Recent content by BigWarehouse

I got a Brother P-touch (really, who came up with that name?!) PT-E300 about 4-5 years ago, I paid around $200. I don't think this is a current model anymore but you can get better ones now that have computer connectivity and print bigger labels for under $100. Look for them on Amazon. Mine...

Voltage drop would never make an inverter "blow up". They are all designed to simply shut off if the incoming voltage is too low. If this is some kind of commercial 20MW site (that's 20,000 kilowatts!) then that seems like something they should have already figured out. An engineer should be...

Going to need a lot more info than that. Voltage? Wattage of inverters? Brand? How are they setup? And if this is some kind of commercial setup, why in the heck would they need to ask this question here?

Several years ago I bought an industrial label maker, I must have gone through a mile of label tape by now. It's amazing how useful they can be in the shop and with building things. The $20 type found at an office store will work, but if you spend ~$70-100 you can get a really nice industrial...

PEX all the way! If you must use hard lines use copper. I don't understand why they even still sell black iron pipe! You should not be using that for anything in 2019. If you want some hard lines to condense water, nothing better at heat transfer than copper. And of course never any rust! PEX...

Dehumidifier. Also just because code doesn't require air circulation, doesn't mean you can't use it. If the attic is "conditioned", there must be something up there conditioning it.

Higher R value per inch certainly, but higher R value per unit cost?

I've been wanting to get an electric leaf blower for this as well. :beer: Sort of want to setup a car wash area. Definitely won't dry quite as well as a hand towel job and more likely to leave a few spots here and there if the water is hard...

I've got well water and it's a bit hard. I won't let a drop of this water touch my vehicles, it leaves lots of spots. I've thought about setting up a water softener for the hose but I don't really want to do that. Really all I need is better water to rinse things when I'm done, I can use the...

Re: Crazybright LED Flood lights Typical chinese import flood light. Those have been around for quite a while. The numbers they use for watts and lumens are always wrong. I have four "150 watt" LED flood lights that are about that size, which I wired to standard 3 prong cords. In reality they...

My take on this is that in a humid climate, indoor air should almost always be conditioned a little bit. In Texas that means A/C and dehumidifier. Keep the humidity set below 60% and you'll never have a problem. Even if you aren't going to be inside and have the A/C cranking, you can still have...

I'm pretty sure the Hellcat was designed exclusively with the idea in mind that the owner wants to break a series of minor laws on a regular basis. What other reason could you possibly want one? Yeah, Dodge doesn't say that in the ad, but come on. Do you think people buy these to put it in...

Don't get me wrong, cutting firewood is work, but it's also exercise and a modern chainsaw and log splitter are ridiculously easy to use compared to anything even 20 years ago. I refuse to split anything by hand. And I think most of my fuel needs will be covered by trees that fell on their own...

Planning on building a very large shop in the near future, but I'm all about being comfortable. First question I asked myself is how much will it cost to heat/cool this place, and of course, the answer is always "a bunch". Instead I purchased several acres of forest. (tree farm) If my...

8-12 homes. You don't know the area, taxes are cheap. The point is I am taking this lot, that I could just let sit and rot like it has for the last 1,000 years at less than $200/year in taxes, and bump it up to MANY MANY thousands per year. Average house around here pays $800-2000/year. Even if...