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The Progressive Automations linear actuators came in late last night. The quality appears to be crazy good. I had never quite convinced myself that it was worth the additional cost, for the IP rating, but just looking at them, I'm pretty sure I don't doubt it now. These things are beefy, and...

We're looking to do this ourselves, well, I'm not sure I've talked the S/O entirely into it yet. But we're bringing our 5x8 utility trailer back from the farm this weekend to start designing the self-sufficient part of it. We'll be looking to move at least some of our current off-grid charger (...

And the Truck is back. First charging session of 2024. Progressive automation actuators should be here tomorrow sometime. Our next Build may be a battery/overland trailer build. We have a 400lb utility trailer that we'll likely lift, and we'll likely lift the Lightning 3" or so. We're going...

We did order the progressive automations hall sensor actuators today. They should ship early next week. sigh... hopefully the truck will eventually be back so there is a reason for the project to exist... We will be using these actuators, and will be moving from an 18" actuator to 24", so...

Was that BS on X that said FSD needs a lot of work? Seemingly related to this accident?

Realized I hadn't uploaded pics of the closer to final configuration of the control box. The upper half will hold the controllers for the rainbarrel fed, raised bed irrigation automated drip system. For those interested, what will be in there is more or less here...

I've seen this before, and some other mechanical solutions. We're I just entirely going for as simple solution as possible, I had thought about this. Like the tracking on the top of our art shed roof, does not need to be too complicated, although I may have them lower based on weather reports...

Still no truck after three weeks in for the recall, so really no content. System is working well for running everything in the garage, though. Except for one of the LDR light sensors, which I need to replace. I've just been moving the panel's mid day with the arduino cloud app. We're about to...

I've been waiting for them to list a "Crate" battery pack for the "Crate" mach-e motor. It'd need a controller as well, obviously. I wonder if they really want people converting ICE vehicles, though.

We're coming up on 3 weeks without the truck come monday.

This is sooo crazy. Our truck had no apparent issues when we brought it in for these recalls. The truck hasn't had an issue since a powertrain power loss in March. They told us they wanted the truck before they had parts and we told them that wasn't going to work for us, so we waited, until, we...

I think ours told us something similar, G/F told them she wasn't going to do that, and to order the parts then we'd bring it in. That said, they've still had the vehicle for over two weeks working on numerous recalls. If Ford is having trouble with dealer compliance and sales of EV's, they...

It's really weird service. They ask for the vehicle without a good idea of when they actually will start work on it. There were no apparent issues with ours until they got ahold of it, and now we're getting Ford Pass alerts. Obviously, there may be things their diagnostics are finding that the...

Ours is in for the recall for checking the battery modules. It's been in for two weeks now, FordPass sent the Powertrain Malfunction/Reduced power alert last week, and then a "HighVoltage Battery Warning" Alert yesterday while still at the dealer. Apparently, whatever work they did did not go...

Wonder how the eventual aftermarket will be able to affect this. I used to race with a couple guys that worked for CobbTuning reverse engineering BMW's, Subaru's and Porsches. The expertise is out there. It's not like we're going to increase emissions, lol.

Well, that's fun... 33 days. Not confidence inspiring. Ours has been in for a week now. They are getting us a rental.

How long did they have the truck? We're up to a week now, and I guess they are getting us a rental truck? Making it hard to succeed the way they are handling these.

Well, on hold for creating the actual video content for the Charging system since Ford now has the truck and who knows when we'll be getting it back. We're a week in now, and apparently they are getting us a rental truck ? This is for a Truck that had no apparent issues. I'm not sure if it's...

The Lightning is at the dealer for some recall fixes. GF is borrowing her sister's Mach-E. Charge station pro doesn't care what it charges. And started modifying the code to make the panels move with the sun. This is the system I've been using to move the 300watt panels on the G/F's Art...

Well, dependent on rates, which do fluctuate, as Luebri mentioned, eventually, many people will find their way to this: My literal, Solar Farm. Small agrivoltaic project with, eventually, four raised beds under the panels. Panels and batts keep getting cheaper by the day. This system will...