The materials for our house siding project will be delivered Friday. Once I have the Z flashing for the starter row of the new siding, i'll have to go around the entire 200ft perimeter of the house and cut a groove in the concrete porch with a diamond blade. Should be a lot of fun....not.
So in the slack time today, I decided to repair an old trailer. My father in law used to convert boat trailers to work trailers. One of them had severely rusted inside the tongue of the trailer and actually collapsed while I was pulling a load. We spliced the tongue together with some self driller / self tapper screws and some 2x4s on the side of the road and limped home. Today I removed the tongue and replaced it with a thick wall square tube and put a new coupler on it.
The plan for now is to convert it into a fire trailer. I'll put a 300gallon IBC tote on it and a water pump. One of the locals is a fire fighter and he said a pressure washer set to mist is a hell of a thing. he said with the fine atomization of the water, all those microscopic water drops absorb so much heat the fire cannot sustain.
So.... We have a golf cart with 48v LFP battery and a 3kw inverter. That'll be come part of this fire trailer as well. I'll be able to run a pressure pump with a garden hose and also a pressure washer from that inverter.
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Amazon prime deal.... this mesh radio unit is $18. Does not contain a solar battery charger circuit like so many of them. If you use with a solar powered patio light from Lowes or Home Depot, the control board in the light will keep battery charged.
FYI, these Seeed studio xaio modules are tiny. This is $18 on aliexpress. Can be mounted inside a lowes solar patio light and you can put a 6" whip antenna on it.
The solar patio light keeps an 18650 charged and this runs off that power. This is the cheapest thing going to get into meshcore.
The ESP32 based mesh hardware have wifi built in. While they are not energy efficient enough for daily battery use, they do make good home nodes. As an example, tonight I flashed one of my Heltech V3 units to become a "weather bug". It is transmitting weather alerts for all counties in the North eastern corner of South Carolina. It simply plugs into a USB power port and connects to teh NWS via wifi and relays messages to the South Carolina region for Florence.
meshwxpro is the name of the firmware. It can be programmed to send alerts over meshcore or meshtastic.
Good news today! After contacting the Better Business Bureau, a lawyer and the company above the local offices of West Shore Home I got a call from West Shore Home by a new desk jockey stating they are going to rip out everything and replace it all properly. But! They will not raise the vanity because they did not install it. So now I am waiting for a call from the installation manager to discuss lowering the floor or raising the vanity.
The next trick up my sleeve is that you can create an unencrypted chatroom called a hashtag channel. Anyone can join by simply spelling it the same way you did. Even better, I can send the #flocoregroup name in a text message and meshcore sees that as a clickable link.
Encrypted group chats still exist and all private messages between two people are encrypted.
