Recent content by Solarphil

If you’re already going to pump concrete, its not that much more to simply pump further. Just have the pumper bring more sticks of hose.

Do you have a check valve on the line going to the house, right after the tank’s tee and the pressure switch? If not, my hunch is your house is about a hundred feet uphill from the well system (41 x 2.31) or perhaps another pressure tank somewhere in the system is somehow maintaining residual...

It should be wired as a sub panel, separate neutral and ground - no matter what the planned solar or generator hookup. The fundamentals stay the same. Throw away the green screw, put in a ground bus bar, move the grounds to that. Separate question, in the third picture, what ties the neutrals...

Don’t forget to confirm with the flooring contractor how long you have to wait before rolling the cart or driving the tractor on the fresh epoxy. Don’t want to leave tire marks in the fresh coating

Make a set of shooting boards for your circular saw and you can do most everything a track saw can do at a fraction the cost, and unlike a panel saw or a square it’s not limited to 90 degree cuts or rips - you can cut a straight line between any two points, no measurements required. First thing...

It’s not really practical to run *that* pump array-direct. First, it’s a split-phase AC motor, when you’d really want a DC motor for the simplest solution. Yes, there are some VFD style MPPT pump controllers that can run an AC centrifugal pump array-direct, but they’re designed to power three...

This is definitely doable. The hydraulics are relatively easy - I’ve worked at a couple places that had elevator lifts that could lift entire semi trucks from street level up into the shop (Columbus theater, Ohio) or travel up multiple floors (Santa Fe Opera). The opening could be sealed with...

Forget about pounding, all of those receiver-based options would add a huge amount of slop and wiggle to your vise. It would drive me to distraction not being able to (as example) file a clean, straight edge to a piece of metal clamped in the jaws, when the overall stack is flopping back and...

I’ve seen people run power tools off a hundred feet of two strand barbed wire on a bet. Didn’t make it a good idea, or one you should leave unsupervised.

Love it. To quote the seller: ‘You can plug in to 2 different Generators. A Generator and a Power inverter. Generator and a house. Power inverter and a wall outlet.’ Set aside the *why?* and the *covered by whose insurance?* questions, go ahead and do exactly that - plug one phase into one...

Just because ballasts come with #18 AWG leads doesn’t mean someone in the field can wire a different lamp with the same gauge wires. Manufacturers can use smaller wire than what is allowed by prescriptive code because the product or application is evaluated by the NRTL. As a manufacturer, if I...

Back when I was working my way through school I had a Honda Civic hatchback that could just fit eight foot 2x, if I ran the lumber between the seats and set the forward end on the dash. Did a lot of odd moonlighting handyman jobs after classes that way, until one night the hatch closed but...

Sweet!

Agreed, adding it at the male plug would provide greater levels of protection, but I had it at the other end for practical reasons - GFCI receptacles are commonly available from many sources, but I don’t know of any options for an inline GFCI or retrofittable GFCI male plug. Have you seen any...

You are correct - the 6-20 would be perfectly fine for your application. It will have a little more theoretical ’headroom’ than you need for your application, but no worries there since you already own it. The travel transformer will be the limiting factor in the power chain. As someone who’s...