46 watts… but, yea, I expected lower.

But, suppose when its spinning 4x seagate exos, they like their juice.

It apparently doesn’t allow HDD hibernation while containers are running, and doesn’t appear to like to use any sleep states.

Key word, is idle.

Synology… and HDD hibernation don’t really go together very well. If you have containers running, it won’t let the HDDs hibernate at all. And- I have a minio instance running.

Unless you have a wall of old nokia phones… it should be quite scary.

Eh… Mutually assured destruction.

It’s a very scary phrase.

That, is a pretty good deal. Better start picking up some MD1200s!

Its a going. One day at a time.

Nope, not at all.

Behind every successful story, is a lot of failures. (or- really rich parents).

I agree, I’d be picking up a bunch of those, if that were the case.

esp32-c6 (supports zigbee), is pretty cheap.

No.

I wouldn’t vote for Hillary period for many reasons. Her sex is not one of them.

A random fact, I actually did vote for a woman to be president. But, it damn sure was not Hillary. There is too much stink associated with her. Too much shit swept under the rug.

The other admin now “owns” this instance, and hosts it in the EU.

I am just a glorified moderator now.

I’d say, you have a small instance.

I used to host lemmyonline.com, which has somewhere around 50-100 users.

It was upwards of 50-80g of disk space, and it used a pretty good chunk of bandwidth. CPU/Memory requirements were not very high though.

I’d gladly donate a few TB, but Not about to fill my entire array for books i’ll never read…

Yes.

Nope.

Still just feel like a kid, with extra responsibilities, while raising my own kids. Guess sometime around 50 or so i’ll start feeling like an “adult”

Although, at least I call myself a dumbass, after doing something stupid, or wasting money on crap.

I’m gonna wait a few years, until prices go waaay down… and I plan on doubling/tripling the PV capacity, which will make everything much more effective, as well.

How did you get that rate? We pay 33 cents, and it was 24 cents just a few months ago… wouldn’t be surprised if it goes up again next year and the year after since even 33 cents is government subsidised (so - there’s no cheaper option available).

All about location. There are supposedly many in my area on a different coop utility, who are only paying 0.03c/kwh.

Ooof. Why’d you do that? We simply put (a bit over) 5kW of panels on the roof, and a good 5kW inverter. One day of sun generates about as much power as we use in a week, and even if it’s overcast we still come out ahead.

I had a few other goals I wanted to accomplish-

1. Reliability. The grid here isn’t the most stable, and blinks a few times per week. And, a time or two per year, we have an outage. This solution has handled this fantastically well, so well, that I don’t even notice when the grid has dropped unless I specifically go for it.

2. Apart of this, was bringing some of my wiring/electrical up to code. This accounted for 10k of the price-tag… I relocated/replaced the mains panel across the house to a location more suitable then my daughter’s closet. Also- the panel itself, was pretty old, and needed to be modernized.

One more issue- my PV is undersized a bit. Adding another 3kw, would yield much better returns for me.

Its undersized, because if I oversized it, and sent more energy than I consumed, my lovely utility slaps on a 42$ fee… which is no-bueno.

If the ROI => 25 years, then it’s not worth it- because the hardware and equipment is considered deprecated at that point.

If it lasts 30 years, sure, its making good use of itself. But- everything is rated between 15-25 years. As such, after that period, it’s considered end of life, and no longer supported.

Now- I will note, it is not worth it for the “Rate I currently pay”, which is 0.08c/kwh. If next year, my electricity rates tripled, it would vastly reduce the amount of time until this solution reached ROI. And- I am betting that electricity does not get cheaper in the future, otherwise I would have not have pulled the trigger on a 50,000$ project, where the math told me it wasn’t the best idea.

Also, if you really want to see everything quantified- I plan on publishing all of the math, and numbers at the one year mark… which will be around march. -> https://static.xtremeownage.com/pages/Projects/Solar-Project/

This platform* is getting overrun by trolls and tankies. I’m going back to Reddit

Coming from someone who owns them-

Nah, it’s not worth it… at least, if you strictly look at “saving money” overall.

ROI is on average 10-25 years, depending on your current cost of energy. The components/inverters/etc, are usually rated for 20-25 years.

At least- this applies if you have a properly licensed contractor install everything. If you do everything yourself, its extremely worth it, and would achieve ROI in a decade or less.