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Month: September 2021

0-60

0-60

This whole 0-60 in 2 seconds thing is.. well… fxxxing awesome.

Glad to add the Plaid to the group.. and yes, I will be giving rides. 😉

New wheels and tires should be here in a week or so… more meat!

Install in progress

Install in progress

Today is day 1 of Battery install day. 4 Enphase Encharge 10s (so 40kwh of storage), Enphase Smart Switch and IQ Combiner connected up to my 20kw of Solar. Generator install coming next. These microinverters (IQ8) with microgrid are sweet!

New

New

I added a small two wheel vehicle to the fleet. Looks ready for some overlanding. Or at least some off grid camping. 😉

(TAB 400 Boondock, 3 way Fridge, Aldi Heater, AC, Roof Solar Panel) + I have some LiFePO4 batteries and genset for it. 2800 lbs.

Cars

Cars

I took my 2021 Suburban to the Chevrolet dealer for service today, and it was surprising to look around the dealership. They would typically have ~250 new cars on the lot , and another few hundred in a storage lot. They have exactly one new car here. One.

Supply is tight for sure!

GTR

GTR

I was walking back from getting the mail just now and thought – damn that is a sexy beast. 😉

RF

RF

Interesting to see how this very cheap small 70cm RF duplexer performs. 50db isn’t great, and certainly you wouldn’t want to use this for any kind of mountain top repeater.

Fiber

Fiber

A little around the house fiber connecting and server upgrading. I added a new USW Pro L3 10G/25G SFP+ switch to connect up all of the other switches around the house.

Next up is to finally pull the fiber all the way to the gate. I have the fiber on a spool ready to go. I tested the conduits and marked and cleared them. Given it is three jumps over 1000ft, I’ll need to recruit some help.