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Solar Power for Charging Electric Vehicles or simple items

Solar Power for Charging Electric Vehicles or simple items

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1/17/2026 – So my wires have been melting despite having 1/0 wires. At first it’s the bad terminals. I had got some really thin ones. I bought some better ones but the wires are still melting with only 10A-12A going through them. So I finally figured out the cause. Basically It’s not using PURE COPPER wires. I thought I had pure copper but apparently not. I ordered some new pure copper wires.

GROK:  “The wire melting with your 1500W inverter (≈125A DC draw at 12V) is a classic symptom of using CCA (Copper-Clad Aluminum) wire instead of pure copper.
CCA is not suitable for high-current 12V DC applications like inverters, especially with runs longer than a few feet.Why Your 0-Gauge CCA Wire is Melting

  • CCA has ~60–70% the conductivity of pure copper — it has much higher resistance per foot.
  • At 125A over 4.5 ft one-way (9 ft round-trip), CCA generates 2–3× more heat than pure copper.
  • Even 1/0 CCA is only rated ~100–130A max continuous in free air — your load pushes it into overload territory → melting insulation, hot lugs, burnt smell.

1/0 Gauge 1/0 AWG 10 Feet Red Welding Battery Pure Copper Flexible Cable Wire – Car, Inverter, RV, Solar

Earlier post

Manged to Level 1 charge my Tesla. I got another (4) panels of 100w that were brand new for only $120. I should have bought more but times are tough.  I’m currently running 120w but I have another 400w I can add on a 2nd one.

I ran an extension cord out a window and back into the garage from my setup inside. I could jam all this in the garage somewhere but it takes up a lot of room that I don’t quite see a good place to dump in the garage and actually access it. It’s ghetto but it’s worked for 5 years.

The sun is NW of the picture which is (SW)  of me and I have no angle to reach it with 100-foot trees blocking my whole house. There’s just a tiny window of 2 hours where the sun can hit otherwise I’m just getting non-direct sun. I have the absolute worst setup for solar power. So then I have to just add so many solar panels that I catch up because none of them can reach the sun.

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Black Friday I picked up:

BELTTT 3000W Pure Sine Wave Inverter

I was already running a 2000W but I was reaching near 1480 or so. The thing felt like it was way too loud running the fans and smelling like burnt plastic. It still worked though. A lot of that smell was just wires/terminals. So I switched to this one. The display is way nicer but it is not showing watts. Ideally, you’d spent $200-300 on another one but this was sub-$200 at least.

I also got (but then Black Friday it was only $160), for $175

BougeRV Sunflow MPPT Solar Charge Controller 60A

The only issue with that, was that their account creation was broken. I emailed them several times and they fixed it. It seems to be broken for months before I mailed them. haha. No one complained? Now it’s all working. Only weird thing is the app is showing higher A, 36A and the unit itself is only showing 10A.

This is the best I’ve been able to do. 52A with 60A cap. I have a second 40A solar charge controller that MIGHT still work not sure. But the second round of solar panels are just some shitty portable ones that are only 19V. Solar panels are pretty cheap. I could get some off facebook marketplace if I get the $$. The only problem is I need some perhaps block mounting to put on roof without professional installation.

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WattCycle 12V 100Ah LiFePO4 Lithium Battery

(2) of these. You should have at least (4) but I had a 206AH SOK battery that is fucked at the moment.

 

SolarI have them all facing the right direction 198 degrees, but they’re not tilted correctly.

 

Turbo Tax forces Windows 11

Turbo Tax forces Windows 11

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Update: I tried getting H&R block but it’s TERRIBLE compared to TurboTax. I don’t recommend it at all. Maybe TurboTax ONLINE is a better solution but $109 🙁

 

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To use turbotax you have to have Windows 11 now. Screw Windows 11!!

So now after 20+ years I have to switch. I’m going to try H&R block since it’s the only choice other than a “free” one.  I looked for a coupon code and got business version for $68.

If you use the ONLINE turbotax, they want $109 minimum. Such fuckers. They’re trying to force everyone ONLINE vs. the software.

I really hate how your life gets crappier every year due to stupid decisions like these by dumb corporations. No one ever stops the monoplies or punishes corporations for their bad behaviors and the CEOS always escape with their riches.

Commies going after Electric Vehicles

Commies going after Electric Vehicles

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They spend 15-20 years telling you buy an electric vehicle. Then once you do, they realize they aren’t getting the gas tax off them. So their plan is now to jack up registration or charge a per-mile tax. UK is already trying it. Certain states are doing it. They can’t ever let people have a cheap option for travel. So sick of this taxing people to death nonsense. One state is even trying to tax  you on ALL Your property that you’ve already bought including cars, etc.

Anyway, one Tesla person was saying their registration in California is $630 to pay for EVs. Oregon is cheaper but they’re trying the same crap there.

So sick of these communists taxing us to death. The US is unlivable.

Trump screwed me on the federal rebate for EV. I missed it by 3 weeks and lost $4,000. California also got rid of the free single rider travel in the carpool lane for EV people. Which was bullshit, but now that I have one, I want it. haha.

Then the insurance is also higher. My truck is like $900 but my Tesla is $1500.

We did what you wanted, we got Electric Vehicles. Now you have to make us pay. The hypocrisy is so infuriating. Buy EV’s or else. You do and then they fuck you over.

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Marble lost in Tesla, my WHITE WHALE

Marble lost in Tesla, my WHITE WHALE

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Update: By doing a tight circle in my driveway, I was able to get the ball to roll to the right where I could touch it. I then covered my finger in tape, then used my finger to trap it and put it out. It was a big heavy metal marble. That kid was the devil.

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Some dipshit kid who owned the car previous to me, goes and drops these glass balls/marbles in the car. I found one, so I knew what I was looking for.

Anytime I take a turn you hear this ball rolling on plastic or metal going back and forth. It’s so annoying.

Unfortunately, in the Model 3, anything that falls through the back seat now goes into 2 possibles areas that are filled with batteries. You have to start removing batteries or braces to even get down in there. I removed the rear seat and used an inspection camera. I put tape in all the places where it would roll hoping to catch it. Nothing.

I kept using my kids in the back seat to sit there then tell me where the sound was coming from. It sounded like UNDER my seat, not the rear seat. They also confirmed it seems to be under my seat.

I moved the seat all the way forward or back, there’s an area with plastic you can feel where a ball would go. Finally my 3rd time checking, I felt the damn ball. Success. I at least knew where the sound was coming from and what was causing it.

So I started putting tape under there. I made a pen with tape all at the end to poke around and hopefully get it but it doesn’t seem to be long enough. No luck. You can’t get under the seat without removing it.

So I’m at least on the right track. This fucking marble. The kid found the absolute worst thing to lose in a car and this car is all plastic/metal and has about 5 areas where a marble will go then ruin your life.

If you ever want to fuck a Tesla owner over, buy some marbles, jam them down the rear seat or under the driver seat.

My dad said in the old days they would put a golf ball down someone’s gas tank before the tanks with the hinge that sealed them. Then when the tank was nearly empty, the driver would be stuck listening to a golf ball. haha.

TV/Movies

TV/Movies

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You have something cool then it’s robbed

The most annoying event in movies/tv is when someone has something, but they get robbed. They have money, treasure, then someone comes along and steals it. That is actually what we’re dealing with in real life, but besides that, I find it so frustrating. It’s such an annoying storyline. Even worse, is when they never catch the people or get the stuff back.

I was watching a movie about 2 guys selling Christmas trees. They get $20k, then someone steals it. Then they return home with nothing and the movie ends. So annoying and frustrating. I guess that’s how the world is currently working, especially. People rob and there’s no justice.

Always with the police sirens

Anytime a crime happens, magically, there are police sirens and the police are on their way at that moment. How often does that happen in real life? Takes them hours in some places.

Taylor Sheridan Shows

Taylor Sheridan Shows

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Taylor Sheridan

I like that his shows are based but the writing seems so cheesy and bad overall. Just unrealistic. I also notice there’s way too many murders and super gross deaths that are just pointless and just for the sake of murder and they don’t even add to the story, show, or experience.

Mayor of Kingstown –

  • Of course the cop goes to jail. That’s a story done at least 5-10 times before.
  • People murdered left and right for no reason
  • Gross deaths for no reason
  • ugly women for no reason haha
  • Main char just murdering everyone despite not being a cop. Cops covering for him.
  • Cops murdering everyone. Where are the body cams?
  • Really bad writing
  • Main characters keep dying because that’s the “cool” idea to make sure no one is safe, when it’s pretty cliche at this point. It’s already been done.

Tulsa King

  • Every deal works out for him
  • Murder everyone
  • gross deaths
  • Plot armor keeps him alive.

Landman

This one seems better than some of the other ones.

  • It’s nice they give you blonde girls to look at again. TV is back. Shockingly even topless.
  • Cliches: Oil rig blows up, hand gets stuck in the pipes (saw that coming).
  • They give you 2 guys you want to see in the show (one from Sons of Anarchy) then kill them episode 1 haha.
  • Mexican lady with a baby, then you’re like, ok here they go and they force a relationship that the grieving girl wouldn’t be into. So fake and forced.
  • Ex-wife with a younger and richer husband wants the OLD one for no reason?
  • Kid needs a dentist. Two buck teeth.
  • Nate is from THE BORGIAS if you forget or Umbrella Academy
  • 70-year-old Billy Bob’s dad is 12 years older haha
I’m now a Tesla Dipshit

I’m now a Tesla Dipshit

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12/20/25 – Finally took it on a longer trip. I got to use a fast charger for the second time. Tesla people are not buddies like Subaru WRX people. You go to a charger and I think I don’t even like the other Tesla owners. My theory has been that every Prius owner and BMW dipshit bought a Tesla. So it’s all liberal assholes.

The fast charger is pretty amazing, just 15-20 mins for 50% power.

The power is the most insane shit ever. You see a car ahead and you teleport there with the acceleration (AWD + acceleration boost upgrade). I can’t imagine the performance or plaid. You already have more than you need.

I’m the only Tesla driver driving with what is possible. The rest of all of them drive slow as shit. I’ve only see 3 other cars in 7 years drive them fast.

After my trip was done I was at 27% and I OCD like a phone battery. My phone battery is never even down into the 70%. I freak out at 75% phone battery haha. It’s taken me 2 days at level 1 charging (120v) to get back to 78% power.

The thing is like the WRX, it’s really bumpy (feel the road). At one point I just said “AHHHHHHH” as we were driving and it was bumping my voice the whole time. haha. The truck I have is way more smooth but (12 mpg).

V1.2

  • Update: Managed to charge level 1 off my solar. But wires keep melting or things keep breaking. Or I have to prop the garage door open with an exentsion cord. Eventually I’ll get it going properly.

 

  • Update: Finally found the cig lighter, 9 days later. That thing is so hidden. I was using slow charging on my phone but now I can do fast charging. The place where you lay your phone sucks because I have to take off my case to charge.
  • Drove a week now. It’s so insanely fast. What you discover is that your fellow Tesla “pals” are all assholes. They drive slow as shit, hog the fast lane, don’t single. You’re on your own. You have nothing in common with them and they have no attachment to you. At least Subaru WRX people were friendly and pals.  A light was green and I boosted to make the light and this other tesla HONKED at me because they were mad I was going so fast. SO lame. It’s possible they were also just honking to save the dash cam which is also a feature.
  • I still have no idea what is going and it will take me a while to learn.
  • I hate the new designs for the 3/Y. They look so stupid. The better features are nice though.
  • These things are fucking pod people cars. They have no personality and are like the government is picking what cars we have to drive in the future. They have zero personality.
  • Made sure to get one where the person bought Acceleration Boost. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have the Full Self Drive System 4, only 3.
  • I made the mistake of having sentry mode going in the garage for no reason. I used their new “low power” update and keep it in that but they won’t switch out of the mode once you start driving. You have to turn it off when you park and then turn it back on when you get home. You can add a shortcut on the app at least.
  • The web browser won’t allow you to change the zoom or do browser plugins. I want something that reloads the browser.
  • The insurance rates are terrible, specifically on Teslas. $1500 for just the car with multi-policy discounts while going outside of my 27 year insurance, they want 1600-4000 for just the car. WTF. My other 2017 vehicle is just $900.
  • My kid couldn’t find the car in the parking lot because there were 50 other Teslas. haha. It’s great to blend in.
  • I got charging to work in my garage at level 1. I charge from 9pm on for the cheaper electricity. I happened to get a new $280 charger.
  • I’ve been working on my solar system to charge it but it’s completely fucked. It’s not charging the battery for some reason. I made the mistake of asking Grok how to fix my system. It found one broken part I removed and saw improvement but it said I needed to buy a new solar charge controller at $175. The new one has the SAME problem. So I think the first one wasn’t even broken. Don’t listen to AI, especially if it tells you to buy something. Us age 50+ people are idiots.

Original post: Got one for crazy cheap. 33k miles. 0-60 in 3.7 seconds. I had absolutely no idea how to even drive it. I tried to drive it away from the dealer and couldn’t because the keycard wasn’t in the center console and the app wasn’t transfered over yet. So I had to have some guy show me to put it there, then suddenly I could drive.

It’s not even performance and it’s still so fast you can’t control it. I just want to be somewhere and I’m instantly there. I can’t even imagine the performance one. I could have paid $1k more for a performance Y but they say the tires a way more expensive, and insurance and this one was fast enough. Also the wheels stick out more than the tires so they were all scratched up.

Looking right to the screen is weird. There’s so many controls and I have no idea what i’m doing. Tesla Newb. What I love about my old car is just knowing where every knob is.

DON’T LIKE

  • Interior is so cheap feeling. It’s like a plastic nightmare. It’s like you go to the store in the 1980s and you see GENERIC ITEMS
  • You can’t control the vent direction at all. I like one vent blasting toward my face. The air feels way crappier than my other car. It just shoots out and you can’t direct it.
Recommended Christmas movies

Recommended Christmas movies

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Many of these are well known but due to the zoomers out there, some have never heard of these.

Elf (2003)

Raised as an oversized elf, Buddy travels from the North Pole to New York City to meet his biological father, Walter Hobbs, who doesn’t know he exists and is in desperate need of some Christmas spirit.

(either #1 or #2 Christmas movie IMO)

Jingle All the Way (1996)

A father vows to get his son a Turbo Man action figure for Christmas. However, every store is sold out, and he must travel all over town and compete with everybody else in order to find one.

There’s an extended version with more scenes. What’s interesting is now Sinbad died.

Home Alone (1990) & 2

An eight-year-old troublemaker, mistakenly left home alone, must defend his home against a pair of burglars on Christmas Eve.

Scrooged (1988)

A selfish, cynical television executive is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.

A Christmas Story (1983)

In the 1940s, a young boy named Ralphie Parker attempts to convince his parents, teacher, and Santa Claus that a Red Ryder Range 200 Shot BB gun really is the perfect Christmas gift.

Red One (2024)

After Santa Claus is kidnapped, the North Pole’s Head of Security must team up with a notorious hacker in a globe-trotting, action-packed mission to save Christmas.

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

After a divorced New York mother hires a nice old man to play Santa Claus at Macy’s, she is startled by his claim to be the genuine article. When his sanity is questioned, a lawyer defends him in court by arguing that he’s not mistaken.

It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman see the value of his own life.

(find the uncut version)

Die Hard (1998)

A New York City cop, John McClane, tries to save his estranged wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas Eve party at the Nakatomi Plaza Skyscraper in Los Angeles, California.

A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (2011)

Six years after their Guantanamo Bay adventure, stoner buds Harold Lee and Kumar Patel cause a holiday fracas by inadvertently burning down Harold’s father-in-law’s prize Christmas tree.

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)

The Griswold family’s plans for a big family Christmas predictably turn into a big disaster.

Deck the Halls (2006)

Two neighbors have it out after one of them decorates his house for the holidays so brightly that it can be seen from space.

 

Other mentions

If you’re out.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

On the outskirts of Whoville lives a green, revenge-seeking Grinch who plans to ruin Christmas for all of the citizens of the town.

The Santa Clause (1994)

When a man inadvertently makes Santa fall off his roof on Christmas Eve, he finds himself magically recruited to take his place.

The Santa Clause 2 (2002)

Scott Calvin has been a humble Santa Claus for eight years, but it might come to an end if he doesn’t find a Mrs. Claus.

Screw these movies

  • Polar Express. Worst animation I’ve ever seen in my life. Why do people like this garbage? Puts me to sleep every time it’s so boring and stupid.

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