monstermunch

I'll have to go over the whole post, I'm terrible at writing! Quite a few errors have been pointed out. But I can just edit them and pretend they never happened

I hope you do, we need more like it!

While you could use serial through to to a VM, I need another pin to get the PPS signal in. Not sure how to do that

I also like having them bare metal

We want to see you run that fiber! Do post about it if you ever do it

Thanks!

I've been very interested in the new TP-Link stuff, they have really come a long way. I don't know if I've really ever heard of much wrong with the TP-Link stuff

When I bought this house, a requirement was fiber internet. Not dealing with garbage cable!

I make sure to never count the cost!

But, its all used and all over a number of years, so not as much as you'd think. If you went out and tried to get it all at once, it would be crazy. Most things I spent a good while waiting for the right deal to come up

Like the UPS alone, I saved probably close to $3000 off MSRP

I've thought about switching to OPNSense, but honestly I'm just set in my ways with PFSENSE now. Maybe when they really piss me off I'll switch

I have ipv6 on both WAN's and ipv6 on LAN, but not any other VLAN's

To be completely honest, I find ipv6 wildly alloying, but I guess that means I need to learn more!

Mine certainly can

You in Houston?

Nope, its ALL completely full of cat hair 24/7/365

Allowed in the USA per code NEC 400.7

But, It would have been better if I fed a small sub-panel from the UPS, and then went out from there. Shoulda-coulda-woulda!

Good idea, I'll work on some

The main reason is so that if I'm updated the VPS or there is an outage, it still works.

Its complicated going over the tunnel and out the VPS, but it lets me make the site available no matter which ISP my home is running on (Since I have 2)

I also need the VPS and tunnel for other things, like Rekor Scout inbound communication

Odd comment

Where have I really shown the inside of my house? I purposefully don't show the inside of my house as much as possible, because that's weird

There has always been trees, from after about 2 months after I moved in 3+ years ago. Which posts even has no trees?

Yep pretty much, I got it all used and over the span of 10+ years. Selling old stuff to fund new stuff, and a fair amount of NFR stuff from vendors

>And then each post he hopefully points to some Houston-area business where you, too, can get your Hardware on.

Uhh, where?

No I don't...

Man I just like cool things :(

Honestly I'm not 100% sure. Full A record failover is a paid feature which I don't pay for, but it seems like adding 2 A records does more than just round robin the DNS

If from a test machine I am loading the site via the VPS and I power it down, as soon as I refresh the page it ends up pointing home with zero downtime

I've not found this to be the case at all, if you have a recent tank its unlikely it will just randomly start leaking. Much more likely the flame sensor, ignitor etc will go bad first

The 22kw is $500 cheaper than the 27kw, no point going for the 22

If it helps, I have solar and overproduce so I'm net negative on carbon for electric at least

Yes! I have one. It lets me start my 5 Ton AC on my 7kw portable generator without issue

Not loud at all, like a high idling car. The Liquid Cooled ones are much quieter (Or at least a nice sound)

The air cooled ones are not as nice

Author here. It was $20K installed total

I also have 17kw of solar on my roof, and overproduce. I have 1:1 net metering, so a battery will not help financially unless that ends. the only utility a battery provides is backup power

In the middle of summer I will use around 80kwh a day with lots of AC usage (Yes, I could get more insulation, better ducts, switch to minisplits. all in progress)

A lot of that is at night, because it doesn't get any cooler at night really. It still stays hot and humid. Between sun I'm using around 30kwh, so I'd need 3 x Tesla Power Walls JUST TO MAKE THE NIGHT and hope it was sunny the day before to fully charge, and sunny the next day

The cost for that is over $30,000, only makes the night, and still only outputs around the same as the generator. If it's not sunny but it's still warm, I'll be without power in a short time. If I'm spending that amount of money, I want power to stay on no matter what

I'm waiting for Enhpase or Tesla, or someone to come out with an AC Coupled grid tie battery that has full generator support. That is the dream. Then in low solar days it could pre-charge the battery with the generator for night time. I don't want to drop a ton of cash now, when that is surely on the horizon. Either that, or the ability to use a car as a battery. If I could use a Tesla as a battery, I would probably go buy a 100 model Tesla. That would be 100kwh! much better

Sir, this is a 48 port switch!

27kw is actually 115A

This is my blog post, it was $20K installed

I have a 7kw portable generator that will run on Gasoline or NG, but I wanted the entire house to have power no matter what

Sadly I can't give a longer timeframe, as I've only had this 1 year

But, everyone told me it wouldn't last a year

The thing is though, there are no temperature problems

All equipment is within the operating specs