Trying to tick all the boxes
 

Well I guess that didn't work!!

Trying to get the solar pergola up before winter hit. Grrrr.!! & Burrrr! Everyone is busy which is good. Including yours truly. The weldments arrived one day before the snow hit. One day I'm installing the mounting hardware in the concrete next day snow, wind and cold!! I hate working in the cold.

The components do look great. Maybe we'll get a few warm days in Dec.
Oh well springs only 3-4 months away and I've waited this long.

Randen

Wow those look great.

Someone just posted this.

Use of Nissan Leaf battery in Solar installation.
Use of Nissan Leaf battery in Solar installation. - My Nissan Leaf Forum

How is your project going?

Pinballlooking

The project is on the back burner at this point. Snow and cold is the theme outside now and I'm soft when it comes to working in the cold. The welding shop I use has moved to a new building and he is busy as well. So we'll all wait till warmer weather.

The site that you had sent a link were a fellow had obtained 2 battery packs from a Tesla I had read a couple times. It seems as he is nearly off grid. As more and more of these high-end cars meet trees or other cars etc. will provide a plethora of awesome battery storage for home brew PV installations. This maybe a path in my very near future.

This point in time I'm extremely busy with my work but any time that I do have is spent on my electric truck. (Wiki a S-10 EV) Chevy made these back in 1997 and crushed them all along with the famed EV 1. 60 of the trucks escaped and are still in the public domain. I 've had some success with the truck but the odd incidents of electric experimentation has allow the magic smoke out of the semiconductors. But I'm oh so close to driving with electrons.

This spring maybe we'll be driving on sunshine.

Randen

Ticking all the boxes
 

Well spring has presented some warm days and my welding shop has made the adjustments. Maybe a couple more days of turning nuts and we will have the stainless pergola/solar mount up.:thumbup:

If anyone is following I have a news flash, the electric pick-up Chev S-10EV has been moving under its own power. Yay!! :eek:

Randen

You need to put up pictures of the S10-EV.

Pinballlooking

Here you go. The s-10 is operating on electrons.!!


https://youtu.be/4evNqitdp0s

Randen

Sweet ride. Any idea on range?
Mark

Ok, the envy part of me is peeking out. Your Electric S10 driving off in the Youtube video and there in the garage, I'm looking at what appears to me to be the nose of a blue Tesla Model S.

Congrats on getting the Chevy motor-vating again.

Still Trying to tick all the boxes
 

Well

Its still dam cold here in southwestern Ontario. In erecting the pergola a small tree was going to interfere with the sunlight falling on my panels so it had to be moved. What else would some one do on a cold Saturday morn.??

This tree spade was awesome it made minimal damage to my lawn but some lawn rolling will need to be done to fully erase the track marks.

The last items for the completion are being made these are some plastic clamp blocks to lock the tubes in place. I had designed the pergola to be assembled with hand tools so if anyone would want one it could be replicated. A stainless steel solar/carport!!

Still waiting for a nice warm spring day to spin all the nuts on!!!

Electric truck is running real nice won't be long till its on the road!!

Randen