Improvements in and around my home
After a long time agonising how I would route all of the cables from the roof to the cupboard under the stairs, I finally settled on the idea of a solar sub panel as used by AC Solar Warehouse Australia, and also shown in this Enphase Australia & New Zealand video It took me a…
I ordered the batteries before Christmas and they have been sat in my back garden ever since. My intention is to mount the batteries on the side of my house above my flat roof area. This area currently has a couple of satellite dishes that I no longer really need. I used to be quite…
I knew my energy usage was high and is unlikely to go down as part of this journey, but I want to track how the distribution of that demand changes. As part of my journey towards reducing my bills and becoming ‘greener’ in the process, I decided to generate some historical charts of my electricity…
In order to be able to self install this system I had to undergo the Enphase IQ Battery Storage Ceritfication at the Enphase University, then submit my initial design for review before they would enable my Enlighten account for commissioning IQ battery systems. Part of the qualification is to produce a Single Line Diagram (SLD)…
I wrote a previous article about my EV charging point installation. A few months back my Pod Point charger stopped working, it would make clicking sounds for hours on end, keeping people awake at night and ultimately flattened the car battery. I attempted to contact Pod Point by email, however I simply received an automated…
As a result of my ever escalating electricity costs, I have decided to look into solar energy and battery storage. I have recently been switched over to smart meters for my gas and electricity supply and have been watching the associated display constantly tell me that I ma over budget for the week. I have…
I made a previous post about my flat roof where I covered it with fibreglass – Flat Roof Area This unfortunately had begun to fail and was becoming ‘spongy’ in places and was also once again leaking inside, so using some of the funds from the recent sale of my condo in the USA I decided…
Well I was never really happy about using the tower PC case that I mentioned in the previous NAS post, it was just too big and bulky, so I continued looking for alternate solutions. Eventually I settled on using an EMC KTN-STL3 unit that can hold 15 x 3.5″ SAS drives in a short 3U…
I mentioned in my previous post that I had acquired a Unifi 10Gbit 8 port Aggregation switch, I also acquired a 12U Star Tech wall mountable rack for £100.00 from the same guy I bought the new NAS case from (picture is the 9U version). This meant that I could move some of my kit…
Now that I am starting to make YouTube videos, I need somewhere to store all of the huge Hi-Rez render files, the 2TB drive in my iMac Pro is simply not big enough to use for ongoing storage. It is fine for working on the files locally, but for long term storage, they need somewhere…