Status: Sheltering in place, we have plenty of food and supplies.
Plans: Cleaning and organizing.
- 07:00 Get up and sip on some coffee.
- 08:00 Resolving yesterday’s issues.
- 09:00 Clearing paperwork piles.
- 10:00 Cleaning Livingroom piles.
- 12:30 Chili’s for lunch
- 13:00 Trying to find 3A PTC, they were terribly cheap!
- 14:00 Nap
- 16:00 Reading the news
- 18:00 Watched the invisible man.
Narrative: We have a lot of low power things that run 24/7 and I thought i’d use my two 100W solar panels on the roof to power something during the day. The routers on my desk draw roughly 300W so I thought I’d run the solar panels in parallel with a good 28V power supply to power them.
After I connected all the pieces together and ran it for a day I realized that the losses of the power supply and the Inverter wasted all of the solar energy I was trying to harness. I needed something < 175W that can be powered entirely by solar during the day with a power supply backup for clouds etc.. During the night, a relay would switch the over to the Utility company to eliminate the losses of the double conversion. Our 43″ TV is currently being powered by this setup.
Feelings:
Tomorrow: Friday, my last pay day.
Injuries: Arguments: Exercise: Feeling words: Travel: Noteworthy: Accmplishments: Purchases: Project: Theme: Engineering: Repairs: Pi News:
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