The weekend was a snowy one. I did discover something on Saturday though as I waited for the snow. Apparently the issues I have been having with the water filter are entirely my fault. I completely forgot to switch it over from external drain to internal. As soon as I switched it everything depressurized, and there is no more air pockets in the water. It has been failing to backflush for quite some time too. My theory is that the pressure was pushing on the bypass valve and the air valve since the system is not designed to have pressure, and it sucks in air during the backwash.
Out of curiosity, I looked outside, and while the top layer was melted through, it has pretty clearly not been backflushing outside, which is no surprise.
The weekend was otherwise pretty quiet. It snowed.
And Snowed
And have I mentioned there was some snow. This is a 30 minute timelapse, and you can see the truck bed get fuller and fuller.
All told we got around 24" had a little over 18 inches (around 20) when I went to clear it the first time on Monday. The tractor started, albeit rather unhappily. I gave it a few extra seconds on the glow plugs too.
Clearing it with the tractor wasn't fun. I got the tractor stuck twice (yeah, I needed my chains today, for the first time in years) and it wasn't fun trying to plow with the bucket when the snow was taller than the bucket. The rear blade was faster though, despite being shorter. It still took at least three passes over the same spot though before it was clear because it just kept billowing over. The banks at the end of the road are now in the driveway, and are taller than the tractor can lift, so there isn't much I can do about it. I cleared twice, once during daylight, and once in the evening when the snow had mostly finished. There was about 4 inches the second clearing.
I got drenched clear through. It was kind of chilly too, I was frozen when I got back in. The first clearing took about 3 hours, and didn't get all of the top of the driveway.
The drifts were pretty impressive. The car was becoming one with the house and carport.
Even the truck was pretty well buried. Despite that though, the car drove right out of it this morning.
Outside of snow I did do a little planning on the truck house and played games. I started to plan out the electronics side of the computer a bit. Basically I am using an Arduino as an IO board, though I might roll my own depending on whether or not you can put Arduino boards into low power mode since this will be on 24/7.
This is how I think it will all end up being connected:
Network
├───NAS
├───PC
│ ├───Arduino
│ │ ├───Analog Input (are there any?)
│ │ ├───GPIO
│ │ │ ├───Back Door Sensor
│ │ │ ├───Exterior box sensors (may be many)
│ │ │ ├───Stair Sensor
│ │ │ └───Tank Level Sensor (4-6 of them, do I want redundancy?)
│ │ ├───I2C or SPI
│ │ │ ├───Accelerometer (level sensing)
│ │ │ ├───Maybe Maxx Air Fan if possible
│ │ │ ├───Power Switch
│ │ │ │ ├───Exterior Outlets
│ │ │ │ ├───StarLink Power
│ │ │ │ └───Water Heater
│ │ │ └───Weather Station
│ │ ├───PWM Output
│ │ │ └───Electrical System Cooling Fan
│ │ ├───Relay Shield
│ │ │ ├───Outdoor Lighting
│ │ │ ├───Porch Light
│ │ │ ├───Tank Heater
│ │ │ └───Water pump
│ │ └───RS485 Shield
│ │ ├───Battery1
│ │ │ ├───Battery Gauge
│ │ │ └───Current IO
│ │ ├───Battery2
│ │ │ ├───Battery Gauge
│ │ │ └───Current IO
│ │ └───Inverter-Charger (EG6000)
│ │ ├───AC (110V) Controller
│ │ ├───Charge Rate
│ │ ├───Power Consumption
│ │ └───Solar Input
│ ├───Peripherals (controller, keyboard&mouse, etc)
│ ├───Picture Display
│ ├───TV
│ │ └───Nintendo Switch
│ └───USB Touchscreen
├───Security Cameras (POE)
└───Starlink
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