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The only problem is that you need a second phone to take a picture to zoom in on what you are trying to read on the first phone. :ROFLMAO:

Additionally, if you decide to go along with something like this, make sure that the charge controller is MPPT. This type of charge controller can do several things to improve efficiency and charge the batteries even with marginal sunlight. First of all if the voltage of the solar panel exceeds...

I had to acquire the parts from Amazon or Ebay. The panels are probably no longer available since the company was out of business back then. But you might get lucky: Panels These do not have any connectors. The ones I bought had MC3 connectors but today MC4 is the standard...

On the other hand, a Solar Generator might be the ticket for you. It is portable, it can charge with AC, it can charge with the car and from solar panels. All is integrated, battery, battery charge controller and inverter. The only thing that you might want to add are solar panel extension...

Just to give you an idea, I put this together in a hurry for my sister after hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017 so that she could run her fridge, charge phones and have a few LED lights. I did not know anything about solar power so I watched a bunch of Youtube videos and read anything...

i bought an oil less Stealth which is very quiet but the pressure regulator failed with very little use. It was replaced under warranty with no issue but the new one is already misbehaving.

it looks like me! I must be delicious!

Apparently the situation in the neighborhood has been much worse than initially appeared. It seems that at least three houses had been flooded since this is the worst flooding ever. The ongoing story is that when the county fixed the drainage for the neighborhood last time, they increased the...

Make sure to run it every two months to maintain the warranty. Also, drain the carb every time for storage and use Sta-bil to prevent corrosion in the carb. Seafoam did not do anything to protect my carb from corrosion. Here is the direct replacement carb that I bought for mine since HF did not...

It's a good thing that we are in the dry season. This was Sunday night: Driveway with low voltage light Front yard and the street. My drowning truck. Backyard. Backyard. We had over 10 inches of rain and most of it in about 2 hours. A neighbor had her house flooded for the third...

I have the HF 8750 Watt Inverter Generator and I bought it in October 2022. I just replaced the carburetor a couple of months ago because it was running really rough, needing some choke at high RPM's. HF does not offer a replacement carb, only some very expensive gaskets and not even a repair...

Well, I am not trying to get away from Windows but I want to be able to have other choices. Particularly with all the continuing issues with Windows 11 like this latest issue. I have played with Linux on and off over the years starting with the Mandrake distribution years ago that at the time...

On this Asus T100 laptop, I wiped out Windows 10 32 bit since the SSD is only 64 GB and installed MX Linux. On another Acer laptop, I split the 520 GB drive for dual boot with MX Linux and Windows 10 64 bit.

Well, I am very impressed with MX Linux so far on this little under powered computer. Not only it works better than with Windows 10 but I have found some interesting User Interfaces under KDE that make things more familiar:

This reminds me of the good old days in college during a summer session. A group of about six of us were working on mechanical design team project (of a beach sweeper) and being a summer course, the class met everyday and we had almost every day progress reports. Our team had to meet daily and...