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Good question. Complexities I can think of is the massive power that needs to flow between battery and motor requires a very big plug that needs to be removed and placed again 2 often. And that the cooling design of the battery is in the way of the modularity of the battery which makes it more complex to design

Working on irrigation to all corners of my piece of land. Digging meters and meters and putting HDPE pipe connectors with water sockets. Digging is heavy work but I needed a workout actually

Wauw, that’s quite a setup. Nevermind the state of things, there is always room for improvements. First is that it works. Your intake of solar is quite low compared to your battery size. Are you also aiming for more solar and bigger inverter then? Otherwise it will take days to fill 18kwh.

I am also aiming for a ton of water to be heated, both firewood and solar but have to rebuild the sauna stove for that. To have both stone and water as thermal storage. The stone I aim to also feed with cold in the summer. But I have to think more on that as condens forming is something risky.

Hi poVoq, how is your solar solution holding up after 2 years?

Hi, I am very curious on your inverter / battery setting as you said the heatpump is powered by solar. Do you have a hybrid setting or do you have batteries that buffer for the heatpump. As a heatpump is quite some power and needs to have a stable power supply

Ps, living not far from you (Lithuania) and I am interested to built these fence panels for the winter as well.

I have studied the drying of fruits for my work. To get optimal drying the temperature should be 45-60degC with an airflow in it. Of course this design would work but the fruits will take 3 days before the moisture content is around 10%> The design would need a bit more solar surface and a small fan to make the evaporation go faster and exchange the humid air. But it will be a bit more complex though. Small chimney would also work

Ah, that sucks 1 step forward and back at the start

Installing electricity lines are always finicky and cost me also a lot of effort. I understand your procrastination. Last week I have separated installing electricity lines by one line per evening (really one box and a line + the other side button/socket). And this helped greatly in overcoming the great effort of fixing stuff after work and dinner. The streak eventually ends and this week Factorio had me snatched up unfortunately.

Very interesting. I always look into this opensource flowbatteries as I recognize the advantages that are discussed in the video, easy scalable, cheap, safe and probably diy-able in the future. I would like to experiment with two IBC’s in scale. Following the FAIR project as well. Thanks PoVoq

They were not dying to find out, I hope?

The same here, thinking of how to make a door in wooden interior for electric installation has gotten me almost insane. So many choices. And then comes the hinges, do I use the ones I have for recycling or new, hiding the hinges but that means more complexity. There is not much space and all I use are 2,5x5cm wood lengths. It required quite some though processes if it is not standardized. Also I’m too shoddy and impatient for nice clean sharp finish. Luckily this style is consistence though.

I’ll try to share some pictures as that adds to the depth of the conversation

Only I would expect the design would not be 3 dimensions as you asked but mostly all forces in one plane 😁

A cool. That is a known wide spread design. This is a very high force, I’m impressed. But it will come at a cost of displacement correct? We aim to make brickets for cooking fuels and we have a lot of groundnut shells. These groundnut or peanut shells have a a lot lignin so it is possible with wetted mass (softening)and perhaps heating with fire (lignine becomes like a glue at 200degC). After that the brickets are sundried. The bricket shape could be like icehocky pucks or at least the shape to cook with.

I think the wooden design is not that interesting to generate, but with a pellet release and refilling in one lever go (or two steps). That would be an interesting puzzle, yes?

I follow this person already for a while, very interesting things he come up with

For work in Malawi I am thinking of introducing a bricket press to make brickets from biomass. One person must pull a lever and a piston is pressing biomass into a cylinder and compresses it. The end of the stroke should be stronger and less fast. And with returning of the lever the pressed bricket or pellet is pushed out and new biomass is inserted. It can be an interesting design from scratch and nice context? It would be challenging to make it convenient for the person while large pressing forces are reached (5000n)

Indeed, the man is painting the grass green.

You have drawn me almost in this equally sized Rabbit Hole. …must resist… Echo?!..noo

Also if these are not load bearing beams ( they have been almost cut throughto allow the pipe going through), make the gap wider and put some isolation around the pipe. But only if the pipe is the case of the water problem

Ah I see now there is double thread 😶‍🌫️

Good question on the low power of motors. Most of the low cost pumps have often DC brushed motors which do not need a controller to steer but uses a brush. Once there is not enough power (in the morning and evening) I think there will be a point where the power will be too low to overcome the torque and the motor stops. The centrifugal pump can still rotate easily compared to other types so I would expect the startup current will be low as well. Panels will deliver a constant voltage while the current will drop when light conditions are dropping. I think the simplest is to search for these aQuarium pumps (24/7 performance) on 12v but I doubt many cars/trucks have built in fishtanks ^^)

Glad to be of help. I think you can get away with a 12v pump as most panels of this power range are made for 12/24v. I suggest very simple centrifugal submergable pump with a bit of filtering around it and direct connection to panel. No inverter or battery, that would be way overkill in my opinion.