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There's a part 2!

Out here we use a pressure pump from a water tank so our household water pressure is normal. 👍

I've seen tape used a lot in the US. Not sure why it's a big no no though. Explain?

@@LetsOverthinkThis tape can loose it adhesive properties in the damp well conditions and unravel and drop down the shaft. This can clog up and block the intake of a pump. It is a known problem using tape and not zip-ties and has led to pump failure. Regards from South Africa

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I don't sell anything, sorry!

Thx!

Deep! Whatever it takes, right?

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Would be bad for the water supply but it's really unlikely. Also each well doesn't produce much water so there's a limit there already.

I'm glad it helped! Still working well for me 👍

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Thats smart, particularly if one gigantic truck can't always get to where the well needs to be. Thanks for sharing 👍

That's where I wanted the well and since nobody can detect this water, it was as good a place as any 😁

Glad it was helpful to you!

Yep.

All of that was in the video!

@@LetsOverthinkThis really, I’ll have to re watch. Did he say how much he paid for the tractor? WOW I rewatched and no idea how I missed that part. It was probably one of my dogs demanding my attention. 😂😂 I so wish I would have seen these auctions.

You're welcome!

It's not that much but what should I have done with it?

My understanding is that civilizations mostly settled first in places with easy to access water from lakes, rivers, or rain and then at some point they figured out how to make wells, probably at first using power from ox or donkeys or something like that. But since they didn't have great drilling heads yet or steam or hydraulic power, I think this only worked for shallow ground water. Eventually you get to where we are now where diesel fuel and hydraulics and advanced drilling heads can go through rock for hundreds (or thousands) of feet!

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It's a good point but I think the problem is that the poe relies entirely on how many things you want to power and the environment. Even if they had the poe in a box for one wifi device, what assumptions would they make around how many hours of sun and at what location, you know? The system I needed for my 2 cameras and one antenna, located in a place with lots of solar energy and few full cloud days is different from what others would need. It's very hard to generalize and they'd have to WAY overdo it to actually promise a working product that was all in one. Just my 2 cents!

agreed, and the different types of PoE as you mentioned - I am a Network Engineer in my day life :-) I still think WiFi is driving force as some/many have figured out power - I use Blink outdoor camera and while their videos aren’t the highest quality, they work on AA batteries and last for years (I think)!

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I've had them like this for well over a year and they work great. Definitely not aimed right but not too bad. What heat are you referring to? There's like an inch of air gap under them. They're flat (in angle) but not in contact.

@@LetsOverthinkThis what heat? The heat that any object sitting in direct sun faces? Laid flat is the hottest orientation and as heat increases the efficiency of the panel decreases. Yes your setup works but is it efficient output for the panels you’ve got. No.

​@@arsenicjones9125 Thanks for the reply! By "what heat" I meant radiant, etc. :) I think you bring up a good point that's not as simple as presented. I assume the heat you're talking about is the heat trapped under the panel, since a flat panel doesn't promote any convective currents underneath it. BUT, my panels are not oriented to actually CAPTURE as much heat as they would if they were tilted. IE my flat panels are in no way *capturing* the most heat. For where I am, my panels should be roughly 10 degrees off of "flat" in June, but 58 degrees off of "flat" in December. What would be interesting to see is what orientation is actually the "hottest" where it's a balance of capturing the most heat and not letting it convect out from under it. Given how suboptimal my panel alignment is for capturing the solar energy, I rather doubt the answer is 0 degrees flat like I have them. But it's an interesting thing to ponder and I appreciate the comment.

@@LetsOverthinkThis oh so the sun doesn’t strike the sides of the container and heat doesn’t convect thru or radiate from metal. The top is only shielded from the solar radiation directly absorbed or reflected by the panel. So that’s not helping you to stay cooler. you don’t have to do experiments for yourself it’s all been done and explained in the literature. We’ve not even hit on the issue of how frequently you’ll need to clean the panels of dust to preserve your output. I get it you don’t wanna hear it from some random commenter but that’s what you get when you share online.

@@arsenicjones9125 Deep breath, I'm just trying to have a good conversation here not "win" any argument. I asked you originally what heat and you shot back a generic comment about the sun making heat, so I opened a conversation about the angle to the sun vs the convection angle below. Now you're being more clear about the heat radiating FROM the container to the back of the panels, which is a fair point but not something you mentioned. Yes, of course there is heat there, too. Not as much as you'd imagine, though. There is always a breeze or wind out there, the top of the container is painted with special white roofing paint that keeps the heat down, and while the ambient temp does get hot for a month or two, it's actually not very hot there most of the year. YES, there is heat. But everything is a tradeoff and I've found this one to be acceptable. I'm optimizing for mounting convenience, portability, and minimal roof penetrations, and not optimizing for solar collection or panel efficiency. To your point about dust, YES of course there is dust. I'm in a desert. The wind does a good job of cleaning bulk dust off but the extra fines occasionally build up and I've wiped them off every ~8 months to prevent that. This would be somewhat better at an angle but since everything (even vertical surfaces) out there have fine dust on them, adding 10 degrees or so to my panels wouldn't likely help a lot. Like ANY solution, the magnet mounting I've gone with has tradeoffs and is optimized for some things and not others. It's a 58 second video so it's not comprehensive on the subject ;)

I'll take it!

All of my 10.8v and 12v Bosch batteries are LITERALLY the same and are electrically and mechanically compatible with all of chargers and Bosch 12v and 10.8v tools. HOWEVER I have the suspicion that outside the US there are other Bosch lines that may not be physically compatible. Where are you located?

@@LetsOverthinkThis I'm in Switzerland. I had this problem with a "pro" (blue) series battery I wanted to use in a "consumer" (green) product. Maybe that's the catch... My girlfriend just bought blue (pro) branch shears without battery and she wanted to use the battery from a green product. But it did not fit. So I assume the problem here is not 10V/12V incompatibility but green/blue. Which is also totally unnecessary because they are still the same batteries inside.

@@PlaywithJunk Thanks for the clarification and yeah, that's the issue. We don't have the green ones in the US so they can avoid that confusion. Not sure why they did that but it really sucks. :(

Nope. They are incredibly strong in sheer which is mainly the force direction. They've survived a tropical storm and lots of high winds but of course it's more risky than bolting them down!

Well said and you can largely track the movement of civilizations based on access to water.

Thanks for watching and letting me know!

Glad you enjoyed it! I found it super interesting myself.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Glad it helped! My 10.8 and 12v-labeled batteries are all running strong after so many years. Thx for watching 😊

Thx for watching!

Glad you enjoyed it! I definitely recommend North American drilling but don't have anyone for perf test that I'd really recommend, sorry to say. Best of luck to you!