How about a solar car port on a budget?

[Crossy]

15 minutes ago, lom said:

Calculated using your Faber-Castell slide ruler for engineers..?  😄

 

At school, nah. Bloody log tables! (included sin, cos, tan etc. etc.) 

 

 

At college etc. we actually had calculators (although we were supposed to also have slide-rules, nobody ever used them). 

[carlyai]

For me just slide ruler as we never had them fancy button thinggys.....maybe my age is showing.

My prostrate is showing my age.

[Muhendis]

On 2/23/2025 at 5:24 PM, Crossy said:

I was more than mildly surprised that my Grammar School trig. actually worked to calculate the cutting angles (nothing is at 90^o, it's a scalene triangle so you can't just use Pythagoras, you need to remember the "rule of sines" etc.) resulting in minimal gaps when welding.

 

I wouldn't have bothered with sine language.

Clamp everything in position. Mark where welding/cuts are needed then go for it with angle grinder and welder.

[treetops]

On 2/24/2025 at 7:29 AM, Crossy said:

Nearly, SOHCAHTOA, which everyone remembers . . . .

 

Or if they can't remember they can always use The Orange Alligator Sat On His Cornflakes And Hiccuped.

[Crossy]

Here we go with the numbers from February.

 

The period from the 15th to the 26th was dull and cloudy leading to Consumption being greater than Production and gradually discharging the batteries until we needed to use the grid 😞 

 

Since our bill won't come until March 19th I'm hoping for a few more sunny days where we can get the batteries fully charged so we can export some juice (spin the meter backwards) reducing what we pay to PEA.

 

[Crossy]

Meanwhile the roof extension is coming along.

 

Beams are currently bolted up with about half now welded, welding will be completed on Sunday. That ruddy power pole is in a somewhat inconvenient location. No, we will not be moving it 🙂 

 

 

And the roof tiles have arrived.

 

[Muhendis]

Don't forget to set up your direct link to air traffic control at Suvarnabhumi and Don Muang airports. 

[Crossy]

I'm waiting for the locals to complain that we are sucking in all the sunlight and they don't have enough

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-town-rejects-solar-panels-amid-fears-they-suck-up-all-the-energy-from-the-sun-a6771526.html

 

[Muhendis]

"During the Woodland Town Council meeting, one local man, Bobby Mann, said solar farms would suck up all the energy from the sun and businesses would not go to Woodland, the Roanoke-Chowan News Herald reported.

 

Jane Mann, a retired science teacher, said she was concerned the panels would prevent plants in the area from photosynthesizing, stopping them from growing.

Ms Mann said she had seen areas near solar panels where plants are brown and dead because they did not get enough sunlight.

She also questioned the high number of cancer deaths in the area, saying no one could tell her solar panels didn't cause cancer."

 

The average IQ in North Carolina is reported to be 100.2. 

I have serious doubts about that