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How much are you valuing your own time? Theres money cost, then theres time cost and the final one is in more remote communities with cold weather… insurance c

How much are you valuing your own time? Theres money cost, then theres time cost and the final one is in more remote communities with cold weather… insurance costs on failure… Also to be clear - good on you for building out rural off grid electrical. Its a fun project and satisfying no doubt (outaide of costa)

Moto7451 1y ago
I don’t know the OP’s situation but I’ve seen that many coffee growers have to do this because in high altitude tropical areas there is simply no one who will do the work anyway. They also have a very different regulatory structure in practice to what we have in the continental US and Europe. I’ve spoken to people from Rural Georgia (which is about an hour from Atlanta depending on the direction you’re driving) in Microcenter that are usually there to wire up their farm or factory with sufficient network capacity to keep production rolling. They have mentioned that they have had to do their own trenching for last mile for various services. Sometimes that means they literally drive down to Herc rentals, pick up a trenching machine, and do it themselves since the wait for someone else to do it is months away and that’s a long time if your business needs internet, water, power, etc.
K0balt 1y ago
It’s been an adventure, but it would be disingenuous to imply that a don’t enjoy the challenge. It is very satisfying to have your work be so useful to many people. As for failure, we have them sometimes, but our casualty downtime for the last 6 years is <15 minutes. We have a highly redundant system that can run on as few as 2 of the 6 inverters, 8 separate battery banks, 16 separate panel banks with 9 separate charge controllers, 2 generators, and a completely separate redundant inverter for emergency power, as well as a separate power reserve system for control and monitoring power.

Moto7451 1y ago

I don’t know the OP’s situation but I’ve seen that many coffee growers have to do this because in high altitude tropical areas there is simply no one who will do the work anyway. They also have a very different regulatory structure in practice to what we have in the continental US and Europe. I’ve spoken to people from Rural Georgia (which is about an hour from Atlanta depending on the direction you’re driving) in Microcenter that are usually there to wire up their farm or factory with sufficient network capacity to keep production rolling. They have mentioned that they have had to do their own trenching for last mile for various services. Sometimes that means they literally drive down to Herc rentals, pick up a trenching machine, and do it themselves since the wait for someone else to do it is months away and that’s a long time if your business needs internet, water, power, etc.

K0balt 1y ago

It’s been an adventure, but it would be disingenuous to imply that a don’t enjoy the challenge. It is very satisfying to have your work be so useful to many people. As for failure, we have them sometimes, but our casualty downtime for the last 6 years is <15 minutes. We have a highly redundant system that can run on as few as 2 of the 6 inverters, 8 separate battery banks, 16 separate panel banks with 9 separate charge controllers, 2 generators, and a completely separate redundant inverter for emergency power, as well as a separate power reserve system for control and monitoring power.