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▲ 8 r/PlugInSolarUK

What are you lot running as a flat dweller?

Saw the news about the grid last night — 1.9GW shortfall warning, red weather alert — and ended up just leaving my balcony setup running to see how it held up. Fridge, a couple of chargers, small fan. Ran it for a few hours without touching the mains. Didn't fall over, which honestly surprised me a bit.

I'd set up a basic plug-in kit on the balcony railing a few months back, nothing elaborate — just a couple of lightweight panels and a power station. South or south-west-ish facing, not perfect, but decent enough.

Now I'm wondering how much further I can push it, particularly around storage. I've seen some systems in Europe that use a controller to tie an existing power station into a proper balcony grid setup(like Balco Transfer Hub), rather than buying a whole new unit. Anyone know if anything equivalent is actually available here with proper UK compliance yet, or is it still mostly a European thing for now?

What are you lot actually running as flat dwellers — especially anything that holds up through the grey months? Always good to hear what's working in real UK conditions rather than spec sheets.

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u/Miserable_Home1023 — 8 days ago
▲ 305 r/3Dprinting

Nobody is ever going to print this... so I did it anyway

I have a weird habit — whenever a piece of gear earns a permanent spot in my life, I eventually end up printing a tiny version of it for my desk.

A battery backup was inevitable. I'd been losing prints to random midnight power cuts for months. Finally sorted it out, which meant I basically hit "print whatever the hell I want" mode 😂 Finished more models in the last few weeks than the whole quarter before.

So yeah. Got bored. Printed the Bluetti Apex 300 and elite 400. They're just silly desk trinkets but they turned out pretty fun.

Anyone else ever printed a miniature version of something in your setup? What was it?

u/Miserable_Home1023 — 24 days ago
▲ 142 r/homelab

First homelab rack build — what am I obviously missing?

Been running everything off a desk corner for about a year — router, switch, NAS, all just kind of stacked and zip-tied together. Woke up one morning after a summer storm to find the NAS had rebooted dirty again. Decided I was done in third time.

Spent a few weekends sourcing parts and finally put together a proper little rack. Picked up a UniFi Cloud Gateway Fiber and USW-Flex 2.5G 8 PoE, ran everything through a patch panel, and actually labeled things this time. Also threw in a Bluetti elite 100 V2 to handle UPS duty, we get these random afternoon storms that knock power for like 30 seconds, which was apparently enough to ruin my NAS's whole day.

Way quieter than I expected and the cable situation is actually embarrassing compared to what it was before. Anyway, Anything obviously wrong or that I should fix before I call this done?

u/Miserable_Home1023 — 29 days ago
▲ 36 r/prepping

Is a fridge backup power station a weird Mother’s Day gift?

So mothers day is coming up and i'm kinda stuck. My mom lives by herself in an area where the grid is... let's just say "unreliable" during storm season. She’s 72 and definitely cannot pull-start a gas generator or mess around with heavy extension cords anymore. Is a fridge backup power station a weird Mother’s Day gift? Or is it actually useful?on one hand, keeping her groceries (and her insulin) from spoiling during a blackout feels like a solid move.

I’ve been looking at the usual suspects like jackery and ecoflow, but i just stumbled upon this "fridgepower" thing by bluetti. It’s interesting because it’s specifically designed just for the fridge. Supposedly it just sits behind the unit and kicks in automatically like a UPS so she wouldn't even have to think about it.

But i’m torn... is this a "good son" gift or a "weird tech nerd" gift? Has anyone else gifted backup power to their non-techy parents? did they actually use it? Thanks in advance！

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u/Miserable_Home1023 — 2 months ago