CCS! At home! And the author, 5.5" bed description aside, seems fairly technically competent and explicitly said it's for DC typically.
This is actually a feature when part of all electrical vehicle that really will make renewable energy even more of a viable energy source as we are quickly building up a huge amount of battery storage globally that can balance out demand and supply. Anything else would be crazy when cars are not driving most of the time.
It's already promised for this truck, besides the power-from-outlets and vehicle-to-home power sharing capability that's been well publicized:
Yup, that's straight up vehicle-to-grid as a buffer. It's mindblowing to me that Ford is the company pushing this forward to commercial adoption.
With the onboard power outlets it's set to alert the user and halt the power distribution on either a set threshold (e.g. 20% state of charge) or when the vehicle senses that it's nearing the amount of charge it needs to get to the nearest charging station that it knows of.So if the power goes out, my truck powers the house, but what happens next morning when I need to drive somewhere?
But as a ballpark I think this looks right. ~10 cents/kWh versus 61 cents/29 kWh makes the math fairly easy regardless of the exact NG heater efficiency.
In your case, though, you could run it down to 1% and then recharge through regen on the way down the hill in the morning.
I haven't picked anything. Punting everything to Vacasa's court:
good to know. FWIW, we have a salt system and really like it. it takes a bit more chemicals when you fill it, but once its up and running you have to add less chlorine less often, and it also doesn't smell quite so much like a swimming pool - meaning you won't smell like chlorine when you get out. i think our tub is around 350 gal, which is about 4 people. we've fit up to 6, but its tight and you get some overflow (water loss).I haven't picked anything. Punting everything to Vacasa's court:
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salt systems also tend to not refilling as frequently as straight chlorine systems, however there is more upfront cost to the system.
i stayed with @jstuhlman & NC crew at a house rental in snowshoe for the 2019 WC. there was a hot tub there, and let's just say that the maintenance & care for the water was..... lacking.It better be every god damned weekend.
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An update on the ghost-activated sliding door: Wasted a half day traveling to/from the dealer to get this checked out a week or two ago. They reflashed the door button module--who knew that was possible?finally caught a photo of the message popping up while driving, indicating the car is attempting to self-actuate the power sliding door
Unreliable FIAT you say?
Hey @Sandwich how many times have the doors on your Alfa tried to automatically open while you're driving along with your offspring in the back, or randomly opened themselves while it's parked up at home?
It'll probably be traded in an equally reliable VAG, er, VWAG product in two years or so, and that's if the finances for trading it in end of year for a dealer-stock 2021 PacHy don't work out.
Ultimately came out to be 3,500 lbs of junk per the transfer center's scales! 2 dudes x 2.5 hrs + dump fee == $636.50. Well worth it.totally normal amount of sheer junk left behind by prior wood- and old stereo-gear-packrat prior owners
Few more items added to garage pile yet.
Going to hire a dude to haul this away with his pickup + trailer as U-Haul in Granby has no trucks available through next week, I may well have gotten it stuck driving it around the house to the basement entrance anyway, and time == money.
zero. it's surprisingly reliable in all honesty. It's just built really poorly, and not to the level of a 2020 honda or toyota.
Finally pestered the painter enough to get a formal quote. $3,500. This is for the ~1,400 sq ft main floor, two stairwells (one one flight, the other two flights), the hallway, one bedroom, and the big loft with high ceilings upstairs. The loft needs its ceiling done as well but otherwise just walls, one color.
I've mentioned this before but shall mention it again: There's a mind game aspect to having an electric, PHEV, or even efficient mere hybrid car in that at least in my household we always grab the keys of the most electric option.
Well, when you get to the store, you find out they are out of TP, for one.So if the power goes out, my truck powers the house, but what happens next morning when I need to drive somewhere?
We need blinds for a bunch of our big wide/tall windows, what didja get?
Short answer: mostly double cellular shades, blackout in bedrooms.
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I now have 1000 Mbps and I still lose connection to the Nest camera that is super close just outside the front door with the router less then 15ft away inside the house. The one by the detached garage is much more reliable. I did try to complain to Nest but was just put through to endless amount of CC staff around the world.
Took the Land Cruiser up so that I could bring up bikes. Yuna cried uncle (literally crying) 1.0 miles in, along the Fraser-Granby trail that has an intersection very near the house. Mariko and I rode a bit more after dropping Yuna back off at 2.0 miles, finishing at a grand 2.6, at which time she announced she was exhausted. Neither kid is able to shift on their own.
Had to pack efficiently because the body on frame Land Cruiser is no minivan. Still couldn't fit in one small bedside table box, but there will be other times.
Baby girls 3 across, because wide vehicle is wide.
Multi-Nests now set up. The 8th is in the basement and refused to join the app, probably due to WiFi reception down there. (The Nests are pretty finicky about that!) Those are set temps, not actual ambient room temps, for the record.
Switched over to CenturyLink officially and got their VDSL modem set up. Not the promised 60 Mbps speed but better than either a stick in the eye or the speeds of the long range WiFi provider, whom I emailed and asked to cancel. 'twas a prudent decision to go month to month with the long range WiFi outfit, as it turns out.
Also got the carpet Bisselled, the Land Cruiser's Homelink set up, another Roku plugged in with its gratis HDMI extender, and swapped out the broken-connector inside unit of the Yale Assure lock.
Setting up the Yale lock's smart module and Connect WiFi bridge box was a bit of a pain in the ass due to incorrect instructions and the latter being super picky re positioning between the door and the router. But it's done, and now I can set up fancy time-limited door codes, and can give Vacasa app access as an admin so that they can manage rental-related codes directly.
Sounds like you need a better router, regardless of the upstream link speed.
I can get 600 Mbps on my Iphone8 with the same distance to the camera. Like the camera and the router is almost exactly at the same height and not much in between them. It's not the stream quality that is the problem it just that it goes offline randomly.
Successfully switched to this plan. This current usage was before setting up the EVSE in Tabernash to not charge between 5-10 PM.
Pretty sure you ain't gonna be able to do anything until they're done nesting... then you can knock the nests down.
Yeah, seems like they are protected as migratory birds. Also seems like the prior owner would just blast their shit with a power washer in defiance of The Man and nature.
