Status: Cold and rain today.
Plans: Purchase replacement battery for Triplite 2424 UPS at Costco.
Narrative: The Internet died at 2AM this morning for some reason and the firewall didn’t fall over to cellular either? I disconnected the Ethernet cable to the Comcast modem and the firewall picked up the cellular connection like it should have. I put another firewall on the Comcast modem and rebooted it. (The MAC addresses really matter when the modem is bridged.) The laptop launched the Comcast activation routine while the firewall was routing traffic to my cellular hot spot. I went through the process that I had done on Monday when I tried to activate two modems at the homestead. The modem rebooted and a short while later restarted one more time. I let it run for about an hour before connecting it to my firewall to take over for the cellular hot spot. I don’t know why after three days the router decided that it didn’t belong on their network. Boo.
My next project this morning was to revive an old T-Mobile hot spot that I’ve not used in like two years. I couldn’t activate it online so I took it to the store. The number I gave them actually belonged to someone else and I was trying to activate this device on their account. Oops? The very young female put in a new SIM and activated it within a few minutes.
Drove to Wally World to look at batteries, they had a boat battery that was rated at 105AH at a 1A rate. (I have NEVER seen such nonsense.) Boat batteries are normally rated in reserve minutes at 25Amps! Still at $85 it was a good buy even if the capacity was more like 75AH. Costco had an Interstate battery in the same category of price, but listed as 100 reserve minutes.
Spent about a half an hour removing the two 100AH AGM batteries from the refrigerator UPS this afternoon. For now it’ll have to survive on 54AH from three pairs of 18AH batteries. I bought two large 100AH wet cell boat batteries to go on the 2.5KW PowerVerter APS2424 and turned in the two 100AH AGM batteries for exchange. It started raining so I’ll have to move them onto the powerverter some other time. The great thing about the wet celled batteries is they can provide a large amount of current! I might buy one more pair so that there is 200AH@24V like there was when I put all this together.
The wife and I made our Home Chef meal tonight, stuffed chicken. Totally delicious!
I stripped this blog of the daily posts until I can safely post them again. I will continue to write them, but they will not be linked to the opening pages.
I brought in the two batteries I bought yesterday to assess them and to balance them for team use. They are close, but not identical dates. I’m missing one set of nuts. I parallel them and put them on a charger before putting them in service tomorrow.
Tomorrow: Put the two 100AH boat batteries on the APS2424.
https://www.verywellfamily.com/feelings-words-from-a-to-z-2086647
From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT set clear goals for the day? No
Did I DMBT make progress to those goals? No
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT fix something today? Yes
Did I DMBT improve something today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
Did I DMBT be fully engaged? Yes
*Did My Best To
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