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2020-07-29T18:22:24Z Pity I don't get to see what I wrote last time on this topic?
2020-07-30T17:52:44Z OK I see what I last wrote yesterday. That's great. Very tired from working as a gardener. But today is a brand new day.
2020-07-31T17:57:31Z Welcome to a new day with twtxt !
2020-08-01T19:29:06Z The user's image update is cool. Now we can perceive whom our people are just a little. I am an Aquarian. Most of us are creative thinkers and inventors. My problem is I can't market my inventions.
2020-08-01T19:30:13Z Famous Aquarians: Musician Wolfgang Mozart Painter Jackson Pollock Scientist Galileo Writer Charles Dicksons Singer Garth Brooks Inventor Thomas Edison President Abraham Lincoln
2020-08-09T18:27:01Z So the first thing to resolve in off-grid-living, is your water problem. All homes in the country needs a infinite supply of water, by infinite I mean within reason, lets say 1 million litres per year is reasonable. You can do things with that amount of water. In fact water is life. No water no life, and no living.
2020-08-09T18:27:48Z So I finished my bore system today, I will show people some pics later on.
2020-08-10T16:59:06Z The mask circle of the avatar is a nice look
2020-08-11T17:30:25Z Good morning Off Grid Living
2020-08-12T17:30:23Z Formatting in bold.
2020-08-15T17:20:41Z won't let me edit the post, ie remove second image mistake. But hey progress in IE version 11 :)
2020-08-15T17:22:56Z Edit removed my previous post?
2020-08-15T17:25:33Z image link wrong?
2020-08-15T17:27:46Z  Living off Grid is also about caring for our planet.
2020-08-15T17:29:27Z There is a movement towards older style of farming and backyard gardens because it is more efficient than industrial style farming practices. Cheaper and more sustainable.
2020-08-15T17:34:19Z  Here is a OFF Grid concept of growing food, the concept explores not just getting off industry power, but getting off industry food practices as well. In fact the term refers to getting back to doing all things yourself, like Grassroots mag. alludes. This picture has a vermin proof chook and vegie garden enclosure, divided into 3 paddocks 6m by 6m, two sheds either end, so the picture is about 24m long/
2020-08-15T17:37:06Z  The chooks and duck inside your food system, eat your weeds and supply your fertilizer, making nothing much for you to do. One paddock is open for destruction to chooks, one paddock is growing, the final paddock is harvested for food. Simply sow seeds and water.
2020-08-15T17:38:07Z  In side the gardens grow madly.
2020-08-15T17:39:20Z  Another garden example in full swing, no pesticides, no fertilizers, all natural.
2020-08-15T17:40:36Z  What do you do with some problems?
2020-08-15T17:44:10Z If you see plants attacked, its because your system soil is not 100% healthy. Mother Nature says sick plants must die. So make you soil more healthy. Add mulch, compost and trace elements to your compost process, so the animals in it add the chemical to their enzyme structures, making your product organic. This stops plan attack, as the blue arrow in the picture shows.
2020-08-15T17:45:07Z  The plastic lids stops the stem cuttings from dying until roots get going. Water normally. Remove lids after a while. No need to purchase seedlings.
2020-08-15T17:49:49Z  These are all OFF Grid FOODS, grow using the permaculture system from our gardens.
2020-08-15T17:50:54Z  More examples of organic food harvest.
2020-08-15T17:53:21Z Notice a paw paw leaf in the garden menu. You should learn to eat garden greens, these remove daily the cancer cells growing in your body. Dealing with cancer is as simple as eating organic green leaves, of all kinds. Get used to it, its a food group people have never heard of before.
2020-08-15T17:57:04Z  Here is a typical sample of leafy greens eaten daily used to remove cancer cells from your system and keep your immune system strong. A small hand full every day, is all you need, eaten raw, straight from your garden. Notice my chopping board is plain timber, and old 200 yr old rosewood tree to be exact.
2020-08-15T18:06:05Z  Well this may look different to your industrial food, but its 100% naturally processed, fresh using all the ingredients from your own garden.
2020-08-15T18:08:44Z  Another approach is take some geese, who eat grass lawns mostly.
2020-08-15T18:14:12Z  The geese put their poop in a cement featured garden pond, with drain, pump and filter, you recycle the water through gravel, with plant garden vegies growing in it. All natural, not quite aquaculture, but an OFF grid animal process to growing your vegies, using water and gravel and geese poo as your medium. Again 100% natural and the complex system gets better with time, the gravel medium takes on a community that helps roots in gravel grow better.
2020-08-15T18:20:46Z Stay tuned, will discuss more of this topic later. But the camera feature is working, so this saves time explaining things.
2020-08-16T18:45:44Z Testing edit
2020-08-16T18:46:57Z testing edit
2020-08-16T18:48:47Z Yesterday I was working on the guttering on my roof. It was a cheaper, simpler system. I got the 0.55mm galvanized steel folded by Adnought, for just 8 AUS per metre, normally costs 26 AUS per metre for fancy box gutter in zinc, NOT zinc with aluminium. Why did I avoid aluminium alloy? Cancer and toxic metal reasons. (Text area cannot show dollars symbol, ie AUS)
2020-08-17T18:04:30Z  The tentpeg is a special Hebrew symbol from Ancient Hebrew, and here is a useful demonstration of its ability to secure things. I use the fork of the peg to secure a hose from slipping off. Saves me time going looking for plastic clip. Works a treat :)
2020-08-17T18:06:03Z Hope the image looks ok on I pads, on my desktop it looks bad, the image size is way too large, and from my camera they are already 15KB images.
2020-08-19T16:57:57Z That image is poor
2020-08-19T17:02:21Z  Let's talk a little about solar power. Here are two banks of panels, 4 each of 220 watts, giving each bank a total of about 800 watts, or for 5 hours of sunshine, about 4 units of power generation. Each panel has wire connectors cut off, saves money, and soldered into parallel, making the input 30Volts and 20 Amps maximum.
2020-08-19T17:04:35Z Notice the house also is on grid receiving 240 volts. I had trouble with supplies who argued you do not wire up panels in parallel. These guys know little, and assume all panels these days supply a grid. Mine does not.
2020-08-19T17:06:19Z  Here are the controllers, for each bank. The bank allows redundancy, so having two batteries of storage allows you peace of mind should one storage fail, until you fix it.
2020-08-19T17:09:03Z  The batteries are wired in series, giving 24 volts, they are 220 Amp Hour each, giving the total storage of 220 Amp/hr. That doesn't sound much does it? The cost of each AGM battery made in china was $330 each.
2020-08-19T17:10:50Z  On the general household bank, all the power wires are connected by a brass bolt, rather than spend $300 on a brass terminal. It works OK, but look messy.
2020-08-19T17:12:43Z  The negative the same. I think the bolt is stainless steel? I never had any problem with the connections here.
2020-08-19T17:15:16Z  My weekly problem was what I called dry socket connections at the post, they were touching, but the controlled said it wasn't touching. Rubbing with steel wool, of graphite powder helped the controller reading go from error to 100% in a few seconds of cleaning this one connection.
2020-08-19T17:18:12Z  A similar problem at the positive post also, but this only ever happened for the 24 volt DC fridge bank. The fridge draws only 1.6 amps to 2.0 amps when running, but for some reason the post terminals, while touching and tight, the controller said the terminals were bad. This second bank of storage only ran one appliance, the fridge.
2020-08-19T17:20:24Z Personally I don't like bolt connections, I reckon the old fashioned post terminal would be better, or maybe the alloys used caused the problem? Mixing stainless steel bolt with solder allow terminals might be bad, the surface area of the connection is too small for me?
2020-08-19T17:22:57Z  On the first year everything went smoothly, both banks dropped to around to 85% of full charge, most days it was 90%, and the banks were fully 100% charged within 20 minutes of solar. So were not using the AGM batteries much, and trying to look after them.
2020-08-19T17:26:03Z  In our third year, every week we had problems with the fridge battery bank. I now know the AGM batteries are no good. The chemistry is gone, even though they were never discharged below 85% on any one day. I remember one rainy day the fridge bank went down to 65%, and this happened only once. We didn't get much sunshine for over 4 days.
2020-08-19T17:31:45Z Dollar symbol thing
2020-08-19T17:32:43Z That means the total cost of running this power system per year is AUD 440. There is no need to carefully look after your batteries like we did. If I increased the storage to 400Amp hours, so they cycled to 95% fully charged each day, the chemistry only lasted the warranty. So it doesn't matter. The cost of maintenance is too high. If we throw in our 240Volt power bills too for a year. Our power bills were just AUD 1000 roughly per year
2020-08-19T17:34:07Z The 240 volt was used to run washing machine, toaster, and garden pump. These items are difficult to run on DC, all of them require 700 watts to 1500 watts of power.
2020-08-19T17:39:23Z Off grid living for us, does not use air conditioners, vacuum cleaners, an such things. We have always used on a 240 V supply about 3 units of power daily. A fridge uses roughly 1.5 units daily. So getting off grid is not so hard but you do have to change your lifestyle a little. The total cost of us getting off grid was AUD 4,500. That includes a expensive fridge, 24 VDC, Danfoss compressor, costing AUD 2,500. Solar panels and controllers AUD 1,800.
2020-08-19T17:42:16Z A friend reckons If I also ran a wind generator, the charging at night should reduce the wear and tear on the chemistry of each bank. I have not tried this idea. Does anybody know if you keep your bank near 98% fully charged every day and night, if it would make AGM last longer than warranty date?
2020-08-19T17:43:01Z It's hard finding people on Internet discussing Off Grid Living solutions.
2020-08-22T09:05:39Z Dark mode on ?
2020-08-22T09:09:13Z  Some plant cuttings growing in foam boxes. I am round about 80% successful with most cuttings, except Privet, Lilly Pilly and Moray plants, seems the air too dry inside my foam box, covered plastic top.
2020-08-22T16:58:18Z  Here I grow garlic , garlic chives and mint. What makes garlic difficult to grow, is getting a plant corm that I alive and healthy. Otherwise garlic seems to grow normally like other herbs.
2020-08-22T16:59:15Z Wow, seems like for small images, I get a small size. Great.
2020-08-23T18:31:57Z  Another thing I did was make two garden beds on concrete suspended off the floor. No more aching backs digging soil. The beds are 4m by 2m
2020-08-24T17:48:32Z Notice the posts are tucked underneath the garden beds by 200mm so your toes do not hit the garden posts if your standing close to the edges of the garden. It also allows you to see water dripping through, to prevent wastage. The garden plants sucked the soil medium dry nearly every time, so hardly any drips every happened. A great, but expensive idea. The ultimate garden bed experience.
2020-08-24T17:49:52Z  Another view of the same garden beds, showing compost bins and the natural grass mulched floor.
2020-08-24T17:52:35Z The bath tub is for composting the toilet waste that comes out of the compost toilet, also connected to this garden shed, via a fly proof glass door entry. The bath tub has other organic waste too, all kept there for another 12 months before ending up in garden beds as soil.
2020-08-24T17:55:11Z  A view of the grassy mulched floor, I was going to use tiles, but natural dried grass is nice to walk on, decays to soil and allows root food to eat as well. The grass comes from our lawns, so the garden shed concentrates the nutrients from the whole land plot we have.
2020-08-24T17:57:26Z This is a picture of a dwarf avocado tree growing in the garden shed. The roof is fibreglass, the walls are metal and shade cloth, and the entire building is near insect proof. The garden shed is 12m by 12m in size, and cost me over $5000 to build.
2020-08-24T17:58:26Z  A different view of the garden shed, this time showing a feature arch of bricks, the shed is divided into different rooms.
2020-08-24T17:59:35Z  A view of the roof details and metal beams.
2020-08-24T18:01:21Z The reo mesh is for the trestles over edge garden beds, for plants to climb onto. Tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, etc. No more ties, faster, easier, just weave the tomatoes over and over the wire mesh.
2020-08-24T18:02:02Z  The arch leads to the fruit tree room from the veggie room.
2020-08-25T18:02:25Z  One more thing Off-Grid -Living needs is a good water source. In a dry place like Australia, if you can't afford a river, and your bore is poor, storing rain water is good. Here is the cheapest idea for tanks, one large tank, 10m in diameter, a storage capacity of 160,000 litres.
2020-08-26T17:49:47Z One thing worries me about this storage is a mouse gnawing through the plastic liner, how common is this idea? Or termites, or tree roots? There is a weed mat covering under the plastic liner, but all that water is vulnerable to massive loss. The biggest consumer of water is the water controllers feeding the trees and gardens at a rate of 1200 litres per week.
2020-08-27T17:36:42Z "pulmicort cov19 cure" Google search
https://hope1032.com.au/stories/life/news/2020/texas-doctor-discovers-a-powerful-covid-treatment-in-prayer-trials-in-australia-usa-europe/
Prayer Inspires Texas Doctor’s Promising COVID Treatment; Australia Joins Trials Worldwide
By Clare BruceMonday 3 Aug 2020
The steroid "pulmicort" is cheap, and offer a 100% cure for Cov19 patients, came to a texas Doctor after praying to GOD for help with patients. Not spoken about on TV is it?
2020-08-27T17:39:48Z You have to use
(can't show it "br" ) to get a carriage return?
in your text box?
Shalom
2020-08-28T09:21:29Z  In our new country house, we have a 70 year old pecan nut tree, and after burning a few dry sticks near the tree, the canopy got heat stressed, triggering a few flower buds just before autumn winds set in, removing the new flowers and leaves. Tribulation sure does make fruits start.
2020-08-29T06:36:16Z Two
2020-08-29T06:41:43Z Nice pic of river
2020-08-29T07:07:02Z @ "And that’s why you should consider learning how to make your own e-books—whether with Sigil or some other app of your choice. Maybe you won’t need it right away. Maybe you’re not going to do anything fancy with this skill. It will, however, expand your horizons, and that’s always the first step towards better things."
Do you use Sigil to make your own e-books?
2020-08-29T18:20:43Z  The only way to grow veggies for Off Grid Living, is under wire to keep birds and rabbits out. I need to make this one bigger.
2020-08-29T18:22:31Z There are 6 round tanks (600 high and 2m diameter) with fruit trees growing in them. The parrots steal your fruit too unless it's under wire.
2020-08-30T18:38:52Z  Part of Off Grid Living, is dealing with birds that flog your fruit. Like grapes. I love grapes, and do not want birds stealing them. Alas my make shift bird netting is a poor ugly structure, but it works.
2020-08-30T19:12:54Z (#) New Blog Post [My Son's Long Post feature on TXTxt](https://twtxt.net/blog/off_grid_living/2020/08/30/my-sons-long-post-feature-on-txtxt) by @ 📝
2020-08-31T17:39:59Z Two comments already on my memory lane blog post. How nice. James forgot the Melissa Virus thing, Oh well. I probably forget many things too, over the years. When it comes to living with your career of skills Albert Einstein once said "Keep things simple, but not simpler".
2020-09-01T17:59:55Z My new trailer goes for inspection today.
2020-09-02T17:45:28Z  This old 100 year barn, horse/cattle stables was used by the Coy Family many years ago. I thinking of making part of it a chook pen, but I have to stabilize the leaning over first.
2020-09-02T17:46:40Z That big bottle tree got hit by lightning after this pic, and so I need a lot of chain sawing to do as well ...
2020-09-03T18:02:41Z (#)  A garden problem
2020-09-04T19:33:16Z A birthday weekend
2020-09-04T19:35:02Z 7:30 PM server time in Brisbane, and it's 5:30 AM also QLD here as I post??
2020-09-05T18:48:10Z To all fathers out there, have a great mention.
2020-09-06T19:47:16Z I am off today to build my first insect proof building over my peach tree.
2020-09-07T07:12:07Z Got some way to getting it done. Its 10m by 6m about 3.5 metres high.
2020-09-07T17:39:30Z BACK TO WORK
2020-09-08T17:37:00Z Work too hard yesterday. Cut down tree branches off the boss's house. Interesting day that was.
2020-09-09T09:16:56Z Today wasn't much better, cleaning up old tree branches
2020-09-09T17:54:30Z @ @ (#) It will soon, once the apps are written for mobile OP.
2020-09-09T18:04:57Z (#) @ @ @
My understanding is Apple and Windows are OP that feed themselves differently to Binary, as File management systems. If you run both systems for a while and intentionally switch off the mains power supply, the Apple OP responds better to the outage, than does the Windows system. In this regard, you could say Apple OP is more bomb proof than say Windows OP. On another angle, the Windows OP is easier to learn, as it was educationally taught more across schools to young children. Hand out free OP systems or cheaper OP systems and guess what?
2020-09-11T09:25:18Z 
Today on cutting this citrus hedge, I see that after a while plants are conditioned to remain is the shape you want them to be? I wonder if you can do that with humans too? Conditional programming using Ipads?
2020-09-11T18:42:37Z  My job as a gardener has wonderful things for the eyes, and harder things for the muscles.
2020-09-11T18:46:26Z  The half yearly rates for this place is AUD 157,000. The Cost of the concrete foot paths alone would be hundreds of thousands. The 2 metre wide paths are nice. Golf buggy laundry 48 volt electric vehicles move along them. Some say the gardens reminds them of botanic gardens. It's nice during spring. God does all the hard work of growing them, I am just a gardener giving the plants a hair cut.
2020-09-12T19:20:09Z @ (#) Cute
2020-09-13T10:42:29Z @ (#) nice parrots
2020-09-13T18:47:41Z 
The barn is getting a make over, ready for chook shed
The silt on the ground is 6 inches thick, nice fertilizer soil here.
2020-09-14T18:08:47Z 
A distant view now after change
2020-09-14T18:09:24Z 
A closer view, roof removed, wall repaired, fence going in.
2020-09-15T09:59:14Z My Son is one day especially older today, boy times flies. I can't remember that long ago. But this TWTXT is great birthday present, and GoryOn is launching soon. Yeh
2020-09-16T17:17:20Z **Morning***this day*,`font=blue` I wonder what my day brings` font=black`
 My Pecan Nut Tree has no new leaves yet, takes a while to feel spring in the air.
2020-09-17T17:19:38Z @ @ (#) Yeah James plays table tennis very well for a guy how can't see the ball. He's good at archery too. We had a competition one day at my remote home and I just spoke a Oclock setting, where the last arrow went, and He changed the target spot. This is very similar to lawn bowls where a bowler cannot see the jack, so a spotter tells him more details he cannot see. Sometimes being blind is an advantage, it gives you greater consistency.
2020-09-18T19:59:48Z Another day in Paradise
2020-09-19T06:12:02Z @ (#) Welcome, my name is Rob, a gardener nowadays.
2020-09-19T06:13:07Z 
I invented a few modifications to my gardening rake.
2020-09-19T06:14:55Z 
It helps with what I call fluffing, removing cut hedge cuttings, and fluffing up the new (now freshly cut) hedge so it looks pretty.
2020-09-19T06:15:29Z I sweep the top of the hedge from side to side.
2020-09-19T10:08:10Z 
Those who want to watch the best Scientific Evidence for Intelligent Design:
From dozens of sources put together by Muslims (only mentioned at the end), this evidence brings the best of scientific minds and current research on the Great Uncaused Cause.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odEnkhI_kCI
2020-09-19T18:57:37Z 
You can also use the rake as a shovel to guide piles of leaves and cuttings under your hedges.
2020-09-19T18:59:52Z 
The three tools I carry for hedging, a 18V blower, a 18volt hedger and my rake, that is a rake tool, fluff tool and shovel tool all in one application.
2020-09-19T19:03:56Z The lithium batteries alone cost 250 AUD to replace, they charge up in 10 minutes and run for 90 minutes before running flat, allowing you 2 hours of work between charging's. (You rarely switch on machines to maximum current draw we have to be aware of noise factor when working in our 560 guest motel for mining workers some who are sleeping during the day.
2020-09-20T19:20:52Z @ @ (#<2tjspma https://twtxt.net/search?tag=2tjspma>) You're lucky in the USA, you have bigger download speeds, in Australia we barely get anything like this, even on a good day.
2020-09-21T18:25:59Z just watched Alone, a surviving show where 9 men try to live on vancover island, before winter sets in. Cold, bears, wolves and cougars all prowl about.
Took 3 hours off my sleeping time, dreaming about survival.
2020-09-22T18:07:22Z Has **goryon** got running as an app yet?
2020-09-24T17:33:18Z 
Gardening at it's best, nice on the eyes, soothes the soul.
2020-09-25T18:36:19Z The flowers are a bonus.
2020-09-26T19:20:18Z Planted 10 more fruit trees today
2020-09-28T17:35:25Z All weekend my wife and I planted 27 new fruit trees. What a weekend !
2020-09-29T17:30:51Z I think we planted them here, what it looked like before 
2020-09-30T18:15:36Z @ @ (#) what a strange video, making fun, to make a point. Remember the bali bombing, hundreds of dead and wounded, suddenly not enough hospital beds to go around, how is this the public's fault. Governments have reduced hospital beds intentionally world wide. Hence we cannot cope with any medical emergency.
2020-10-01T17:37:47Z 
Our own bees we found at Blackwater, enjoy our flowers nearby.
2020-10-02T20:32:56Z @ (#<2p4btca https://twtxt.net/search?tag=2p4btca>) The different strain is called “D6-14G” and could be even more infectious than the original virus. "
With the family of 32000 bases of genes, and sexual recombination's possible all the time, trillions of different strains are possible. After all COV19 is one of 57 family members, 6 are called virulent to man, and most of them are like H1N1, Sara, Mers , Pneumonia and Bronchititus viruses, these are all COV19 related. SO folks we are just talking about a influenza virus here. Of course you can get reinfected....
2020-10-03T19:36:17Z @ (#) I wouldn't say that... Trump is a good guy draining the swamp as He told us....
2020-10-04T10:28:50Z Bruce Pascoe wrote a great book called the Dark Emu. It's about aboriginal lands that were cultivated using native seeds, and ground to make bread. The first Australians assumed wrongly the Aborigine was mostly primitive. Not so it seems
2020-10-04T19:44:36Z Many mock his findings and research, but Bruce is getting a following even if some of his ideas are stretched.
2020-10-05T18:03:21Z The idea that Ingenious Aborigines were smart, clever famers does not surprise me, farming bundles of native grains as far as the eye could see, according to some historical accounts. Good on you Bruce Pascoe.
2020-10-07T06:46:37Z wow goryon is finally here!
2020-10-07T18:20:35Z Except my wife has never downloaded an app before, nor have I?
Grace on your new job. New mercies every morning is a promise from God.
2020-10-08T09:15:10Z My camera cable doesn't work anymore. Darn.
2020-10-09T09:14:41Z 
Our flower cottage garden is coming along
2020-10-09T18:35:21Z 
Wife and I want to plant more. We have our own bees now too.
2020-10-10T19:16:00Z How do you know a person to follow if you can't read them first?
2020-10-11T09:37:53Z 
We got a nice storm today 25mm rain. How good is that! Rain in our new rain tank.
2020-10-11T19:17:02Z Nice rain, nice sunny day, nice smell of fresh. What else for new mercies every morning?
2020-10-12T18:19:15Z Weary today for work
2020-10-12T18:21:47Z Get new assistant, called wade , a 19 yr old country boy from Nanango
2020-10-13T18:01:44Z @ (#) Nice 57 video on TXT.social.
Maybe get an expert to do video slides and add video to the video, rather than black screen. Place same words under the video, you need a video editor of course. Give Emmanuel Higgins a call. He is one I know does a good job, your cousin.
2020-10-14T18:03:26Z my mobile phone last night had a wash in the washing machine, the screen got water logged, and now the phone is RIP. Where do I buy another $10 phone from Telstra from? Mine older one was unique I an sure, maybe even a dinosaur :)
2020-10-15T09:33:35Z Tried out a brand new hedger the Stihl ASA 8500 nice light very quiet.
Compared to the Stihl ASA 8600, little heavier (400 gram more) and older, hence louder.
Both electric 18Volt, both nice.
The long 12 hour day went nicely :)
2020-10-16T09:10:20Z Sorry James cannot create account in Belong.com.au, not sure why, press Create account and go over the same menu to create Account.
2020-10-16T19:32:20Z 
Dane wants me to build one of these/ have the frame, roof. Have to make some wagon wheels.
Our pressure pump ran out of water. we finally are taking out more water than it's flowing in.
This is a problem for any off grid living, learning to live within your means.
2020-10-17T19:08:20Z  I hope somebody one day, loves this old 115 yr old house number one, as much as I did renovating it. She was originally built in 1917, and added to in 1952, with pennies in the walls to verify this fact.
2020-10-19T17:38:40Z Finished bracing the chook pen, walled up sheet of roofing iron, fixed door, made a window
The 100yr old barn, can't continue falling over any more.
2020-10-19T17:39:23Z Actually 3:38 am my local time :)
2020-10-21T17:45:23Z A Practical Comparison of Mastodon and Micro.blog. It seems TWTXT is not the only alternative to tweets out there?
2020-10-22T17:42:21Z Off to Dululu this weekend to round up all the geese and chooks for the big move.
2020-10-23T11:15:50Z Well I figured out with moto E6s help on www, to change my settings for charge cord to FTP file transfer
and transfer brand new files, thanks to my Son for this gift.
2020-10-23T11:18:41Z Drat, the phone takes 1 to 6M pictures, not the usual 20K pictures I prefer, hence the upload is way too slow, and my 3G is not uploading the files. Bother
2020-10-23T17:40:16Z  Kate has nice planter boxes, grow your own vegies. That's nice.
2020-10-23T17:42:52Z  The picture files were copied into paint and renamed into a tiny 12K to 4K file, not that silly 5Mb file, who wants print copy quality these days, when you have digital world viewing of files? Why don't cameras have options. I can't stand 5Mb files, simply because my 3G Network cannot handle them?
2020-10-23T17:45:20Z Those of you who think 5G is fast, try uploading 100Mb video files to a computer in the middle of Australia at any time. I surf at 3 AM for a reason. At Dululu I doubt hardly anybody is using the silly bandwidth. It takes 2 seconds to upload a 20K file, and over several hours to upload a 5Mb file, go figure.
2020-10-23T17:49:22Z  For example surfing the www in Blackwater on 4G between 6pm and 9pm is a total waster of time, the town has a population of about 2,000 people and it's so slow you can't even view downloads using HTML. I gave up. So I surf at 3AM in Blackwater, and everybody reckons 5G is great. Give me a break. The WWW will never be anything more than 20Kb per second, people will flood the network with video files, both upload and download.
This planter box is nice job, a less than 12 Kb file.
2020-10-23T17:51:59Z  A 4 Kb file of me from my new moto phone, thanks to James. Had to copy 5Mb file into Paint and rename it to a smaller file. In Paint a 5Mb file is about 2 metres wide and 10 metres long. Wow. Now the image pixels are 12mm wide and 25 mm long. Way smaller picture.
2020-10-24T09:10:57Z  My PC, bit old, still running Windows 8
2020-10-24T19:13:28Z  We had a planter box, 4m by 2m and was large enough to grow all your vegies for a family of four, the Diggers Club says such a small space is enough, we just need to be organized in our seedlings.
2020-10-25T21:58:00Z 
Today I am digging a new goose pond, 4 m diameter and about 400 deep, the sides go out another 200 making the pond quite deep. Cement lined metal tank.
2020-10-25T21:58:45Z The file was cut and pasted 40Kb, and camera is sensitive to clicking, no indication pic is taken.
2020-10-26T18:10:31Z  Everybody needs a loo, my wife wants an outdoor loo, she loves these kind of country living memories.
2020-10-26T18:11:50Z That's the little blue house, if people can't see it, a compost toilet, with a 24hr computer fan in the stink pipe, that sometimes on windy days, blows backwards into your toilet pan..... the effect?
2020-10-26T18:12:24Z No smell, you can make the log and big as you like. LOL
2020-10-27T18:08:25Z  Notice the power left in the batteries that are old.
76% left in one and about the same in the other, which I never used, but loses charge every night over.
2020-10-28T18:22:57Z Bad storms hey? we got nothing here :)
2020-10-29T18:20:56Z 
The barn as it looks now, removed dead tree, braced it from falling over, walled up sides for chook shed,
2020-10-29T18:22:17Z Looks small? But its 4m by 16m in size, and over 100 year old, and full of memories from the past.
2020-10-29T18:23:16Z  Have to cut the tank down 4 inches more, and cement line it this weekend. A busy day coming.
2020-10-29T18:24:30Z Quite a big goose pond, 4m diameter and over 600 mm deep, will use the water as part of aquaculture, and show you off-grid -living using this system.
2020-10-30T19:24:35Z @ (#) not really, trying to set up things
2020-10-30T19:25:16Z @ (#) thanks
2020-10-30T19:27:50Z  A picture of a big tank I moved using my tractor, digging a hole by hand to place it in, and having guttering set up to collect rain water. Two storms now, we have 2 feet water in our big tank.
2020-10-30T19:30:34Z The smaller green tank is out bore water tank, 8,000 litres. The big tank is over 30,000 litres, I moved to align with the other tanks.
2020-10-31T18:04:31Z A new day with new challenges and new mercies, but my muscles are sore already
2020-11-01T19:13:24Z  What was about to begin
2020-11-01T19:14:11Z  The drainage pipe placed in
2020-11-01T19:14:52Z  Wire secured to tank
2020-11-01T19:15:47Z  This technique save hours, use screws instead of wire and 2 holes.
2020-11-01T19:16:39Z  Cut out lip so the geese have a gradual entry and exit
2020-11-01T20:08:44Z  After dozens of cement wheelbarrow loads, you get this:
2020-11-01T20:09:52Z  What a lovely place to build a chook yard?
2020-11-01T20:10:24Z  with geese too !
2020-11-01T20:11:17Z  The chook house is a part of the 100yr old barn, have to finish the rest.
2020-11-02T18:08:02Z  Also that weekend, I cut the weeds around our new fruit trees.
2020-11-02T18:08:28Z  Like so
2020-11-02T18:09:12Z  And here. Also installed their new drippers, and set water controller.
2020-11-02T18:10:15Z  Quite a few to prepare, 50 in all, all kinds, hopefully will grow better now getting water twice a day, every day.
2020-11-04T18:26:00Z Alone Season 3 with teams ended, basically both teams were starving to death. Both lost almost 20% of their body weight. Having trouble figuring out a reliable off grid power system.... The lithium polymer batteries just aren't not up to the guarantee they say, ie 10 yrs, reading the fine print gives most of them a life of 5 yrs. I still prefer the Nickel Iron batteries. They are able to last over 100 years, in other words they last.... so much peace of mind.... sure they come with some maintenance, like topping up distilled water, and replacing electrolyte after 10 yrs
2020-11-05T18:04:22Z The replacement cost of AGM every 2 yrs is about $600/yr, but these batteries were not tested much with an invertor. Lithium ion polymer, only guarantee for 5 yrs, not as they say for 10 yrs, the fine print has too many rules. So I still like the nickel iron, peace of mind, 300Amp hour, 20 cells, 400KG battery bank, total storage of 7,000 Watts. Using invertor can run, 500 watts 240V AC continuously for 12 hours, or 2400Watts for 2 hours.
2020-11-06T19:28:18Z  Our toilet has a 220AMp hr AGM lead acid battery currently 6 years old and still going strong. The only continuous current draw is a computer fan is say 0.25 amp, or 6 amp over 24 hours, so the battery storage drops to 97%. So from experience, if you allow AGM batteries not to drop more than 95% of their total storage they will keep their chemistry going. So to use only 300 Amps per day you need 6000 amps of storage, so that is roughly 50 batteries, and 25 batteries in parallel, making a 24 volt system.
2020-11-06T19:29:58Z The total cost would be $15,000 or so, not much different to the Nickel Iron cost, but the system should last 20 years because the system never goes below 95% of full charge.
2020-11-07T19:07:19Z Our goose pond tank has a crack and does not hold water for long... bummer...
2020-11-08T19:41:53Z We had a drop of rain, 20 mm. Nice. Decided to go with 500amp hr nickel iron, for convenience, one off purchase, for next 30Yrs. This cost $9,000 which is OK, cheap enough, allows up to 12,000 watt storage, and can run 500 watt continuously. Our only needs are fridge (1.5 unit over night), bore pump (1.5 unit over night) taking 3 units from the batteries. So every day the bank will suffer to 75% full and with my solar array of 8 units of charging, take only 2 hours to fully charge the batteries in winter, or 1 hour to charge the batteries n summer.
2020-11-08T19:45:48Z  This is what Nickel Iron Battery 1.2 volt cell looks like. This will cost me $325 dollars each, and it weighs dry weight as 25 Kg. The only thing that wears out in these batteries is the electrolyte and thus replace every 10 years. You can abuse your bank as much as you like, it doesn't care. You do however have to properly check battery levels for distilled water top up. And remove Hydrogen gas from the room.
2020-11-08T19:49:39Z My friend has 12 AGM gel led acid batteries 1000 Amp hr, 24 Volt system, each cell is 2.25 Volt and this bank cost him $8,000. He reckons he will get 15 yrs from batteries, assuming you do not cycle them below 80% fully charged, this might work OK. But for the same price, I can take Nickel Iron down to 20% fully charged, no problems with battery chemistry life. And I will get 100 years of life.
2020-11-08T19:53:18Z  The alternative is Lithium Ion Polymer, this one is only 6 unit storage costs with rack $3000. Cheap and bank is lively . Guaranteed in theory for 10 Years, but fine print is only 5yrs, and you require a certified technician to validate your warranty. I am installing my system myself, and up to 24Volt can be DIY. I will take you all on this journey so you learn what off grid systems mean.
2020-11-08T20:00:09Z So far I guesstimate the following:
Battery bank $9,000
Extra solar panels $2,500
Build besser block power room $3000
2400 W 240VAC, 24VDC Inverter - wall mounted - Victron $2000
Power miscellaneous $1000
TOTAL cost somewhere north of $20,000
This is cheaper than my solar system kits (that do not include power room) one from Rainbow Power company was $25,000. You are better off to purchase the parts yourself and keep things simple, and use less technology. I will show you what I mean.
2020-11-08T20:16:46Z Can I get a URL link to me?
2020-11-09T00:26:05Z Can't upload 100K image, taking over minute, and still going??
2020-11-09T00:35:40Z  46K file is all I get.
SO this is a brief overview of design so far. Colour coded floor in room. Blue is for water pumps.
Bore pump is 300W and House Pump 370W. Yet to buy Bath Pump and Windmill pump.
The storage area is for new appliances.
The red area is for power. 20 cell Nickel Iron battery bank. The power board will hold 4 Victron Inverters, which I just purchased for 3,100.
2020-11-09T00:40:28Z Wall mounted "a" .The 24/1200 Inverter will service one power point at 240VAC to lounge room.
Wall mounted "b" .The 24/1200 Inverter will service one power point at 240VAC to kitchen room.
Wall mounted "c" .The 24/1200 Inverter will service four power points at 240VAC to water room.
Wall mounted "d" .The 24/800 Inverter will service one power point at 240VAC to kitchen fridge.
These wall mounted inverters are cabled by 8mm cable, four to be soldered as one for battery rail, allowing each end for each inverter.
I also have 2 invertors not used in storage.
2020-11-09T18:22:45Z I forgot the washing machine. You can get washing machines that run on 1000W and peak to 1200W only. There are many examples of such machines. I will make two power points for "c", day time for washing machine, night time for lounge room.
Notice in all these examples, you cannot use any appliance over 1000 W. No electric toasters, no drills (I have one at 750W) and no circular saw, and no electric welding. These have to be done from a 2.2 VA petrol or diesel generator.
So going off grid means adjusting to a particular life style.
2020-11-09T18:25:42Z Looks like getting Besser blocks is expensive. Bunnings sell them in Rockhampton for AUS3.10. Emerald sells them for AUS8.00 each. Go figure. What a greedy world we live in. I could hire a 7.3 m large tray truck for 2 days +fuel for $800, but its a lot of trouble. And save myself AUS1000 dollars doing transport myself. Hmmm??
2020-11-09T18:32:16Z  wow 100K upload in 4 seconds. Must be bandwidth issues. It's 4 am here right now. This is an update of the power room, and the cost of materials is bad. Might cost over AUS 3000.
2020-11-09T18:36:49Z The yellow weird thing over roof is a the solar panel array, angled 23 degrees to north, and pitched east and west, so one bank of 4 panels gets sun from 6am and the other bank of panels gets sunlight right to 6pm. There will be 20mm rods concreted into top beam of the room (a top knock out lintel all round) and through roof, to hold steel C beam for solar panels. Pictures will show things better than words.
2020-11-09T19:11:07Z Just thinking...hmm? can't Internet spiders crawl over twtxt.net and make the information these bots collect public, sell it, and therefore still use the info against you in the future? Wonder what my Son will say to this?
2020-11-10T17:55:42Z Wife felt weak and ill today, took time off to sleep. I also felt weak and sleepy that day too. Is there something going round that makes you weak?
2020-11-10T18:02:30Z Thanks for your comments everyone, in "mentions". Pity the software doesn't attach the "replies" directly under your own feeds. Shy people do not normally go looking for other people's comments in the normal world. Come to think of it what is the "new normal" anymore? Like "hardly normal" LOL.
2020-11-11T17:43:59Z Trying to obtain a Residual Circuit Detector (RCD) that also doubles up as a Circuit Breaker (CB), a device that switches off when overload current happens. My problem is dealing with peak power and continuous power from Inverters. I have no experience with this. I have found suppliers who make 5, 10 and 2.5 RCD, so they also limit current, but what to do with peak and continuous loading?
2020-11-11T17:45:07Z (#) What does this do?
2020-11-11T17:50:00Z (#) I see a reply from "reply to #" for just 1 second and than it returns to my own timeline feeds? Is something wrong with my old browser. I also am experiencing shopping on the Internet problems too. Why do we have to upgrade to new browsers? My only way to shop is to email, and BSB direct payments to the company. Shopping cart does not work anymore in my old browser? And now that I purchased from RV caravans, ever AD that comes over the Internet, is guess what, stupid RC caravans. What a silly world we live in.
2020-11-13T18:04:38Z  Unusual storm , see red arrow, as we drive West to Emerald.
2020-11-13T18:04:58Z Like a shaft of light
2020-11-13T18:09:53Z Residual current circuit breaker with overload protection (RCBO) Type F,
is what I need for each circuit, one rated for 2.5amps, the other three rated for 4.0 amps, which is just under the limits of the Inverters. These (RCBO) Type F, are new technology and very expensive, designed NOT to trip when sensing inductive loads from motors found in washing machines for example. Can't find where to buy them.
2020-11-14T09:08:11Z  The goose pond leaks,
so 4 bags of cement mixed with concrete this time, plus a cost of bitumen, should help problem tomorrow.
2020-11-14T09:09:05Z Looks small hey? It's actually 4metres in diameter and 600mm deep.
2020-11-15T19:53:56Z  No drop in water level. Yeah...it's OK now.
2020-11-15T19:55:52Z  On the way to a nearly completed "beno"
2020-11-15T19:57:04Z  Inside the shed.
2020-11-15T19:59:38Z  What a fruit fly proof shed is all about, and this one cost me over AUS800 dollars so far, The 10m by 10m mesh was only 134 dollars, than there's the rest of the shed.
2020-11-15T20:00:49Z  Make sure your shed is strong, see 25mm steel pipe is necessary against a huge wind sail on the ends.
2020-11-16T18:37:59Z Can't upload a 17k picture ? Something's playing up?
2020-11-16T18:38:31Z  Finally the "beno shed"
2020-11-16T18:39:20Z  The chook pen from inside looking out
2020-11-18T18:02:19Z Something wrong, image upload taking too long to upload 14 kb file?
2020-11-18T18:03:36Z Actually 27kb file, icon is going round and round as busy, it's 4 am here.
2020-11-18T18:04:20Z Nope not going to upload today.
2020-11-19T09:17:39Z  My work place in Blackwater as a Gardener.
2020-11-19T17:31:55Z Nope not uploading? do I need a new laptop? Had to restart, and my Netbank timed out.... Getting old like me?
2020-11-19T17:32:51Z Nope, no upload images today, its 3:32 AM here.
2020-11-20T07:52:28Z  Holiday weekend
2020-11-20T07:53:12Z For grandkids...
2020-11-20T09:32:10Z Upload not in good mood?
2020-11-20T09:32:31Z  Wife in cabin
2020-11-20T09:33:34Z  Grandkids in their own cabin...surprise arrival !
2020-11-20T09:34:18Z Football on the beach, no upload.
2020-11-20T19:06:53Z nope no upload
2020-11-21T19:53:51Z Nope can't upload
2020-11-21T19:58:07Z I just upload the 24 KB file using FTP to my website it took 0.2 sec speed was 35.88KB/sec to FTP. So nothing wrong with my computer hardware?
2020-11-21T19:59:13Z Nope the file is not going to upload
2020-11-22T17:07:34Z Nope no upload again, at Blackwater and is 3:07 AM. Nice holiday, good to see grandkids.
2020-11-22T22:11:10Z  Wow the kangaroo uploaded.
2020-11-23T17:22:07Z  Wow, 1 second upload, the grandkids from Hannah
2020-11-23T17:22:42Z  Again, the girls.
2020-11-23T17:23:13Z  We explored bat caves
2020-11-23T17:24:12Z The uploading feature is too busy, now and stopped.
2020-11-24T17:57:37Z  The men, Dwight and Daniel
2020-11-24T17:59:13Z This picture was photo shopped in Paint, a primitive image program.
2020-11-24T18:00:31Z 
2020-11-24T18:01:08Z Getting close to the complete wiring of the power room
2020-11-25T17:22:32Z Hopefully now my Besser blocks can be ordered.
2020-11-26T09:53:57Z @ (#) I don't know why my Interne is sooo slow. Telstra was my bungle configured to 3G, not 4G. Any computer nerds know the theoretical maximum speed for uploads in 3G? Does anybody remember 3G? LOL
2020-11-26T09:55:46Z  I emailed DE manufacturers of Steca 24/20 asking if there device has manual adjustable means for charging voltage. Seems it might have. I have to go and get the device and see.
2020-11-26T09:56:25Z It needs to charge to 33.5V not 27.0 volts, for my Ni-Fe batteries.
2020-11-26T18:02:09Z TLDR? Top Left Down Right?? LOL
2020-11-27T19:01:45Z  Looks like pond held water, only lost 12 inches in a fortnight, geese would have pulled that out splashing, maybe?
2020-11-28T06:59:41Z  Image upload on my two systems.
2020-11-28T11:10:31Z The geese pull the water out faster than the evaporation does. And yes, it was hot today, still 30 degrees I kitchen.
2020-11-28T18:52:28Z No upload again for a 28Kfile? Hmm?
2020-11-29T20:05:05Z  This is a terrible way to make wired connections to a house, however it worked fine for several years.
2020-11-29T20:06:37Z It's OK if you only pulling out 1 - 3 amps into each wire or so. Not good if you require and inverter removing 40 amps though
2020-11-29T21:03:06Z  Wow 52KB file upload, I also study Hebrew, looking at why Gen 2:17 is different to other phrase.
2020-11-30T02:33:02Z Well the problem of upload is not firing up my PC, first time, clicking on Twtxt.
Anyhow busy it is...
2020-11-30T18:15:39Z  Upload OK
The old shelter over bore pump removed, Concrete posts dug out.
Temperate was 40 degrees, hot day.
2020-11-30T18:17:48Z  The rocks show where I need to level up more foundation soil, etc, to make natural ground level.
2020-11-30T18:26:31Z  Still working OK, with uploads, Console says Warning. DOM7011. The code on this page disabled back and forward caching. For more information, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=291
2020-11-30T18:32:50Z  Looks like if I add code (showing javascript) here I get access blocked.
COnsole shows warning : disabled back and forward caching.
2020-11-30T18:33:25Z Picture of where I work, messy due to others.
2020-11-30T18:35:56Z  40kB file showing console code warning. Upload OK
2020-12-01T18:23:33Z  What an image?
2020-12-02T09:47:03Z @ (#<5w7wrua https://twtxt.net/search?tag=5w7wrua>) No JS errors, only that warning about cache
2020-12-02T09:56:41Z  A rough idea design of the interior of the power room and layout of components.
2020-12-02T09:58:51Z The 20 cells hopefully fit across width of room, they have 32mm PVC pipe to draw off H gas using computer fan. Placed high so easy to top up with distilled water, weekly. The power in with 3 solar controllers. The power out with four Inverters, RCD and RCBO rated at 6.0 amps.
2020-12-02T10:01:17Z There are also 9 hall effect ammeters to gauge the currents coming in, and currents going out at any time, These sit all the time in the circuits, but not part of circuit, they measure flux around the wires, ie hall effect.
2020-12-02T10:02:03Z I also plan 30 fuses which are resettable, some rated at 50 amps , some 40 amps and some 20 amps.
2020-12-02T17:22:59Z I spoke to an electrician today and learned a few things. The inverter has two modes of current, continuous and peak. The peak allows to handle big loads for a few seconds. The circuit breaker is sensitive and must allow peak current flow.
So for a 24/1200 VA inverter, that means 9.0 amps (don't think they make a 9 amp CB) and for 24/800 VA inverter, that means 6.0 amps (they make these ones).
However still not sure, if a load increases to 8 amps for 20 seconds, the CB allows this, but the Invertor won't like this, so burns out?
2020-12-04T09:29:51Z What a process to get a SIM phone number, stupid Telstra process, even though I have an account already, I had to sign as guest, new person, add my drivers licence, get sent and email, than ring #<100 https://twtxt.net/search?tag=100># to recharge my phone, and all this without instructions, pure guess work.... 90 minutes later even for computer fossil like me...LOL
2020-12-04T10:12:19Z Just checking out my nephew's website [Eastward Missions](https://www.eastward.edu.au/), the home page is 250,000 bytes long, while my own website in [Spiritual Springs](http://spiritualsprings.org/), is just 25,000 bytes long, a mere ten times smaller, which is a lot. Emannuel has lots of JavaScript and CSS style sheets, while mine has nothing but simple HMTL code.
2020-12-04T10:16:08Z Problem is clicking on his JS mouse over, yields nothing for me, so the navigation is impossible.
I like to keep things simple. My biggest webpage is just 73Kb in size, and that is because it maps the entire webpage by indexing over 1500 webpages by certain words.
2020-12-04T18:53:59Z in fact I have written 1575 webpages, and with thousands of tiny images, the website totals only 38MB in size. In average that's 25,000 bytes per file. I think it takes roughly 8 bytes to make a single letter, so that's 3,000 letters per page, or assuming on average 4 letters per word, 800 words per webpage. Hmm? In today's world, most people do not like to read anymore.... maybe I should make videos?
2020-12-06T17:48:19Z @ (#) nice on. Lovely size too.
2020-12-06T17:53:49Z Our blocks arrived today, now the building of the power room can start.
2020-12-07T18:12:47Z  Another 40 degree weekend, our blocks arrived. The footings get preparations. Decided to make building 4.2m by 2.8 m.
2020-12-08T18:21:10Z Notice trench made by ramming timber, than form work to make level top, and concrete mixed by hand, into that, than start making knockout bottom layer, with steel (Y12) in them to hold bottom course together.
2020-12-10T18:08:42Z Over two days, the upload feature is busy. !(https://twtxt.net/media/KuGwrmFJvpahhaJJsFPXKK) No comments in console.
This is a picture of Beno, out shed that has nice peaches in it. We ate some last weekend, without no fruit fly larvae in them, nice and yummy.
2020-12-10T18:09:22Z That might be a clue James, the link didn't resolve the picture?
2020-12-10T18:10:08Z The link shows the picture OK
2020-12-12T08:47:37Z On our way to Mum in Tenterfield, for early Xmas, and see grandkids.
Staying at Toowoomba for now
2020-12-13T19:31:27Z Mum bit slow, arrives today we think?
2020-12-14T20:02:46Z  Lovely well behaved grandkids for Mum on our get together 14 December.
2020-12-15T19:15:54Z  We stopped for the night at JollySwag. The digital guide leads up into a 8 way intersection, hard to follow digital things, Di can't navigate, nor could I, notice the pattern of how we took up this challenge. Lucky the road wasn't busy for Saturday. So I looked for Kenmore Hills, on digital maps, and thought, can we do this? Stress? Sorry folks, but I must buy a paper map. It's easier to rotate paper.
2020-12-15T19:17:43Z Too busy to upload another image?
2020-12-16T19:19:33Z  Our batteries arrived into our shed today yesterday, have to pick up other half of them. Heavy 400Kg , making each battery weigh 35Kg.
2020-12-16T19:20:23Z The terminals are very big, 20mm nuts and with huge stainless steel metal bar joins them together.
2020-12-18T20:02:31Z Lovely 30mmm rain as storm late night, our big tank is nearly full, about 2/3
2020-12-18T20:24:00Z  Formwork stage, cheap as I can, use the timber edge to get a level top for concrete blocks, to within 5mm and make concrete base 400mm bigger than it needs to be. The blue carpet is for water works. The power room will not have a concrete floor, only a carpet floor, in case water pipes need accessing. Also cheaper. Hard to get concrete in the country. All mixed by hand.
2020-12-18T20:26:38Z Any bowing in formwork sticks, place to outside, and pour concrete next to formwork making it level. Notice yellow spirit level to check top of formwork.
Use concrete blocks to hold formwork sticks in place.
2020-12-18T20:33:40Z Weird, the big green tank looks sloping inwards, went out to check. Nope, the tank is exactly vertical to the smaller green tank, so the photograph is wrong.
Weird, can't explain this angle. There would be 20,000 litres of fresh water in this tank now, ready to connect fresh bath water...Yah...!! Bore water does not lather well and makes hair funny.
2020-12-18T20:36:35Z I was thinking of using twenty 24 volt water pumps at 60 dollars each, rather than one pump at 300 each, but the price and age of the pumps is same, no better reliability. Inverters are now 98% efficient, so this makes 240 appliances cheap to use rather than 24V DC appliances which are more costly usually.
2020-12-18T20:40:45Z We have a leak in our pipe network. Power bill was 300 more than it should. The pressure pump is on 24x7 and using 300W continuously. So I bought 3 water mains, at cost of 100 dollars, to isolate the problem of leak. The leak is somewhere out back. Silly people place pipes underground. Do NOT do this. Place your water pipes along your fence line, underground crossing drive way, foot paths, yes, but cover with mulch to remove UV attack. This makes servicing for leaks so much easier. And do not go cheap. Silly people here have 3 different sizes, none of them strong enough
2020-12-18T20:45:02Z Always use 40mm blue strip poly even if you don't need this. Its rated for 30PSI and does not rot in UV, tough etc. Now do I rip out the entire system and replace the lot with 40mm poly? What to do with poor quality work? Sure it costly slightly more, but lasts forever. Now I have a leak, that's costs me 300 already, plus water mains I didn't have to install. So always use 40mm poly blue strip when doing plumbing up to 200m away, or use the 50mm poly for longer distances. Don't be a cheap skate. Otherwise you get leaks to fix costing you money.
2020-12-18T20:49:37Z When I came to this water line, nothing was proper. Taps too low to the ground, so I raised all the taps costing me heaps. People don't like to do things properly and spend to money. Water controllers are a worry. Stupid things. No point buying cheap ones, only the 150 dual ones are best, but battery replace?
Better off purchasing 4 of 6 valve water controllers @ 400 each and running 25mm pipe to each fruit tree. They are 240 volt, but run on 24 V, so I can hook them directly to battery without inverter. Long term solution. Might cost me 1000 dollars but 24 water lines
2020-12-18T20:51:08Z each fruit tree is looked after reliably. Lost plants from cheap water controllers, blocked sprinklers, ie bore water blocks things. What to do? Stay tuned to off-grid-living for ideas.
2020-12-19T11:06:40Z Talking to James about Mitsubishi Heavy Air conditioners, the smallest is Avanti with 2.0 kWatt cooling.
Just found one that is 300Watt cooling.
https://www.rigidchill.com/micro-dc-aircon/
Will email and check price, 24V DC and uses a compressor. Wow. Rigid Chill .
2020-12-19T11:20:39Z Yes Rigid makes a 24VDC brushless motor compressor uses 2 to 8 amps, 200W, with 455Watt of cooling, about 1/3 size of Mitsubishi Heavy Avanti of 2000 Watt cooling. Have contacted them for price and products.
2020-12-19T19:07:02Z To begin my course of laying blocks
2020-12-19T20:32:40Z Busy, not uploading now
2020-12-20T19:26:40Z  when pouring your concrete strip, the inner edge is moved along, see red arrow.
2020-12-20T19:27:42Z Busy uploading images.
2020-12-21T02:21:23Z  Hard to speak of images you can't see right now?
2020-12-21T02:22:55Z The arrow shows the gap for the mortar to fill. I use steel straight edge rather than string, a straight edge does 2 jobs at same time. Task is to get blocks laid in mortar to within 4mm level.
2020-12-21T02:24:41Z  When you lay the mortar I remove one block at a time, not as bricklayers do...on a hot day the mortar goes off fast. The red arrows show the amount of mortar required and the position the block needs to go into.
2020-12-21T02:25:41Z  Other red arrows show other sites that require more or less mortar as required.
2020-12-21T02:26:32Z Red circle shows the tools you need to lay blocks, two small spirit levels and a block hammer, and a trowel.
2020-12-21T02:27:16Z Busy waiting upload??
2020-12-21T02:28:37Z  Now ready for reo to go in, wired together with 600 by 600 angle bent Y12 rods. You need only one rod, and fill bond beams with concrete.
2020-12-21T02:29:02Z  Like so
2020-12-21T02:30:15Z Red arrow shows some blocks rise up too much, by 2mm, the blocks need to be level within 4mm tolerance, ready for concrete.
2020-12-21T02:31:07Z  Ready to pour concrete mix. By hand of course, and all batches must go in a quickly as possible.
2020-12-21T08:46:41Z  Concrete in bond beams OK, some dry batches, but hopefully OK. Also welded frame for door, 1.6 high by 600mm wide, notice the 25mm angle iron hugs the blocks. Door not standard 1.8m and starts 200 off ground, so respectful to enter.
2020-12-21T08:48:44Z This building is cheaper than poured concrete trenches, plus concrete floor. Carpet will achieve same job as concrete floor. The power room needs to be moisture, insect and vermin proof. Having a dirt floor will help draw moisture out of the air.
2020-12-21T10:57:44Z testing off grid
2020-12-22T08:17:26Z  Each block requires 10mm mortar, a thick tile (red arrow) and use string line to lay blocks. Easier this way.
2020-12-22T08:41:30Z  The mortar must be 10mm tick, so I use a thick tile (red arrow) to make level for string line to follow. Laying blocks with a string line is easiest way.
2020-12-22T08:44:52Z  Progress, Laid about 32 blocks today, including doing all the tasks myself. Getting blocks, pointing up grooves, raking, and mixing cement. I use a strong brew, 1 cement to 3 sand, as my sand is bush sand, and has some mud in it. Make small patches as it goes off fast on a hot day.
2020-12-23T19:27:31Z  Welded window frame, red circle, notice 4 courses left to top of door and window, but 10mm is not enough, making 20 mm short, so I need each mortar layer to be 15mm thick. See red arrows.
2020-12-24T20:33:34Z  Make your mortar go past each block you lay, so it has time to go off, and hold up the block once it is placed. Than point up your work with your trowel, adding mortar to missing joints and filling in gaps, pressing the point of the trowel so you get strong adhesive forces within the mortar.
2020-12-24T20:35:10Z I mix only 1 cement and 3 sand each time, not much, but on hot days, the cement goes off fast, so add little water half way through and mix again to creamy texture. Cover you barrow with cloth helps keep sun off.
2020-12-24T20:36:03Z  The window end of the power room. Notice the blocks are used to make string line supports.
2020-12-25T19:12:08Z rained yesterday, preventing me from finishing my work
2020-12-28T09:05:48Z I think I am back, my telstra bungle allowed me on, despite no account details, and this is windows 10, microsoft edge. On Lenovo, cost me $200, second hand.
2020-12-30T08:31:04Z  Does this work here?
2020-12-30T08:32:14Z  Hard work
2020-12-30T09:24:30Z  My gif image
Why doesn't the image appear as gif, ie animated?
2021-01-01T09:48:50Z Happy 2021 everyone.
To my mum and my wife :)
2021-01-01T09:51:04Z  Cumbungi looks like this, after roughly prepared for eating, washed etc. And they call this a staple? I don't think so. Would lose weight eating this everyday for a whole week/LOL. I will cook this up and let you know.
2021-01-03T19:14:20Z Have lots to learn about cumbungi, you need a crowbar or fork to dig it up, what I obtained was wrong....and roasted it is nice as Aborigines and Pioneers say
2021-01-04T18:39:52Z @ (#) You too
2021-01-06T07:17:01Z  Hot day today, exhausting mowing grass with all this wet weather about.
2021-01-06T18:04:57Z Bit wet today, long day too. Having a look at the best MPPT solar controller, the Victron 100 Volt, 30 Amp. This takes in 72 volt panels at 5 amps and converts to 27 volts at 26 amps. They are roughly $200 each and have adjustable voltage float settings for different kinds of batteries. That is important.
2021-01-07T17:38:10Z What a long week on my own, working as a gardener. It's a wonderful object lesson. Last day today. Yeah.
2021-01-08T18:56:50Z Lots of rain over here. Water across roads. Lots of mozzies too. However it's a blessing, the garden trees will grow better on fresh than bore water.
2021-01-09T18:54:27Z Rain
2021-01-10T08:40:10Z  The roof and ceiling are in place, and the 23 degree angle support for solar panels are bolted to a threaded 12mm rod running down into the building.
2021-01-10T08:43:29Z  View of roof, most sheets are second hand, as the rafters and purlins were also. I started with a 100x50 on its side, than a 75 by 75, than a 100x50, than finally a 100 x 50 on its side with a 100 x 50 upright, the last two beams are bolted together. This is a low fall of 50, 75, 100, and 150mm over a distance of 4m. Or 100mm over 4m.
2021-01-10T08:44:48Z  Finally I have to cement the surrounds to make everything rat and mouse proof. Notice the chicken wire for a background support for the cement render.
2021-01-10T19:10:58Z (#) I am glad you do Lyse. Soon I will show you all how to wire up the power required for off grid to run daily a house consuming 5 units of power daily. The system has a total storage of 12 units, leaving some in reserve leaves us with 10 units of power. That means we have only 2 days of power without sunshine. In Australia we can get away with this as Qld is a sunny place, no so if you are in a cloudy, snowy or wet place. You would need more batteries, more panels and maybe consume less power.
2021-01-10T19:14:32Z (#) Yes I just tried this with Lyse, and it is a nice feature. You could remove the conversation, reply feature buttons, too complex, a reply is the beginning of a conversation, a reply to a reply adds to the conservation already. Is there any difference in these buttons from a programmer end? I like to keep things simple.
Just leave the reply feature.
2021-01-11T17:53:48Z Finished the cement rat barrier of power room, grinded off excess mortar, ready for painting. Could add steel flashing to roof, but costly, about $150, money I don't have right now. At least the power room is vermin proof, albeit a bit ugly looking.
2021-01-15T19:13:12Z @ (#) I would never a mask personally, as breathing in your own exhaust gases leads to illheath. We are supposed to breathe in 0.023% CO2, with a mask on, your breathing in 7% CO2, a massive increase in CO2 poisoning. One sign is more headaches, drowsiness and slowness of brain function. A simple Internet study reveals masks do not prevent contamination anyway.
2021-01-17T09:31:26Z  Finished the door today. Lots of welding all day.
2021-01-17T09:32:20Z  The door opened, with lots of steel, so you can't break in.
2021-01-17T09:32:53Z The red arrow shows the cement render, vermin proof rafter and roof areas.
2021-01-17T09:33:51Z  Also fitted the insect screen, Red arrow shows the cement render over the roof gaps, making everything insect proof.
2021-01-17T09:34:54Z Cost of paint and the power house is ready for the electrical batteries. Yeah.
Will begin welding the cage frame for the batteries.
2021-01-17T19:28:02Z @lyse @ (#) Arr yes Lyse there is no kill like overkill. We don't have a secure storage room on our property, so this room is it.
2021-01-17T19:28:49Z @ (#) Thanks Son/
2021-01-18T18:58:54Z  Began to weld channels to top of cage frame for batteries, note it is upside down, right to left, and held in place by star pickets and rope, everything level, using three spirit levels. Hard to set up, and weld by yourself.
2021-01-18T19:00:18Z  A close up of the welding position, note the clamp to ensure the width of channels is exactly 285mm, the width of the batteries is 280mm.
2021-01-18T19:01:19Z  The finished weld battery cage, concreted into dirt floor.
2021-01-18T19:03:48Z  Side view showing the staged height difference for batteries. Hope it will hold them up, the channel is only 3mm thick, each post holds 100Kg, the spans are 900mm and must hold 100Kg per channel, I suspect a little sagging in worse case?? Overall the batteries will place 800Kg unto this frame.
2021-01-19T17:32:41Z @lyse (#<2ezy3dq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=2ezy3dq>) Good point Lyse. I didn't paint the welding either, just dropped it into the concrete. Some say iron doesn't rust further once it has a coating of rust on it, but should the frame fail after 10 years of use, I guess I will have to weld up another one. The KOH electrolyte is corrosive in the batteries, and we use Vaseline to protect the battery rail connectors, so I will try to paint over the ends of the square tubing though they are welded up by the channel that sits over the top of each on.
2021-01-19T17:35:18Z Yes the power house has multi purpose functions. It houses our water bore, the most important thing to a property is a source of good bore water, and we finally have that. It also houses all the water pumps, around four of those. It is a storage room for spare water pumps, batteries, lights etc. And finally it houses all the battery power and 240 volt production needs.
2021-01-19T17:36:46Z  Here is the basic floor plan again the each intended use of the room.
2021-01-19T17:38:49Z Notice four pumps, storage and power areas of the room, and even the cage frame show the staged height of each row of batteries, make it easier to top up distilled water to each battery cell.
2021-01-21T17:48:27Z @lyse (#<2ezy3dq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=2ezy3dq>) Probably you are right, tube steel posts used for homes do rust on the inside, but the most common oxidation is the outside, where the dew night and day temperatures react with the post going into the concrete. So there I paint them with zinc paint, and hydroseal (bitumen paint) before concreting the posts in place. Re stumping contractors do not do this, and the posts do not last.
2021-01-22T18:45:30Z One mistake I apparently made, you cannot draw off a lower DC voltage between the cells of the 24 VDC, such as 9VDV or 12 VDV, as this causes a change to the battery bank internal resistance, interfering with solar charging. So I need a 24 V DC to DC converter, to power 18V computers, 12 V TV and 9V meters.
2021-01-23T19:27:20Z @ @ (#) Where did this picture come from Kate?
2021-01-24T19:37:45Z  Painted the power house green.
2021-01-24T19:40:22Z  I didn't know the base of the batteries have round plastic feet to stand on, and these are missing the angel iron, see red arrows. So now I need to place a steel plate into the angel iron channel to support the plastic feet of each battery. Bother you miss so many details when you build and plan, without experience.
2021-01-24T19:41:10Z Also you cannot source a 20mm stud hole cable lug, only on the Internet, no shop has them. Bother. More delays.
2021-01-25T01:40:51Z  Couldn't find a shop to cut sheets, so went with thin but larger angle iron. This is 30 by 30 and 1.2mm thick, fits inside the other angle iron, and allows the plastic feet of battery with support. I suggest welding from the beginning a 50 by 50 angle iron 3mm thick will solve this problem.
2021-01-25T01:42:20Z  Larger view. Note why the batteries are staged higher than the other, to view topping up with distilled water. Also note the way the batteries go, +ve to -ve posts, along the cage frame.
2021-01-25T03:38:52Z  The power end of the battery bank, each post is sharing the current load, so a copper plate with holes drilled for each inverter draw-off.
2021-01-25T03:41:53Z  The middle of the bank, turns the corner, and the leads are not black or red, technically white means 'load'; each post is wired +ve to -ve. This ensures the bank is wired +ve to -ve, but the posts are diagonally opposite, a full 3.8m away, across all 20 cells. This is the most efficient way to join to a battery bank.
2021-01-25T03:43:04Z Having trouble sourcing the 20mm diameter hold stud cable lugs, able to carry 200Amps., the image shows them pictured as black leads.
2021-01-25T03:44:45Z The left side lagged 2.5mm from level, but became level from counter-level principle once other right side is loaded. Both side of the cage are now near level, so the 3mm angle iron spanning 900mm is just enough to carry the weight.
2021-01-25T19:36:05Z Thanks for the comments everyone. Bit worried about humidity inside the room, two computer 12V fans is series, might help remove the stale air trapped inside?
2021-01-26T00:12:05Z  The question is asked Does Vaseiline Petroleum Jelly conduct electricity, and useful on battery terminals?
I use a ohmeter with probes in the gel one mm apart. Answer is no. The jelly does not conduct.
2021-01-26T00:14:02Z  I touch the probes inside the gel, the probes are already coated in the gel, yet by pressing the contacts together, some metal to metal surfaces get through, so the ohmmeter records near zero impedance.
2021-01-26T00:18:46Z So should you use Vaseline to protect your battery terminals from corrosion? I don't. Clean your battery posts regularly, and remove cause of KOH reaching the terminals, is my answer.
It's a forum debate out there, over which is best, or better. Maintenance is the best option.
The AGM lead acid batteries are zero maintenance. Is this a good idea? Is there such a thing?
My personal opinion is to maintain your Nickel Iron power system, Sure it gassy, weakly corrosive and needs attention every now and than. More about this once I learn how much maintenance is needed.
2021-01-26T03:33:05Z  Cleaned the posts, spring washers and nuts.
Tightened them with shifting spanner, not too tight, just until spring washer is flat on the post.
2021-01-26T03:34:42Z  Hopefully this is hooked up OK, hard to confirm this on the Internet, as not much about Ni-Fe battery banks around. But I ran across a few images the same as mine.
2021-01-26T03:36:19Z  Longer view of battery bank set up. All I need now is the cable lugs on the ends, and the copper plate bus bar on the other end, and I am ready to go.
2021-01-26T18:18:08Z (#<6ouob5a https://twtxt.net/search?tag=6ouob5a>) @lyse Maybe, have a single computer fan removing the H2S smells from pit compost toilet, a room about 1.5 by 1.0 by 1.5m and this fan works 24/7 has done for 4 years, plus AGM lead acid battery for 4 years, remarkable really. No dead battery after 4 yrs, but it daily cycles to 95% fully charged each day.
I will see how this room stands up, two fans on 24/7, size 4 by 2.8 by 2.0m.
Cheers
2021-01-26T18:19:12Z @ (#) How true, no such thing as zero maintenance.
2021-01-28T18:41:09Z I suggest people download the SPARS report for 2025 to 2028, from John Hopkins Medial University Hospital and read their potential stories of how Corona Virus Pandemic will play out for the next 7 years ahead. It is a 20MB download and 89 page report.
2021-01-28T18:56:22Z  Why can't I find advice on better crimping techniques. This proposal of mine is far better, reduces potential barriers of current from 3 interfaces to one, or none. You twist the wires together as electricians already do, and use the crimp only to hold the connection, not make the connection.
2021-01-30T02:43:03Z  Getting ready for details of the proposed solar strings for each MPPT solar controllers.
2021-01-30T08:04:20Z The MPPT is rated to 30 amps, so the 72 V 10A becomes 27V float at 26Amps, wasting no power, unlike the cheaper PMW controllers. This is theoretical maximums for each series and parallel solar arrays, each rated at 200Watts.
2021-01-30T19:27:31Z @ (#) Complexity is the killer of all invention!
How true. Keep Inventions Simply Simple. KISS
2021-01-31T09:04:22Z  The solar panel supporting frames are bolted into place.
2021-01-31T09:05:23Z  This view shows the 23 degree tilt towards North, to get maximum solar power from the solar panels.
2021-01-31T09:13:40Z Hoping the solar panels will create a tropical roof affect over the building and shade it somewhat. This frame will hold 12 solar panels, each 200 watt, giving me, using the MPPT a theoretical yield of 2400 watts. Over a 4 hour sunshine, I should get in theory 9,600 watts of power. For a 24 Volt system, this means I should get 9600/24= 400 Amp hours. Not sure of the theory verses the practical production of power, until the system is up and running.
2021-02-05T20:17:48Z  Interesting search engine. Still developing. Tried to search "solar panels", no results made sense. How does the search handle spelling mistakes? I am amazed anyone can achieve this so quickly and make something work.
2021-02-06T19:49:49Z Hot and humid today
2021-02-07T19:32:58Z @ (#) Nice cherry tomatoes.
2021-02-07T19:37:42Z Having trouble matching the output of my Inverters, hard to find a 4.0 amp Circuit breaker, eventually found ones made in the USA for 25 each, includes freight and duty costs. Way cheaper than 80 each a shop quoted me. Not sure if I can cover or mount them, or even use them? I mean when a product says something, does this mean what they wrote is true? I have bought things before with untrue product descriptions.
2021-02-10T18:35:25Z  GOD wrote the ten descriptors of love on stone, using Hebrew words with God's own finger, that Moses is holding up here. This implies to me that that love is universal, and love rules can be written down, even though true love is beyond mere rules.
2021-02-11T17:48:22Z Great news, some chicken wire has arrived from our order long ago, since than the truck rolled and destroyed our cargo. We have only 15 rolls to pick up, but we are getting there. Now I have another few projects to build.
2021-02-12T20:55:22Z  Well well, another Internet purchase mistake.
Seems like you cannot get the terminology right and end up with the wrong product. I would have been better getting a cope pipe and making my own..
It seems 20mm stud hole refers to the end diameter of a cable lug?? This product is rated for 300mm2 cable, ie able to carry something like 1000 Amps, what too big for me/
2021-02-12T21:04:15Z The red arrow show the desired hole required. I will have to get somebody with a 20mm drill and drill out the hole. I found a website explaining :
"Stud size is not normally of major concern as most crimp terminals or lugs would be available in a standard range of sizes that correspond to the wire size. The fixing hole sizes are commonly shown as metric (e.g. M6) or sometimes American (e.g. ¼) screw sizes. Please see the Panduit stud size chart and our own American to metric screw comparison chart.
The problem you may encounter is when you are using tube terminals. "
2021-02-12T21:05:06Z SO it seems I required a M20 fixing hole cable lug? Hmm?
2021-02-12T21:20:24Z  This is what I purchased, thanks to browsing history, Amazon has no records of my purchase, isn't that funny? Notice the confusing lack of words shown in red.
2021-02-12T21:22:45Z  Here is what might be the proper product I want, but alas no price is displayed...so you have to enquire, BOTHER. Notice all the BIG names, STUD HOLE, etc, and unimportant to me, yet the actual diameter to fit the battery post, gets no name, just d=20mm. Weird. Stupid terminology naming things.
2021-02-12T21:27:09Z So I would have been better off getting a 16mm copper tube, squashing the ends in a vice clamp and drilling the 21mm hole myself, would have cost less, be better understood by me, and I would have got the product much faster, without all this "hoo har" of dozens of labeling stuff that confuses people no end. The good luck understanding the hole that really matters. Called fixing hole. What a dumb name for the most important part of a cable lug.
2021-02-12T21:58:16Z The Stanford Children’s Health clearly explains the distinction needed to understand this false claim: "A novel coronavirus is a new coronavirus that has not been previously identified. The virus causing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is not the same as the coronaviruses that commonly circulate among humans and cause mild illness, like the common cold.” ( here ) While it is in the family of coronaviruses, COVID-19 is a new virus affecting humans.
Can anybody explain this?
My wife saw a video today that COV19 is just a new strain of the common cold?
2021-02-12T21:59:35Z So is COV19 just a new strain of the common cold family, like SARS and MERES? Boy did I laugh at this idea?
And if they have never isolated the COV19, how would they know anyway?
2021-02-12T22:01:58Z Quote "While it is in the family of coronaviruses, COVID-19 is a new virus affecting humans"
The word "it" refers to the common cold virus.
While"common cold virus" is in the family of coronaviruses, COVID-19 is a new virus affecting humans.
Really? Its just a mutated strain of the family commonly termed common cold.
Or a laboratory enhanced version of the common cold released into the world?
2021-02-13T01:03:20Z True better to engineer things yourself, anyhow, I have to drill out these holes bigger, just because of the confusion of words over products.
What happened to keep is simple stupid. KISS
2021-02-13T20:17:35Z (#) @lyse You so go to have around Lyse. I going to see if a local Engineer has a 20mm bit and drill these holes straight away, otherwise, I will have to drill it myself as you say. Who would know the most important hole is called the fixing hole and the least important hole is called the stud hole. Stupid terminology, nothing is every explained/
2021-02-13T22:02:18Z  Light experiments
2021-02-14T08:48:18Z @ (#) Interesting article, Spyda.dev only lacks the time, to become big enough to tackle Google as a search engine. And as you write, your backbone will not allow more crawlers adding to the engine database.
2021-02-19T20:26:42Z  Finally the crimping company I found "Pirtek" in Blackwater was able to crimp these lugs, for just $22 using a machine able to crimp up to 30,000 tonnes of force, makes my crimping tool of 12 tonnes silly
2021-02-19T20:27:32Z Red arrows show the lug 130mm long and it was 30mm wide now shrunk to 20mm wide.
2021-02-19T20:28:21Z  A closer view showing the original lug, and the processed crimped lug.
2021-02-21T19:46:01Z Have any of you heard of the Denmark protest for 9 days over a bill of law forcing all to receive a mandatory vaccine. The people protested with pots and pans for 9 days and they dropped the bill.
Now Western Australian Government has passed a similar bill of law, forcing people to become completely naked including removing underwear to receive a vaccine against their will. The people are protesting. They need the pots and pans and our support. All over a common cold virus, a strain which doesn't exist, according to a USA doctor and 7 others suing the FDA for evil.
2021-02-22T17:28:53Z  A rough, unpainted steel supporting frame for all the 18 battery cable wires leading from copper rail plate, pictured in orange, to the black wall. One wire shown in red.
2021-02-23T17:58:25Z @ (#) wow, the Skinners Box is really taking over the world, and I can't stand it, you sit around at Smokeo watching people socially conditioned on their giant Skinner's Boxes, watching crap and not talking with you about normal things we used to do. And you don't need to be alert to the program, make the Facebook sensors do it all for you.
2021-02-24T17:26:21Z @ (#) Arhh, yes, but people chat more when they disagree than when they agree. So often being a programmed antagonist, actually is helpful.
2021-02-27T04:33:49Z  The copper rail bar, drilled to share the two battery posts, and nine 10mm brass bolts for adding power in or out.
2021-02-27T04:34:25Z It was cheaper to purchase a 22mm drill bit than to get a business to drill further holes.
2021-02-27T04:35:30Z The plate will need covering in tape to ensure oxidation and rust does not get into copper plate. As well as protect humans from potential electrical shocks.
2021-02-27T20:12:20Z  A look at the other one.
2021-02-27T20:13:39Z  Color code your solar panel wires, and we are ready to hook up, charging currents.
2021-02-27T22:12:52Z  Solar panels screwed into place, blankets keep power out for now, ready for wiring up. Light drizzle.
2021-02-27T22:14:02Z Arrows show the cheap brackets, two screws to panel and two to purlins, so each solar panels is held by 16 screws, using four brackets.
2021-02-28T09:21:02Z  I know others do the barrel connectors differently. for me, this ensures the best electrical connection, but is ugly to view. Twist the wires together.
2021-02-28T09:22:55Z  Add crimp, I actually add 1/2 crimp, breaking other unused end off, and crimp together, than add heat shrink tube, and vermin protection, wire away from rain and mice.
2021-02-28T09:24:51Z Our system is up and running now, with open end voltage of one array at 75VDC and when connected to the MPPT drops to 27 volts. Not sure of current as yet, my ammeters are waiting to be installed. The batteries gurgle, making H2 gas.
2021-02-28T19:48:30Z @lyse (#) Ah yes, the easiest way to remove electrical shocks.
72DC at 10 amps can potentially kill you. I note once connected to the MPTT the voltage drops to 39VDC.
I will be working on the second solar panel array today, same as the first one.
2021-02-28T19:50:11Z @ (#<2hvxjqa https://twtxt.net/search?tag=2hvxjqa>) Can't do until voltage of bank settles down, still running at 27 volts instead of 22 volts. So the chemistry is still getting used to reactions. Plus my ammeters are not hooked up yet. I have ten of these so will be able to verse you on stats soon.
2021-02-28T21:56:43Z  The system is running crudely.
2021-02-28T21:57:21Z  Close up view of fuses
2021-02-28T21:58:05Z  Close up of first MPPT on (see arrow)
2021-03-01T00:54:02Z  Got the 24 volt fans working, two 12 volt computer fans in series. In a metal box I made, with pipes to duct H2 gas eventually
2021-03-01T00:55:28Z  View of fans down the wall from outside
2021-03-01T17:25:40Z @ (#) yes
2021-03-02T17:44:11Z The Australian Government announced that in July, all farmers can grow GM wheat, oats and soyabeans. The list of Genetically Spoiled foods is growing. Now wheat is on the list. This means nothing in the shops can be eaten or trusted to be eaten in a healthy way. I suppose most people think eating GMO food does you no harm. Think again and do some research.
Watch this video for starters : https://youtu.be/L00OjVFAdP0
2021-03-06T20:11:44Z  Ready to install the next string of panels, 2 in series, 2 in parallel, 75V @ 10 A. The system has settled down down, fully charged and floats at 27.6 V.
2021-03-06T20:12:52Z It has taken a full week to achieve this. Must find out what the Amp charging is? The second string will achieve the charging rate faster of course/
2021-03-06T20:13:31Z  Details of where the second string begins, note coloured coded wires.
2021-03-07T10:13:14Z  Begin by installing the DC DC convertor, change the voltage down (red arrow) to 9.0V, so it changes 24V to 9V to run ammeters.
2021-03-07T10:14:30Z  On adsorption, the incoming charge current is between 2 and 5 amps, not much I thought? Something wrong?? Have to get clamp ammeter to confirm this?
2021-03-07T10:15:31Z  System so far, red arrow shows my attempt to VE direct USB to MPPT.
2021-03-07T10:16:36Z  Uninstall, install software again, no luck. Seems can't connect to the MPTT. Will try old windows Xp software?
2021-03-07T10:18:22Z  Discovered my Phoenix 1200VA inverters are cheap and nasty do NOT come with neutral and active outputs by default, they come with two actives instead, ie floating.
2021-03-07T10:19:26Z This is potentially dangerous, if you use a RCD, it will not work, so its a cheap comprise for portable power appliances. After 2 hours of reading found a updated manual solution:
2021-03-07T10:21:33Z  Remove the earth wire from one jumper and move it carefully to the other jumper, like red arrow. Now you have one active wire and one neutral wire.
Why isn't this the default for Australian standards?
2021-03-07T20:04:42Z Tried out my new changed inverters and they do not have an active neutral, they have an dead one, which it is supposed to be. Seems like India has different wiring standards, and they sell products to Australian without changing to our wiring electrical standards. Go figure !
2021-03-08T02:25:36Z  Running a 60w 240V light bulb costs the battery bank 2.5 Amps, so running a single 240 V light costs 24 Amp hours, about 1/10 of mine total storage.
2021-03-08T02:26:27Z  The first inverter is now up and running. wow. Will test the system now during the week.
2021-03-08T02:27:49Z  Close up view of RCD and CB, the neutral and earth wires are joined in Australian standards. The CB is limited to 4.0 amps, about 930 watts.
2021-03-08T08:14:24Z The water pump draws 18 Amps, changing the float voltage from 28V to 26V in about 10 minutes of operation. The solar panels respond with charging 6 amps and 7 amps. After resting the pump draws 0.6 A and the battery bank is back to 28V and float full in about 10 minutes.
2021-03-08T08:15:30Z @ (#) Possibly considered portable camping equipment, where total safety is not important.
2021-03-08T08:16:31Z  Got the MPTT to connect to the computer.
2021-03-08T08:17:15Z  Some facts from MPPT (A)
2021-03-08T08:18:43Z Cloudy showery day, still got 200Watt and 6amps going into battery.
2021-03-08T08:19:20Z  Showing MPPT B, the second one.
2021-03-08T08:19:47Z Getting 150 watts and 5amps off the roof.
2021-03-08T17:51:43Z I will be interested in how the batteries faired on their first running of the water pump over the entire night, and morning charging rate? Currently at 7pm, the batteries were at 25V or about 60%. That's a fair drop in storage. I suspect the 500amphours is not achieved as yet.
2021-03-09T18:00:35Z Diane used the water pump heaps yesterday, plus water controller switching on, the bank dropped to 22Volts. What does this mean? How much battery storage do I have left? I suspect 30% but not sure? And do I get really big bulk adsorption charging currents in the morning today?
2021-03-10T17:23:35Z I suspect my solar panels are duds, not making enough current, Confirmed email from David, my supplier from Iron Core Batteries. I will have to stop charging the batteries with little amounts, turn off the system, remove all solar panels, and start again, measuring each solar panels individual performance first.
2021-03-10T17:25:35Z At least now, I have learned how to do this, measuring current from a solar panel. The 8 yr old panels I used obviously are making piddly squat current. At least I have my 4 year old new, 45 V 5 A solar panels, should give me 28 volts for the eight of them, assuming I get 3.5 Amps off each one?
2021-03-10T17:25:58Z The theory never matches the practical performance.
2021-03-11T07:59:08Z @ (#) Possibly, will have to undo string wiring and check each one individually, plus also check why MPPT given 75 Volt performs so badly with 5 amp output?
2021-03-11T17:48:27Z Yeah I learned that a single dud, say 2 amps drags in parallel all other solar panels to 2 amps, and a single dud in voltage say 20 volts drags all other solar panels in series down to 20 volts, So One should check every solar panel first for volts and amps.
2021-03-17T02:38:22Z  Removed all the solar panels, and wired up new strings, one on left are Trina 370W, 2 in series 2 in parallel, making 4 panels in total, gives 30Amps
And 6 on right are my older Zeus Apollo all 45 v and all six in parallel, gives me 30 Amps also.
2021-03-17T02:39:26Z  On a sunny day, now I get 60 Amps of charging, but on overcast days things are not so good.
2021-03-17T02:40:40Z Notice Trina gave me 29 amps and Zeus also 29 amps.
Will need another string to make up when I get cloudy days
2021-03-17T05:31:22Z Got our power bill today $430, the off grid cost us 19,000, so will take only 11 years to break even.
Why and how are we using 13 KWhr per day? Fridge 3 units, water pump 3 units (6hrs perday) bore pump (3 units) 6 hours pumping per day, fans (0.5 unit) lights (3 40w, on 5 hrs) (0.5 unit) that's only 10 units accounted for?? bread maker, washing machine, TV, water heater 20litre (arrh? )
2021-03-17T18:24:59Z 50, 000 watts per day? Boy. I would like to get it down to 5,000 watts per day. I only have in theory, a battery bank that stores 15,000 watts per day, leaving some for cloudy days, etc.
2021-03-17T18:27:21Z Cannot find a washing machine which uses less water and runs on less than 400 watts of power. The LG 5Kg Fuzzy Logic is no longer being made. Fisher and Paykael also no longer make the 7 Kg smart drive machines. Most stats do not include watts on the specifications.
2021-03-18T17:40:36Z Found a preloved one in Blackwater.... How good is the Lord in heaven.
Runs on just 400 watts.
2021-03-18T17:43:33Z @ (#<6phqvja https://twtxt.net/search?tag=6phqvja>) True, they want you to consume more, not less. This is a fundamental problem with society. I remember once a 8 yr old PNG boy cooking breakfast using a single stick with 10 reef fish laid across the stick fire. An Australian boy would have used a wheelbarrow of sticks.
2021-03-21T20:38:34Z  Can't understand why this Inverter keeps throwing the switch? The Fuse is rated at 30Amps but keeps on tripping? Weird.
2021-03-21T20:40:03Z The water pump is 516 W, draws 20 Amps and runs on 240V using 2 amps. So why does the fuse trip all the time?
2021-03-21T21:15:00Z Just swapped it over for 50Amp fuse, notice for a flash brief 1/2 second I saw what might have been 27 Amps as the pump turns on, ie initial rush of current, as the 516W motor is very inductive in its draw of current.
2021-03-23T09:03:04Z  Been getting carbon from the water during charging process. Apparently it's normal part of KOH reacting with C in the air. You clean the cells after 8 yrs of carbon build up.
2021-03-25T07:59:40Z @ (#<5ear6ya https://twtxt.net/search?tag=5ear6ya>) Yeah inrush current is correct.
2021-03-25T08:00:25Z Tree fell over nearly killing Diane, near chook pen crushing the railings. Big clean up this weekend.
2021-03-26T20:26:12Z Nice to be home
2021-03-28T19:33:18Z  System so far, fridge now connected to solar.
First night running off grid. Seems happy, voltage in bank is 25V, around 80% full.
2021-03-29T17:50:24Z Our fridge went through the night off grid for the first time, no worries. Uses only 6 amps, 150 W when running, cheap compared to the water pump.
2021-03-30T07:56:02Z  What is set up so far, fridge has it's own dedicated inverter 560W, the washing machine, lounge TV and bed fan has another inverter 900W, the water pump has it's own inverter, 560W, all three are running OK, except some get hot during the day from use.
2021-03-30T17:30:49Z @ (#) Yeah so it's cheaper to purchase a 240V fridge rather than a 24volt one, much cheaper and easier. In fact the only things I can't do so far on my off grid is run a circular saw, weld, use a toaster and an electric jug. Everything else seems ok on less than 900 watts. I do believe you can get 24volt air conditioners too.
2021-03-31T17:37:47Z @ (#<2s3ou4q https://twtxt.net/search?tag=2s3ou4q>) Interesting read from their website, but how much do they cost?
2021-03-31T17:40:33Z  Sunny days charge the system to near full by 9:00 am. Things are running fine.
2021-04-04T20:01:32Z  The water level in the batteries is misleading. Half way between max and min should be OK? NO
it means your cell plates are exposed.
2021-04-04T20:03:10Z  Notice the interior plates are getting exposed. (Red arrow), I added 500ml of distilled water to each cell, and this is not near enough yet for some cells.
2021-04-04T20:04:45Z Will add water to 5mm above max level and at max level means to add more water.
2021-04-05T17:37:03Z @ (#) Not sure seems 500ml per month.
2021-04-06T08:20:02Z how do you send SMS to a phone from your computer?
2021-04-06T08:20:28Z For free too please?
2021-04-06T17:31:26Z @ (#<7eujnja https://twtxt.net/search?tag=7eujnja>) Thanks
2021-04-06T18:08:47Z  medium affects
2021-04-06T18:14:39Z  electron microscope
2021-04-07T18:17:57Z Some say light travels only as a wave, some say light travels as both a wave and a particle. It's a mystery to consider which.
2021-04-09T20:29:09Z Beautiful sunny day today, at Dululu.
2021-04-10T20:27:28Z @ (#) nice, have fun
2021-04-11T02:34:50Z  Near completed power house/
Note the pipes to remove H2 gas, and the light 24 wire, plus the 5 inverters.
2021-04-11T07:29:02Z  LED tubes 24V DC with a view of our bed/lounge room
2021-04-11T07:29:31Z Note pull cord red circle red arrow. easy to turn off light from your bed.
2021-04-11T20:18:04Z These T8 four foot LED 24V DC tubes are expensive at $50 each....
2021-04-12T07:52:48Z  The finished project so far. My neighbour reckons one can buy a VIctron box with 3,500 watt inverter, 100 amp solar control and Residual circuit breaker and circuit breaker, plus amp charger all rolled in one box for $3,500.
2021-04-12T07:54:51Z About the same cost I paid for the 5 inverters, 3 controllers, 5 circuit breaker and the 5 residual circuit breakers. So is one box better than 18 individual ones?
2021-04-13T17:35:34Z @lyse @ (#<37dokda https://twtxt.net/search?tag=37dokda>) Yes that was what I was thinking, I compare inverters
Weight: 34.8 Kilograms
Warranty: 5yrs
Code: INV-VC24-05-120-100
Price: $3646.64 total output is 4000watt
verses
Victron 1200 900W 24 Volt $505 weight 7.4 Kg 3 of
Victron 800 24 Volt $425 weight 6.4 Kg 2 of
Total $2,365 weight 35 Kg total output is 4300watt
2021-04-13T17:37:34Z And you will note the 5 smaller ones with other pieces, are around 800 to 1000 dollars cheaper, than the one big 4000 VA Inverter, actually to run continuously at 4,000 watts, it needs to be a 5000VA, and costs
Victron 5000 VA 24 Volt, 4000 watt continuous, $3,700.
So I am more in front.
2021-04-13T17:40:00Z If one inverter breaks down, I have 4 others still running power lines to the house. Notice the weight of the single one verses the weight of the 5 others is the same, meaning the inductance is the same, but the prices are different. Why is that? Supply and Demand I suspect. It's cheaper to purchase 1200VA and 800VA because millions of people purchase them, whereas only few people purchase a big 5000VA Inverter.
2021-04-13T17:42:51Z The other aspect is stress over technology. The less space on a page of words, the more crammed the words are, the more difficult it is to read and digest the words. Compare a university book with a kids book and see the difference. Now compare the space of a single big 5000VA Inverter on the wall, to my space with 5 Inverters, 6 circuit breakers and 5 wires of power, about 4 times the space, meaning its easier to understand the wiring and the technology behind it.
2021-04-13T17:47:41Z If anybody wants to go off grid, and a reasonable with doing stuff, I have a website explaining all the things required here:
http://spiritualsprings.org/ss-1576.htm
This link have so far 15 webpages, showing you all the steps required, which are also here on TXT, but gathered in one place for beginnings. The overall cost of off grid living is 22,000, and if you subtract the cost of building a power house, you need 18,000 just to purchase all the components. I expect the set up to last 100 years, and I should get my money back after only 12 years.
2021-04-13T17:50:56Z Our electric power bill used to be 430 PER 100 DAYS, or about 1700 per year. This set up may not run a large house needs like my Son on 30 units per day, but it runs easily our needs on 5 units per day, with 10 units of power in reserve for cloudy days. Unlike lead acid, I can drain the batteries down every day to 50% fully charged everyday without harm. I can go even lower to 20% fully charged if I want to.
2021-04-13T17:55:44Z My next door neighbour is upgrading his power cables to 19mm dia, 300Amp lines. He has lead acid 1000Amp hours. Lead acid needs gentle use. So never take them below 80% fully charge. That is only 200Amp hours of power you have. So you can only remove 200 amps for one hour and your done. So the need for 300 amp wire is overkill and a waste of money.
Notice my Nickel Iron batteries have more than 200 amp/hour, I can use all the power. I have 500 amp hour. So in theory I could drag out 400 amps for a single hour.
2021-04-13T17:58:30Z My cables are 10mm brass bolts to a huge copper plate . Wires are 16mm 2 capable of up to 60 or possibly 100 amps. Yet I drag only 20 amps from them. Notice my overkill of wiring and set up. Going bigger is more costly, keep that in mind. If you drag more current through copper and heat the atoms they will rust and change impedance, hence over time your wires will fail. Stick to what I have done, and the reasons why I did it this way. Cheap, efficient and long lasting.
2021-04-13T18:00:14Z  A closeup of the wiring bay with 10mm brass bolts and 16mm2 wires to each inverter, the maximum size each inverter has a hole for.
2021-04-13T18:04:24Z If sombody like James want to have 30 units of power on storage, you need the same as what I have here but you go 48 Volt DC, that is 24 cells per row, cable one for 300 amps, and 24 cells on next row, and than 5 inverters of 3000VA with a 10 amp circuit breaker, limiting each power line load to 10 amps or 2400 watts. The cable and bolts are the same, as the current load is about the same, 20 to 30 amps each load. The 48 cells will cost you around 20,000 dollars for the nickel iron battery bank.
2021-04-14T07:58:58Z @ (#<7kbwzra https://twtxt.net/search?tag=7kbwzra>) When you consider building cost 4,000, batteries cost 9,000 and the inverters and solar controllers from Victron cost 4,000, the rest of the money spent ie 5,000 was on electrical stuff, like wire, conduit, RCB and CB, lights, switches and solar panels, you can see over 70% of the cost comes from the batteries themselves. Rainbow power Company quoted me a system of same size for $25,000, this excludes the building, so I am 7,000 in front of their quote.
2021-04-14T08:02:20Z Correction on your 26,000, excluding the building costs, the electrical part of the system only cost me $18,000. Not bad for off grid living.
2021-04-16T20:51:13Z It's sunrise 6:50 am and the batteries have 52 amps going out and no amps coming is, the voltage is 23V, since float is 29 V and night is 24V, one can assume the battery is still over 80% full. The bore pump is on with 26 amps and the water pump is on with 18 amps, the fridge uses only 6 amps.
2021-04-17T20:17:11Z Hard to convince wife to use power at night, thinking the batteries won't handle it? Takes time to get used to thinking off grid, you have to adjust your life around the sunshine hours you get.
Will fix this problem eventually with more solar panels, etc.
2021-04-19T17:54:02Z  Add 2 more computer fans to move air over the 5 inverters.
2021-04-19T17:54:36Z See red arrow, also a switch to turn off meter reading.
2021-04-19T17:55:27Z And another extraction fan, 240V at 14W, needs 1 amp to run, for summer heat times in the day. 
2021-04-19T17:57:36Z My picture does not show the fan, bother...
2021-04-19T18:01:37Z  Here we go, the extraction fan, and the computer fans, see red arrows.
2021-04-20T09:04:45Z The three orange cables plus a black cable, are the power wires running into conduit that leads to the house, 3 power lines and 1 24Volt lighting line. They seem to enter the box on the top right, which is cut to go around the 32mm conduit, is in fact a box to channel the extractor fan air to the outside of the power house. So I share the same hole with extractor fan and conduit for the 4 wires.
2021-04-20T17:25:59Z @ (#) Yeah it wasn't. The housing shroud of the box to hold the fan has a 40mm half circle pipe cut into the box, that fits over the 32mm conduit space, so both fit through the 90 by 90 hole through the besser block wall. In summer, this fan will help keep the room cooler.
2021-04-20T17:26:40Z  Close up of the wiring rack for the leads
2021-04-23T20:40:12Z  Nephilim Giants found in the ground in the USA
2021-04-23T20:41:26Z 6 fingers and toes
 A human is taken and is given an implant into the knee, see red circle.
2021-04-23T20:42:51Z  Doctors remove inplant, it is radioactive and emits radio frequency. Evidence of aliens??
2021-04-25T20:25:00Z  Having trouble with MPPT overcharging my battery
2021-04-25T20:26:53Z  Up to 200amphr is added to battery cells, using water...
2021-04-25T20:28:14Z  So reading, changing things and finally getting updated firmware, everything went perfectly
2021-04-25T20:29:07Z  Both are on float now
2021-04-25T20:30:15Z  Power going out is same as power coming in, while on float. Battery is fully charged.
2021-04-25T20:31:27Z I used to have 60 amps, now I am getting just 7 amps coming in, because 7 amps is going out (fridge 4 amps + fans )
2021-04-25T20:32:55Z  I aslo reduced low battery state for inverters to 20V, Ni-Fe can go lower than Lead -Acid can.
2021-04-25T20:33:46Z  Updates on firmware may have done it ??
2021-04-25T20:34:55Z  But what a great day, everything is as it should be for my power system. :)
2021-04-25T22:27:28Z Its 8:30 am, getting 45 amps from both controllers on bulk, all loads are off for now. Reckon we used 150 amps of power, so expect float back in 90 minutes of full sunshine.
2021-04-26T09:05:24Z We used water for 2 hours, triggering bore pump, so added another 120 amps to the load of 150 amps night before, so at 3 pm both MPTT were still on adsorption, not quite getting to float, ran out of sunshine.
Solution? cut down on water load times, or increase solar arrays from 60 amps to 90 amps, that way we have more coming into battery than going out.
2021-04-26T09:06:19Z  Both MPPT stats for the last 2 days.
2021-04-29T19:21:59Z 
2021-04-29T19:22:11Z Thomas young experiment
2021-04-29T19:25:59Z  experiment with sand, very clever
2021-04-29T19:26:19Z So particles of sand leave a pattern
2021-04-29T19:29:50Z  now with light
2021-04-29T19:33:32Z https://youtu.be/O81Cilon10M watch the experiement...
Is light a particle or a wave, or both?
2021-05-01T20:28:40Z  Yes looks like I am not getting enough sunshine. Need more panels.
2021-05-01T20:32:02Z Take 26 April for example both panels captured 11,000 watts, /24 is over 500 amp/hrs, so the house was using all the batteries plus much more, than the sunshine could keep up with.
2021-05-02T20:16:43Z The only thing I can think of using 500 amp hr of power is 4 hours pumping water = 100 amps and 2 times filling water tank with bore pump = 220 amps. Plus other minor house uses = total 450 amps.
2021-05-03T08:59:38Z Had too many families for night over, using shower , hence water pump. I forgot about off grid.
So 10 hours pumping is 200amps, and twice filling tank is 220 amps, plus opening fridge many times is about 40 amps, a total of 460 amps. The batteries voltage was 18.5, nearly dead flat. All inverters switched themselves off. Lucky we are still also on mains powers as well.
2021-05-03T09:02:03Z And yet my morning, filling tank for 4 hours, 26 amps coming in, 26 amps going out, so by 2pm, on just 5 hours, the system went absorb, reducing from 60 amps (bulk charging) to 20 amps (absorb charging).
So within 5 hours the system was normal again. Yet you would never get that with Lead-Acid.
2021-05-03T09:03:51Z I mean if you took Lead Acid down to 30% fully charged and expected it to recover fully , forget it.
But the Nickel-Iron just did not care. I went to 18.5 volts, and but to 30volts in just 5 hours, no worries.
It's great having a system that will never die, but it did run out of power....
2021-05-03T09:05:55Z Solution? You can't get people who visit to expect what off grid living means. Maybe install 7litres per minute shower pump, rather than my big 240 one?? The 24V DC pump consumes 1 amp of power per hour, nothing, compared to 240 V version consumes 20 amps. But you also waste less water in the shower.
2021-05-03T09:48:45Z  Martin Luther is guilt of polysemy. Bother:(
2021-05-03T18:02:18Z Yeah increase solar.
2021-05-04T09:34:03Z  Reading Textus Recepetus
2021-05-09T21:06:51Z Since the user define was changed, I have had two full days of charging in bulk
over 1100amp/hrs of charging, voltage rises to 31V
I expect absorb soon.
2021-05-09T21:07:47Z  New settings
2021-05-09T21:08:28Z  changed on day of red boxes
2021-05-09T22:11:24Z I suspect increasing charge voltage causes increase in state of charge (SOC) but it's taking more than one day, so this means my charging is too low, need at least 50 to 90 amps per hour. But my capacity has increased I suspect from 150 amp/hr to 500/hr. Yesterday got to 31 volts
2021-05-09T22:12:22Z Today it's 7 am and the voltage is already 29 volts, as massive improvement on the 23 volts two days ago. So capacity is building up.
2021-05-09T22:42:32Z Yeah your'e right James, one needs to have charging at least on the high end, rather low end of the formula 0.2C, where C is your capacity, for me that is 0.2x500=100amps. So I need not 25 to 60 amps charging, low end, I need 60 to 90 amps, high end. This should help heaps.
2021-05-09T22:43:39Z I expect at 60 to 90 amps to be in bulk, than absorb and finally float in a single day.
Whereas now I use more than the 30-60 amps charging can cop with.
2021-05-09T22:54:10Z Currently 9am getting 40amps at 31 volts. low end of charging.
2021-05-09T23:06:02Z  My next project is Aquaculture. Geese pond to left, solar panels to right, vegie troughs to be installed in middle
2021-05-09T23:06:47Z  View of solar panels near old barn
2021-05-09T23:07:45Z  Three 6 month old 8Volt USA batteries at roughly 200amp/hr each is a 24 volt system rated at 200Amp/hr
2021-05-09T23:08:55Z  Currently first day on 1% SOC, with 2 amps coming in at 9am so far, max in theory is 20 amps.
2021-05-09T23:09:56Z  View of my crimps, not like normally done, ends twisted and crimped, ugly but sound.
2021-05-09T23:10:58Z  Carpet on ground to remove weeds, star pickets to hold panels, near ground. Investment so far, is $500.
2021-05-09T23:11:43Z Once I get battery storage, I will continue with building for veggie troughs.
2021-05-09T23:23:54Z  The schematic of system.
2021-05-09T23:25:14Z Timer pumps water for 3 minutes once per day for 6 times, 8 am, 9am, 10 am, 11am, 12am and 3 pm
2021-05-09T23:25:41Z Hopefully the solar panels and little 200amp/hr will keep up.
2021-05-09T23:27:35Z Seashells automatically keep PH around 7, if acidic the sea shells dissolve a bit. All Natural. I can add mineral nutrients to pond and make a perfect soil environment in the medium.
2021-05-10T01:04:14Z  Arhh em', these were 170 amp/hr deep cycle, now I suppose just 100 amp/hr second hand 6months old. They are charging as lead acid, 8 volts, and getting only 8 amps on a sunny day. Bother.... old second hand panels.... so far 44% fully charged.
2021-05-10T01:05:19Z So from 10 am until 3 pm, I can expect only 50amp/hrs only in this aquaculture system. Not bad.
2021-05-10T01:08:24Z What can I do with 50 amp/hrs? Hmm? My sludge pump needs 20 amp/hrs to run for 1 hour. The system will barely cope. Will it do this for 3 minutes, every hour? Say from 9am, 10 am , 11 am 12 am 1pm, and 3pm ? that's say 18 minutes @ 20 amps = 6 amp/hrs per day.
2021-05-10T01:10:18Z Not sure if this system will cope with 20amp/hr load while only a 100 amp/hr source? In theory this is a voltage drop from 24 volts 19 volts. Hmm? Will the inverter switch off? One way to find out?
2021-05-10T18:12:55Z @ (#) It's your 1500Watt Inverter you gave me, that will be used, you tell me. OH, is your Inverter for 12V or 24V? The system is 24Volt...
2021-05-11T08:13:03Z @ (#) Oh, now I have to purchase a 12volt solar controller to suit....And change the battery bank....? Oh well....
2021-05-12T08:01:27Z @ (#) Narrh, just thought my Steca should be auto for 12/24 volt, so I switch batteries for 12 volt variety, ie two 6v USA ones I have also. Thanks anyhow Son. Congratulations on being a QLD archery champion.
2021-05-15T20:51:33Z  Notice when on 33V absorb, on light loads, the solar panels never reach 33V, but over 1 week the voltage climbs, but remains in bulk.
2021-05-15T20:54:24Z You would reckon that dumping 6 hours or say 50amp/hr = 300amp/hr for an entire week, of 3,500amp/hr the batteries would eventually reach 33V and move to absorb, but no they don't?
On light loads we are only 60 hours per day, around 1 hour of charging.
2021-05-15T20:55:54Z  So I did a different user defined voltage setting, this time lowering the battery SOC to 31.5V. The chargers go to float. But my battery SOC is probably around 300 amp/hr rather than the higher 500 amp/hr.
2021-05-15T20:59:31Z The batteries over night on their first day was 26 Volts. Excellent. means 95% fully SOC. (State of Charge)
2021-05-15T21:05:03Z  Swapped the batteries over for 12V supply, currently on 47%, and 12 V, not bad for their first day, and I got 8 to 13 amps charging off my second hand panels. Excellent.
2021-05-15T21:05:51Z Got my plumbing parts for connecting the veggie shed troughs up....Progress
2021-05-16T21:50:18Z  Hebrew prefix
2021-05-17T08:41:05Z  Got the shadecloth up, installed troughs and plumbing elbows, even tried the 1500 W inverter with a 330watt sludge pump, draws 9 to 10 amps when drawing the water plus sludge. Works a treat. My second hand batteries are 100% charged, and I get 30 amps from the panels. Everything is looking great. Can't wait for the cabbage seedlings.
2021-05-17T18:02:37Z @ (#) Thanks
2021-05-18T08:18:43Z Battery voltage 26V going into night time, not bad, 100% charged.
2021-05-20T17:37:14Z  Not sure if my filtration system will work to remove algae and clean the water for geese. Geese love clean water. Even though they pooping in the water...
2021-05-21T19:23:07Z  Getting my new digital timer to work correctly.
Have set it to come for for 3 minutes at 9:00 am, 10 am, 11 am, 12 noon, 1pm , 2pm and 6 pm. The total power consumed by a water 320W 10 amp pump is just 3.5 amp/hrs.
2021-05-21T19:28:33Z Doing a test run before it is committed to the new aquaponic system .
2021-05-22T09:59:08Z  The shadecloth insect proof veggie shed in the middle coming along
2021-05-22T09:59:33Z  View from rear
2021-05-22T10:00:08Z  Water troughs coming into place.
2021-05-22T10:01:15Z  Notice the curved roof wards off leaves cluttering on roof.
2021-05-22T10:02:22Z 50% shade on roof, 90% shade on walls, fully cabbage moth proof.
2021-05-22T21:37:53Z  Hebrew problem
2021-05-23T09:26:59Z  The aquaponics system running with seedlings for the first time.
2021-05-23T09:27:38Z  General layout of design
2021-05-23T09:28:31Z  Had to reduce flow into trough by 80% .
2021-05-23T09:31:07Z Bit worried about drainage through fine sea shell grit. Might give seedling wet feet.
2021-05-23T09:33:26Z The sea shell grit serves to automatically keep water nutrients at 8 to 9 PH. If the water is acidic, it dissolves the sea shells a bit. No weeding, no digging up soils, lots of correct nutrients, and super efficient on water use. Also no cabbage moths, the building is insect proof.
2021-05-23T17:20:56Z @ (#<36apzoq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=36apzoq>) We have 60 seedlings or more, Chinese Cabbage, English Cabbage, cauliflower, Brussel Spouts, And a purple Broccolli.
2021-05-24T19:12:13Z  Greek
2021-05-25T08:58:44Z  LXX tries to translate Genesis Hebrew
2021-05-25T18:09:43Z Why would a translator lump 5 different Hebrew words into the same Greek word? How is that being faithful to the original text?
2021-05-25T19:05:02Z LXX is not consistent 
2021-05-26T19:34:19Z  Interesting this Greek
2021-05-27T10:09:09Z  Interesting
2021-05-30T00:11:04Z  Eating nice juicy tasty home grown water melon for brekkie, big too. In the start of winter.
2021-05-30T21:08:07Z  My Son's inverter is working automatically for now 3 weeks on the new aquaponic system. For some reason the inverter gets hots in the middle of the day, using 10amps for just 5 minutes every 2 hours, makes it hot? Why is that? At least by late afternoon it cools down. And the fan stops.
2021-05-30T21:09:22Z The plastic cover has a gap under neath and a another gap near the fans, so this isn't the issue of heat. The problem is the running 10 amps for 5 minutes, is the problem every 2 hours.
2021-05-30T21:10:11Z  The cabbages growing slowly in the medium of sea shells Plus goose pooh. It's cold here and winter.
2021-05-30T21:10:48Z Battery SOC is fine, from 100% to 83% overnight.
2021-05-31T08:28:08Z @ (#<3zgnona https://twtxt.net/search?tag=3zgnona>) Huh? I think's it not bad for second hand batteries and second hand solar panels.
To lose 20% overnight for old batteries is great. Got another 50Kg of sweet potatoes to add to the pantry cupboard. They are nice too. Even tried some tapioca, remember that PNG taste?
2021-06-02T01:56:57Z  Alan Horovath
2021-06-02T07:20:02Z @ (#<3zgnona https://twtxt.net/search?tag=3zgnona>) Yeah , the Inverter does n't sound too efficient? Probably less than 80%, a 1500Watt inverter required to make 330 watt is roughly one third of it's capacity spread over 2 hours, I am surprised the heat accumulates.
2021-06-02T07:21:47Z  The heating process is not from the cover, or the solar panel, but the ambient temperature doesn't help, ie at summer at 30 degrees, the inverter gets overheated much faster.
2021-06-04T20:50:22Z  Shalom Shabbat
2021-06-04T20:59:02Z 
2021-06-06T19:41:57Z Started on making steel supports for additional solar panels. A third 30 Amp string.
2021-06-07T02:14:56Z  Finished the steel structure, have to now move the two solar panels over to allow for more Trina Panels, four of them.
2021-06-07T02:16:05Z @ (#) Yeah, the power house, will now get the 90 amps it needs.
2021-06-07T04:30:06Z  The roof view, of new 3rd string of solar panels, the end solar panels have been moved over.
2021-06-08T09:49:13Z  Thanks everyone for comments. What the new four panels will look like, adding soon up to 90 amps of charging to our power house.
2021-06-08T09:52:01Z That brings the total solar wattage to just under 3KWatt. And on a sunny day will charge the batteries normally in 1 hour. I am hoping to use the extra sunlight to power other things.
2021-06-10T18:25:07Z From James" ahh very nice! so you'll be able to run heavy loads during the day?
Yes Son, in battery float at say 10 amps per hour, I could switch on another bore pump at say the windmiill and run it for 6 hours irrigating the lawn at say 240Volt 5 amps, this would be 1200Watt, or 50amps, no problems.
2021-06-11T19:33:56Z Got our new solar panels today. Ready for the great day tomorrow.
2021-06-11T19:42:03Z @lyse @movq @ (#) Interesting comments Lyse. The image you speak of is 37.9KB, and I use James camera which makes a 6MB file. I than get the image in Windows 8 Photos viewer, and press Screen Shot, Paste the file into MSPaint, a primitive Paint program. I than use capture size to get the image again, and paint it again into Paint, unchanged. It is saved as a JPEG file, reducing the image from 6MB to 37.9 KB. The file is than used for Internet publishing on my website, spiritualsprings.org . It would be nice if software made image files smaller automaticly
2021-06-12T19:57:23Z  Cabbages look OK, just a bit pale. Perhaps not enough nutrients, but the cuttings are still OK. The system is in the 5th week. The inverter still fanned up for a few hours, despite the ambient temperature being 15 degrees. Not very efficient in converting power obviously. Temperature here at moment is 6 degrees. It's 6 am.
2021-06-13T01:13:23Z  The new panels are up
2021-06-13T01:13:59Z  But still have to hook them up
2021-06-13T19:05:06Z  Got all three strings set to user defined voltages:
One is set to 32.7 V to force it read same settings as the second at 33.0 V , the new MPPT set at 33.0V also moves to float earlier than the other two. This is desirable. On bulk I should get 90amps, and on absorb all three should fold back and only two finish off, while one sits on float earlier, than other two.
2021-06-13T19:06:23Z Today will be the first day of this new test for our new system, finally able to perform well.
2021-06-13T23:08:17Z Its cloudy 9 am and I am getting
1) 9 amps bulk
2) 8 amps bulk
3) 9 amps bulk
all correct and working lovely.
2021-06-20T00:03:09Z  Data for all three MPPT
2021-06-20T00:04:20Z Something wrong - not enough absorb and float across all MPTT, so I decided to make all three MPTT the same settings, these are
Absorb 33.0 V
Float 29.5 V
2021-06-20T00:04:31Z Will see how this goes this week
2021-06-20T19:48:22Z @lyse (#) I see Lyse, maybe I am old fashioned and use what I know, ie PAINT. It's a primitive program but useful for many things. I did once use a resize program to convert dozens of files to small images. Thanks for the help though.
2021-06-20T19:52:53Z I noticed sunshine for over 6 hours at roughly 50 amps, ( actually 70 amps, but pumps, bore washing machines were on also) this equates to only 300 amps in storage. This is about right for Absorb. The MPPT's did reach float today. will see today how they go.
2021-06-20T19:53:52Z  Cabbages going ok, cuttings also added, see red arrow.
2021-06-22T18:09:44Z Is Travian the same game Johnathon and you and I played some years back?
2021-06-24T09:10:30Z @ (#) So you're still playing the same game every week after all those years? How's it going?
2021-06-26T20:32:25Z Three days cloudy, rainy and foggy, hence no power. Voltage is 20V nearly flat.
Fridge, water pump all turned OFF.
One will have to plan for days like this if going OFF GRID?
A backup generator? Or a massive solar panel bank one can switch on, ie a fourth string of a potential of 200 amps? These would be on the ground, second hand panels at 3 amps each, say 60 of them.
My Aquaculture system of 10 panels at 3 amps each, is still 97% charged, inverter running fine even on cloudy days. Go figure.
2021-06-27T21:07:10Z @ (#) My wife ignores the system, and goes back to the grid. Changing one's lifestyle is hard. Yes I would have done that, in fact at home, I check the power system 6 times a day, my wife on the other hand doesn't check it at all. I guess that's why a husband is useful around the house. LOL
2021-06-29T08:08:14Z @ (#) Yeah you're right
2021-07-03T09:09:25Z Got a new fridge , the power start up is 33 Amp / 930 W for 2 seconds, than 8 amps / 120 W after that. Too much for my 24/800 VA inverter, but OK for my 24/1200VA inverter. Bother now I have to purchase more 24/1200VA inverters.
2021-07-07T18:38:23Z A blobserver, some basic metadata thing (not quite a server yet) and some basic CRUD operations on files (create/read). I’m using Reed Solomon Erasure Encoding for data durability and redundancy. I could use some guidance, help, code contributions, battle testers, etc. I’m at a point where now where I need to think about how to structure the “clustering” and “metdata” – ideally masterless. Then I’ll work on integrating a FUSE layer on top. Still interested? Me? Nah, don't understand a word, is this even English, LOL.
2021-07-07T18:39:59Z [Spiritual Springs](http://spiritualsprings.org/) See this link on the first webpage, The latest investigation into Pzifer Vaccine
https://rumble.com/vjgubr-heads-up-people-july-5-2021-by-anna-von-reitz.html
Spanish researchers pur Pfizer Vaccine under the electron microscope and found it contains nothing but 99% graphene oxide, a chemical that kills cells on a molecular level like tiny knives.
2021-07-08T09:38:39Z What is Snflish ? Singapore English?
2021-07-08T18:49:18Z @xjix (#) The easiest way to verify, if you could get the vaccine for free and take it home, (I doubt this) is inside the material, you dry it out, it should become black in colour, Hmm? I suspect graphene oxide is black in colour? I doubt a light microscope would show anything?? You could take samples to a electron microscope for analysis, and watch them do it for you? But hey your interest is just as hard as me, wanting GMO food for experimenting with? You cannot get such samples....
2021-07-08T18:52:08Z Please study these links:
https://www.orwell.city/2021/06/covid-19-is-caused-by-graphene-oxide.html
https://www.techinstro.com/what-is-the-negative-impact-of-graphene-on-the-environment/
https://ambassadorlove.wordpress.com/2021/04/07/masks-and-covid-tests-contain-nanotech-vaccines-without-informed-consent/
https://tapnewswire.com/2021/06/vaccines-deliver-graphene-oxide-nanotubes-for-5g-mind-control/
Shalom
2021-07-09T21:06:56Z I doubt a light microscope would show anything?? Graphene oxide is 1 nanometre by 2000 nanometres in size. Light starts 400 to 700 nanometres, so under a light microscope you would see nothing at all.
You would require an electron microscope.
2021-07-09T21:09:21Z So when injected into your blood vessels, graphene oxide would be similar tiny razor blades, travelling along cutting into cells long the way, causing tiny blood clotting. In turn these if not mopped up by the white blood cells would lead to major blood clotting and death.
2021-07-14T19:31:12Z 
2021-07-15T18:33:05Z Sorry to hear, call your own self hosting platform, "OWL centre".
Meaning "Open Webbed Learning Centre" where others can come and host their own webbed based learning to OWL, and other's benefit each other.
2021-07-20T18:35:18Z @xjix (#) Hmm? Well actually my friend, there are peer review articles where graphene oxide is used as a adjuvant in vaccines, being going on even since the flue vaccine days. Although this discovery is pioneer research, the last 10 years or so. Google for the links.
2021-07-20T18:36:04Z Hope Kate is getting better now James.
2021-07-21T09:09:15Z @ (#) No Worries. Pass on our regards, love and thoughts.
2021-07-24T19:52:43Z Found a way to synchronize the MPPT boxes (all 3) to work as one, they are wired to a Cerbo GX, and than wireless connected to a Smart Battery Sensor, all the products cost about $500. So much for Victron making more money out of you...
2021-07-27T19:14:36Z  Ancient Chinese
2021-07-28T09:38:51Z Yes from a Ancient Chinese Pastor
https://youtu.be/DA-AkJzpKmg
2021-07-28T09:49:34Z Worth listening to, than check out the Ancient Chinese matches the Ancient Hebrew.
2021-07-30T20:32:33Z  Veith speaking of the German document written in 2012, a script for the world pandemic
2021-07-30T20:33:39Z  A table detailing the affects of a possible global threat to Germany from a viral attack, written in 2012.
2021-07-30T20:34:48Z  The German document written in 2012 says the global viral threat lasts for 3 years.
2021-07-30T20:36:15Z  Mrs White from the SDA church writes about the pandemic hundreds of years ago in Education, the same theme the Pope uses called Education Day.
2021-07-30T20:37:31Z  Mrs White from the SDA prophet tells us to leave the cities, in preparation of the little time of trouble.
2021-07-30T20:39:41Z  Noahide Laws become under Marshall LAW over riding government constitutional laws, and these 7 laws are very interesting, impacting all the religions and ideals of mankind.
2021-07-30T20:40:09Z Such laws are already in the USA gov, passed Bills/
2021-08-01T19:33:54Z Those wanting to read about Coronavirus Issues, have a look at my comments here
https://spiritualsprings.proboards.com/thread/7/coronavirus-walter-veith?page=1&scrollTo=13
2021-08-16T09:07:54Z Are we online?
2021-08-16T09:10:19Z NSW is in war, lock down, police fining people for not wearing masks, lying on the beach and FEMA camps are goingup, soon people will be forced to leave their homes and take this suicidal jab, so called vaccine. Helicopters flying low, military about, its a war on the Australian citizen.
2021-08-16T19:27:38Z  Breakfast for me in a pot, notice the sweet potatoes are already going brown, that is normal and sign of healthy food.
2021-08-16T19:28:19Z If food stays fresh it is loaded with preservatives and unhealthy for you....
2021-08-19T17:50:25Z The Queensland premier said yesterday, if one NSW person carries the virus over the border, "All bets are off" she said. Meaning? The virus is coming soon to Qld, we will soon become the same as NSW.
2021-08-20T19:44:51Z  My electronic Bible for looking up verses
2021-08-20T19:45:50Z I need somebody to write a new one to do the same for OT and NT in Hebrew, rather than the OT in Hebrew and the NT in Greek.
2021-08-21T09:18:34Z Just downloaded e-sword (57MB) file , electronic Bible for free, the speeds ranged from 2 KB/s to 1,600 KB/s to on average 100 KB/s, and on this 4 G tower there are only around 4 or 5 users at night using this thing, for much variation for a little peep sweak town.
2021-08-21T09:30:29Z  New e-sword version. Yeh
2021-08-22T19:20:46Z Road blocks for the borders beginning soon, get your food parcels now, the truckies are going to do something about our stupid COV19 war with our tyranny governments.
2021-08-25T08:59:12Z Took 2 days off work, and in one big shopping spree purchased all the things to build a new kitchen room, 6m by 6m. Twenty fibro sheets, 134m of Cyprus floor, 60 joists 70x35 2.4m long, plus nails, bolts and Bunnings things.
2021-08-25T09:00:00Z Feel sorry for NSW can't do Bunnings, so I thought I better get in quick. While I can, when it's QLD turn for lock down.
2021-08-26T09:13:29Z I will post some pictures for those interested in how a new kitchen is built and started.
The room is 6 by 6 metres, includes new kitchen, bathroom, laundry and WC.
2021-08-28T22:26:40Z  The windows for our new kitchen , 1800 by 2100, very large.
2021-08-28T22:27:08Z  The general construction so far
2021-08-28T22:28:54Z  Details of the 130 by 6mm bolt that supports the C rafter from twisting and holds the rafter onto the lower purlin. Notice this uses 3 nuts and 1 washer, and is a strong solution, than tex screws.
2021-08-28T22:29:41Z  The floor joists, ready to be welded in place for the floor. All construction is in steel, a newbie for me.
2021-08-28T22:30:40Z  During construction one builds the new building over the older building, and so some posts rise up through the old floor. The older building is demolished in time.
2021-08-28T22:31:15Z  The posts require bracing, so welded in place.
2021-08-28T22:32:47Z  Details of the floor joist (70 x 35) details. You can purchase brackets for 40 cents each, bolt with 40mm 6m bolt and weld into place. There are over 80 of these to be welded unto the floor bearer steel beams.
2021-08-28T22:33:40Z  Cute, some days we had our bath under the stars, no roof over the old bathroom. Walls still in place of course.
2021-08-28T22:34:32Z  Solar system water heater to be installed on roof, the tank sits on posts that run through roof for extra strength.
2021-08-28T22:35:02Z  Up to re-roofing the new building with a new roof today.
2021-08-29T19:58:06Z Thanks Lyse and Son for the comments, the roofing is done and went well. Also welded half the bearers for the timber floor joists.
2021-08-30T09:29:33Z Quite a job to manhandle a hot water system up unto the roof, using steel pipes as a ramp, rope pulley system, ladder and three people for assisting. These pieces are bulky and heavy, about 100Kg each.
Now I welded a frame to hold the HW in place. Pictures next week.
2021-09-03T20:05:25Z Some studies of evolution 
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2021-09-05T02:37:43Z  The beginning of the hot water system. It sits on posts all the way to the ground.
2021-09-05T02:38:22Z  Details of the bracket to hold the tank. Note red lines show shape.
2021-09-05T02:38:49Z  Rear view of tank
2021-09-05T02:39:28Z  Details of the other brackets to hold tank, see red lines for the angles.
2021-09-05T02:40:19Z  Now the panels require frames to support them and to angel them towards the sun. They are 2700 by 2100.
2021-09-05T21:39:55Z Not sure of the size of the tank Lyse, I would say 300 litres, and this equates to 200 litres of hot water.
2021-09-05T21:40:32Z  excuse my postings
2021-09-05T21:40:55Z 
2021-09-05T21:41:09Z 
2021-09-05T22:09:39Z  The finished solar panels sitting in there support frames, one on left is screwed in, other on right awaiting plumbing connections.
Will complete next time.
2021-09-10T23:10:29Z 
2021-09-10T23:10:51Z Trying to understand the PCR testing procedure?
2021-09-12T18:27:04Z I am getting sick of Microsoft edge. can't stand the auto downloads, the auto new feeds, and the consumption of the data plan. Who gives the right to programmers taking over your privacy rights? I feel it's time for Ubantu, no viruses, and keep things simple.
2021-09-13T18:20:55Z @ (#) Thanks nice read
2021-09-14T18:22:26Z  Happy returns of the day James, are you that young? only 39? give Kate and Alice and Lily a hug for me, and enjoy that special day.
2021-09-14T18:31:39Z  You were created on the nights following the 3rd December 1981, I remember them well. See the red arrow. Maybe you were destined for greater heights. This is a picture of the Royal Sydney Hilton Hotel, a very expensive place in those days. If I remember is was in room 365, but I will have to read my diaries to confirm this.
2021-09-14T19:31:02Z  Writings
2021-09-15T18:00:54Z @ (#) Hmm? Yes my Son, my diaries have infinite commentaries of the first three days of your life, your conception, and the first year of your birth. One day I will copy the words out for you, if you want. Did you like the picture editing process, I took a photo image, edited out the children and moved us closer together, edited your shirt and the made a renewed picture. If you look closely in Microsoft Paint, you will see the pizel images have changed. It took me about an hour to make this image. ENJOY your day.
2021-09-17T20:50:01Z  shadows directions
2021-09-18T19:47:13Z I inherited ConEnergy solar panels, 22mm dia pipes. In Australia we have 20 mm dia pipes. So my solar panels do not quite meet the pipe length, meaning I have to cut my welds and start all over again, handling a 200Kg frame and solar panels on the roof on my own. But hey, I am used to doing things 2 or 3 times over. I used to stress, now I expect to do things over and over.
2021-09-19T03:47:37Z  The completed project, ready for water pumping,
Red arrows show plumbing
2021-09-19T03:48:14Z  Underneath. Red arrows show plumbing.
Kitchen walls not complete yet.
2021-09-19T20:17:51Z Yes thanks Lyse, the solar panels are large, 2.7 m by 2.0 m, the tank is 300 litres, and it sits on steel posts that rise out of the roof, some 4 m above the ground. So it does look large.
Now my women engineers do not like my joist timbers, 90 by 35 F4 from Bunnings, not able to span 2000 they say, bowing down, not carry 10 people, maybe? You can't buy good timber from Bunnings, I should have gone to trade Bunnings, whatever that means? Not sure where it is even? So now I am going to purchase 3 more steel bearers at a cost of $450 and make these little timber joists 1m
2021-09-19T20:20:31Z That's not much of a span is it? One lousy metre. But that is a cheaper solution than spending AUD1200 on structural 90 by 45 mm F8 timber, again a Bunnings product. I am still AUD450 in front, purchasing more steel bearers and concreting them in the ground.
2021-09-19T20:22:30Z Strange I got away with one $ dollar sign, but the other post I had to use AUD instead?
2021-09-19T20:28:31Z  The floor joists under question. They are flimsy sticks.
2021-09-20T09:12:10Z Some comments on search.txtxt.net function:-
Mon, May 3 10:30PM
(4 months ago)
@ (#) The yellow weed with the bees in 9 and 10 are common dandelion. 42 is water crowfoot. I’ve no idea what 43 is called, though. The brick walls in 21, 22, 24 and 25 are part of the ruins of the former Hohenstaufen Castle which was burned down in 1525. The sign in 25 and 26 says “Forest road – Closed for motor vehicles and horse riders. Open for forestry – Forest administration”. I believe the whole path leading to the top of the mountain is closed for these two
2021-09-20T09:12:36Z Grabbing sentences under a word like "lyse" is OK
2021-09-20T09:12:53Z off_grid_living @.net
Fri, Feb 12 9:04PM
(7 months ago)
The red arrow show the desired hole required. I will have to get somebody with a 20mm drill and drill out the hole. I found a website explaining :
2021-09-20T09:13:13Z Using "red arrow" to get images is not possible
2021-09-20T09:13:36Z So you cannot retrieve images with your text in past yarns.
2021-09-20T09:14:20Z Liked the back arrow go to current page number if search pages, 1 to 800+...nice feature
2021-09-20T09:14:40Z Style of format OK
2021-09-20T09:15:51Z Need a search that just retrieve images based on text associated in text stream. maybe include the image hash tag, so I can place image on another public forum, like I do now.
2021-09-20T09:16:39Z "....://twtxt.net/media/g53syfu35eyn8KvJLq7auR" This for example, front bit removed intentionally
2021-09-20T09:17:58Z Maybe a gallery of all images with hash tags for people can use them as desired from the twtxt server. With search feature.
2021-09-23T18:54:00Z  Missler video
2021-09-23T19:04:45Z  weird stuff
2021-09-27T09:15:44Z Ran up the south wall of bathroom, no pics yet. A busy weekend. Bit of rain about too. Mucking around in steel is very different to timber studs and noggings.
2021-09-27T18:40:41Z  new theory
2021-09-28T09:08:47Z Wow eldersnake chews through 500GB per month downloading netflix movies and stuff. Nice set up, makes my allowance of 30GB per year seem minuscule. Good technical blog.
Our own battery bank is running OK, but using Smart Solar would be better than Blue Solar, MPPT technology, as my cells overcharge every day, costing me 4 litres of demineralized water each week.
2021-09-29T18:29:12Z Anybody getting sick and tired of this stupid COV19 thing? I feel for NSW and VIC, and the jabbinations some are coerced to do.
2021-10-02T21:39:33Z  Bath wall going up
2021-10-02T21:40:10Z  details of steel noggins, no using steel studs design
2021-10-02T21:40:46Z  close up of floor joists and steel noggins
2021-10-02T21:41:21Z  details of steel noggin in place with metal screw
2021-10-02T21:41:43Z windows arrived today, will install one today
2021-10-03T19:36:14Z Yes a single screw, if you look closely the noggin sides are bashed around the steel post so cannot rotate. Makes a very strong joint, 1mm steel is bent around the post, and actually I use liquid nails to add more strength to joint, not welding.
2021-10-03T19:38:36Z Not an outside bath of sorts, our only bathroom, the cladding in roofing sheets looks rustic I know, but we will paint them, Colourbond is expensive, and we wanted the house to retain its 150 yr old look. The bathroom is tiny, 2m by 2m.
The kitchen nearby will be 4m by 6m, quite large.
2021-10-03T19:46:50Z  Took a while to put this window in place, hard drilling screws into 4mm steel posts.
2021-10-03T19:47:32Z  View of new bathroom from the inside of the bathroom.
2021-10-04T09:18:03Z  Internal wall, red arrows show kitchen features, powerpoint, and overhead cupboard reinforcing behind wall.
2021-10-04T09:18:38Z  View of internal wall further along
2021-10-04T09:19:18Z  View inside bathroom looking out
2021-10-05T17:51:14Z @lyse @ (#) I hear you Lyse, but it's such a pain drilling 3mm holes into the 4mm steel posts each time, my arms are exhausted from wrapping the post and pushing hard on the drill tip. And you have to be careful you don't over screw the screw head may shear off, as the thread is much stronger in grip than the screw head. So the screw is extremely tight in that 4mm hole.
2021-10-05T17:51:59Z My 24volt water pump arrived today, so can install the pumping of hot water soon.
2021-10-06T09:14:55Z @lyse (#) The 18V drill is really very good, it's the cheap drill bits that let you down, you get about 24 drillings before you have to purchase another brand new drill bit. Thanks for your interest in this style of construction, it's not your normal stud building. Posts concreted right into the ground makes a strong building. As does the floor joist span, it's just 1 metre. You can't get hardwood 100x50 F11 anymore, I use pine 70x35 F5 instead.
2021-10-07T09:18:42Z @lyse (#) Yeah for Australian timber spans, 70x35 F5 or F6, is just 1.2m , so thanks for your interest. Seems like steel construction is the cheapest these days.
2021-10-08T20:11:20Z Nice comments Kate.
2021-10-08T20:12:43Z Wife is driving the old broken down Getz to a mechanic who will hopefully get it running!! In a car trailer with her son, off to Alpha.
2021-10-09T20:06:06Z https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09maaUaRT4M
Watch this video, Australia is beginning to become a different society of madness.
2021-10-09T20:07:35Z 
We must build parallel structures.... the unvaccinated society must show the freedom...
2021-10-09T20:08:22Z 
Get rid of social media and the flood of negative emotions
2021-10-09T20:09:26Z 
Show the people a different way of living with freedom from technology
2021-10-10T22:11:48Z  Kitchen window goes in
2021-10-10T22:12:19Z  View from inside our new kitchen
2021-10-10T22:13:37Z You can see plastic black flashing around windows, the lining is yet to be done and the flooring
2021-10-11T09:47:18Z  power room
2021-10-11T09:50:44Z 
2021-10-11T19:00:40Z (#k4jgizq) Lyse, correct, bath and laundry on left, kitchen on the right, facing east.
2021-10-12T08:41:46Z (#k4jgizq) Lyse, yes, the old kitchen facing south, cold and dark with sloping floor and tired, is to be rebuilt, facing East with heaps of windows, new flooring and insulation in the ceiling and walls.
2021-10-13T08:38:40Z Lyse, you're right there. I like to make my wife's life as happy as I can, what husbands do.
2021-10-14T08:31:48Z (#3miihxq) Indeed :)
2021-10-14T18:03:19Z Ergon Energy informed us they wish to replace our energy meter with a radiation emitting one, so they don't have the hassle of reading our meter on foot. I just told them to disconnect us from the grid instead. We can't stand the radiation and ill-health it causes. Now Dululu home will be soon off grid permanently.
2021-10-14T19:28:24Z 
2021-10-18T09:11:37Z  Big wall window goes up for the new kitchen
2021-10-18T09:12:15Z  Flooring also partly done, cyrus pine flooring, smell great.
2021-10-18T09:13:06Z  Bathroom flooring nearing completion, the walls will be lined soon, after plumbing is put in.
2021-10-19T08:18:41Z Yes Lyse and Eldersnake, the flooring is a hard product to work with, very brittle and easily split. The timber has a nice perfume smell, cyprus, related to the red cedar timber. It is not eaten by termites, and looks great when oiled. Varnish is not necessary. I use a special floor clamp to push gaps together, and warped boards. Usually the boards are straight, and have grooves end to end as well on the side.
You nail them closer than normal flooring at 350mm apart for joists. Rather than 450mm for other flooring.
2021-10-19T08:33:17Z  The floor clamp shown in red arrow in real practice clamping the floor, and the detail sketch on the right.
2021-10-19T08:34:04Z Welded up two of these, very useful for clamping floor boards together.
2021-10-19T18:22:30Z (#2q6b5jq) I am glad your a fan of home made inventions. I will give you a close up next time.
This tool is useful for panel flooring, but not for tongue and groove floor boards, each one is nailed as you go, and you need enormous forces when squeezing the next board unto the last one. My bolt and screw device is 20mm nut welded onto the plate, for instance.
2021-10-20T19:21:13Z  pictographs are interesting
2021-10-22T22:01:04Z we got a few spits at Emerald
2021-10-22T22:01:26Z  The tool Lyse wanted to see
2021-10-22T22:02:43Z  The bolt and nut came from Ergon Energy, the M20 bolt and nut for dealing with overhead wires. The device works nicely tightening floor boards.
2021-10-22T22:03:43Z I will do more flooring tomorrow and finish the bathroom floor.
2021-10-24T07:35:53Z  Floor so far, window in.
2021-10-24T07:36:24Z  View of wall from kitchen side
2021-10-24T07:37:27Z  View of wall from bath side. Slow fixing fibro to metal. Pre-drill, countersink and than screw.
2021-10-24T19:36:15Z I am hoping the solar hot water test will go OK today. Yesterday we got a leak.
2021-10-24T22:34:40Z  Water pumping for first time. No leaks this time.
2021-10-24T22:35:12Z  Plumbing not quite completed
2021-10-24T22:36:18Z  Overview of system. Tiny leak from the first compression fitting olive, needs tightening more. Otherwise test is OK. Will test for hot water next week.
2021-10-25T00:45:02Z  The cement and sand, really stiff mix, and plugging walls cavities, for vermin proofing. Push hard, to ensure cement enters gaps and when set helps hold the cement together in the wall.
2021-10-25T00:45:48Z  Timber under-supporting for towel rails
2021-10-25T00:47:00Z (#gbcwfwa) just a loose olive, tightened the nut a bit more and all is well. Hot water all ready in just a few hours of sunshine.
2021-10-25T09:14:59Z Massive storm just an hour ago, 40mm in just 15minutes, hurricance force winds. Kitchen is saturated, as we do not have glass window, it got removed for the new bathroom.
2021-10-25T09:25:36Z  A compression fitting, showing copper pipe, nut and olive, usually made of plastic, which when squeezed seals the pipe against a angled bevel, inside the fitting. One must not over tighten or under tighten.
2021-10-25T09:26:32Z Lyse, yes the timber supports a vertically placed towel rack, three of them 1200 wide and three up the wall.
2021-10-25T09:30:18Z  The completed floor in the kitchen oiled with linseed, and sparkling.
2021-10-25T09:31:06Z  Other side of kitchen, showing the bathroom wall.
2021-10-25T09:32:10Z  Bathroom floor done and oiled, with most walls also lined. Ready for shower/bath plumbing. And the vanity plumbing. The room is tiny, 1.8m by 1.8 m!
2021-10-28T18:55:41Z  virus image of graphene oxide
2021-10-28T18:56:34Z  nanobots made from graphene oxide in the vaccines some of us ignorantly take
2021-10-28T19:00:30Z [Dr Young Research into COV19 vaccines](https://www.drrobertyoung.com/post/transmission-electron-microscopy-reveals-graphene-oxide-in-cov-19-vaccines
)
This is a comprehensive link . Research done by Dr Robert Young.
2021-10-29T19:45:22Z (#jnluiga) Yes there are kind of clever things science can do to graphene oxide shapes and make them into spirals that move, and also as you see things like a game we used to play in the 1980's. What is there purpose? We can only speculate.
2021-10-30T19:51:59Z https://youtu.be/DBZYEoDbj6g Video on Australia losing it's rights to make free speech.
Well some words people write can be offensive, especially if targeted at individuals, we call this bullying, or abusing that individual, the video does not mention this kind of writing. But other writing that condemns the systems people administer should not be curtailed, surely we have the freedom to write whatever we like. Take COV19 for instance and the government administration of this stupidity. Surely we have the right to take the government to court and sue them?
2021-10-31T10:10:34Z (#hkazhxa) @ nice Kate
2021-10-31T10:11:34Z  Walls done, bath bedded in with cement, surrounds done, plumbing hot water done,
2021-10-31T10:12:21Z A few leaks in spindle, 24V pump pumps too hard, hot water is unreal. 5Amp fuse blows too often, so I need 10Amp fuse.
2021-10-31T10:14:23Z Hot water expansion valve problem, possibly from blown fuse, lack of water in system. Now I just need to hook up cold water, and our new bath is nearly done. Just door, pantry and ceiling still to do. Plus paint, railings and fix it details.
2021-10-31T10:15:21Z Looks like yarn upgrade doesn't size the images very well, my 10KB image looks bad.,
2021-11-02T08:45:26Z Very ellegent day indeed.
2021-11-02T18:05:02Z (#bxiqeta) SO you didn't take time off to watch the horse race that stops the Australian nation? She won easily, and that's rare for a female horse.
2021-11-03T08:09:22Z Arrh, than you have missed on seeing an very ellegant day haven't you LOL?
2021-11-09T08:23:47Z  Theories
2021-11-09T18:46:32Z Update on bath room. Last Sunday a small explosion and huge burst of water on roof. An olive disconnected and blew off. Lucky only the pipe fitting came off. The expansion valve didn't work. So I had to repair the squashed olive to make it fit like a new one does. Once you squash an olive you cannot unsquash an olive. Well you can, especially if made of copper.
2021-11-09T18:48:20Z So I repaired the pipe connection, made a new copper expansion pipeline with a new expansion valve that works this time, and wife has tested the system OK for 3 days now. Looks like our bath is OK. Painted the fibro with watering stuff, $93 per litre, expensive rubber paint. That blue stuff the Block on TV uses.
2021-11-09T18:49:05Z Now I am demolishing the laundry and old bathroom, to make way for kitchen expansion, and new flooring.
2021-11-09T19:35:04Z  theory
2021-11-14T20:41:25Z  The old bathroom is removed, the floor space is cleaned of stumps, the three steel bearers are ready for concreting into the ground, to enlarge kitchen floor area. Some kitchen walls going up.
2021-11-15T08:49:29Z Arrh Lyse what exploded on me, the olive let go, rupturing the copper pipe fitting, due to the expansion valve not working, so something had to give as the hot water when it gets hot has to expand. In a closed system there is no where for expansion to go, if the expansion valve fails to open.
2021-11-15T09:01:24Z Yes the kitchen space is huge, will be a kitchen of around 4m by 6m , includes the dinning room, not bad considering COV19 restrictions and part time work. Cheers.
2021-11-20T19:41:27Z Love the Moreton Bay Fig tree Xmas tree Kate. Nice
Yesterday afternoon Scruffy nabbed a huge four foot Eastern Brown Snake near my new kitchen and the demolition mess, that must be removed now by me. Bother.
The Yarn.social new look and feel is great. Love the pictures of the squirrels and woodpeckers.
2021-11-20T19:42:54Z https://youtu.be/cFN6-D5RiRQ
2.4 min video on the Great Narrative.
World Economic Forum, the Great Reset, playing for the world.
Climate change issues.
Watch this short video on the Great Narrative, wee people are dictated by the elite.
2021-11-21T19:32:44Z  Inside the power room, as it is for now, still running OK, but the three blue boxes need to be thrown out and replaced with a single 100 Amp blue box, rather than three 30 Amp blue boxes, that over charge my batteries, removing water.
2021-11-21T19:34:03Z  Inside the bathroom, shower curtain and the blue water proofing stuff, expensive, $100 covers just 2m of wall area.
2021-11-21T19:36:38Z  Found whats wrong with my bath water expansion valve. Not the expansion valve at all, ie PTR (pressure Temperature Release Valve). My brand new Chinese water pump lasted just 2 weeks. The pressure valve died, see red arrow. And my solution was to fix a Gunfoss older huge pressure valve, see large box on right.
2021-11-21T19:39:34Z Like swapping a $5 part for a $200 dollar part, the larger pressure switch is made in Italy, how about that. So much for Chinese junk. In fact I have come to the conclusion everything made in China is junk, no offense to the Chinese people. The standard of their technology sucks. I now expect the pressure switch to last forever. It is already 20 yrs old.
2021-11-21T19:42:49Z  Underneath, the 40mm plumbing. I never glue them together. Not necessary, They do not ever leak, and you can pull them apart if you want to, to clean blockages, etc, and make extensions, etc. This is a true off-grid living principle. Keep things simple.
2021-11-21T19:43:59Z  Showing the plastic window, temporary to keep rain out of the new kitchen floor, another large window goes here.
2021-11-21T19:45:32Z  View of power room on the right, away from the power is the water aspects, the main 240 volt water pump, and the 24 volt water pump, the carpet gets wet and stinky. Will tile the floor room one day.
2021-11-21T19:46:41Z  The big snake took off, hence I had to clean up the yard, like so. This is where he was. Good old Scruffy the snake dog.
2021-11-21T19:47:47Z  The new kitchen is getting lined with fibro sheeting. Notice the one power point, for off-grid living, in corner near ladder.
2021-11-21T19:49:00Z  The steel for the bearers, to be welded to posts and concreted in.
2021-11-21T19:49:38Z Some of my jobs, I did yesterday.
2021-11-29T00:46:29Z  The view of completed bearers for the kitchen,
2021-11-29T00:47:06Z  red arrow shows bath door curtain.
2021-11-29T00:47:27Z 
2021-11-29T00:48:11Z Picture comes with local bantams too LOL, red circle, in our new kitchen space.
2021-11-29T18:12:17Z 
2021-11-29T18:12:40Z 
2021-12-05T22:33:50Z  The bearers and floor going down, 3 metres done, but I ran out of nails. bother
2021-12-06T06:03:50Z  Both big windows in,and flooring done to the second window.
2021-12-06T06:04:38Z  view of nice shiny floor - cyprus T & G floor
2021-12-06T06:05:30Z  Very from outside, temporary plastic sheeting to keep out rain, and water pipe is also temporary.
2021-12-09T18:42:51Z 
2021-12-17T19:56:52Z  The kitchen floor is now completed, view into kitchen, wife has place things on floor already
2021-12-17T19:57:39Z  View down into new laundry area, at end of bathroom, walls still need to go up, but we are making progress.
2021-12-18T19:32:23Z (#okuysiq) Yeah, not blistered hands like you ripping paper off a wall and ceiling, I got a sore arm banging in over 400 nails with precision. But hey the floor looks lovely, smells nice (cyprus). As for the walls, yes I am working on that today.
2021-12-19T09:19:54Z  Finished lining the wall, placed sink in with drain and hot and cold water, and wife has moved into the new kitchen, despite a few touches are required, like doing the ceiling, plastering, exterior flashing etc.
2021-12-19T09:20:48Z Also need to manufacture some doors, place new top on bench, and add stove and fridge, but we are getting there.
2021-12-25T19:30:42Z Merry Christmas to you all from off_grid_living. We got a wet Christmas Day, 20mm rain with storm, lightning etc, more on the way. The wife loves her new kitchen, despite it being unfinished, I will have to work around the pots and pans. LOL.
2021-12-26T19:41:19Z Your daughter made a robot with her new Machano set , and it looks great.
Your husband is busy it seems as usual, with pitching his pitch deck. LOL
Imagine all those sailing boats running into that terrible rough sea today?
Lucky we do not have TV ability, so we can only imagine.
2021-12-26T19:42:53Z Can't see we got a flood, but we did fix up the laundry wall, so Lyse can see progress in the walls and the rain-proofing is coming along.
2021-12-27T03:29:13Z  The laundry wall finished, partly lined, plumbing all done, washing taps done, power point done, and basin drainage pipe done.
2021-12-27T03:36:15Z Outside of laundry wall, sheet walls in place.
2021-12-27T03:36:58Z  Red arrows show drain, washing taps, and powerpoints in place
2021-12-27T03:37:44Z  Inside wall details, red arrows show conduit pipes for power and drainage pipe.
2021-12-27T03:39:02Z The metal sheeting to be placed over this wall, between both rooms
2021-12-27T19:48:30Z Waste water goes into the septic? Are you kidding? What as waste, our grey water goes into the mulberry tree and it loves it. Our black water goes into the septic.
As for the size of the laundry, yes it is small, 2m by 2m, but the added door entry and arch makes is look big, yes. Wife loves the flat wooden floor best.
2021-12-28T19:16:36Z  mediums
2021-12-29T17:51:02Z Lyse" **Ah, I was not aware of such a distinction between gray and black. In the town everything just goes to the water treatment plant**"
Yes, we have two waters at our new kitchen sink, on is bore water, another fresh rain water and a proposed third tap will be distilled water. Add that to grey water and black water, makes five kinds of water in our house.
2021-12-29T17:52:10Z I notice the lack of font colours is missing from Yarn? bother?
2021-12-31T23:17:52Z 
2021-12-31T23:18:15Z 
2021-12-31T23:18:51Z  Our RV ready for a drive among the flowers in our garden.
2021-12-31T23:20:03Z  Our beehive, only 1 yr old, with 30KG of honey ready by end of January. How good is 2022!
2022-01-03T19:31:23Z 
2022-01-06T18:37:39Z Nice pic Kate:)
2022-01-06T18:38:05Z  Wall finished
2022-01-06T18:38:22Z  other view
2022-01-06T18:38:52Z  front door made of glass
2022-01-06T18:39:13Z  inside view
2022-01-06T18:40:00Z  still needs lining a bit and going round to the other room, a gap or 25mm between them, see red arrow
2022-01-07T20:14:58Z  suffix claim
2022-01-07T20:16:12Z LOL yes Lyse, the air venting, roof flashing has not been done yet. Got the kitchen wet when we have a windy 8mm rain.
2022-01-07T20:16:42Z Yes James, I need a programmer with my ancient Hebrew? some help?
2022-01-14T21:07:57Z (#zstasaa) I would worry about pirates when sailing the seven seas...
2022-01-14T21:09:08Z  Finished the lining of laundry
2022-01-14T21:10:35Z  Also along the door so far...two dogs look on, "what is it?
"dunno"
"looks like a flying white sheet?"
2022-01-14T21:11:16Z Why is the image made to fill the entire space, when is only 20KB in size?
2022-01-14T21:11:54Z I notice I have to use upload media these days?
2022-01-15T19:09:17Z Arrh much better images, look normal now. Thanks Son.
2022-01-15T19:11:26Z (#zstasaa) I have heard the pirates off the coast of India are the ones to watch out for.
2022-01-15T21:27:37Z  I heard fastidious liking honey. Here is our own honey on the kitchen table, about 3KG jars of it. Way too much for us, and this is just one year of bees from our own honey bees.
2022-01-16T19:12:41Z (#by4rzwq) Ok yeah yummy isn't the right word, healthy is what it is, nothing processed about it. We have 11 such jars from our one hive of bees. Notice we also play upwords in our spare time, usually at meal times.
2022-01-16T19:14:10Z The massive sealing on top of each jar is to keep out the ants, and smell of sugar and to make the honey so stored last many years, I believe up to 10 years without going candy.
2022-01-22T18:58:18Z (#ccugtva) Yes it's fun growing your own food, soil in pots is plenty enough.
2022-01-22T18:59:58Z  Outside view of a special skinny door between two buildings, traps wind and funnels it into the kitchen as a lovely breeze. Part of the our pantry addition too,.
2022-01-22T19:01:44Z  Inside this space looking at pantry space, about 1.5 m by 0.7m by 2.0m high. I priced one made in metal 800 wide with shelves, cost me $800, so gives me an idea of what I can spend on building this pantry.
2022-01-22T19:02:42Z  The other side of pantry, looking out through the little door (620mm) a breeze way opening.
2022-01-22T20:40:43Z  br problem
2022-01-23T20:40:46Z (#xzrfmqq) Once a king captured by another king, was offered freedom if he could fit through a tiny door, the king gave the prisoner king meals every day, and the prisoner never managed to lose weight. The door is going to be used as a cat walk outside, but is mostly designed to open breezes trapped in the outside walls. It works a treat.
2022-01-27T19:40:18Z  My humble attempt to translate Danish
2022-01-27T19:40:47Z dag seems to be day and og seems to be and?
2022-01-28T20:21:00Z (#xzrfmqq) I am glad you guys are having fun with word pictures.
2022-02-01T19:27:18Z  chinese
2022-02-02T21:28:08Z 
Carl and me on the last day of my working.
Due to COVID restrictions, I have to stop working now. They require you to be fully vaccinated with 3 jabs and to be weekly tested for COVID. I have refused all this, so I have stopped working as a Gardner. What a sad day for me. My friend Carl works as the head Gardner from now on.
2022-02-06T20:15:43Z (#hwlfjpq) I don't get the cartoon?
2022-02-06T20:17:17Z  Mowed our Dululu house, big job Joshua did all the whipper snipping. And travel back to Alpha, and installed our new kitchen plate cupboard.
2022-02-06T20:17:51Z Still got flashing and ceilings to do.
2022-02-09T20:40:33Z 
I quote"
"Every day the canny satan aspires to grab my faith, I hold on to my Encourager, and chase the satan away. I stand here alone in my faith; the whole world is against me. I give up all the earthly honor for the sake of the Messiah my mate."
How interesting that a strict Jew sees a different view of Satan. Was treated as a dead man by the Jews for his new faith in Jesus.
2022-02-13T08:40:31Z  Flashing done, no more air vents this side. LOL
2022-02-13T08:41:20Z  Flashing view on outside, the flashing was 6.0m long and man handle by me only. Quite a feat.
2022-02-14T08:39:31Z Yes you can Lyse, call it a success. Carried it up on a ladder using a 5m light timber to support it, as it was too fragile to support itself.
2022-02-14T08:40:18Z  Interior flashing in the kitchen.
2022-02-14T08:41:38Z Red arrow shows a cool way to place sisilation under a roof, IF you didn't do it the normal way, on top of rafters before you screw roofing down. Place it in strips underneath instead and use poly pipe to hold it up there.
2022-02-14T08:43:28Z  View outside of the kitchen end flashing. The 6m long folded flashing looks nice and neat (red arrow) the corrugated iron flash fits under (other red arrow).
The narrow breeze door (red arrow) shown against the wall.
2022-02-14T08:45:34Z  Corrugated flashing to finish off gutter end of kitchen, hot water system up top.
All flashing is done, so no more rain can get into kitchen. Except the wall running through the house, is a 50mm gap, will work on this tomorrow.
2022-02-15T21:20:45Z  Running on a stainless steel cable is a patch lead with information from our batteries using a Victron Shunt device.
2022-02-15T21:22:43Z  Here is the device, called a BMV 712, but the APP on your phone is better. It tells you the State of Charge of your battery, but only if you set them up every fortnight as fully charged. The device tells you than, but drifts off accuracy every 2 weeks, hence you have to play with parameters, to get it right.
2022-02-15T21:24:17Z SO far I have learned we get 6,000 watts of our panels, Our batteries hold I assume 12,000 watts. so the charger folds back the charging, so it takes long than one day to fully charge them. I am still learning as I go.
2022-02-15T21:39:14Z  The copper plate is cut into two, to allow shunt to measure current flow into -ve end of battery.
2022-02-15T21:40:00Z  Shunt allows a measured flow to the meter, the BMV 712 in the house.
2022-02-15T21:41:28Z  One second day of charging, the boxes show bulk, while the day before they showed absorb. Its cloudy, and I am getting my batteries to read 100% fully charged so the BMV 712 can take over for two weeks.
2022-02-15T21:42:12Z  The readings on my ammeters are very informative, I have 12 such meters on all my wires.
2022-02-16T00:12:18Z It's 10 am and my battery is fully charged. All three blue boxes say float, and no current enters the batteries.
The SOC is now 100%
I will now add some loads and use the BMV 712 to monitor my battery.,
2022-02-16T00:37:44Z I tried the fridge and freezer loads and a fan, totalling 10 amps.
The float responded by making negative 6 amps. Why doesn't the float allow 10 amps instead of 4 amps, causing 6 amps to drain the battery?
Than I tried watering. Total amp consumed is 30 amps. Float says negative 10 amps.
Why does the float not top up the battery, instead 20 amps is going in, but 10 amps is draining the battery?
2022-02-16T00:40:03Z With all three MPPT on float, why do I need to synchronize them? More importantly why doesn't the float increase when the load increases during the day loads?
BMV says 99% SOC and -9 amps, meaning I am losing my SOC and the float is not putting the 9 amps back.
2022-02-21T19:01:58Z  Ancient Hebrew
2022-02-22T08:59:36Z  Ran the metal wall between the old kitchen area and the new kitchen area, with metal bracings.
2022-02-22T09:01:12Z  Nearly finished this storage pantry, 2040 by 1240 by 600 deep shelving. Five shelves to fit into steel supports. Add 620 mm doors and we are done.
2022-02-22T19:36:06Z Yes Lyse the cupboard will hold a lot of jars and cans. Its backing is all in steel, so mice proof and cockroach proof. The 620 mm doors will complete the vermin proofing.
2022-02-23T09:49:13Z  The pantry is complete, and it didn't take long for the wife to fill this enormous space with food, LOL.
2022-02-23T10:16:41Z 
2022-02-23T20:10:51Z 
2022-02-24T08:34:28Z Basement, not yet Lyse, hoping one day, to build a cellar/basement out of hebal blocks and air con the building down to 10% all year round.
2022-02-24T19:22:03Z (#nqw4shq) You reckon? How big is your pantry cupboard? I can see 2 dozen baked bean cans for instance, my favorite canned food, would keep me going for 2 weeks LOL
2022-02-24T19:24:31Z Off to purchase our pantry doors, pick up our new MPPT boxes, and get 10 drums for pots in my herb garden, The drums are the old 44 gallon, and allow the garden to be waist height, so the herbs do there thing without making a mess, and easy to maintain, plus you place logs etc in the drum to release nutrients slowly.
2022-02-25T19:49:16Z (#4565fmq) Yes James is correct, you cut into the top a square hole, allow the rim for a nice edge to remain, fill the drum with logs vertically and fill with soil, as the log rot away they add long term nutrients and microbial life to the garden. A garden at waist height means no weeds, herbs have defined space, and you fit more in in a metre square of space. Pipes enter from under and water it for you. So a smaller square is cut from below too.
2022-02-25T19:52:57Z (#4565fmq) @ Easy to carry 10 drums, on their sides, two and 1 on top is three, taking 1.2 metres, another 3 takes 2.4 metres and the final 3 takes 3.6 metres, my trailer is 4 metres long and 1.95 metres wide, with a steel front another 1.2 metres long. It has a lazy axle as well as another axle, 4 wheels in total. I carry steel beams about 6m long in it, through a door in the front.
2022-02-26T02:43:56Z  Quite an interest in carrying now 12 drums in a trailer. From a distance.
2022-02-26T02:44:34Z  Close up. Yep you can easily carry 12 drums in our trailer.
2022-02-26T07:38:27Z What do you mean Lyse the tow hitch is not mount high enough? Our car is a Great Wall James, we have owned for some time now.
2022-02-27T20:12:22Z  Installed the three bifold doors for the pantry, they lock and work a treat, no gaps for cockies or mice.
2022-02-27T20:15:31Z  Yesterday was the first day of an upgrade to our system with Smart MPPT's, and I received FLOAT by 11 am. Amazing for the first time, the cells were quiet, no overcharging.
2022-02-27T20:17:29Z At the moment we have 21 Volt, 70% SOC and drained 100 amps from our batteries.
The voltage is hard to read for SOC, as loading batteries causes them to drop to 20% SOC and under loading them causes them to rise to 70% SOC. So you never really know how much power you have left in practice, only in theory.
2022-02-28T20:09:22Z (#6xmyfha) Hard to do this in Microsoft Paint, square pixels. Nice job. I used to create icons for apps in here, you have just 64 squares for a picture.
2022-02-28T20:12:05Z (#hfjmheq) I would say its the lazy axle, it lifts the trailer when empty and comes on to hold heavy weights when large masses push down on the trailer. Allows you to move the trailer on your own, it essentially has two wheels instead of four. In this picture, the trailer is essentially empty.
2022-02-28T20:12:57Z Yes thanks everyone, the doors look good, hopefully vermin proof.
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2022-03-01T19:28:19Z (#6xmyfha) Your little doggie here "thecanine" is a mere 14 pixels by 13 pixels, that is roughly 4 by 4 of these, about 16 little doggies, yes correct, fitting unto 64 by 64 canvas.
It's a fun challenge isn't it, making little pictures from squares. A TV is made of pixel squares too. To a cat a TV looks boringly stupid.
2022-03-01T19:28:48Z Off to pick up four huge windows today.
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2022-03-07T21:03:01Z How terrible the floods in North NSW, Govt not helping the flooded victims much. We get no rain here. Much be unnatural and very localized.
2022-03-07T21:21:06Z  The new orchard yard/shed I am making.
2022-03-07T21:21:31Z The trees are mostly planted, with weed free rings.
2022-03-07T21:22:17Z  The new fence, metal on bottom and chicken wire on top, hopefully pig and rabbit proof, as well as dog.
2022-03-07T21:22:37Z The fence is over six feet high.
2022-03-07T21:23:11Z  Other view of the fence.
The shed is going to be big, about 40m long.
2022-03-07T21:23:57Z  The east view, with new gate installed/welded. Metal fence on ground ready to go up.
2022-03-07T21:24:28Z  View of the trees and the weed free rings.
2022-03-07T21:25:05Z  The pipes for the corners, 6 m long and very heavy.
2022-03-07T21:26:32Z  I also exterminate meat ant nests, hard to do... dig a hole, fill with water, step into the water to keep ants at bay, and continue digging downwards very deep. Look for air bubbles, as water floods chambers.
2022-03-07T21:28:06Z  When you see ants carrying off pupae young babies, you know you are winning. Takes a while, about 4 days and 4 times of digging to completely remove the next. Red arrow shows ant moving a pupae to a new location.
2022-03-10T06:58:45Z  How to remove meat ants nest over 3 days. Pick a very hot day, over 40 degrees works best, begin at noon. Flood the nest with water and make a dam, digging and holding dirt to keep water in place, running and brushing ants off your legs at same time. After a while stand in the pond, so ant do not get you as much, and continue digging outwards and mostly downwards.
2022-03-10T07:00:59Z When you remove soil and hear bubbling of air you know you have flooded a nursery chamber, keep digging down until bubbles of air stops, about 3 feet deep. Come back next day and repeat. You are winning the battle if you see ants removing baby pupa and the numbers dwindle from thousands to a few dozen.
2022-03-10T07:01:33Z Red arrow show the hose flooding the pond.
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2022-03-10T21:34:47Z Yes Lyse, the Arabs know a thing or two about dealing with hot weather.
If you had 8 meat ant nests within 30m of your house and they bite you everytime you walk outside, you might declare war on them. There are still dozens of nests further afield. I just want to walk around without getting bitten all the time.
2022-03-12T20:02:45Z (#7wdfdva) I say, weird. Not much different to the Australian Federal Police hitting the Canberra demonstration crowd for first time in our history, a peaceful gathering of over 10,000 people with 5G Crowd dispersal machine, burning the crap inside of dozens. They complained of headaches, erupted blood vessels, and bleeding to the face, lack of breath, etc.
2022-03-12T20:04:40Z (#642vwkq) Yes, today I found another 6 more nests, smaller ones, I didn't see in the grass. Yes its a war over in our place.
2022-03-12T20:50:14Z  Genesis 3:6 LXX and Hebrew and English
2022-03-13T19:34:10Z Looks like TWTXT has a new face over? Where is the mentions?
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Built more solar panels specifically facing due EAST, along with the other 3 strings facing due NORTH,
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What they look like on the ground, on their steel frame, a child's play swing set, LOL.
2022-03-13T19:38:43Z  A close up of the fourth SMART MPPT controller called "Canada" named after the manufacturer of the solar panels.
2022-03-13T19:39:44Z Canada will receive it first electrical use this morning, in just 40 minutes time. Batteries are dead flat yet again, bother.
2022-03-14T20:06:03Z  Update on the Ni-Fe battery technology. It seems after two days flogging my battery capacity increased (blue shaded area)
What is a flogging? Turn off solar panels after battery is fully charged. Turn on medium loads (40 Amps) draining the batteries until the Inverter stops, from 29Volts to 19 Volts.
2022-03-15T19:12:49Z (#f46we4a) Yeah in the Southern world down here the water gurgles down the bath tub in an opposite direction to the water gurgling in the Northern world in the USA. If you face north, East is on your right, but if you face the solar panels from north looking South, than East is on your left.
Is this different in the USA? dunno?
2022-03-18T20:26:02Z Had a long chat about Nina, the pink mouse, almost all pink all over but not quite, and the other students get racoons or a dragon, names unknown. Lil has a friend called Max, and his dog is a pet, name unknown. Phone make funny sounds I reckon and the articulation process makes it hard to decipher what sounds are in each word. But hey it was fun talking to my granddaughter. My Son has developed here with others a nice private chat facility called Salty. All you need is the Salt address of the person you want, a bit like an email only more secure. What a great feature,
2022-03-18T20:27:00Z ...and all inspired by two little girls mucking up with daddies account on his computer. Love the antics of creation.
2022-03-29T21:09:31Z  Upgrade to a new water irrigation pump for the fruit trees. Seems OK
2022-03-29T21:10:22Z  Flows OK
2022-03-29T21:10:57Z  A picture of the new water pump
2022-03-29T21:12:16Z  We now have a multiplus 3000W Inverter for running the bigger loads, like bigger water pumps.
2022-03-30T20:40:26Z (#au3fifa) Not sure what mine is in watts ? On average its about 80 amps times 24 = 1900 Watts.
I do plan to add a fifth string of another 20 to 30 amps facing West.
2022-03-30T20:42:33Z (#gupvwwq) Yesh Lyse it's working OK. Have purchased yet another large sludge pump, rated at 1100W and 200 litres per minute, trying to water all 90 fruit trees at the same time.
2022-03-30T20:44:20Z Had to remove the pumps at base of tank, the one way valve opens immediately when the pump turns off and so we siphon water out, over-watering the fruit trees. So I now have installed a 370W sludge pump, submersible into the tank, not ideal for now, but frogs already in there, so the cover is removed for access.
2022-03-31T20:18:41Z (#gupvwwq) It's funny, nothing flows into the tank as a return, so all the flow is consumed by the 4mm drippers. I suppose if you multiply 100 4mm drippers, you might get 200 litres per minute.
So nothing is returning to the tank.
2022-04-03T20:27:16Z (#5ga53xq) Both videos are nice. I used to music so appreciate the skill. As for archery, James invited to his long bow skills. The girl is very good with such shooting skill.
Lyse your hoe made bow, need to be done again. Impressive.
2022-04-11T10:08:37Z  I modified my faviourite Honda lawnmower, removing the rod to back wheels and steel plates to open the throat to handle mowing grass two feet thick. She took it like a dream with no more clogging up. Now I can mow grass three feet tall in a breeze with NO need to clear out the blockages. This reminds me of my Son. You can't develop anything unless you practice first on real prototypes.
2022-04-11T10:11:52Z On prototype 3 I need split washers to stop the bolts from undoing themselves.
Maybe for prototype 4, I might weld brackets to support the wheels more, but for now not necessary.
Prototype 5, upgrade the catcher with a steel plate for extra protection.
So far prototype 2 is working pretty good so far, as a concept in the designing process.
2022-04-12T07:46:30Z  Thanos, no soap making recently LOL
This is the prototype 3, with split washers. Like I said you cannot roll out a software cloud program unless you build it on a Intranet cloud server all over Australia, and test your ideas safely and without company embarrassment. Like I am doing with my lawnmower. LOL Whoever heard of modifying a Honda to cut 3 feet of grass easily?
2022-04-12T07:47:32Z Ready for the big mowing expedition tomorrow at Dululu.
2022-04-12T20:26:32Z (#nfldldq) The slight blue tinge, if this is correct, is a coating on fancy lens, especially camera, to remove the differences in red and blue light as both refract differently to focus sharp images. So this costing makes the image more sharp in focus.
2022-04-12T20:30:14Z (#y6x5vxq) The trick was to remove the rod to both back wheels and the metal plate, so there is no obstruction to the throat, where the cut grass is pushed into. The little wings on your blades cause this affect, so you need the wings just right, not enough causes no windy pushy, too much of a wing causes a huge pile of dust.
Yes I look forward to pushing into 3 feet of grass without a hitch. No clogging the throat.
2022-04-12T20:32:45Z (#y6x5vxq) @ If you haven't read my experiences in electrical off grid, I have a huge pile of memories and learnings written down.
Here http://spiritualsprings.org/ss-1603.htm
Some 23 pages on building your own power house and going electrically off grid.
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2022-04-13T09:07:32Z (#y6x5vxq) Interesting link you provided, my friend. Try comparing your reading to http://spiritualsprings.org/ss-1220.htm
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2022-04-13T09:08:52Z  Egyptian style, moving a very heavy cast iron bath tub into the bathroom. The tub weighs around 300Kg. Ramp, pulley and lever.
2022-04-13T09:09:20Z  Tight fit past front door
2022-04-13T09:10:11Z  Notice the lever technique to adjust and add metal supports for floor of each claw foot.
2022-04-13T09:10:55Z  Final finished view of the claw foot bath tub in the bathroom.
2022-04-13T09:14:11Z  The tub in the bathroom, hooked up and ready to use.
2022-04-14T19:51:38Z (#vgsagja) Actually this is a lighter version of a cast iron tub. I remember lifting my dad's old cast iron one out, took 7 full grow men to carry it out the house. I can easily lift this one from one end, one person couldn't do that with the older ones. The weight is a good thing, it stores the heat so your hot water in the tub stays hot for a very long time, unless modern cheap plastic tubs.
2022-04-17T21:42:11Z (#nv7jn7q) Yeah thanks for the mention, if my Son James didn't buy my a phone, I would have one, I use it as a hot spot for this computer, the phone number died long time ago.
2022-04-19T19:46:48Z (#nv7jn7q) That is a most admirable dream, DON'T just leave your few years of hard work too late, like when your are over 60 years old. I could have enjoyed this more, if I started 15 years ago. But it's hard to find the perfect block of land.
2022-04-19T19:50:36Z  Welding up gates for the orchard yard, which will be in time, a chook yard and vegetable yard, divided into two paddocks 50m by 12 m with a fully enclosed wire roof to keep the wild life off my veggies and fruit trees. Also stops chooks flying away. The metal walls stop rabbits and pigs from entering, the honest one anyway. It's taken a while but the red ants have stopped, after removing over 15 ant nests within 60m of the orchard shed.
2022-04-21T21:45:27Z  We begin with prototype lawnmower III to start the business of mowing really tall grass with a catcher too.
2022-04-21T21:45:59Z  As you can see the grass is over 6 feet high.
2022-04-21T21:47:34Z  And it mowed the grass easily, without clogging and filled the catcher around 60 to 70% full each time. The wheels were held on OK with split washers, and I was very impressed with the mowing for just 30 minutes so far.
2022-04-21T21:49:50Z  James and Kate remember the country house, but for those who haven't had a tour. Built the house myself, all by myself using a metal pole construction, as the termites nearly destroyed the old 1914 house inside. So it was a renovation rebuild. Cost of materials, 150,000 AUD.
2022-04-21T21:50:28Z  Ramp leading up, designed for old people.
2022-04-21T21:51:34Z  Wipe your muddy feet into a special floor wire grille
2022-04-21T21:52:21Z  Enter first the kitchen, with granite bullnose tops.
2022-04-21T21:53:02Z  And ornate archers into the dinning area.
2022-04-21T21:53:50Z  Down long hall ways with high ceiling with breeze ways installed
2022-04-21T21:54:30Z  Into a massive lounge room. This is a 10 by 5 foot slate billiard table.
2022-04-21T21:55:08Z  Other half of the lounge room
2022-04-21T21:56:59Z  Two four metre window walls allow for views to the countryside. I was going to design a 8 metre opening, but could do it cheaply, so a 4 metre opening is all I did with 4 metres of window glass.
2022-04-21T21:58:20Z  The huge 4 m by 8m main bedroom with old fashion four poster bed decor.
2022-04-21T22:00:15Z  The pressed tin ceiling brand new cost 5000 AUD per room, the renovation cost me 500 AUD per room, Phosphate Acid wash, cold Zinc paint and 3 coats of white enamel paint.
2022-04-21T22:01:26Z  Compost toilet and garden shed, the garden shed cost 5000 AUD and the toilet 2400 AUD.
2022-04-21T22:02:14Z  Inside the loo, the ceramic bowl brand if new from Sweden cost 900 AUD, (though I got the bowl second hand from Agnes Waters)
2022-04-21T22:05:37Z  Imagine gardening on a concrete raised bed at waist height, with concrete floor, no weeds, no back breaking tilling the soil, and the building is insect proof, and frost resistant too.
2022-04-21T22:06:38Z  Avacodo and mardarin trees in the other half of the garden shed.
2022-04-21T22:07:30Z  Looking towards the ornate room with grass room, which builds rich soil in the garden shed, no weeds.
2022-04-21T22:08:05Z  Close up of resting quiet room
2022-04-21T22:09:01Z  Plenty of verandah decks to rest on, one west and one east.
2022-04-21T22:13:16Z  And finally the fresh water tank, its huge, 10m in diameter, that's total storage of 160,000 litres of water. You need this as it rains more than 20mm only three times per year on average.
2022-04-21T22:14:43Z You programming experts, have done an awesome job, I lost connection 3 times out here in Dululu and all the links and comments in the text area are not lost during a lost upload. Thanks for a great programme.
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2022-04-24T08:20:15Z (#kurefnq) Terry is downhill about 500m away , old man in his 60's and Ray is my neighbour farmer, his house is 2.5 Kms away. You hear his dogs bark because we are slightly uphill and the sound travels up easy than down. Though it get absorbed along the way. The main road is just 150 m away, but because we are uphill, the noise is minimal. Frost free because of hill.
2022-04-26T01:30:28Z  Interesting video to watch
2022-04-26T08:30:23Z This should link work about the weather geo-engineering being done in Australia.
https://youtu.be/c9HhAO9acwU
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2022-05-02T11:05:16Z  Made a spice rack other day, the slots are burned with a grinder and the timber cut perfectly with a docking saw. Had trouble with boards warping slightly by 3mm so had to clamp them together. Red arrow shows nice joins, and glue.
2022-05-02T11:05:54Z  Wife has 24 jars for spices to go in
2022-05-02T11:08:08Z  Diane lost our Breville Bakers Oven paddle the other day, the one pictured is for a different model bread maker, so I looked at the problem and found some tub, cut it 3/4 lengthwise and welded a plate onto that, to make a hole edge for the shaft. And made a shape for the paddle. This is the first use of it, bread stuck to it.
2022-05-02T11:09:50Z  Showing you the odd shape hole I had to weld, that fits unto the bread maker shaft. My next prototype needs a longer curved paddle, but it worked OK for prototype one. Mine is slightly smaller by 7mm. And less higher by 5mm too, Praise God for welding help, it's extremely difficult to weld a tube at 1mm thick unto plate 2mm thick.
2022-05-03T09:14:17Z (#6suo3hq) Grinder worked well, the slots were only 2mm deep.
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2022-05-05T08:23:37Z  Suppose you want to cur tin sheets lengthwise, an angle grinder cutting blade is too costly, especially if you have over 100 sheets to rip into halves.
So you use a stainless steel braided wire, the braids act like dull knives, place it under the sheet and with a handle you pull the stainless steel cable upwards, cutting the iron sheet.
2022-05-05T08:24:37Z  The sheets leave little jagged edges, but if is is buried under the soil it's not a problem.
2022-05-05T08:25:37Z  The sheets are used to make mulch barriers for the trees, create mulch and habitat for worms, etc.
2022-05-05T08:26:19Z  Close up, notice jagged edges are below ground level
2022-05-05T08:27:41Z  Each tree will get a mulch layer to keep weeds out. The chooks will end up in this yard and remove weeds, turn over mulch and fertilizer the trees too.
2022-05-05T08:29:27Z  The steel poles for the chicken wire roof, and the two yards for the chooks, one yard is swapped over every 6 months, while you plant veggies in the pens between the trees. It's called permaculture by some, using nature to sustain itself.
2022-05-06T08:46:33Z (#c3ednia) Yes homemade rope saw made from stainless steel wire and cost me nothing. In total I have cut lengthwise over a hundred sheets of roofing iron, without a cost to myself.
2022-05-08T08:16:30Z https://www.facebook.com/robert.deutsch.9081/videos/585502449316528/?sfnsn=mo
Click on the link to hear Robert Deutsch latest video on weather for Qld and NSW. It's a big flood on the way for some parts. The rain is geo-engineered.
2022-05-08T20:26:31Z https://www.facebook.com/robert.deutsch.9081/videos/732223027951700/
This video predicts another cyclone feeding into the water stream is blocked by EMF waves around townville, and thus causes a feeding of moisture down the middle of QLD. The result is massive flooding on the way. Man Made geo-engineering.
2022-05-08T20:27:41Z https://www.facebook.com/groups/633853569966250/permalink/5491886577496234/?sfnsn=mo&ref=share
Sadly the Dan Man is passing VIctorian state law that nobody can grow food in their own backyard gardens.... talk about tyranny...
2022-05-08T20:31:31Z (#m5eba7q) I am glad to see some of us reading and taking note. Robert has been a weather man for 10 years, so he knows a few things. Also I did some research work for a company at Paradise Dam some years back, and I can tell you about seeing our own geo-engineering of the local weather on a mere 2400 Watts of power and high electrical voltage, 50,000V. So folks geo-engineering weather is real and it is happening now.
2022-05-08T20:33:49Z  So the Victorian Government is thinking to ban our rights to grow our own backyard food?
2022-05-09T21:02:27Z https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1006407033414126&id=100062875854786
So we might say the geo-engineering of the weather on such a large scale is false? Hmm?
Robert Deutsch notes the mocking. Watch the video. It's going to start raining soon here at Emerald Qld, already heavy at Ingham Qld, next Mackay QLD, well we will have to wait and see, though it's easy to switch off the EMF field.
2022-05-09T21:14:43Z (#ruykgqa) https://hansard.parliament.vic.gov.au/search/?LDMS=Y&IW_DATABASE=*&IW_FIELD_ADVANCE_PHRASE=be+now+read+a+second+time&IW_FIELD_IN_SpeechTitle=Agriculture+Legislation+Amendment+Bill+2022&IW_FIELD_IN_HOUSENAME=ASSEMBLY&IW_FIELD_IN_ACTIVITYTYPE=Second+reading&IW_FIELD_IN_SittingYear=2022&IW_FIELD_IN_SittingMonth=April&IW_FIELD_IN_SittingDay=6
Amendments to the Plant Biosecurity Act 2010
The Bill provides additional support to inspectors when interpreting and applying the requirements of the Plant Biosecurity Act 2010 to prevent the entry and spread of plant pests and diseases in Victoria.
The Bill amends the definition of a plant health declaration to provide a clear power to authorise a person to issue a declaration. It clarifies circumstances in which an Importation Order can be made to prevent entry of pests and diseases into Victoria; and the notification of relevant persons, and taking of samples, when plants are seized or detained. It also provides new offences for inappropriate use of plant health ...
2022-05-09T21:17:20Z In effect, the new Bill under the guise of the Biosecurity Act has power to inspect properties
to prevent entry of pests and diseases into Victoria;
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provides new offences for inappropriate use of plant health documents, and the sale of diseased plants, both of which complement existing offence provisions, and will support the use of Infringement Notices for the offences.
In other words making it harder to grow organic food, as it will harbor disease and spoil GMO food crops.
2022-05-10T03:11:48Z TWTtxt server went down about an hour back? Its raining here as Robert Deutsch predicted, hasn't stopped for 2 hours, seems like it will rain all day. bother :(
2022-05-10T03:36:36Z (#7g5g3ca) I see, maybe you need to upgrade to optic fibre
2022-05-10T03:38:51Z Been raining now for 2 hours now, 14mm so far, so its a constant drizzle. The ground is beginning to float like a sea, its not the sort of soil that soaks easily, more or less becomes an ocean of water. Last time we got a flood about 100m wide and 30 to 40cm deep., and lasted for 2 days.
2022-05-10T05:21:17Z https://youtu.be/enk9sU5WLY0
I am planning my retirement years into the research of this man's work.
It's a wonderful video about the science forces that stem from our heavenly Father.
Now that science people are religious, they are not, they do research and make experiments.
This man died in Federal Prison in the USA for doing research. How sad for humanity, we lost so much.
Hopefully my own research will investigate the bio nature of health forces in living things.
2022-05-10T05:30:18Z It's been raining steady now for 5 hours, since 10 am, and we have received 25mm, about 5mm per hour.
The ground already looked wet, running and becoming a sheet of water.
2022-05-10T08:35:06Z Already 2'' on the road, flood is 20m wide and 60m long, across our yard is 2" deep also. Been raining all the time now since 10 am, non stop. Try to take a picture tomorrow in daylight.
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2022-05-10T21:00:04Z (#stlehta) Unusual shot? eclipse maybe?
2022-05-10T21:02:33Z (#wicjamq) What you can't read or watch public videos on the Internet? Send me that link URL thing that download the video to you serve as a file, and we can upload them from your server.
2022-05-10T21:04:26Z Raining stopped last night 12:00am , not a drop since. Clearing out? Since yesterday we got a total of 25 + 33 = 58mm, not bad for us, and this causes flooding or our property.
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2022-05-11T21:02:37Z (#wicjamq) You are right, people fear research into unknown technology.
I love exploring unknown technology, such as free energy and life energy forces.
2022-05-11T21:03:16Z  Too rainy to do anything outside, so tackled doing the ceiling in the bathroom.
2022-05-11T21:05:54Z  Ran out of screws and drills.
These silly chinese drills last 6 drills before being blunt, costing me $1 per hole. Its a waster of money, and drilling into 1mm steel at that, so thin.
2022-05-11T21:08:17Z You can't edit or delete a photo you post, only the last one you post. Bother
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The 12V LED light is bright, so how did I make it work on a 24V DC supply?
Using V=IR, you calculate a 20W resistor in series with the light, the resistor drops the voltage by 12V, and the light gets the other 12V. Easy.
2022-05-12T20:06:48Z (#vctugiq) That is really nice, you have an ability to see in little squares across 2D space.
2022-05-15T09:18:41Z (#gioykcq) Yeah that's a lots of rain too
2022-05-15T20:56:56Z  We now have a bathroom door
2022-05-15T20:58:00Z  All interior lining is done, except for the plastering, cornice and painting, I still have to tile the walls yet, but getting there
2022-05-16T09:11:07Z  Making stud walls, using 6mm rod rather than 4" nails, but the frame is not quite square. So I use a windlass tension-er to pull the diagonals squeezing the frame into a different angle. It worked a treat.
2022-05-16T09:13:31Z  Lining up the stud with a metal stud post, the fibro is out a little because the wooden stud is bowed out 3mm, so using a jig, and beam lever idea, I squeeze on the metal post as well and the wooden stud and push the wooden stud back to make space for the fibro joint.
2022-05-16T09:14:47Z  The new wall in place, with fibro lining, where the fridge goes.
2022-05-16T20:14:57Z (#wzwzqva) True, wish I had more though, I make do with two big and two small ones.
2022-05-17T09:46:01Z  When cutting ceramic tiles (glass + clay) using primitive diamond blade, cut the tiles under a sheet of glass, so no shards of glass get into your eye.
2022-05-17T09:46:39Z  Nearly finished tiling the bathroom shower area.
2022-05-18T21:07:49Z 
2022-05-26T22:58:51Z  My new energy meter arrived. Here I test two metals and wool
2022-05-26T22:59:46Z  Aluminium by itself increased 5 units
2022-05-26T23:00:17Z  Iron increased 20 units
2022-05-26T23:00:44Z  Wool did not cause an increase
2022-05-26T23:05:16Z a
2022-05-26T23:06:40Z  Wool and aluminium increased 6 units
2022-05-26T23:08:14Z  Wool and iron increased 22 units
2022-05-26T23:10:31Z Conclusions so far
1) Organic things are absorbers of orgone energy
2) Metals are reflectors of orgone energy
3) Adding leaves of wool and metal together increase the orgone energy
4) Iron and wool is the best orgone energy accumulator found so far.
2022-05-28T04:11:28Z  Testing raw mushroom for life energy, the zero reading started on 50.0 on 10X sensitivity. The sample reads 60. Or 10 units.
2022-05-28T04:12:39Z  Now we fry the mushroom and test the frying process. The life energy reads 55 or 5 units, that's 50% less than the raw mushrooms.
2022-05-28T04:14:36Z Conclusion to frying foods, a 50% drop in the life energy in the food.
Now this is tested on one food, and one frying item. One has to try this again and again with other foods to ascertain a probability of certainty.
2022-05-29T08:35:10Z (#bireljq) It measures the life force energy that is emitted in living things, some call this Chi Energy, some Zero Point Energy, and Reich calls it Orgone Energy. I call it the presence of our heavenly Father, the energy that pervades living things. This machine picks this up , not affected by electrical, magnetic or radiation fields.
2022-05-29T20:38:20Z (#657l6gq) Hi angel, how does a .php file get attacked, I also write PHP, have a website devoted to PHP and do not know anything about things getting attacked?
2022-05-29T20:39:57Z (#bireljq) Arrh my friend, the life energy only picks up living things, a piece of paper doesn't do anything, I have tried this already. Shalom
2022-06-02T20:37:43Z (#5kfswta) You sure it's a worm and not a snake or something?
2022-06-02T21:37:04Z (#2y6z73q) That was a fun video to watch. I suppose he is saying evolution doesn't exist, because you cannot establish all those inputs, outputs and neurons from the beginning. But I did like the way the brains cope with change, and it seems mutations do help with that change. Hmm? One needs to do a lot of thinking about this...
2022-06-03T07:39:19Z (#2y6z73q) My thinking is this, what essentially is a mutation in the program, a random change to the letter as Hex code, which would cause a logical or sytax error, or a change in the number weights of the neural network firing. Whatever it is, I cannot see mutations having any affect unless its intentionally wired into the programming somehow, and than by definition, it's not evolution. What he has created is a pre determined set of inputs and outputs and neural operators that solved problems (simple ones) but I confess it looked great and preformed well.
2022-06-05T20:25:49Z (#5kfswta) I see
2022-06-05T20:35:04Z My old Lenova Laptop died. The Hardly Normal techo saleperson got upset with me and walked off. I must be a hard customer. So all you techo wizards out there some questions....
(1) Can a Android phone get malware or not, when you go Internet banking, I told him it is near impossible for viruses to harm an Android phone....and it you bothered to make a malware virus it could not do much for the attacker, on a unix based system with secure banking? Am I write, or is my techo salesman right?
(2) Windows 11 S version (simplified version) cannot and will not allow executable file packages to unpack on your C drive? Wow, why bother having a computer like this? All it does is surf the Internet with it's pre installed software.... He said something like it run things slowly if your tied?? I do not run game packages, so I get the speed issue if your a modern geek on gaming...but I use my machine for doing Paint, NotePad and I also run FTP Cute software to upload txt files. I also use a Flash app to run fla video
2022-06-05T20:37:50Z So for (2) continued, Can the cheaper machines do what I want?
This Lenovo machine asked me to install a PIN to identify the administrator, how do I remove this?
Also how do I disable all updates ?
Thanks everyone.
James we also lost you phone number, as my wife phone is a new one too, the old SIM didn't transfer over very well.
2022-06-06T19:30:30Z (#3s2cdqq) @ Thanks bro, Just one query...I thought the unix systems such as Android phones are cannot get a virus, how would you write one when there is no root directory and all the file locations are virtual?
Another query how difficult is it to learn UBantu this is a system that doesn't get viruses? One would save on the software?
2022-06-07T01:56:43Z  Installed the new Jinko Solar panels, these are on right of photo, and 34V 10 Amps. Plan to use these to create a manual charging system for the Ni-Fe batteries.
2022-06-07T01:57:29Z You can also see the shadecloth I placed over the court yard to protect the Paw paw trees
2022-06-07T08:34:05Z (#3s2cdqq) Your'e very helpful, so can I fit Linux Mint on a Flash drive stick, and install it that way?
On another question, my Apacche does not like WIndows 11 naming the root directory as windows-SSD (C)
How do I rename the dictionary as ordinary C:\ drive?
2022-06-07T20:12:54Z (#ytajbra) I plan to use this extra 34V at 80 Amps for rainy or cloudy days, and for running an invertor straight off this system if that is possible? Does anybody know if you can run a 2000W invertor on 34 Volts (24 V system) using around 50 amps?
2022-06-08T08:48:27Z (#ytajbra) Yes hoping the manual charging system will restore my Ni-Fe batteries, I will charge them for 8 hours at 34V and 80 Amps, lots of water bubbling and H2 give off for sure, really kick the life out of them. No controlling of the system, no MPPT. Just plain charging.
2022-06-09T20:09:24Z (#ipyt2xa) @ Yes you should, a great idea
2022-06-09T20:11:11Z Very cold here, 5 degrees yesterday, max of 20, tonight it's 3 degrees in the kitchen, might have to look into having a wood fire stove put in place?
2022-06-17T00:21:50Z  The house has a blackout, so no welder, I will work on solar panels instead
2022-06-17T00:22:20Z  Blanketed out the sunshine on these new panels
2022-06-17T00:22:52Z  Where I am up to, with the new shed
2022-06-17T00:23:13Z You barely see the wire (red circle)
2022-06-17T00:23:58Z  The new weld trolley to reach this wire and wire on wire netting, 5m off ground
2022-06-17T00:24:51Z  The wire and trolley as comparison, still another 2m above trolley
2022-06-17T00:25:39Z  Welded up fencing wire turn table, make it easier to wind out the wire on your own
2022-06-17T08:15:21Z Wired up the Jinko Solar panels to manually charge my batteries.
Here you can see on a late afternoon, I have nearly 4 AMPS coming into the battery system.
Tomorrow will start a manual recharging.
2022-06-19T21:20:52Z On the first trial , no change in battery capacity, I suspect the current was too low, around 60 Amps instead of 80+ Amps.
2022-06-19T21:21:42Z (#o6fh4wa) Yes thank you, hopefully it's going to work today.
2022-06-19T21:23:03Z (#wbhat6a) Sunny Queensland Australia, Darren, but its terribly cold at the moment, 12 degrees C. Our winter.
2022-06-19T21:24:19Z  Yesterday I lift the 30+ Kg wire netting up by pulley to fit into it's rolling table.
2022-06-19T21:25:19Z  Like so, than I wondered does it need bracing too? I slowly wheeled the netting into the place, another 25m further down.
2022-06-20T08:55:52Z  Starting off first time, nervous and scary
2022-06-20T08:56:16Z  The netting is fine
2022-06-20T08:57:01Z  Got half of it done, on my first roll, the full length is 48m
2022-06-20T08:58:29Z  Ready for tomorrow. The platform is very stable, with 5 stabilizer poles help. I also stand on a milk carton as well for that extra height at times. The red boxy thing in the picture on the trolley platform. The ringlock pliers makes it easy to attach netting to the wire.
2022-06-21T18:58:01Z  Using two strong bolts and a 4x2 beam, I make a brace for the ladder, up a pole, to take weight off the pole leaning too much, when I climb up. The second bolt stops the ladder from being pushed over. The rope ties all the bolts to the ladder and pole.
2022-06-21T18:58:30Z  Like so, see red arrow
2022-06-21T19:00:09Z  Details of the straining of the wire (stainless steel cable) I use three links of chain, cheaper than other techniques, and the rod and nuts are super strong tie downs used in houses against cyclones.
2022-06-21T19:01:30Z  View from up the ladder, it's quite a way down (5 metres to be exact). You can see the cable clearly.
2022-06-22T08:29:53Z (#7bxttyq) Correct, the building is rabbit proof, pig proof, and soon will be bird proof. Than I can grow my 60+ fruit trees, run my chooks, do my veggie garden without wildlife interfering with it.
I can also place shadecloth over it too and make it frost proof.
2022-06-22T08:32:03Z  Welded up the horizontal turntable for the wire netting. Because it moves width ways the progress is much slower, about 1.2 to 1.5 m each time. Not sure how I will navigate over the fruit trees, soon to be a challenge.
2022-06-22T08:33:37Z  In about 3 hours, I had advanced nearly half way on the first roofing sheet of wire netting. So the machine is working OK for now.
2022-06-23T20:51:24Z (#ix5mbfa) I add to that, I purchased a 18V cheap electric trimmer, ripped the battery bit out, hooked up a 12 metre cable to an old car battery on 12V, and cut anything I like with it, the machine ran at 60% of its strength due to the reduction of the voltage, never was strong enough to break the whipper cord, and while a little less powerful in cutting, I ran the system all day. The only thing that was a little inconvenient was lugging the heavy battery around in 12m increments. On the plus side, I have never changed the whip cord. It's great.
2022-06-23T21:00:42Z (#ix5mbfa) Wow, if I buy the Ni-Fe battery system 48Volt, this would give me 10 amp Hour battery at 48 volts and cost me $1,200 for the batteries including delivery charge, and the total weight would be 25 Kg ! And get this these batteries last forever, a 100 years. You can run them down dead flat no worries and overcharge them again. And mow all day, who mows for a full 8 hours these days?
2022-06-23T21:02:12Z (#7bxttyq) Maybe, I am off to town today to purchase a dozen wooden toms to prop the structure up, its sagging under the weight, the wire is stretching I think?
2022-06-29T19:49:58Z  The third sheet of netting is going directly over the fruit trees.
2022-06-29T19:50:31Z Notice the toms, like putting up a canvas tent.
2022-06-29T19:50:53Z  View from the front end
2022-07-05T19:25:23Z  We had our 16th wedding Anniversary the other day...meal and company was great :) table 6 is Di's lucky number
2022-07-07T21:22:08Z  Another few sheets on the kitchen ceiling up, as well as the 24 volt ceiling light system.
2022-07-07T21:24:20Z My electricity bill for where we live for 100 days of consumption was $200, we consume around $2 per day or about 6 units of power per day, not sure why its that high?
I still have to run the water distiller off the mains, that's why.
2022-07-10T09:22:18Z  Wife took pics of me up on the trolley platform clipping the netting up.
2022-07-10T09:24:13Z  Diane takes a long shot
2022-07-10T09:26:37Z  Kinda cool over a olive tree clipping wire netting 4m off the ground.
2022-07-11T20:15:45Z (#224bjya) Yes we had 3 degrees in the Kitchen, and remained that cold until 9 am.
2022-07-11T20:16:58Z https://youtu.be/ppbhL8m29_g
Mass formation, how the bureaucrats intend to govern us.
2022-07-14T22:21:26Z  Our first frost, 3 degrees...in the kitchen at 8 am
2022-07-14T22:22:03Z  Close up of the fruit trees
2022-07-14T22:22:47Z  About 1/2 way through the wire netting process
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2022-07-19T08:45:34Z (#jbgppfa) nice :)
2022-07-19T09:29:47Z 
2022-07-24T20:06:17Z https://www.facebook.com/100023519449520/posts/pfbid0414p5TB7QDzmaCprU4dkjESuxgYhHKTMaJoSuJ1KokSswa4Yab8mZTDETyo1c65bl/?sfnsn=mo
This person uses music frequencies to explode cancer cells apart.... interesting research.
2022-07-25T20:31:37Z (#gtu73cq) Biogas, yes I looked at many videos on this. The one shown uses animal manure, where do you get huge quantities of that from? I am more interested in digesting dry grass, and found this too is possible. Not sure of the yield potential.
2022-07-26T08:46:39Z (#vkh7ddq) I went to a Taxation bloke the other day, he couldn't help me fill in my Capital Gains Schedule, as he only knows how to fill in Excel Spreadsheet numbers on his own format.....so I had to do the Tax myself, but he did give me one clue.... Arrh those excel formulas, often 1/2 page long.
2022-07-29T23:16:57Z 
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2022-07-29T23:17:58Z  Up to the side of the wire netting orchard shed
2022-07-31T20:10:25Z 
2022-08-05T10:18:33Z  Built this weird 8 1 ohm parallel resistors and fried one of them. It got too hot handling 1 volt at 10 amps each, 10 Watts gets hot after a while.
2022-08-05T10:19:36Z  I did achieve the 1 volt drop carrying 80 Amps I wanted to achieve but only for a few hours, it melted.
2022-08-12T20:11:51Z Finished wiring up the big shed, only have the doors to do, covered with blankets for now to keep birds out.
Attached some pictures of the new compost I am wheelbarrowing in, some far I have down 90 loads, over 2 days. About another 40 wheelba  rrows to go.
You should see the explosive growth in two days with the new manure.
2022-08-12T20:12:54Z 
Big pile of manure
40 wheelbarrows later
2022-08-12T20:13:39Z 
Explosive growth on trees after only 2 days receiving the new manure
2022-08-12T20:15:11Z  THis stuff is very smelly, and gardeners love the smell, like horse manure and compost rolled into one. Notice the beg tent circus affect of the enclosure
2022-08-14T19:38:42Z http://spiritualsprings.org/images/man9.jpg
2022-08-14T19:39:46Z 
2022-09-03T02:02:53Z  Finished the garden shed wiring, took over 250 man hours to do or 36 days. Now I start the growing the veggies, the garden shed houses fruit trees as well as veggies.
2022-09-03T02:03:42Z  I plant the veggies into the rich compost, that cost me 3000 dollars.
2022-09-03T02:04:36Z  I lost over 50 corn seedlings due to mice eating the seeds, as the empty hole shows.
2022-09-03T02:05:04Z  The garden is big, main entry
2022-09-03T02:06:16Z  The rows of corn are 15m long,
special soil made for carrots, 30cm of loamy sand
2022-09-03T02:07:09Z  View of corn plants
2022-09-03T02:07:31Z 
2022-09-03T02:08:08Z  More corn plants,
2022-09-03T02:09:18Z  The next gate into new paddock, chooks will have one paddock for 6 months as the veggies grow in one paddock and than the other
2022-09-03T02:10:18Z  My wife Diane and myself ate our first bounty of fruit, large golf ball sized lotus fruit. Nice.
2022-09-03T02:10:50Z  The garden and fruit trees are big
2022-09-03T02:12:55Z  Notice the wire reo mesh that cost me 1000 for allow tomatoes to grow over them, I reckon we have 150 tomatoes in already, about 60m of trellis
2022-09-03T02:13:36Z  View of other side
rain makes things look fresh
2022-09-03T02:14:14Z  Trusty hoe that dug the corn rows
2022-09-03T02:14:49Z  And watermelon, rockmelon and pumpkin seedlings too
2022-09-03T04:35:05Z (#vbvx5ua) @ Thanks Son, hope it produces OK. We will see in 12 weeks time
2022-09-03T04:41:23Z Assuming the wire netting lasts 10 years, that costs $300 per year, and the compost fertilizer lasts 3 years, that costs $1000 per year, my veggie and fruit food forest only has to produce $25 of food per week. is this achievable? I reckon. We will see.
2022-09-05T18:56:51Z (#euslzjq) @ Mice is the worse, they keep eating my seeds and making me lose my corn plants.
2022-09-06T09:27:23Z (#euslzjq) @ They live in burrows in the compost
2022-09-06T09:28:13Z (#3s2cdqq) @ Do you have a link to his off grid, would love to see....
2022-09-21T09:56:37Z  I have been working on a cat walk to a laundry deck for Diane.
2022-09-21T09:58:45Z  The clothes line is part of the deck, and under roof as well. No more bindi, no falling clothes, no getting wet clothes, easy to hang clothes, no sunburn. Clothes do not fade from excessive UV. The rotary clothes line turns the easy reach out over the deck to a higher place.
2022-09-21T09:59:59Z  What the landscaping effect look like from the back, that tree is a 120yr old avocado in full blossom.
2022-09-21T10:02:13Z To save money the old 4m rotary by Hills was modified and cut down to fit under the 3m roof area of the deck, so some arms look a bit not square, in case you are wondering.
2022-09-22T20:34:51Z  The corn patch so far
2022-09-22T20:35:22Z  Carrots doing OK
2022-09-22T20:36:11Z  Tomatoes a bit slow
2022-09-22T20:37:08Z  Nut grass is my worst weed, keeping it out of water melons coming is going to be a challenge.
2022-09-22T20:38:22Z  spare a thought for Sar Lanka, with a famine over there, some countries are in food shortage.
2022-09-23T21:09:08Z (#s3kg2pq) @ Thanks
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Our garden at the moment
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corn is flowering now
2022-10-18T19:23:49Z  Also used to house 7 gooselings, keep the crows away
2022-10-18T19:24:50Z  ALso built a chook pen for the chooks, used for the geese at the moment
See babies on the foot path
2022-10-18T19:26:00Z 
Getting cucumbers and beans
2022-10-18T19:26:33Z  Also I grow flowers
2022-10-18T19:27:06Z  Lots of pumpkins and water melon flowers coming on
2022-10-18T19:27:36Z  And rockmelons
2022-10-19T10:18:27Z (#id4xqkq) Sure, red arrow is the model in wrong direction by 90degrees
The blue arrow is the model in correct position, sunset was to enter temple doors.
The model is NOT aligned properly.
2022-10-19T10:20:22Z (#hgrugwa) @ getting a lot of rain, 37 yesterday and another 40mm today.
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2022-10-21T19:50:18Z Robert Deutche predicts more rain for Australia, massively more over the next 3 weeks, the engineering of clouds bands is enormous and ongoing. We have had over 150mm rain in the last 3 days, and the state of Queensland is due for much more, especially the coast.
2022-10-21T21:58:19Z  Here you are Lyse, a close up of the 7 gooselings. Can't get too close, or she gets hussy.
2022-10-21T22:10:15Z  I have been working on this 100yr old wood stove, Diane loves. It was used by her long ago as a tenant. The mini-orb metal sheeting protects the walls from heat, and a special built funnel guides heat, fumes and smoke up the thermal chimney.
2022-10-21T22:11:04Z  A view inside the funnel shaped metal structure, like a fish and chip extractor hood. The red arrow shows a vent I cut so passing hot air also sucks out the ceiling air as well, making the roof cavity cooler. This is a USA thermal chimney idea I got from the States.
2022-10-21T22:14:12Z  Looking from inside the thermal chimney outside through the glass wall placed there. The sun heats up this cavity drawing hot air out and sucking cooler air into it's place. This will cool the roof cavity on the hottest and windless days.
2022-10-22T18:59:22Z (#y6ogrgq) @ Yes, its a wonderful deep blue,, wife loves the colour.
2022-10-22T19:03:55Z (#jcnm2mq) @ So how does your idea stop spiders crawling data off the webpage, maybe even stealing content for another webpage auto creating device?
2022-10-27T21:17:15Z 
2022-11-01T06:39:07Z  Finally finished the chimney flu, plus it doubles as a thermal flu too.
2022-11-01T06:41:58Z  A close up of the thermal flu part, the glass is reflecting the iron. The sun heats the air inside the glass pulling less warmer air in and allowing hotter air to escape (hot air rises). This causes all the hot air in the kitchen cavity to be extracted.
The lid above is bolted 3 cms off the thermal column, allowing hotter air to escape. The inside chamber is painted high temperature black, to help absorb heat.
2022-11-01T18:07:21Z (#74wr54q) @ I got the idea from the USA, they build them much larger and longer, a 4m thermal window, to remove hot air from their houses and cool them down over summer.
2022-11-08T18:19:34Z Really nice, it's hard making good sense of pixel squares, isn't it?
2022-11-08T18:21:46Z  Our septic tank is blocked up, so I dug it out, to replace and clean the problems. Common with aged septic systems. This hole is 1.6m deep.
2022-11-08T18:23:02Z  Than I dug a new hole, also 1.6m deep, and relocated the tank down hill from our new toilet room.
2022-11-08T18:23:43Z  Set up the scaffold for the 6 pulley system.
2022-11-08T18:24:21Z  And lowered carefully the tank into the hole
2022-11-08T18:24:57Z  Like so
2022-11-08T18:27:27Z  Fill with sand and water inside and outside, to ensure settling, as the firbreglass tank is weak, and the walls need the outside dirt to protect against water pressure. This process is first done to a depth of 800. Than after a few days of settling, I will fill it all in. Red arrow shows the consolidation process.
2022-11-09T17:42:18Z (#ailcvyq) Thanks Lyse, took quite a while to figure it out, being six pulleys, it easily allowed me to lift the 250Kg tank easily.
2022-11-11T17:52:44Z What happened to the "mentions" tab?
2022-11-11T17:53:36Z How does a 7-year-old child write such a lovely rhymical and rhyme poem?
2022-11-12T19:29:38Z (#xnhbeoa) And Lilly wrote this all by herself?
2022-11-19T19:25:43Z (#6n45lsq) @ They look like Pinto Beans. Expensive to buy in the health food shops.
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2022-11-22T23:26:45Z  I made a home made solar drier, to make sun dried tomatoes, with wire mesh, bottom sheet metal, glass and fly screens to keep flies off.
2022-11-22T23:27:38Z  Sundried 1 day ago
2022-11-22T23:28:31Z  Sundried 2 days ago
2022-11-22T23:29:06Z  Sundried yesterday
2022-11-22T23:30:39Z  I reject any with fungus (white hairs) growing on them, the oven wasn't too enough, quick enough to dry out the liquid in this one.
2022-11-22T23:31:32Z  My outdoors table (stainless steel, chopping board and bucket of tomatoes
2022-11-22T23:34:25Z  Rejects go here. You get tomato grubs, fruit fly causing brown rot, red back spiders, and some holes in them you can't explain why. The difference between tomatoes you buy at the shops and the ones I grow at home is the amount of pesticides used. Mine are not toxic to humans, but the tomatoes come with yuck look to those not used to off_grid_living.
2022-11-22T23:58:39Z  The tomato bushes are very high, way over my head.
2022-11-22T23:59:07Z  And very extensive
2022-11-23T00:00:05Z  The timber support is to prevent wind blowing the tomato bushes over off their trellis
2022-11-23T00:01:23Z  Corn is nearly finished, freezed alot of corn as well as eating heaps. The late comers are still growing to finish.
2022-11-23T00:02:28Z  Watermelons still growing, the one in the middle is the size of a soccer ball, about 10 Kg I reckon.
2022-11-23T00:05:11Z  Gardening is hard work, watering for 2 hours each day, pricking tomato laterals, and mowing, weeding mulching etc. But the rewards are there also. Like growing flowers just for fun, how amazing God's designing abilities are.
2022-11-23T00:05:58Z  Like these petunia and gerberas.
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2022-12-24T19:47:33Z Dr Nixon, an Australian doctor looks under a light microscope at samples of virals of COV19 vaccine that Pziffer make.
2022-12-24T19:47:52Z 
2022-12-24T19:48:40Z Image on left looks like graphene oxide strand, image on right looks like micro chip technology.
2023-01-02T19:01:36Z Joseph Spencer commissioned in 1970 and died in 1989 was brain programmed to be a man in black,, and work "killing people and forgetting", became a perfect killing machine. His video of 14 minutes speaks of the greys, an alien race with hybrid humans also as men in black.
Now sure if all this info is real, but the implications are interesting.
They plan a world invasion with holograms to force a one world government soon.
I was interested in his comments with chem trails, where toxic chemicals are dumped on us daily.
You can see the chemical fog all the time, its not fog, its not dust and its not fire haze. Its a chemical fog, and the Gov admits to allowing geo engineering weather modification, etc.
They use barium chloride. A toxic substance. Gets into soil and plants and we humans ingest it.
I found a possible solution, praise God, magnesium sulphate. Or Epsom salts.
When sprinkled over your soil, the Barium chloride reacts with magnesium sulphate making Barium sulphate and magnesium chloride.
2023-01-02T19:02:34Z Barium sulphate is insoluble in soil, so cannot move into roots etc, so you have immobilized the problem.
I intend to purchase lots of Epsom salts and spread around the fruit trees over the weeks and years, to prevent barium toxicity.
As for microbes with cancer engineering also dumped on us.
2023-01-02T19:06:07Z To remove these, purchase or make charcoal power, and add the small particles, of say 5mm size to the soil as well. This causes the microbes to be stuck on the carbon, as well as feed the fruit trees.
2023-01-02T19:07:45Z  Our garden shed of fruit trees still making tomatoes, but considering pulling them all out soon. The chooks are in the paddock and love the seeking tid bits to eat.
2023-01-14T21:01:48Z (#ukzpwoa) 
2023-01-19T20:08:12Z Does anybody notice the acid rain falling over Australia last week, many of Facebook measured the water with a PH of 4.0. Now that's really very acidic, enough to kill off my tomatoes, which it has.
2023-01-21T20:49:26Z (#sqrwn2q) @ What's with the beard Son? The Government is planning a total lockdown soon, so you need to be ready for this. Enough food in the house for 30 days would be a good start.
Give the kids and Kate a big hug for me. It's one of those lovely sunny days beginning here.
2023-01-22T20:26:57Z  Nearly finished doing the renovations on the verandah. These old boards made of lovely cyprus pine, show the old unlevel surface of this 100 yr old cottage.
2023-01-22T20:28:19Z  I repurpose the original steps to lead into the new verandah floor level, the concrete pad is still to be placed underneath.
2023-01-22T20:29:08Z  View from verandah overlooks the flower beds
2023-01-22T20:31:20Z  The new look from front of the cottage. A little different compared to the old look, which had no floor, rough concrete pebble surface and too low a roof. Now the look is a much higher even roof with a level wooden floor.
2023-01-22T20:33:50Z  I like growing cottage flowers, it helps to take stress away, to feel natural things up close, and bring peace from God to our lives. Our beehive loves the flowers too, only 15 metres away. So you can't get too close.
2023-01-25T17:20:55Z  The colours when certain metals are burned in the air or fried by lightning. These are the most common metals deployed by planes as chemical trails all over the world, every day.
2023-01-25T17:23:43Z  Especially of interest is Sydney Australia on the 24 Jan 2023, causing massive storms and rain off the coast, filmed by local people, the lightning colours, showing purple, proving Lithium is deployed as a chemical cloud.
2023-01-25T17:26:44Z Robert Deutch spends all day investigating these weather modifications and shows us the deployment of metals and toxic chemicals dumped over us all the time. Acid rain, barium chloride, and now lithium with barium and strontium, all toxic metals. I love the science proof he proves from time to time, and very , very convincing.
2023-01-25T17:28:27Z The chemical bombs begin as a square because the planes travel in straight lines, and people report dozens of planes flying off Sydney coast, on their IPad videos. So the evidence is documented and shown by Robert Deutch.
2023-01-25T17:42:24Z  Local people video purple lightning off the coast of Sydney 24 Jan 2023.
2023-01-29T20:04:24Z They say AI is now filling up the content of the Internet with gaslighting posts from humans who do not exist and tweets from machines who make up stuff. Nowadays we discuss things with bots, not humans.
Question: How can I stop bots and AI machines stealing my content and using this info in a twisted fashion against humans, so the confusion continues?
2023-01-30T20:03:00Z (#hhsmcea) Thanks Bro for the link. I uploaded a few images, and find the website rather strange cross referencing other images.
I see nothing similar in the images, except the first image.
2023-01-30T20:10:13Z (#hhsmcea) wow, I am so surprised this site reads images and words in images easily !!!
2023-01-30T20:13:33Z (#oghtiea) Lyse, that is the camera quality, the timber is hardwood Eucalyptus, either Yellow StringyBark, or IronBark, both very long enduring timbers commonly used in steps.
2023-01-31T20:31:53Z (#hhsmcea) Thanks bro, are you telling me humans look at the images and trained the AI program how to scan the images for text and various links? After that the program may work on it's own?
I had a thought, what about creating images of tiny size for each letter, a set that is created by a program, and thus when you write a letter, the program stores this letter and compiles the images for that word. Every day the images change slightly, making it near impossible for AI to read the letters, hence cannot read the words.
This would be too hard for public to read, example the word "bee". Hmm? not easy to stop AI stealing your words and using the words against you.
2023-01-31T20:34:51Z (#hhsmcea) I think it's time to go back to the hard printed words on paper, with images on paper. Cannot be easily copied that way?
2023-02-01T20:44:12Z (#hhsmcea) Thanks for the video link bro, I watched i t for a while, over an hour !! Question, why do IPads listen to people, collecting every conversation we say, and the ads come to our phones based on that conversation. What do they do with all the content, stored digitally for ever? Allow robotic AI machines to talk local talk, like humans do?
Are we humans losing our abilities to be unique? Are machines so to take over? I see this as a real threat.
I suspect the end of humans as a species is near, and soon robotic AI machines will speak and talk just like humans can.
But for now, how does one protect the words we speak and write from machines that steal our intellectual property? Google claims it helps more people search and read our stuff? Hmm? If we forget what we speak after a week, than our words should die with us. I can read what I wrote from aged 17, I have diaries, and my words should remain there, in my books. How does reading a 17 yr old way back in 1970 help a 17 yr old living in a different world?
2023-02-02T21:20:13Z (#hhsmcea) @ What extreme measures? What about going back to XP as a program software platform, one that cannot run many things in Internet Explorer, or what about Windows 98, now there is a Internet Explorer, that will not allow much. Can you build Internet Explorer machines that have reduced features, like unable to run video content for instance? If you want to run a video, you click on allow, and than switch the ability off? Does this stop anything? Or do I still get download expenses?
2023-02-03T20:49:41Z (#hhsmcea) @ So how do you browse the Internet? I use MicroSoft Edge, only because it was all I had in Windows 11.
2023-02-05T18:41:47Z (#hhsmcea) @ Thks Bro, Opera is a Linux OP application, not a browser for Windows OP, is that correct? What do you advise for oldies stuck on WIndows and File management systems, my own Internet Website is based on Text Files, and I use PHP to create the HTML webpages.
2023-02-05T18:44:30Z Robert Deutch has predicted more severe rains for Qld, and Sydney, and most of Australia, and it's started already at Emerald where I live. Bother, no sunshine for my solar panels for another week. Pretty soon I will count the sunshine days on a single hand this year. Sick of this cloudy smog and chemical haze and all this chemical bombing they do causing headaches and a lack of plant growth. It's world wide too.
2023-02-06T10:34:36Z James you said OK, where's my email ?
2023-02-06T19:24:02Z (#wkqfslq) rthom7@yahoo.com.au
2023-02-06T19:25:03Z (#wkqfslq) GoDaddy hosted spiritual springs for one more day, I will check the hosting today.
2023-02-07T20:21:40Z (#wkqfslq) I sent you an email YEH!!!! silly thing was in SPAM - bother
2023-02-09T19:44:10Z Beautiful day
2023-02-10T19:21:50Z (#gztyfvq) @ And I eagerly await for my IP server address, username and password. I may even become your first host. Try reading some of our material. Shalom
2023-02-19T06:20:50Z  Peanuts growing OK
2023-02-19T06:21:41Z  They flower and make a brown burrowing thing before drilling into soil and making peanuts, see arrows.
2023-02-19T06:22:40Z  chit potatoes ready to plant
2023-02-19T06:23:11Z  Like so
2023-02-19T06:24:09Z  Six rows of spuds in three planter boxes
2023-02-19T06:30:32Z  Each row has mulch, to stop spud drying out. Do not over water spud until it has come up and running, otherwise it rots from overwatering's.
2023-02-19T06:31:25Z  Add heat proofing ceiling to verandah.
2023-02-19T06:31:48Z  Another view overlooking garden. The material is 10mm thick, a low density gyrock, to prevent heat transfer.
2023-02-20T22:27:51Z Hey James, anyway to get editing files and uploading images, to fresh changes immediately, rather than wait for a long time? Makes editing and seeing changes way too slow. I want the host server to reflect changes immediately. Editing process wraps text poorly, and hard returns not recognized. No color coding.
Hmmm? Can you open the edit in NotePad2, a HTML editing program that is colour coded?
But hey, it works and I am so happy. Thanks for the heads up.
2023-02-21T21:07:11Z (#egvtn4q) No worries, will phone you on Friday or so.
2023-02-28T20:27:19Z  Built tropical sheds to stops cold from cutting back these more tropical fruit trees.
2023-02-28T20:28:29Z  A view inside, notice polycarbonate roof.
Not many screws hold each other, only 4 per sheet. Fear wind might take them off.
2023-02-28T20:29:41Z  Easier to see polycarbonate roof here, spans 3m and held by only 4 screws. Over the fig tree, does not like frost or cold.
2023-03-17T20:18:06Z  Completed new deck at our old house at Dululu
2023-03-17T20:18:46Z  Deck from the lounge room looking outwards
2023-03-17T20:20:01Z  Deck, 1.2m wide, with stainless steel screws,, and my snake dog Willie, the JackRussel
2023-03-18T04:40:14Z (#g42fhnq) Thanks Lyse.
2023-03-18T04:41:41Z (#wnh5gkq) An interesting thought Roguez, like the cartoon cat-dog.
2023-03-31T21:56:42Z Watching Australian Alone, last Wednesday, around a lake in Western Tasmania in Autumn, temperatures down to 4 degrees, with rain every night. Not real happy two pulled out on the very first night. Got lonely? What? Lonely from one sleep in the bush.
2023-03-31T21:59:43Z Some could not start a fire from wet timber the night before. So the ferro rod was worn down. How pathetic, don't these people practice these things, or learn to stack wood under their tarp?
And finally Jim a 22 yr old man, got COVID flu and tapped out from a medical team found his heart racing too fast. How pathetic.
However some of the tougher ones, like Gina are surviving. Can't wait for next Wednesday on Viceland.
2023-03-31T22:00:36Z Thanks for the interest Kate. I spent the whole night thinking about living on a lake in Tasmania. The Tassy Devils are a worry.
2023-03-31T22:40:27Z 
The ten things for Tasmania, my idea.
2023-03-31T22:44:23Z Using billy bucket, drag mud from lake and make sod walls, 200x200x200, like a sand castle effect, Stack the mud walls to 2m by 1.5 m wide, you need 150 of these, reinforce the wall with sticks pushed into wall, like a wattle and darb idea, the olden soddies did in Australia long ago. Make the fire place also of mud with dome, and chimney. The main pole is 4.5m long and the verndah bits 2m , no need to make whole thing warm just the sleeping part. Stack wood under the verandah bit. Only animal to contend with is the Tassy Devil, so do not cook fish on the fire, but elsewhere outside, 50mm away.
2023-03-31T22:46:57Z Excess fish has to by smoke and dried, on your outdoor fire, 50m away, NOT inside the sleeping place area, and the food place in lard blueberry jar, the food comes with glass lid and a 5kg jar. Store the dried fish in the lard, and to disguise smell, bury the glass jar under a rock inside the sleeping place. Make a door to cover the front and always stand on guard.
2023-03-31T22:49:01Z I notice on day 3, dead trees and mud on lake, with fire going, strip off and swim out to a dead tree with fork branch, wire a pole beam from two dead trees, and using long poles, make a jetty to walk out every day nicely to fish. Also make a wood fishing net to ensure you capture the fish before pulling it out oof the water.
2023-03-31T22:57:04Z  As the diagram shows, place the support poles up quickly near the dead trees. Get out and warm yourself near fire
2023-03-31T23:00:54Z No way to grow food, not enough calories, conserve energy. Fish daily, from day 3. Collect more wood, and sleep lots. Drink from rain gutter as fresh water, no need to boil it. place under roof fern leaves for insulation.
And moss, watch for fire hazard.
2023-04-08T09:40:40Z No one on Alone Australia made a shelter with a hip roof, so simple and yet no one bothered with water run off, or tried to collect it as a gutter trough. Also lots of ego trips by the men. Fancy hunting for wild animals in the day time. Come on Auzzies, it's Australia, all our animals are night time animals. I also notice some have fished the first fish successfully. The sites are all by a Tasmania River, so catfish, eels and trout. All things I caught as a kid.
2023-04-08T09:45:51Z One Alone guy has an ego trip to make a canoe, wasting 3 days of fasting before fishing for fish. It's day 3 of Alone Australia, with 7 people remaining, and the fasting chemistry is beginning to eat on food reserves.
It's easy to lose weight, stop using oil in your food. Oil, and frying, is 300 calories per 10ml. Eating a large potato is 300 calories , so near impossible to gain weight eating plant food alone. I lost 10KG eating tomato and bread at home on food made on the farm at home.
I notice no body took LARD with blue berries as on item on their list.
2023-04-29T00:54:11Z Mike on his first canoe trip in Alone Tasmania, spent the day wasting time, ie no fishing. What a waste.
It's day 10, and only 5 left already.
2023-05-26T20:49:41Z The Alone Australia is finally over, Gina won after 67 days.
Question: How on earth can one go out into the night and fall onto a small kangaroo and kill it? Ie no trap, just ran into a mammal in the night? Is that even possible? Being so in tune with earth, the mother of nature supplied her need for food?
And yet Mike, the ego builder of a massive 3 day trap missed the kangaroo by milliseconds? How uncanny.
No comments on the Reunion segment.
2023-06-02T09:22:34Z Hey guys how about this idea for preventing spiders crawling over your text?
The server sends a alphabet image with pictures of each letter, and asks the user to match the pictures correctly to form a word, they must type into the submit box, before the server sends you the web page.
No more crawlers can crawl over your data, and steal idea for AI internet theft. Would this work?
2023-06-02T09:24:19Z The user would have to get used to doing this service request BEFORE reading text and images.
But it would prevent Internet Hacking of your intellectual property.