What Did I Build This For?

[TLS Guy]

Drastically overbuilt sign holder?

Mounting location for electrical device of some sort?

Getting warm.

 

[TLS Guy]

Perhaps solar tie in to the electrical mains?

battery would be inside, ya?

Just surprised they don’t already have 15’ of snow to deal with!

You get the toffee apple! Stay tuned for further developments.

 

[TLS Guy]

That table was my first thought until I saw the legs or rather brace behind it.
Yes, something to do with a coming solar system.

Got it!

 

[TLS Guy]

It is bolted into the pad that was clearly poured just for it.

Correct.

 

[TLS Guy]

Are you adding on an addition with it's own subpanel and service? Kids outgrew the basement? Is that your asphalt?

No that is the neighbors asphalt.

 

[William Lemmerhirt]

It’s to mount an electrified Harris walz sign. So if anyone tries to steal it they are handily dispatched. No?

 

[William Lemmerhirt]

Just surprised they don’t already have 15’ of snow to deal with!

easy big fella! We’ll be dealing with that soon enough.

 

[mtrycrafts]

Got it!

Make sure you have ethernet cable out there if your gateway is outside there. Or in the garage if it is there. Don't rely on wi-fi connection.

 

[TLS Guy]

Yes, but it doesn't like temps below 50F unless somehow inside an insulated cabin .
Mine are in garage.

It was over 80 degrees here yesterday, but we will have some snow tomorrow morning, but it won't last and warm up to seasonal temps. Further details at the weekend. Build out is Friday, there are no batteries but two way metering. Batteries are no longer recommended.

The house is two story and no basement.

It is an ICF home

 

[TLS Guy]

Make sure you have ethernet cable out there if your gateway is outside there. Or in the garage if it is there. Don't rely on wi-fi connection.

We have wired Ethernet all over the house. Only mobile items use Wi-Fi. The Internet comes into the house next to the panel and goes to the modem and router, and then to a 19" patch bay, there are two 19" rack mounted hubs in the studio chase. There are patchbays for the security system, one each in the family room, great room and office.

 

[mtrycrafts]

What a project. Super. Lots of roof real estate for panels.
It took me 3 1/2 years to build my home with a couple of helpers and myself. Didn't have wi-fi on my mind in 1989/1990 design phase.
And a few other things were not imagined.

 

[GO-NAD!]

I was going to guess a set of stocks awaiting head and hand holes....

 

[Swerd]

That table was my first thought until I saw the legs or rather brace behind it. Yes, something to do with a coming solar system.

Like mtrycrafts & ryanosaur already said, I also thought the table that adjusts it's angle was going to be a platform for a small solar panel. As the fall and winter progresses, sun's position gets lower in the sky than in the summer. The solar panels could be adjusted to better to account for that.

The only problem is that this table is small for solar panels. Have they recently gotten more efficient and require less area?

Why not put the solar panels on the roof?

 

[Swerd]

I was going to guess a set of stocks awaiting head and hand holes....

We all know that TLS Guy doesn't suffer fools, but building his own stocks would be extreme and cruel .

 

[highfigh]

We all know that TLS Guy doesn't suffer fools, but building his own stocks would be extreme and cruel .

I'm sure he has people for that kind of work. Allows a bit of separation between him and the cretins.

 

[highfigh]

It was over 80 degrees here yesterday, but we will have some snow tomorrow morning, but it won't last and warm up to seasonal temps. Further details at the weekend. Build out is Friday, there are no batteries but two way metering. Batteries are no longer recommended.

The house is two story and no basement.

It is an ICF home

Why are batteries no longer recommended, utility requirement? Wouldn't want people to store energy, right? I mean, why would they need the utility if they could operate autonomously?

 

[mtrycrafts]

Like mtrycrafts & ryanosaur already said, I also thought the table that adjusts it's angle was going to be a platform for a small solar panel. As the fall and winter progresses, sun's position gets lower in the sky than in the summer. The solar panels could be adjusted to better to account for that.

The only problem is that this table is small for solar panels. Have they recently gotten more efficient and require less area?

Why not put the solar panels on the roof?

I am now pretty sure that the panels will be on the roof and what you see is for some equipment related to the system. Perhaps and inverter or two.

With that fixed brace in the back and the solid 4x4, distance to wall is limited.

 

[mtrycrafts]

Why are batteries no longer recommended, utility requirement? Wouldn't want people to store energy, right? I mean, why would they need the utility if they could operate autonomously?

Good question. Perhaps where he is, electricity is very reliable? Maybe he has a standby gas generator for power outages?
Hard to go off grid with batteries unless you have a bunch to store enough to tie you over winter weather and low solar generation.

ps. looking at his additional pictures above, I am pretty sure that he has a backup generator. Hard to integrate generator with solar battery. Enphase system can I believe. Tesla cannot.
I have Enphase inverters on panels and Tesla batteries for backup. Neighborhood is very quiet in power outage and my lights are on.

 

[ryanosaur]

Pretty certain he's previously discussed having generator back up.

 

[ryanosaur]

Why are batteries no longer recommended

This I'd like to hear.