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I'm just start to look into plug-in solar, and I'm confused about how it works. From what I saw on a couple of videos, it either plugs right into a 120v plug, or plugs into a bigger 240v outlet much like you'd use to power the entire house from a whole-house generator.

What I'm confused about is --

1. am I just confused and this is totally wrong, and

2. if I'm not confused, how is this not dangerous. When you power your house with a generator you need to use a lockout switch switch so you never simultaneously receive power both from the grid and also your generator. Why is this not required for plug-ion solar?

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It looks my primary point of confusion was generally that pushing energy into a wall outlet is generally actually safe, and the biggest risk is actually to line workers if there is a widespread outage. Previously if you'd asked me, I would have claimed that generators have lockout switches because you would potentially blow the generator or start a house fire or something. But it sounds like in principle you can just put energy back into your system, and the primary problem is just ensuring this is done in a safe and regulated way.

I used to have a local file set as a block in pihole, but pihole can no longer read the file. The specific message is:

[i] Target: file:///home/user/blacklist.txt

[✗] Cannot read file (user 'pihole' lacks read permission)

[✗] Status: Retrieval failed / empty list

[✗] List download failed: using previously cached list

I changed the file ownership so that it's owned by the pihole user and so that everyone can read, and group members can read and write. But pihole still says it cannot read the file.

Does anyone have any idea what I'm missing?

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Looks like per this post -- https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/hzvfb1/adding_a_local_blocklist/ -- it needs to be in /var/www/html? I've had it in my home folder for years and years without issue, but things must have changed at some point. Either way, problem resolved.

I've seen a couple of people do this for the 2nd gens, but I haven't seen any for the 3rd gens. Do the 2nd and 3 gens share springs? A lot of the spring packs seem to be to increase lift or offroad performance. I'm interested in increased payload.

Has anyone tried this? Any experiences to share?