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And then I had to clean the pot from the chicken soup he’d made with the wing bit bones and skin. He’d put it to soak because he got the soup way too hot and so stuff stuck to the sides of the pot. It soaked over night and, obviously, _still_ needed 10 minutes of scrubbing.
*sigh*
MEPFP meeting. I finally found out what the heck was going on with that garage exhaust fan. It really is the gift that keeps on giving. Basically, it was there to _remove hydrogen_. What hydrogen, you might ask? Well, if you were recharging lead-acid batteries in the mechanical room, it might generate hydrogen. Were we going to ever do that? NO! Fuck. Anyway. The exhaust fan was one of the items simultaneously on the HVAC guy’s list of “we don’t need” and on the “must back up” list, which is a sign something’s wrong, for sure. What really did in the exhaust fan was the problem it caused with boxing out a space for it outside (garage backs up into the hillside). That really forced conversation about why that was there anyway, and once everyone realized what had caused it to be in the plans in the first place, it went away. I heard about it in MEPFP when the person who caused this cascade of utter bullshit mentioned that if any of these removals had to be undone or further redone, that would take more time. I don’t even know what to say.
We had the president of the solar provider in the meeting today. That was kinda fun. He apparently used to do logistics before he started this company (it’s been a while, tho). As near as I can tell, he is treating the power generation puzzle as a fun toy, which, amen, fingers crossed, let’s hope this works. But I’m not totally optimistic, because there is still some free floating confusion around the requirements and I am unsure how to fix that. When we were still trying to make Enphase work, the electrician proposed two max systems in parallel, which was going to still not be great and we eventually got consensus on Enphase isn’t enough, but somehow the two parallel 200 amp systems are floating around like an evil ghost. I sent an email with something I HOPE will clarify what I want, but the problem is that I don’t know what’s possible or how to implement it and neither does anyone else in our merry crew and a couple key people are on vacation. I guess we’ll revisit this next week.
In good news, however, the _other_ zoom of the day was with Fusion, and I have now signed the registration document woot! So A. can set up her school email account, and we’ve got placement testing scheduled later this week and a start date next week. I am _soooooo_ excited! So is A.!
*sigh*
MEPFP meeting. I finally found out what the heck was going on with that garage exhaust fan. It really is the gift that keeps on giving. Basically, it was there to _remove hydrogen_. What hydrogen, you might ask? Well, if you were recharging lead-acid batteries in the mechanical room, it might generate hydrogen. Were we going to ever do that? NO! Fuck. Anyway. The exhaust fan was one of the items simultaneously on the HVAC guy’s list of “we don’t need” and on the “must back up” list, which is a sign something’s wrong, for sure. What really did in the exhaust fan was the problem it caused with boxing out a space for it outside (garage backs up into the hillside). That really forced conversation about why that was there anyway, and once everyone realized what had caused it to be in the plans in the first place, it went away. I heard about it in MEPFP when the person who caused this cascade of utter bullshit mentioned that if any of these removals had to be undone or further redone, that would take more time. I don’t even know what to say.
We had the president of the solar provider in the meeting today. That was kinda fun. He apparently used to do logistics before he started this company (it’s been a while, tho). As near as I can tell, he is treating the power generation puzzle as a fun toy, which, amen, fingers crossed, let’s hope this works. But I’m not totally optimistic, because there is still some free floating confusion around the requirements and I am unsure how to fix that. When we were still trying to make Enphase work, the electrician proposed two max systems in parallel, which was going to still not be great and we eventually got consensus on Enphase isn’t enough, but somehow the two parallel 200 amp systems are floating around like an evil ghost. I sent an email with something I HOPE will clarify what I want, but the problem is that I don’t know what’s possible or how to implement it and neither does anyone else in our merry crew and a couple key people are on vacation. I guess we’ll revisit this next week.
In good news, however, the _other_ zoom of the day was with Fusion, and I have now signed the registration document woot! So A. can set up her school email account, and we’ve got placement testing scheduled later this week and a start date next week. I am _soooooo_ excited! So is A.!