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   『VRISKA』 (vriska@lizards.live)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2024 16:00:11 JST 『VRISKA』

   This is the best stirfry I've made all year

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2024 16:00:10 JST iced depresso

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     @vriska power come back up?
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2024 16:08:49 JST iced depresso

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     @Mr_NutterButter @vriska i remember dumpin chicken from sams club and vegebls in a pan and making stir fry with a bunch of seasoning. back when i still cooked :blobcatsmilehappy:
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     Mr.NutterButter (mr_nutterbutter@gameliberty.club)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2024 16:08:50 JST Mr.NutterButter

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     @vriska what's the recipe :blobthief:

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2024 16:16:42 JST iced depresso

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     @vriska :neocat_flush: might want to uh. y'know. battery wall. maybe just a small one.
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     『VRISKA』 (vriska@lizards.live)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2024 16:16:43 JST 『VRISKA』

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     @icedquinn it actually cut again midway thru cooking lmao

     There's bad storms here this weekend

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     『VRISKA』 (vriska@lizards.live)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2024 16:27:40 JST 『VRISKA』

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     @icedquinn yeah we are looking into ups solutions

     Also cc @7666 you know all about bombs

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2024 16:27:40 JST iced depresso

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     @vriska @7666 UPS? those are mostly for blips, and even then only for very sensitive equipment. i mean yeah you can get "eco" UPS that are for like.. keeping the router or alarm clocks alive during a reset.
     
     if its more than about 5 minutes you'll need an ATS (automatic transfer switch) in to some batteries (the gel sealed stuff is cheaper, lifepos are expensive as shit.) what the transfer switches do is run grid power until the grid dies and then they flip over to the secondary systems kind of like a UPS but unlike a UPS it does not run all of the current through the cell all of the time.
     
     you do need an inverter to turn the 12V DC back in to 120V AC. its possible that the electronics still die long enough to trigger a reset in less resiliant ones--these aren't UPS'.
     
     its electrical work so you have to figure out what devices you consider critical systems and then look up their watt/amp ratings. deep cycle cells are sold by their amp-hours, so if your fridge (usually 6-15A) is 6A then a 250Ah cell should last 41 hours (ignoring losses.) i saw the gel sealed ones being about 400$ at this rating. those are good for about 500 full cycles of dead&recharged, but they are also rated on "depth of discharge" so if you don't use them all the way down theres a kind of nonlinear life extension to it.
     
     you can skip the ATS if you want to manually deal with moving the plugs and inverters though.
     
     some nerd i was talking to mentioned taking some of his electronics aparts to convert them all in to DC to bypass this (that nerd was living on solar and doing this to get out of the conversion loss rates all the AC adapters create) its true that DC->AC->DC is retarded, but trying to convert things to run on DC directly isn't necessarily trivial.
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     『VRISKA』 (vriska@lizards.live)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2024 16:32:44 JST 『VRISKA』

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     @icedquinn @7666 i know next to nothing about this stuff, thank you for the information!

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2024 16:32:44 JST iced depresso

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     @vriska @7666 i looked it up after a power outage here resulted in spoiling 300$ of groceries.
     
     i bought a power station but its not enough to run the fridge. its just an anker station and a foldable panel so we have the theoretical ability to solar charge phones/laptop/tablets, which is more than we had, but
     
     after *that* i later learned i could have powered the fridge afterall, but it required knowing what the modules were.
     
     the stations are good for "i have money and don't want to deal with problems" and you just get a suitcase from anker or ecoflow (if you bullshit; they make you make accounts to use the phone apps) and plug shit in and it works.
     
     the modular system is modular. you can get all kinds of shunts to measure usage and all kinds of controllers to wire a dozen solar panels or hook a fuel generator up but you have to deal with the Problems then.
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2024 16:34:36 JST iced depresso

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     @vriska @7666 if your grid is *mostly* stable, i'd just do a very small battery wall. if you know the average length of a failure, provision accordingly.
     
     you can always attach generators afterward in a modular system. the power stations are very.. get what you're given. depends on the amount of $ to patience you have really.
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     『VRISKA』 (vriska@lizards.live)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2024 16:34:37 JST 『VRISKA』

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     @icedquinn @7666 we have looked at solar solutions too a bit, haven't really had too many issues yet and moving has been so busy and exhausted

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2024 16:37:55 JST iced depresso

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     @vriska @7666 my solar panel is absolutely cheap as hell and very small. i have this just to have one, it folds up enough to fit in the wardrobe closet.
     
     there do exist "suitcase" solars that come in hard boxes like music gear travels with. those are a bit more durable i think. good if you have storage space and the landlord doesn't want you installing panels on the roof (some HOAs and shit don't like them, though they are increasingly getting told to fuck off about this)
     
     permanent roof panels are poggers, but they do need cleaned sometimes.
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     『VRISKA』 (vriska@lizards.live)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2024 16:39:18 JST 『VRISKA』

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     @icedquinn @7666 the fridge is my primary concern to keep powered for groceries reasons too

     Grid here seems pretty stable but every now and then cyclones knock out power for a week

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2024 16:39:18 JST iced depresso

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     @vriska @7666 an entire week? :blobcatgrimacing:
     
     that's probably going to need a couple batteries and/or panels to stem the loss then yeah.
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2024 16:39:57 JST iced depresso

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     @vriska @7666 i mean, or a generator. fuel generators tend to be the ultimate failovers.
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2024 16:41:54 JST iced depresso

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     @7666 @vriska one thing to note if you do solar stuff: its always better to spend power out of the panel than the battery. you take a conversion loss on every accumulator, and once those are full all remaining power is "wasted," which is how you get the silliness of bitcoin monetizing unused solar power.
     
     so if you're gonna run the water distiller to yeet flouride, do it during the day.