They have to get the police out of the way before pushing the laws of this country aside with these protests.) The-revolutionary-philosophy-of-marxism No one is talking seriously about the 25 Trillion dollars of Debt we’ve (Politicians) run up as we keep finding ways to give away money. We also seem to be forgetting that a couple of these people (at the root of all this protesting) are convicted felons who’s aggression contributed to the painful loss of their lives in front of a video camera. I did read an article that links a pandemic to protests, apparently the oppressed are motivated during a pandemic to strike out at their government’s misgivings.

Cancelled subscriptions to Newspapers.

I have also abandoned Facebook, Twitter too.

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Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know. We’ve resorted to giving money to the Atlanta Community Food Bank https://acfb.org/ until I can come up with something better.

Tomorrow: Friday.

Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income.

Project Engineering: Need to locate source of humidity.

Purchases: .

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to be God’s people and do his will.

Family News: Mom’s in a rehab center, hopefully she’ll get home soon.

Arts: Bought/Watched a movie on VUDU, Heaven can Wait.

• Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
• Feet swollen today, not real bad but some cause for concern.
  • I measured 20.5″ yesterday and measured 20.0″ today around the foot 2x.
• BP was almost perfect, drinking Filtered water to help kidneys and liver.

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: Looking for our land tax bill.

Pi News: I’ve been working with “Home Assistant” software, the Pi’s themselves are in good shape.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.

Plans: Let the NodeMCU’s and the dehumidifier run until September.

• 08:00 Up slept in this morning, drinking coffee and making plans.
• 09:00 Blogging.
• 10:00 Loading E Sword onto the Wife’s computer.
• 11:00 Thinking about lunch, the Wife is looking for bed linens.
  • Called Mom, two tropical depressions are brewing.
• 12:00 Nap
• 13:00 Worked on my todo list and reposted my Time Management.
• 14:00 Called the Doc, change my ph# so I can register with their www site.
• 15:00 Called mom and did some reading on the www.
• 16:00 Mowed the front lawn.
• 17:00 Dinner
• 18:00 Get ready for church
• 19:30 Church
• 21:00 Bed

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NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

NodeMCU Status: Our air conditioner is limping with a oil logged evaporator until we replace the unit in October. The thermostat is also limping along because of leaking batteries. I’m using these NodeMCU’s to measure the temperature and humidity throughout the house and turn on / off the power to the thermostat.

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DC Power generating and Inverter

Homestead DC Power: The bottom section of the above picture is two 15A 24V power supplies that work alongside the solar panels and provide power for the 300W inverters on the right side. The idea is that during the day a relay connects my computers to the 300W inverter and run them on the solar power. The system doesn’t make as much power on a partly cloudy day, much less in fact. Most days I make about 13 cents worth of electricity.

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Articles about our current racial climate

Narrative: I’ve spent a great deal of time reading the news about the protesting encouraged by the BLM Corporation International. They are very skilled at mixing “Peaceful Protests” and violence into “Mostly Peaceful Protests”. They are also very good at squashing the media into publishing just their narrative by having people on the ground telling the journalists what they can video and publish under the threat of violence. No one is talking about people are innocent until they are proven guilty by their peers in a court of law, rather they may have judged and promoted immediate convictions based on video they’ve edited/published. They are remarkable in the complaints that are filed against the police and government about 1st Amendment rights being quelled by police brutality, which is the whole reason they are protesting. (Maybe, they still could want a Marxist government that redistributes the money to bring the poor out of poverty. They have to get the police out of the way before pushing the laws of this country aside with these protests.) No one is talking seriously about the 25 Trillion dollars of Debt we’ve (Politicians) run up as we keep finding ways to give away money. We also seem to be forgetting that a couple of these people (at the root of all this protesting) are convicted felons who’s aggression contributed to the painful loss of their lives in front of a video camera. I did read an article that links a pandemic to protests, apparently the oppressed are motivated during a pandemic to strike out at their government’s misgivings.

Louisville police arrested 76 at the demonstration (in NuLu), but in the hours and days after, protesters lambasted Revelry online, making allegations including that the owner had warned police about the occupation. The gallery has publicly denied this claim. The “Fire! Fire! Gentrifier!” sign outside of Revelry had been used at an earlier protest against the mayor. Some NuLu businesses fought back, asserting that the protesters had no right to issue demands. One called it “bullying,” and at least one other compared protesters’ tactics to the Mafia’s. But, their strategy seemed to work. Protesters have succeeded in securing changes that even some detractors agree were needed to diversify NuLu. https://www.leoweekly.com/2020/08/nulu-protest-demands-work-appropriate/

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A medic, who gave the name Phoenix, confronted an officer she said had maced her and beaten her. She and a friend criticized the police for dispersing the entire crowd when only a few people had broken into PPA. “You are taking the actions of one person and you are punishing a movement,” Phoenix said. “One person did a fire and you think it’s OK to attack everybody here?”

“You’re all practicing group punishment,” the officer replied. “Because a few cops have done wrong things and you think we all need to suffer and be out here 69 days straight.” https://www.opb.org/article/2020/08/05/portland-oregon-protests-police/

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Finally, let’s note that protests at private homes are strategically misguided. Such protests tend to turn off potential sympathizers. The goal of political protest should be to generate outrage and empathy among possible supporters. But a protest at a home or at a restaurant defeats that purpose by making the protestors appear to be vindictive bullies.  Public protests and civil disobedience are more effective at persuading others to see the justice of one’s cause.

Peeved protesters may get a thrill from demonstrating at a politician’ domicile. But their anger is misdirected. The official at home is not the problem. Rather the problem is what happens when the official is at work. These protesters would be more effective if they were informed by the history civil disobedience and by a more systematic conception of political power. The Problem of Protesting at People’s Homes

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Feelings: As Christians we are compelled to look after the Widows and the poor. Just how we do that in this climate when there is so much energy fighting the democracy I don’t know. We’ve resorted to giving money to the Atlanta Community Food Bank https://acfb.org/ until I can come up with something better.

Tomorrow: Thursday.

Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income.

Project Engineering: Need to locate source of humidity.

Purchases: DH22 Temp sensors, some didn’t work and some are inaccurate.

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to be God’s people and do his will.

Family News: Mom’s in a rehab center, hopefully she’ll get home soon.

Arts: Watched a movie on Amazon Prime.

• Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
• Feet swollen today, not real bad but some cause for concern.
  • I measured 20.75″ yesterday and measured 20.5″ today around the foot 2x.
• BP was almost perfect, drinking Filtered water to help kidneys and liver.

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: Looking for our land tax bill.

Pi News: I’ve been working with “Home Assistant” software, the Pi’s themselves are in good shape.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.

Plans: Let the NodeMCU’s and the dehumidifier run until September.

• 07:00 Up drinking coffee and making plans
• 08:00 Walking around the block
• 09:00 Clearing the sidewalk of brush
• 10:00 Blogging and reading the news.
• 11:00 Assisting the wife make banana bread.
• 12:00 Nap
• 13:00 Delivered two loaves of bread
• 14:00 cleaning sidewalk
• 15:00 Blogging and helping with din din
• 16:00 Blogging and checking the news.
• 17:00 Looking for a way to help the food insecure, looks like ACFB so far.
• 18:00 Tired, making for Bed
• 19:00 Couldn’t sleep, browsing the www for a little bit about protests.
• 21:00 Headed to bed.

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NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

NodeMCU Status: Our air conditioner is limping with a oil logged evaporator until we replace the unit in October. The thermostat is also limping along because of leaking batteries. I’m using these NodeMCU’s to measure the temperature and humidity throughout the house and turn on / off the power to the thermostat.

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DC Power generating and Inverter

Homestead DC Power: The bottom section of the above picture is two 15A 24V power supplies that work alongside the solar panels and provide power for the 300W inverters on the right side. The idea is that during the day a relay connects my computers to the 300W inverter and run them on the solar power. The system doesn’t make as much power on a partly cloudy day, much less in fact. Most days I make about 13 cents worth of electricity.

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Articles about our current racial climate

A medic, who gave the name Phoenix, confronted an officer she said had maced her and beaten her. She and a friend criticized the police for dispersing the entire crowd when only a few people had broken into PPA. “You are taking the actions of one person and you are punishing a movement,” Phoenix said. “One person did a fire and you think it’s OK to attack everybody here?”

“You’re all practicing group punishment,” the officer replied. “Because a few cops have done wrong things and you think we all need to suffer and be out here 69 days straight.” https://www.opb.org/article/2020/08/05/portland-oregon-protests-police/

Finally, let’s note that protests at private homes are strategically misguided. Such protests tend to turn off potential sympathizers. The goal of political protest should be to generate outrage and empathy among possible supporters. But a protest at a home or at a restaurant defeats that purpose by making the protestors appear to be vindictive bullies.  Public protests and civil disobedience are more effective at persuading others to see the justice of one’s cause.

Peeved protesters may get a thrill from demonstrating at a politician’ domicile. But their anger is misdirected. The official at home is not the problem. Rather the problem is what happens when the official is at work. These protesters would be more effective if they were informed by the history civil disobedience and by a more systematic conception of political power. The Problem of Protesting at People’s Homes

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Feelings:

Tomorrow: Wednesday.

Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income.

Project Engineering: Need to locate source of humidity.

Purchases: DH22 Temp sensors, some didn’t work and some are inaccurate.

Repairs:

Religion: We were called to be God’s people and do his will.

Family News: Mom’s in a rehab center, hopefully she’ll get home soon.

Arts: Watched a movie on Amazon Prime.

• Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
• Feet swollen tonight, not real bad but some cause for concern.
• BP was almost perfect, drinking tap water to help kidneys.

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: Looking for our land tax bill.

Pi News: I’ve been working with “Home Assistant” software, the Pi’s themselves are in good shape.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.

Plans: Let the NodeMCU’s and the dehumidifier run until September.

• 07:00 Up drinking coffee and blogging.
• 08:00 Breakfast and vacuuming the floors.
• 09:00 Blogging
• 10:00 Looking for a very small air conditioner.
• 11:00 Lunch
• 12:00 Nap
• 14:00 Made a Doc Apt.
• 15:00 Called Hisense about our new dehumidifier noise level. (Low fan not working)
• 16:00 Testing fan air flow using muffin fan and an o scope.
• 17:00 Dinner
• 18:00 Scrbble

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NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

NodeMCU Status: Our air conditioner is limping with a oil logged evaporator until we replace the unit in October. The thermostat is also limping along because of leaking batteries. I’m using these NodeMCU’s to measure the temperature and humidity throughout the house and turn on / off the power to the thermostat.

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DC Power generating and Inverter

Homestead DC Power: The bottom section of the above picture is two 15A 24V power supplies that work alongside the solar panels and provide power for the 300W inverters on the right side. The idea is that during the day a relay connects my computers to the 300W inverter and run them on the solar power. The system doesn’t make as much power on a partly cloudy day, much less in fact. Most days I make about 13 cents worth of electricity.

I thought that my $180.00 electric bill was high until I talked to a friend who’s bill was over $350!

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Articles about our current racial climate

A medic, who gave the name Phoenix, confronted an officer she said had maced her and beaten her. She and a friend criticized the police for dispersing the entire crowd when only a few people had broken into PPA. “You are taking the actions of one person and you are punishing a movement,” Phoenix said. “One person did a fire and you think it’s OK to attack everybody here?”

“You’re all practicing group punishment,” the officer replied. “Because a few cops have done wrong things and you think we all need to suffer and be out here 69 days straight.” https://www.opb.org/article/2020/08/05/portland-oregon-protests-police/

Finally, let’s note that protests at private homes are strategically misguided. Such protests tend to turn off potential sympathizers. The goal of political protest should be to generate outrage and empathy among possible supporters. But a protest at a home or at a restaurant defeats that purpose by making the protestors appear to be vindictive bullies.  Public protests and civil disobedience are more effective at persuading others to see the justice of one’s cause.

Peeved protesters may get a thrill from demonstrating at a politician’ domicile. But their anger is misdirected. The official at home is not the problem. Rather the problem is what happens when the official is at work. These protesters would be more effective if they were informed by the history civil disobedience and by a more systematic conception of political power. The Problem of Protesting at People’s Homes

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Feelings:

Tomorrow: Tuesday

Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income.

Project Engineering: Need to test mom’s golf cart solar charger.

Purchases: None

Repairs: None.

Religion: We were called to be God’s people and do his will.

Family News: Mom’s in a rehab center, hopefully she’ll get home soon.

Arts: Watched a movie on Amazon Prime.

• Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: Called Turbo Tax and we corrected a problem with our returns.

Pi News: I’ve been working with “Home Assistant” software, the Pi’s themselves are in good shape.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: Cleared the sidewalk of neighbor’s trees of brush.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.

Plans: Let the NodeMCU’s and the dehumidifier run until September.

• 07:00 Up making plans for church today.
• 09:00 Getting ready for service.
• 10:00 Service
• 11:00 Air conditioner tried to run without the fan, oops!
  • I got lucky that the temperature sensor in the air return cut off the compressor.
• 12:00 Lunch and a nap
• 14:00 Reading the news.
• 15:00 Adjusting the software on the Home Assistant.
• 16:00 Eating dinner.
• 17:00 Reading the news.
• 18:00 Washing our hoses and tanks.
• 19:00 Watching a movie.

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NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

NodeMCU Status: Our air conditioner is limping with a oil logged evaporator until we replace the unit in October. The thermostat is also limping along because of leaking batteries. I’m using these NodeMCU’s to measure the temperature and humidity throughout the house and turn on / off the power to the thermostat.

I am still having issues with the evaporator freezing today. Even after running the heat pump without the fan didn’t clean out the oil in the evaporator. (Boo!)

I found an error in the programming that turned on the compressor without the blower running. Luckily the temperature sensor at the air return manifold was satisfied and cut off the compressor before it was damaged. I added a separate check to make sure the fan was running when the compressor is on. The programming failed to catch another process turning off the air handler at the same time.

I also added a temperature check after the temp is satisfied. I run the fan while measuring the temperature at the evaporator coils, when that temp gets over 70 degrees it is safe to restart the compressor. Since I have temperature sensors in the bedroom I can accurately set the bedroom temp regardless of the house temp. (Within one tenth of a degree)

I took an old fan from the garage and put it in the duct to my “Man Cave”. The O Scope measured slightly higher than 80Hz pulses from the fan. That will give me a relative speed to check for ice in the evaporator slowing down the air flow.

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DC Power generating and Inverter

Homestead DC Power: The bottom section of the above picture is two 15A 24V power supplies that work alongside the solar panels and provide power for the 300W inverters on the right side. The idea is that during the day a relay connects my computers to the 300W inverter and run them on the solar power. The system doesn’t make as much power on a partly cloudy day, much less in fact. Most days I make about 13 cents worth of electricity.

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Articles about our current racial climate

A medic, who gave the name Phoenix, confronted an officer she said had maced her and beaten her. She and a friend criticized the police for dispersing the entire crowd when only a few people had broken into PPA. “You are taking the actions of one person and you are punishing a movement,” Phoenix said. “One person did a fire and you think it’s OK to attack everybody here?”

“You’re all practicing group punishment,” the officer replied. “Because a few cops have done wrong things and you think we all need to suffer and be out here 69 days straight.” https://www.opb.org/article/2020/08/05/portland-oregon-protests-police/

Finally, let’s note that protests at private homes are strategically misguided. Such protests tend to turn off potential sympathizers. The goal of political protest should be to generate outrage and empathy among possible supporters. But a protest at a home or at a restaurant defeats that purpose by making the protestors appear to be vindictive bullies.  Public protests and civil disobedience are more effective at persuading others to see the justice of one’s cause.

Peeved protesters may get a thrill from demonstrating at a politician’ domicile. But their anger is misdirected. The official at home is not the problem. Rather the problem is what happens when the official is at work. These protesters would be more effective if they were informed by the history civil disobedience and by a more systematic conception of political power. The Problem of Protesting at People’s Homes

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Feelings:

Tomorrow: Monday

Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income.

Project Engineering: Need to test mom’s golf cart solar charger.

Purchases:

Repairs: None.

Religion: We were called to be God’s people and do his will.

Family News: Mom’s in a rehab center, hopefully she’ll get home soon.

Arts: Watched a movie on Amazon Prime.

• Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: Something is wrong with our returns, need to call them on Monday.

Pi News: I’ve been working with “Home Assistant” software, the Pi’s themselves are in good shape.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.

Plans: Let the NodeMCU’s and the dehumidifier run until September.

• 07:00 Up Sipp’n on coffee and talking with the wife.
• 08:00 Walking around the block
• 09:00 building decisions for the relays attached to the air conditioner.
• 10:00 Met up with the guys from our worship team on Zoom.
• 11:00 still building decisions for the relays.
• 12:00 Lunch
• 13:00 Nap
• 15:00 Checking on the air conditioner
• 16:00 Blogging.

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NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

NodeMCU Status: Our air conditioner is limping with a oil logged evaporator until we replace the unit in October. The thermostat is also limping along because of leaking batteries. I’m using these NodeMCU’s to measure the temperature and humidity throughout the house and turn on / off the power to the thermostat.

I am still having issues with the evaporator freezing today. Even after running the heat pump without the fan didn’t clean out the oil in the evaporator. (Boo!)

It has been a LONG couple days. The evaporator gains ice while the compressor is running on 1/4th of the tubing. Eventually it reduces the air flow sufficiently to prevent effective cooling of the house. I can manually turn off the compressor and the air blowing across the coils will thaw it over about 30 minutes to an hour.

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DC Power generating and Inverter

Homestead DC Power: The bottom section of the above picture is two 15A 24V power supplies that work alongside the solar panels and provide power for the 300W inverters on the right side. The idea is that during the day a relay connects my computers to the 300W inverter and run them on the solar power. The system doesn’t make as much power on a partly cloudy day, much less in fact. Today I made 300WH more power than I consumed. (like 4 cents)

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Articles about our current racial climate

A medic, who gave the name Phoenix, confronted an officer she said had maced her and beaten her. She and a friend criticized the police for dispersing the entire crowd when only a few people had broken into PPA. “You are taking the actions of one person and you are punishing a movement,” Phoenix said. “One person did a fire and you think it’s OK to attack everybody here?”

“You’re all practicing group punishment,” the officer replied. “Because a few cops have done wrong things and you think we all need to suffer and be out here 69 days straight.” https://www.opb.org/article/2020/08/05/portland-oregon-protests-police/

Finally, let’s note that protests at private homes are strategically misguided. Such protests tend to turn off potential sympathizers. The goal of political protest should be to generate outrage and empathy among possible supporters. But a protest at a home or at a restaurant defeats that purpose by making the protestors appear to be vindictive bullies.  Public protests and civil disobedience are more effective at persuading others to see the justice of one’s cause.

Peeved protesters may get a thrill from demonstrating at a politician’ domicile. But their anger is misdirected. The official at home is not the problem. Rather the problem is what happens when the official is at work. These protesters would be more effective if they were informed by the history civil disobedience and by a more systematic conception of political power. The Problem of Protesting at People’s Homes

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Feelings:

Tomorrow: Sunday

Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income.

Project Engineering: Need to test mom’s golf cart solar charger.

Purchases: 48V boost power supply.

Repairs: None.

Religion: We were called to look in our dark corners and bring them into the light on Sunday.

Family News: Mom’s in a rehab center, hopefully she’ll get home soon.

Arts: Watched a movie about finding “radium” and the radioactive measurement curie.

• Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes:

Pi News: I’ve been working with “Home Assistant” software, the Pi’s themselves are in good shape.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.

Plans: Let the NodeMCU’s and the dehumidifier run until September.

• 06:30 Spread “Weed-n-Feed” on the lawn while it was still wet.
• 07:00 Up Sipp’n on coffee and talking with the wife.
• 08:00 Need to come up with a better plan for the air conditioner,
  • (I am not happy with the heat from the dehumidifier.)
• 09:00 Looking around the house for some thermostat wire.
• 10:00 Nap time, been a long couple nights.
• 11:00 Lunch, pulled some wire from the attic. Need a relay module.
• 12:00 Wired up a current transformer to measure when the thermostat is on.
• 13:00 Rewired my air handler with a four relay module in between the thermostat.
• 14:00 Still working on it, had to look up the colors of the wires and what they do.
• 17:00 Dinner, Salmon was terrific.
• 18:00 Changing the programming of the NodeMCU.
• 19:00 Changing the criteria in the Home Assistant software for the relays.
  • Locking out changing the thermostat power when the relays are in control.
  • Testing thermostat power cut out that I have used recently.

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NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

NodeMCU Status: Our air conditioner is limping with a oil logged evaporator until we replace the unit in October. The thermostat is also limping along because of leaking batteries. I’m using these NodeMCU’s to measure the temperature and humidity throughout the house and turn on / off the power to the thermostat.

I am still having issues with the evaporator freezing.

Upgraded to a four relay module so that I can actually control the temp versus cutting the thermostat in and out when it goes awry.

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DC Power generating and Inverter

Homestead DC Power: The bottom section of the above picture is two 15A 24V power supplies that work alongside the solar panels and provide power for the 300W inverters on the right side. The idea is that during the day a relay connects my computers to the 300W inverter and run them on the solar power. The system doesn’t make as much power on a partly cloudy day, much less in fact. Today I made 300WH more power than I consumed. (like 4 cents)

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Articles about our current racial climate

A medic, who gave the name Phoenix, confronted an officer she said had maced her and beaten her. She and a friend criticized the police for dispersing the entire crowd when only a few people had broken into PPA. “You are taking the actions of one person and you are punishing a movement,” Phoenix said. “One person did a fire and you think it’s OK to attack everybody here?”

“You’re all practicing group punishment,” the officer replied. “Because a few cops have done wrong things and you think we all need to suffer and be out here 69 days straight.” https://www.opb.org/article/2020/08/05/portland-oregon-protests-police/

Finally, let’s note that protests at private homes are strategically misguided. Such protests tend to turn off potential sympathizers. The goal of political protest should be to generate outrage and empathy among possible supporters. But a protest at a home or at a restaurant defeats that purpose by making the protestors appear to be vindictive bullies.  Public protests and civil disobedience are more effective at persuading others to see the justice of one’s cause.

Peeved protesters may get a thrill from demonstrating at a politician’ domicile. But their anger is misdirected. The official at home is not the problem. Rather the problem is what happens when the official is at work. These protesters would be more effective if they were informed by the history civil disobedience and by a more systematic conception of political power. The Problem of Protesting at People’s Homes

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Feelings:

Tomorrow: Saturday.

Retirement: Need to build a budget, are spending is too close to our income.

Project Engineering: Need to test mom’s golf cart solar charger.

Purchases: Bought a dehumidifier on Thursday to assist our limping air conditioner.

Repairs: None.

Religion: We were called to look in our dark corners and bring them into the light on Sunday.

Family News: Mom’s in a rehab center, hopefully she’ll get home soon.

Arts:

• Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
• Went to the Doc today, he is sending me to a specialist to check on my intestines.

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes:

Pi News: I’ve been working with “Home Assistant” software, the Pi’s themselves are in good shape.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.

Plans: Groceries and a doctor.

• 07:00 Up Sipp’n on coffee and talking with the wife.
• 08:00 Walk up and down the block
• 09:00 Buy weed-n-feed and a dehumidifier.
• 10:00 running dehumidifier and eating lunch.
• 11:00 Trying to decide if the salad dressing in my sandwich was bad.
• 12:00 Nap
• 13:00 Shower and head to the doc
• 14:00 Doc appt
• 15:00 Making plans
• 16:00 Dinner
• 17:00 Thaw Air Conditioner evaporator, then restart and watch the house temps.
• 18:00 Reading the news.
• 19:00 Movie?

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NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

NodeMCU Status: Our air conditioner is limping with a oil logged evaporator until we replace the unit in October. The thermostat is also limping along because of leaking batteries. I’m using these NodeMCU’s to measure the temperature and humidity throughout the house.

The driving force for the air conditioner during the night is the heat from the dehumidifier. The humidifier is set to 50% humidity, when it runs that sufficiently heats the air to engage the air conditioning to cool the house back down to 76 degrees. The air handler has been set to 3 Tons for a 2 Ton compressor to help keep it from freezing the moisture on the Freon starved section of the Evaporator coil.

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DC Power generating and Inverter

Homestead DC Power: The bottom section of the above picture is two 15A 24V power supplies that work alongside the solar panels and provide power for the 300W inverters on the right side. The idea is that during the day a relay connects my computers to the 300W inverter and run them on the solar power. The system doesn’t make as much power on a partly cloudy day, much less in fact. Today I made 300WH more power than I consumed. (like 4 cents)

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Articles about our current racial climate

A medic, who gave the name Phoenix, confronted an officer she said had maced her and beaten her. She and a friend criticized the police for dispersing the entire crowd when only a few people had broken into PPA. “You are taking the actions of one person and you are punishing a movement,” Phoenix said. “One person did a fire and you think it’s OK to attack everybody here?”

“You’re all practicing group punishment,” the officer replied. “Because a few cops have done wrong things and you think we all need to suffer and be out here 69 days straight.” https://www.opb.org/article/2020/08/05/portland-oregon-protests-police/

Finally, let’s note that protests at private homes are strategically misguided. Such protests tend to turn off potential sympathizers. The goal of political protest should be to generate outrage and empathy among possible supporters. But a protest at a home or at a restaurant defeats that purpose by making the protestors appear to be vindictive bullies.  Public protests and civil disobedience are more effective at persuading others to see the justice of one’s cause.

Peeved protesters may get a thrill from demonstrating at a politician’ domicile. But their anger is misdirected. The official at home is not the problem. Rather the problem is what happens when the official is at work. These protesters would be more effective if they were informed by the history civil disobedience and by a more systematic conception of political power. The Problem of Protesting at People’s Homes

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Feelings:

Tomorrow: Friday

Retirement: Got my first check yesterday.

Project Engineering: Need to test mom’s golf cart solar charger.

Purchases: Bought a dehumidifier to assist our limping air conditioner.

Repairs: None.

Religion: We were called to look in our dark corners and bring them into the light on Sunday.

Family News: Mom’s in a rehab center, hopefully she’ll get home soon.

Arts: No movies yet.

• Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
• Went to the Doc today, he is sending me to a specialist to check on my intestines.

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: I need to look into increasing my tax payments to State of Georgia.

Pi News: I’ve been working with “Home Assistant” software, the Pi’s themselves are in good shape.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To

Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.

Plans: A day of Prayer and Fasting.

• 07:00 Up Sipp’n on coffee and talking with the wife.
• 08:00 Checking on the NodeMCU and the air conditioner’s performance last night.
• 08:30 Moved secondary UPS circuit off of Triplite UPS and shut it down.
  • The only remaining “Online” UPS is on the refrigerator.
  • There are three “Offline/Standby” UPS units in use.
• 09:00 Running Generators #4 and #5 until noon.
• 10:00 Called mom, talked for an hour.
• 11:00 Blogging and cooling generators.
• 12:00 Linux Mint has gotten stale. Looks like i’ll have to reload it on Perl.
  • Generators were pretty warm, it’s over 90 outside.
  • I need a nap!
• 14:00 Up and blogging.
• 15:00 Building a prayer list for others with “Obvious” sin.
• 16:00 Dinner
• 17:00 Checking on mom, she got her fan.
• 18:00 Time to start getting ready for church.
• 20:00 Time to get ready for bed, see ya tomorrow.

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NodeMCU ESP8266 Wi-Fi SoC

NodeMCU Status: Our air conditioner is limping with a oil logged evaporator until we replace the unit in October. The thermostat is also limping along because of leaking batteries. In the afternoons the thermostat is trying to preemptively cool the house 5 degrees below the setpoint. Some of that may be because the battery acid and humidity in the air skews the displayed temp. I added a NodeMCU plus relay onto the thermostat power wire (Red) that can cut off the thermostat when it is misbehaving. I can accurately measure the temperature with two sensors and use that information to make a decision on the relay operation. It also allows me to use two other sensors in the bedrooms as part of the equation.

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DC Power generating and Inverter

Homestead DC Power: The bottom section of the above picture is two 15A 24V power supplies that work alongside the solar panels and provide power for the 300W inverters on the right side. The idea is that during the day a relay connects my computers to the 300W inverter and run them on the solar power. The system doesn’t make as much power on a partly cloudy day, much less in fact. Today I made 300WH more power than I consumed. (like 4 cents)

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Articles about our current racial climate

A medic, who gave the name Phoenix, confronted an officer she said had maced her and beaten her. She and a friend criticized the police for dispersing the entire crowd when only a few people had broken into PPA. “You are taking the actions of one person and you are punishing a movement,” Phoenix said. “One person did a fire and you think it’s OK to attack everybody here?”

“You’re all practicing group punishment,” the officer replied. “Because a few cops have done wrong things and you think we all need to suffer and be out here 69 days straight.” https://www.opb.org/article/2020/08/05/portland-oregon-protests-police/

March to officer, Sgt. Alan Van’t Land’s home.

I watched a 40 minute video of the march, as long as they kept moving it would have been ok. What was not ok was when they blocked the street and cars couldn’t get through which raised tempers. To make things even happier there were armed protesters walking the street with them so they could prevent police/home owner’s interaction. Given how often these protests have gotten out of hand AND the many examples of impunity given to these demonstrations, I was very uneasy just watching the video. One last tidbit that was threatening was the protestors confronting the drivers trying to get through to their homes. No mask, yelling profanity at the driver within a foot of his face and the disunity of some of the members banging their hands on the hood of the car in anger. (Exposing risks that things are getting out of hand.) Protesters occupy CSPD officer’s neighborhood on anniversary of De’Von Bailey shooting KRDO Television, an ABC affiliate KTLO/KTLP, Telemundo

March to Police Chief Carmen Best’s home

Roughly 200 individuals, some carrying Black Lives Matter signs, descended Saturday evening on Best’s home in Snohomish County, north of Seattle — and they weren’t just demanding Best resign or anything anodyne.

And no, that’s not just a conservative engaging in hyperbole, trying to cast aspersions on peaceful protesters. Peaceful protesters don’t, for instance, yell profanity at Best’s neighbors. Nor do they write down the license plate numbers of vehicles in the neighborhood. Or take pictures of the homes. Or ask kids in the neighborhood what school they go to. “All we were doing was walking and they met us with guns; I don’t know who the aggressor is at that point, but I don’t think it’s us,” protester Nicole Gitaka told KING “Our main objective, the only thing we’re going to do, was march down to Chief Best’s house, make some noise, ask some questions, and go, that’s what was going to happen.” protester Nicole Gitaka said. Seattle Police Chief Begs City Council To ‘Stand Up for What Is Right’ After BLM Storms Her Neighborhood WJ

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Feelings: 50% of today’s youth under the age of 30 are Black, we are in for a major change with all these voters in bed with Black Lives Matter Global Network. (BLM Inc.)

Tomorrow: Tuesday.

Retirement: 1st SS check in two more days!

Project Engineering: Need to test mom’s golf cart solar charger.

Purchases: Garage door handles and Micro SD cards for my phone which should be delivered today.

Repairs: None.

Religion: We were called to look in our dark corners and bring them into the light on Sunday.

Family News: Mom’s in a rehab center, hopefully she’ll get home soon.

Arts: No movies yet.

• Health: 220Lbs, too heavy.
• Throat: I have had a heavy thick flem for a couple years, I don’t cough per-se but I forcibly exhale to clear my throat pretty often. (Like in the movie Destination Wedding.) It has been green on occasion, but not normally. I have not figured out whether it is from my nasal cavity (Eyes) or my esophagus.
• Eyes: At the end of the day my eyes are so dry that it is difficult to sleep. The mucus that runs down my sinus makes the back of my throat sticky. The stickiness then prevents me from breathing OUT my nose. My eyes are so uncomfortable by the end of the day I cannot keep them open.
• Feet: Within the last several week the soles of my feet feel spongy, it’s the weirdest feeling like I am walking on a sponge with the loss of sensitivity of the skin that’s in contact with the floor.
• Prostate: I am getting warning signs that my prostate is in difficulty. The PSA levels were above normal on my checkup last month. (Previous year was normal.) Over the last three years I have had intermittent difficulty urinating which has been tied to increased blood pressure making the episodes temporary. Over time I realized that romantic encounters with the wife significantly reduce these urinating difficulties. Last week there was a very slight pressure between my buttocks that felt like I was carrying a sponge underneath my tailbone. Today I’ve had an uncomfortable pressure like I have to defecate, but there’s nothing when I try. There is a very minor pain like I’ve fallen on my buttocks right at my tailbone. (Which I’ve done several times.)

Travel: Florida travel looks within reach.

Taxes: I need to look into increasing my payments to State of Georgia.

Pi News: I’ve been working with “Home Assistant” software, the Pi’s themselves are in good shape.

Media: No Instagram posts today and we’re off Facebook.

Injuries: No injuries.

Accomplishments: None.

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
*Did My Best To