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Marc, thanks. yes I knew that painting would do that. It does absorb heat into the box which heats both the walls and air inside and inside the tubes.

Thanks for the reply. An interesting perspective. Many companies have moved forward with very good competitive products, most from China. however SolarEdge is still the leader in the technology and field and makes inverters in Texas.

@@all14000 SolarEdge is nowhere near a leader in solar tech any longer. They used to be back when their main competition was Enphase and then Tesla. At this point they were not yet in the storage game. Right out of the gate, SolarEdge made many poor decisions with their battery. Let alone the fact that it took them years after debut to release it. And if I had to have a Li-Ion battery rather than LiFePO4, Tesla is the only company I would trust to maintain it ensuring its longevity. Long before entering the storage market SolarEdge was starting to make poor decisions which is why they are losing market share now far faster than they should. Their backup interface device is expensive with a slow transfer interval and was outdated nearly as soon as they released it. There are so many better inexpensive fully integrated options with less than 20ms switchover now days as well. And as for their inverters being manufactured in Texas...that makes little difference if they don't stay in operation at least as long as their warranty period. Their inverter failure rates have been absolutely terrible the last few years. Which means they have many more years of high warranty claims to come as newer ones get a little older and fail. They only recently started beefing up their components after finally admitting publicly what installers had been saying for quite a while previously. Exactly why many installers stopped selling them. They no longer have the most efficient components either which is another claim to fame lost and forgotten now. SolarEdge no longer offers any software options that could not be obtained free through other manufacturers. Optimizers for instance...TIGO offers all the same information in their app and all the equipment is half the price or less with low failure rates too boot. Free software like Solar Assistant goes even further (especially when tied in with Home Assistant if you are into home automation). SolarEdge's pricing structures are still extremely high as well. They should have started reducing them accordingly with increased competition as other companies have done. Again, poor decisions are costing SolarEdge bigtime on so many fronts currently.

@@all14000 As a former solar installer now working for a supplier I can pretty much confirm this. When I left my last company, we had not installed a SolarEdge system in over a year. Made in USA or not, their inverter failure rates had sky rocketed making the Tesla PW2/2+ our new goto. I also never installed their battery. Very few people wanted them for any number of reasons. Being Li-Ion didnt really seem to be much of a concern to most customers but still LFP is safer and less expensive. The supplier I work for now doesnt sell SolarEdge. They focus on products I would consider to be industry leading tech. Full featured AIO hybrid inverters and modular systems with integrated storage. Sorry to burst your bubble, but the main reason SolarEdge is still relevant today is because of their former glory. Maybe one day they will become an industry leader again.

Thank you, I will do some more videos soon.

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Thank you for getting back to me. We are heading there this month from Vermont. Where did you leave your car in Nashville? Also is there a reason you didn't stay every night in a designated campground? @@all14000

I left my car at a hotel parking lot in Tenn. there is also a police station you can consider. I stayed in some of the designated campgrounds, but also liked the flexibility to be able to end the day when tired.

I have not had any issues. I do not overload the rear rack or front rack. They have a weight rating that gives you plenty of space. Trek also has a good warrantee if anything happens like that.

I rode from 60-120 per day but an average does not really mean anything. I had to stop 2 days for rain and thunderstorms. On touring bikes you usually can average 12-15 per hour if it is flat.

Glad you made a good choice. I will upload more videos in the next few months. I have done several trips on both bikes. Both bikes are great and overlap in their best ride areas but have different setups. The 920 is a road touring bike capable of dirt roads and gravel, while 1120 is an off-road bike set up best for dirt roads, gravel and single-track trails. Both are great bikes.

Thanks for the great info.

They work great in solar water systems.

Thanks for the comments. It is a good learning process and always great to hear how others do things.

I think I have the heat maxed out. At over 200 degrees, there is no more to do. Foil tape might work also but I liked the seal made with the high temp silicone.

I think he was articulate, thoughtful, and honest.

Compared to whom !

I personally loved his narration. To each his own

Excellent video and he is well spoken. Be a better human.

Hello Steve, plenty of funding available, we just need to choose how it is spent. Millions of dollars wasted on the Maine Turnpike each year with plans to build 2 more interchanges.

@@all14000 Where is all this funding coming from ??

@@mec253 we need to divert Maine Turnpike toll revenue to clean transportation project. Toll on the turnpike should also be increased and gasoline state tax raised. We need to promote clean public transport and make the use of person polluting autos and truck more expensive. Really simple equation.

@@all14000 "and the new commuter service that's going to run between Lewiston and downtown Portland waterfront" !! Seriously ??!! Turnpike tolls should be increased and gasoline tax raised !! Sir, you'll never see it.

@@mec253 Thanks for your opinion, I respectfully disagree with you.

3 holes disrupted the air flow, so more thermal heat transfer could happen. I think rock insulation should work fine.

@@all14000 Thanks for the quick respinse an sorry for my english. I have another qyestion...Why you made so many tubes of cans instead of a single long tube of cans using fittings? thanks thanks thanks 👋

@@MattiaRaggiDrum the more metal in the air box, the more thermal exchange. So I filled it up.

@@all14000 Maybe I did not say it clear enough. I just wanted to say why you didn't join the various tubes together to form a single continuous tube. The amount of metal inside the air box remains the same. Thanks again

@@MattiaRaggiDrum oh I wanted to use old soda cans that I collected from the roadway. Recycle

Hello Liz, the National Park Service Map is very good. It is on the park website.

Hello Kansas, I live up in Maine and wanted to camp out at night and enjoy some spring weather. It turned out tornados are a weekly event along this route, so I need up in hotels about every 3 night. It worked out well. Nice to get a shower. I like doing self supported trips and it is cheaper. Do they me wrong Air BNB is fun!

@@all14000 really enjoyed your post, thanks for sharing. I think I’m going to do the trail from TN to New Orleans in 2023. I’ll bring a tent and sleeping bag too, since some of the towns have a large distance between. Question: Any safety concerns or homeless vagrancy issues on this trail?

@@kansasmcgahan5523 I never had any security issues along the trail. It is really remote and separated from most of the towns. You do go through areas like Jackson etc. Tupelo. You might want to use those as hotel towns. Parts of those towns are not that great, but there was also nice parts. If you plan it out well, I think you will be fine. It is very worthwhile and a unique ride for sure.

Storage would be based on house insulation I suppose.

Thank you

i would like to see the results

How did it work?

​@Teknopottu While it did work to heat the upstairs 3 bedrooms and bathroom on sunny fall and spring days, I was very disappointed with the heat output. The heat output in the eastern bedroom was 61C while the western bedroom was 55C of heat. Why the difference? I don't know. The shadows from the neighbouring house blocked the solar rays in Nov, Dec, Jan and half of Feb. Looking back I think I lost a lot of heat by having 5 separate 6'x3' heating chambers rivetted together and connected by 1" holes top, middle and bottom. Although I did my best to seal them up. I think I also lost alot of heat by only having 2" of foam surrounding the walls, back, top and bottom of the solar air heating chambers. 4" of foam would have been far better. For example, my 6'x6' solar air heater with 4" of foam I built in 2016 at a different location has a heat output of 95C. My next solar air heater will be one large single unit 6 or 7 feet tall and 4 feet wide insulated with 4" of foam with a rounded convex plexiglass lens with a 5" bottom ventilation hole just above the interior baseboard and the top ventilation hole measuring 6" at 6'6" height to facilitate the natural air convection air flow of rising warm air. With this heating source combined with high insulation I should stave off using additional heating sources until 7 or 8 or 9pm on cold winter sunny days. Without any solar obstructions I should get good solar gain and solar heat in the fall, deep winter and spring. Time will tell. Go experiment, build and enjoy.

Thank you. The fork bags are 4 liters each. I think that is the large sized.

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Glad you are enjoying solar heating.

Thank you

Hello, no not ready for doomsday but the bike is.