Having added lightning rods to both of our non-floating houses on our land along with the appropriate binding and grounding, I have struggled to figure out how to similarly protect BaanLoiNaam, our floating house. This isn’t just an academic issue. One of our neighbors had their house burn down this year due to a lightning…
Lightning rods are up on BaanRimNaam
After putting up the lightning rods at BaanMae, we had the workers put them up on BaanRimNaam. They used a slightly different design for the welding, but if anything I think it looks even nicer: The 10sq mm electric wire has been run between the two lightning rods just under the roof and then down…
Hacking a better switch for the UV light
My biggest problem with all of the UV light based water filters on the market is the switch on the UV light. The cable from the switch to the filter is only about 50cm long. If the filter is installed under the sink (where else would you want to install it if you had a…
Prototype light switch and dimmer
I’ve been going around and putting finishing touches on the many projects that I’ve written about previously. I wrote previously about the custom solar powered LED light system that we built, but we hadn’t come up with a nice aesthetically pleasing design for a light switch and dimmer knob to control it. So we hacked…
Miscellaneous day
Today was a busy day, but not much of anything exciting. We spent the day putting the finishing touches on other projects that were mostly completed but just needed a little bit something to be “done”. We: Crimped the permanent wires and connectors needed to run the solar powered DC water pump that was previously installed….
Next test of prototype walkway lights
I wrote yesterday about hacking a 220V AC walkway light to use 4 of our 7W LEDs. After testing it, it was painfully bright. We intend to put individual dimmer circuits on each light pole, but why waste money on unneeded LEDs just to dim them? So we switched it out to a single LED…
DC solar powered walkway lights
We weren’t so happy with our options for outdoor DC walkway lights so we decided to try buying normal AC walkway lights and hacking it. We decided to buy this model from HomePro for hacking: (The photo here is at HomePro and shows it with an AC 220V compact flourescent bulb inside for display.) It…
DC solar powered water pump hooked up
Today, we hooked up the DC water pump. The glue on the PVC pipes wasn’t dry yet when I was there, so we didn’t get to fully test it out. But the idea is that the water main flows into the 900L water tank with a float valve to stop it when it is full….
Electricity wiring between the houses
I wrote recently about the biggest digging project we’ve had on the land that we used our home build excavator for. Since the trenching was completed, the next few steps turned out to be much more complicated than I had planned for. Not difficult. Just complicated. It starts with the story of the AC 220V…
Solar power box update
More progress on wiring up the DC solar power box: Last time I left off having mounted everything in the box and mounting the box on the side of the house. Today, we have the internal wiring done. Tomorrow, I’m hoping to have the solar panels and batteries connected up, and then BaanMae will officially…
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