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I have a Champion 100520 8750/7000w portable generator, it will power my entire home including the AC and my server rack as long as I am careful. This post will detail the issues I had running my UPS directly plugged into the UPS. I usually just use my generator

This post will detail how I am protecting my important data. The old post can be found here: My Backup Plan & Lessons learnedI’ve posted about my backup plan before, but a lot of things have changed, and Ihave learned a lot about what works, and what doesn’t

I have upgraded my lab power setup. The old setup can be found here My Lab Power SetupA lot of people wanted to know what UPS’s and PDU’s I am running, and where.Here are all the details I would highly suggest you read my post on setting

While cleaning up cables in my garage, I swapped the Multimode fiber run to my detached garage from MMF to SMF Details on my setup can be found here, as you can see, it used to be a mess. Garage Network Rack with 10G FiberThis details my 12u rack in

This post is about getting my electrical system overhauled ready for solar panels and a natural gas generator. The generator will be using a 200a ATS, but I also opted to install a 30a inlet with a manual interlock. This will let my plug in a portable gasoline generator if

Like a few people noticed, back in February this website was offline for a day or two. That was because like many people here in Texas I lost power (and water) for a good few days and this website is hosted out of my house. I was without power for

I really wanted a weather station for a long time, but I could never find one that was a reasonable price for someone new to the hobby, but had good network connectivity options The WeatherFlow Tempest looked perfect, so I bought one and installed it. Here is how I did

Since COVID I started working from home, which means the only driving I really did was the 3 mile round trip to Home Depot every now and then. I noticed my F150 stopped doing start/stop with the reason that the battery was charging, but it was doing it all

I find myself needing compressed air for nail and staple guns, filling up tires, blowing out dust and other stuff, and I was sick of using my small and loud Pancake compressor each time. Here is my solution to this issue, it involves a 50ft auto-retracting air hose reel mounted

A while ago I setup my flight tracking setup, but I was in an apartment, and could never get very good range, you can read the original article here My New ADS-B Flight Tracking SetupI just installed my Flight Tracking setup, here are the details Here is a list of

A lot of people wanted to know what UPS's and PDU's I am running, and where. Here are all the details I would highly suggest you read my post on setting up the power inlets, as it explains a lot Home Server Room Power Upgrade + Multi-room UPSThis post shows how

I made a discord server, it has no real topic. Join if you want, invite people to join, whatever you want. There are no rules, because I hate rules. https://discord[dot]gg/bag6U5Z Replace the [dot] with a .

A little over a year ago I mounted a rack in my garage, threw a Cisco Switch in there, an APC UPS and my Flight Tracking setup, and a second ESXi host. See below for the original: Garage Network Rack with 10G FiberThis details my 12u rack in my detached

A while ago when I got some Raspberry Pi's, I had a ton of issues with power. I bought a YZXStudio USB power meter/analyzer and a USB load tester, and tested every charger and cable I owned. I found a TON of bad cables which I threw out Most

DISCLAIMER! - This device was sent to me free of charge from the owner, Michael, who is a redditor and saw some of my other posts and sent me one to use and give feedback on. Now, back onto the device. This device is made from a Raspberry Pi and

When I moved into my new home, I expanded my existing Ruckus setup to give me coverage across my entire property. Here is all the details of that setup and why I chose Ruckus over my old Ubiquiti Unifi setup AP'sI have 1 Ruckus R510, and two R310's. There isn't

This is now the fourth time I have come across these issues with a Cyberpower UPS. It means your UPS really isn't a UPS, so you may want to think twice about picking one up First thing to keep in mind is that these are line interactive UPS's, that means

After posting the full lab history post, a lot of people wanted details on what I do with everything in my home server rack. Here are the full details. I have not cleaned it up for the pictures, so expect some dust and some work in progress If you have

This post shows how I upgraded the power delivery to my home server room, as well as installing the infrastructure to replace 5 UPS's around my house with just one large UPS. Why Upgrade the power? The electrical in my home when I moved in was terrible, it was also

This guide has been updated to reflect changes made on PIA's end that stops the old guide from workingIf you have followed my old guide and now have a non-working setup, just follow the guide to get the new cert which you can add in to your config, and change