For me firearm ownership is about responsibility and independence. If you’re going to eat meat, you should participate in the process and understand what it means. If you don’t trust the state with a monopoly on violence, you should be a part of distributing that power as widely as possible. Guns are one of the most powerful tools in the modern world, and I value them for the same reasons I value my drill or computer: they expand my capabilities.
There’s a single payphone still standing at the end of the road in the town nearest me. It was disconnected when I found it, but I got phreaky and hooked it back up + bypassed the coin mechanism. Mostly out of nostalgia, partly for the love of fixin’ stuff :)
Challenging and confusing, I imagine. Traditionally “romantic” gestures give me the ick and I end up pushing away anyone who displays that kind of interest. I want to be comfortable and cozy together, not put on a pedestal and certainly not worshipped. The idea of being the center of someone’s world is terrifying, we need to be a good part of each others. I’m also pretty self-reliant and most people seem to need to feel needed, so…
tl;dr cat person
Hey there, the other answer you got was wrong enough for me to register and chime in. There’s no such thing as a BMS for lead acid batteries and no way to interact with their internal cells. What you’re looking for is called a charge controller, it’ll have bulk absorb and float stages just like your solar. As a rough rule of thumb, the amperage of your charger shouldn’t exceed your batteries capacity in amp hours, slower is easier on them (but more run time on your genset so…)
The simplest and most common way to go is with an inverter/charger combo, I’ve never shopped for a standalone charger and don’t have a specific reccomendation. You can totally get away with using a car battery charger though, especially if you’re mostly using solar, and they are much cheaper. You can even use a welder, as long as you can set it to ~28.8v and an appropriate amperage (and put it on a timer, obviously won’t step down on its own). My neighbor’s using a charger from an old scissor lift, ~$200 on ebay, 25A/600w
If you got followup questions or more details on your setup I’m happy to help, good luck out there
I remember people making this same argument but for social media, doesn’t make any more sense now than it did then. Corpos are the ones in control of that tool, using it helps them so much more than it does you. If you don’t want to support the ideology that developed it, you really need to just not engage.