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I know some have seen it in their stores but now it’s finally in one of my stores. Looks like someone may have grabbed one already.

Note it is not showing in the store app or the display yet. The worker said it was not on his paper that showed the items going into the display. He had a layout guide of some sort for Ridgid and there was one for Makita as well.

He didn’t know when the release date or on shelf date was for this store. He thought there may be an upcoming promo November 1 (can’t remember what he called it).

All I know is I waited for this thing and then decided not to buy it once I had the chance. I don’t know what I’m waiting for.

Told my concrete contractor I wanted steps coming off both directions. He only did steps on the long side so I redid his forms tonight after work and added the step I wanted. The smaller steps are what I would take when coming from the garage and it avoids a 16” drop-off on what used to be the end.

He probably won’t be to happy but he/his guys didn’t do it right. He still has to frame up a mower ramp on the far side past the steps anyway so he can attach the end of the step to the wall and recheck the step slope after the rebar tie-in. Everything is to spec and matches what he had before.

I have an E3600 that is currently sitting unused or that I use to run a garage fridge overnight and then recharge at 10% draw in the day with power generated from the Stream device listed below. This way I don’t recharge it all at once and it sips power from what the Stream generates.

The Ecoflow Stream is hooked up to 4 Aiko 450W panels that feed up to 1200W into my house to offset my power. Saves about $30-35 a month. I do waste so power when it over generates either at the panel level as the stream clips solar input at 1200W or i also wast solar energy if my home uses less power than what the panels generate.

So, I’m thinking I’ll have 3 panels ran in series to the Pecron’s solar port 1 instead of the Stream. The other panel will run to solar port 2 and eventually I will add another 2 panels to max out the Pecron’s solar input.

I will then use an MJ32 cable, possibly Pecron’s that has the XT60 ends, to MC4 connectors that will connect to the Stream.

The goal is to just offset my base loads. I bought the Stream before I had the E3600. The Stream will be set at 260W or 360W draw to feed the house either 24/7 or just for certain hours if I can figure out how to get the Stream to output 360W at night and more during the day like 480W. This works in Europe but doesn’t appear to work on my Utah version. Could be a firmware upgrade that I don’t have.

Eventually I will add another battery to the Pecron, Pecron’s own or a Server Rack Battery.

Am I nuts? I’m thinking it will be easier than a Transfer switch since everything is already in my garage and working minus the cables between the devices. The breaker panel is across the house in the basement so I’d have to redo all the solar cables. Instead i can adjust the output if the Stream up to 1200W if I have enough battery power.

My power usage is fairly low, with the Stream connected my bill was only $35 a month in April and May, $60-65 in Jun and July with August being $130 with the AC running.

I would essentially be using my Pecron as a charge controller for the internally battery and outputting “sola” energy to the Stream when I’m generating enough power, advantage is that I offset my base loads at night instead of just 8-6pm.

Incase you are wondering, I generated 245Wh through the Stream in June and that is with some of the energy being clipped by the micro inverter. Not a-lot but not bad for 4small panels.

Eventually If i grow my array or if I needed emergency power, I could do a transfer switch but I don’t think I’m there yet.

Been looking for a while, always seemed to be out of stock so I saw a store today with 3 listed in stock. I went there and there were none in the display. Asked an employee about them and she looked in their system and it also showed 3 available.

One cool thing I noticed is their app pulled up a camera so she could look at an upper bay and zoom in on the stickers to locate it.

I purchase the Nuke hydraulic impact driver with the battery and immediately returned the battery because I have plenty already. The battery credit with tax was $78 so the driver came to $103 with tax.

Probably the only Nuke tool I’ll get other than the blower, 4.5” saw or something else new that comes out or I may pick up other items on clearance instead like the sub compact recip saw as long as they are below the $79 or sale price point that they were at previously like the $8 fan and $39 single drawer case that I picked up.

I pulled the trigger and it feels powerful. Now I just need to make or remodel something.

Seems like it was a great deal. Home Depot clerk also said there are 21 stores with the 1024Wh version that have those on clearance for $250.