Author: notadmin
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Laura Misch
Browsing Youtube, I saw a video of Laura Misch explaining her sound and process.
Her surname is familiar, and it turns out she is the sister of Tom Misch. Talented family.
Currently listening to her most recent album.
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Woodshedding
I play guitar, and am widely described as adequate. I can play rhythm or lead, and can play a solo. I can sing and play rhythm at the same time. I’m not as good as I want to be though. I’ve been plateaued for a long time. A decade, more or less.
So, I started some lessons at the Central Coast Conservatorium. Focussed on jazz. I don’t want to play jazz specifically, but I know that learning some jazz will make me a better player. I also don’t not want to play jazz, ya know.
Learning Blue Bossa, and the scales and arpeggios to play over the sections of it.
I can now see the path ahead. I have work to do. A lot of work, but at least I can see the work I need to do.
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GloBird and Deye
Quick write-up on tuning a Deye inverter to actually hit zero grid draw during a retailer’s free/bonus period – useful if you’re on GloBird ZeroHero or a similar plan.
We got solar a few years ago, and recently a house battery. We also switched providers to GloBird ZeroHero, hoping to take best advantage of our battery.
With ZeroHero, if you don’t use any electricity from the grid between 6pm and 9pm, you get a bonus. Our battery was typically full at this time, so that should work fine.
In practice, we were still taking small amounts of power from the grid during this time. This is because, I think, it can take a few seconds/milliseconds to ramp up power from the battery, and so it uses the grid also.
I tried to get our solar installer to help, but they were useless. I left a review on SolarQuotes.
I contacted Deye support (via WhatsApp), and they were super responsive. I tweaked my config a few times, but it’s now working fairly well.
Solution
- Disable Deye CoPilot, and enable Time of Use. (I disabled CoPilot via the Android App, but most other config is in the WebApp).
- Define schedules as follows. Charge from grid during free period (mine is 11am-2pm). Sell during ZeroHero period.
We sell during this period not to specifically sell, but so our outgoing compensates for the unwanted incoming. But, we want to limit the sold amount so we don’t run out of battery in the middle of the night.
Under “Grid Setting – Basic”, we can limit the export power. Mine defaulted to 1kW, but I’ve now reduced it to 500W.
Results
In the evening period, you can see we have a small amount of outgoing grid (purple line).
Future
This is working well, but I may tweak it further. For example, I could limit Grid to an even smaller number (e.g. 100W), and sell for a longer period each day, or even all day/night. This will reduce the (already small) amount of incoming grid power (outside the free period).
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Art
Two sites I ran into recently, for browsing art.
