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  1. No Crust Racing
    So you just lurk here now huh....
  2. No Crust Racing
    Jeepers. Almost easier to just buy a track car lol Not serious but maybe slightly serious?
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    Despite being a technology person I have never tried sim racing, is it really any good? I just cant see how it would be fun vs actual driving? Not cheap either 0_0
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    The goal is to have fun, looks like fun to me.
  5. No Crust Racing
    Cheers mate, where you been? Just come up from moving boxes from old shed to new. Still plenty to do, just taking my time.
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    Finished the door, test run went well, and final shed certificate acquired No smoke leaks around the door, no water leaks around the flue.
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    When you're done making big bucks in the city you can move regional and live like a king That seems to be the way here, which makes it harder for people who were always regional, like me, to afford to buy the houses because you city folk are buying them all up lol
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    See how we go, I just put 4 more in, leaving 2 to go on that array and the 9 still to go on the other array. Given my shading I am expecting a gain but do not have good graphical data to compare only my anecdotal monitoring. That said, the panels will be happier as the bypass diodes won't be getting worked so hard given the shading I get in winter months.
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    Started fitting optimisers, 3 down, 15 to go. Fiddly job to do neatly and keep cables up and out of the way/weather/off roof etc. Would be easier if being done before panels were fitting. Connected 1 and turned everything back on to make sure it worked first. Nothing blew up, didn't die. Stay tuned.
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    Heater coming along, just waiting on door glass seal now and we are good to go. Got a dry day over the weekend so chucked the flue in. Hoping to christen it this weekend with the boys in the shed for some drinks but lockdown looms. Bought myself a drill attached nibbler for this job, can't say it worked that well on the corrugated metal, hammers through it until the angle changes too much though, ended up cutting the whole out in sections then using the grinder to clean/final shape. Head is still at the CNC shop, have seen some progress pics but bloody hell is it slow progress.
  11. No Crust Racing
    Sequential will be a game changer, what are you going for? Group buy get me one cheaper
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    Interesting, I expected your goal to be higher, but we have gone about some things differently and are using them for different things. We have similar power goals it seems, though my upper limit of 450rwkw will not be what I'm aiming to use at all times on the track, the motor should supposedly be good for more, but I am all about building and using for longevity.
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    Cam gears + VVL? I reckon you'd be hard pressed to lose any notable response. It's still only a 4cyl in the end though. Will be interesting to see how our graphs compare as I went the Kelford VVL cams but don't have the displacement increase. Different intended usage though I guess and I assume you will be going for more power than I need for track work.
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    Sounds like fun :D, but I'm a bit confused about the head. Given the X-trail head is just a standard P12 missing VVL on one side, why spend 5mths searching for parts for it when you can just buy a P12 head and be done with it? Unless you are intending on using the factory X-trail cam because it's slightly better for turbo setup?
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    Yep batteries change desired usage and output patterns a bit. My china inverter (MPP) on the off grid has stopped giving me output from both MPPTs, only showing one currently (global issue with them it seems on the cloud platform) so charts aren't as helpful as it only shows 1 array. I can get the days total output off the inverter though so I expect it to go from like 6kwh on a nice sunny day to maybe 8-9 hopefully. The on grid system is only giving me like 7-8 on a good day before the shade kills it. I hope to get another couple kWh from that after I remove the tree. All my stuff is mostly north - west facing so it all suffers in winter here being up on the hill where the sun is gone very early. Summer for the on grid is like 20-24 before shade kills it, ok for a 7-8yr old system,l I think. Off grid will do better but I haven't had it through summer yet.
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    Hmm would I get much for some aluminium RHS???
  17. No Crust Racing
    You can DIY a tilt adjustment easily enough. I have a big set of adjustable aluminium legs sitting in my shed doing nothing, kept them for the materials alone. I didn't need them as my roof pitch is bang on for my locale. Also these babies arrived.
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    Door section repaired, just need to tack in a couple sections that set the height of the glass and I'm right to start cleaning the unit for a lick of paint. This was quite interesting/challenging working with thinner materials, needing to tack, move, tack, move. I noticed that lower section of the door has not got a light curve in it from the process, should be fine but might need a gentle twig to get it back. Will have to clamp it down properly next time. Also the rust that came off when sanding/moving it etc seems to have stained the floor, as in still lightly visible after a basic wipe over. See if it wipes up with a basic cleaner/water/whatever. I also dropped a piece of steel and chipped the concrete, shed is no longer virgin. Dale tells me th head should be back hopefully this week, the Sydney lockdown causing grief.
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    They were completely surrounding my water tanks up the hill, if there was a fire we'd have no water 0_0 Had fun clearing those. I discovered the limb dropping is due to birds eating grubs from out of the wood.
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    Agreed, the big trees around the house are essential the wildlife here, I moved out of town to be closer to nature among other things. But that Wattyl... can eat a dick.
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    Mine is a 4mt tall scrubby wattyl piece of shit right on the embankment above the shed, it can go. That's all that's shading my on grid system, but it's a single tracker so on an old Kaco so 1 panel is enough to gut the output to 10%. The big euc's that shade the off grid array at various times, and our pool (filling it with leaves and seed pods constantly!) stay lol
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    Microinverters won't get me anything extra above optimisers in my setup. This is retro fit, I already have inverters in place, I don't need to convert to AC at the panel. I just have shade issues in winter. Optimisers will help that on the off grid system, cutting down the stupid tree above the grid system will sort that one lol At the moment, if nothing else, I am off peak all the time as I can fill the battery overnight.
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    Boohoo... My graph stops at the apex, and just drops away to almost zero as the shade hits 1 single panel on my old grid system with a single tracker...
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    Dollar vs gain for microinverters is still a ways off IMO. Especially when you can get decent strong inverters so cheap, ew or used. Takes a very specific install to warrant them. I wouldn't have bought these optimisers either if they weren't cheap AF.
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    No Crust Fabrication hard at it doing some maintenance on the Coonara before it goes in. Burn tube was toast, made a new one and fitted after straightening the baffle. 3 out of 5 welds were nice, the other 2 were ugly AF but seemingly strong - 3mm steel so quite forgiving for the learner that I am (this is my 2nd or 3rd ever welding project). Front door looks like it might have seen a little water damage from storage or maybe just metal fatigue from age. Cut that section out and made a new piece, welding in is proving a little harder as I was putting holes in both materials even on my lowest setting, it's only 1 to 1.6mm though. Spoke with a mate of mine who said you just wanna tack it, move to another section, tack again etc and continue as the metal will heat up too quickly then blow holes through. I have the piece "in" but it's not pretty, spent some time cleaning up that work then will give it another pass and tidy it up again. Going to give the heater a once over with a sanding disc and smash a coat of high temp on it for good measure.
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