This week our guest is the venerable Adam Engst of TidBITS. Adam wrote an article recently about his solar inverters that ended up being a story about troubleshooting. That inspired me last week to tell you our troubleshooting story about our home network. We thought it would be fun to go through Adam’s story and […]
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NC #901 Camping with Tech, AirPods Max, Fujinon Stabilized Binoculars, Security Bits
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Monday, August 15, 2022, and this is show number 901. Thanks for waiting for us to get back from our second vacation. And thanks to Jill, Troy, Steve (the […]
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Simple Camping (with Tech) — by Jill from the North Woods
Hello, everyone. This is Jill from the Northwoods. Being from the Midwest and being a simple Midwest girl who loves to camp, I find it difficult to watch people who love to glamp, which is like glamorous camping, or people who like RVs. I’m a tent camper, and I love the simple life. So I […]
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Steve Sheridan Clarifies EV/Solar/Battery Charging Terminology
When you start to consider buying an electric vehicle, you’ll be barraged by numbers with units that are very easy to confuse. Kilowatts vs. Kilowatt-Hours is one of my greatest confusions. Then there’s Level 1, 2, and 3 charging you’ll hear about EVs. Then there are whole home batteries and solar panels – it all […]
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CCATP #733 – Brian Hoffman takes Solar to a New Level – Co-Interview with Steve Sheridan
Recently Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane of DTNS fame hosted what they called a Solar Round Table. The guests were NosillaCast Live Producer Steve Sheridan, an engineer working at AES Solar named Joe Briney, and Boeing 777 captain Brian Hoffman. I tell you that whole story because when Steve got off the phone, he started […]
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While Steve and I were in Phoenix visiting Steve’s sister, we made a trip out to meet the awesome Bodie Grimm, host of the Kilowatt podcast at 918digital.com. Bodie’s show is all about electric vehicles, self driving, solar energy, and batteries. You can imagine that it would be impossible for a podcast to not break […]
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Dumb Question Corner – Is it Better to Charge Your EV at Night or During the Day if You have Solar?
This week’s Dumb Question comes from my long-time friend Mark. I’ve known Mark since I was in high school so we go way back. He got solar for his house right around the same time as us and got an electric vehicle. He asked me this question. Hope y’all are doing well. Had a solar/EV […]
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Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, July 18, 2021, and this is show number 845. Last week when I was debating with the live audience on whether to maybe wait a day to see […]
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Solar (With Sense) is For Data Nerds
If you’re a data nerd, you really need to get solar. When last we left our heroes, our solar installation had just been completed. To review, we had 22 370-Watt solar panels installed, giving us a maximum theoretical instantaneous power generation of 8.14 kW (kilowatts). The little inverters on the back of each panel do […]
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Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Saturday, July 3, 2021, and this is show number 843. I’m pushing the show out a few days early because we are spending the 4th of July with Lindsay […]
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