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| Piece | Date | Author |
|---|---|---|
| Useful Characters ↓ | 2026-07-22 | Mark Fussell |
| Ordinary Colors ↓ | 2026-06-18 | Mark Fussell |
| Packout Portable Electrical System ↓ | 2026-06-17 | Mark Fussell |
| Vault-4 (Gen-1) ↓ | 2025-01-03 | Mark Fussell |
| Vault-1 (Gen-1) ↓ | 2025-01-02 | Mark Fussell |
| PowerVault Gen-1 ↓ | 2025-01-01 | Mark Fussell |
| EV mileage ↓ | 2022-09-01 | Mark Fussell |
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Useful Characters
There are a lot of useful characters in the extended Unicode character sets, covering both foreign languages and a large number of useful symbols. The following are some of the special characters used in documents on this site. All the Unicode characters can be looked up here: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/
Ordinary Colors
There are a lot of sizes to track when designing and building both the electrical and the physical aspects of solar systems. These include sizes of:
- Wires: 10AWG, 6mm², etc.
- Bolts: #6, 1/8-inch, 3mm, etc.
- Pipes: 3/4-inch nominal, various outside dimensions depending on materials, etc.
- Holes: Assorted sizes to accommodate outside diameter, clearance, and tolerance dimensions for the above bolts, pipes, fittings, etc.
- And so on…
Packout Portable Electrical System
The following describes how to create a portable electrical system (storage, charging, and distribution) leveraging the Milwaukee® Packout™ storage system.
Vault-4 (Gen-1)
A PowerVault is a weather-resistant chest that provides for safe electrical usage outside the confines of a sheltering building. More details about the vault design in general is in PowerVault Gen-1
Vault-4 is a 48V solar harvester and has some notable differences from Vault-1:
Vault-1 (Gen-1)
A PowerVault is a weather-resistant chest that provides for safe electrical usage outside the confines of a sheltering building. Vault-1 is an all-in-one (Solar-In, Battery, DC-Out, AC-Out) storage and generation system that provides a good base description of the vault design concepts and their implementation. See PowerVault Gen-1 for details about PowerVault designs in general and Vault-4 for another kind of vault.
PowerVault Gen-1
A PowerVault is a weather-resistant chest that provides for safe electrical usage outside of the confines of a sheltering building. It is especially designed to leverage modern solar and battery power capabilities to provide electricity in house-adjunct (e.g. a pergola, shed, garage, or ADU) and off-grid situations.
EV mileage
When comparing EVs (Electric Vehicles) and ICE (Internal Combusion Engion) vehicles, don’t try to standardize on some strange new concept like MPGe.