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redpoint5 · 11-03-2021, 03:46 AM

I mean, that's an impossible rule to enforce, prohibiting standalone solar.

"What's that".
"Sunshade. Also, nunya business. Also, get off my lawn".
End of conversation.

oil pan 4 · 11-03-2021, 05:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary

I don't think the problem is the cost, but building codes, renting, etc.

Where I live I'd need to build them to code, which is kind of prohibitive.

Also in Florida, for an example, you can't build a stand alone solar array on your roof. It has to be grid connected. If the power goes out, your solar array has to be shut down and disconnected so that you don't have any power either.

Do they have stupid pills in Florida?

freebeard · 11-03-2021, 05:41 AM

Have a small, deep pond.
Create a salt water layer at the bottom
Pump solar heat into the house.

http://www.chegg.com/homework-help/q...laye-q18607748

Pop quiz: How does water get to 120°C?

Isaac Zachary · 11-03-2021, 06:26 AM

The point was that installing solar on a roof isn't as easy as buying panels and components and putting them together. Building codes and such can make it more expensive and more complicated than just installing them on your car or truck.

I would love to have even just a few hudnred watt solar panel on my house to charge cellphones with or something. But it's pretty much out of the question for rules and regulations reasons.

rmay635703 · 11-03-2021, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by freebeard

That's some mighty fine legislation they've got there.

That is why you disconnect from the grid keep the solar on its own pedestal and preferably live in an area without zoning

Ideotic legislation prevents useful progress, similar to requiring the 1st floor of a house to be 1000sqft minimum and banning portable housing outside mobile home parks

samwichse · 11-10-2021, 03:54 PM

A lot of repeat from the video but with some nice stills...

https://www.aptera.us/the-latest-on-...e-development/

You can see there's definitely a sway bar in the new suspension, and it looks like it's made from a standard casting instead of 3-d printed:

oil pan 4 · 11-10-2021, 04:58 PM

Remember when they didn't need an anti sway bar?
I didn't notice it before but it doesn't look like there are any brakes in the hub. Drum brakes don't count as brakes any more on small vehicles.
Oh and those hub motors are sized to put out maybe 10hp continously.

freebeard · 11-10-2021, 05:42 PM

The swaybar looks like an aftermarket add-on. It could be the leading leg of the lower A-arm, like my Superbeetle. Basically a short torsion bar connecting the two.

oil pan 4 · 11-10-2021, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by freebeard

The swaybar looks like an aftermarket add-on. It could be the leading leg of the lower A-arm, like my Superbeetle. Basically a short torsion bar connecting the two.

I was thinking exactly the samething.

samwichse · 11-11-2021, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by oil pan 4

I didn't notice it before but it doesn't look like there are any brakes in the hub. Drum brakes don't count as brakes any more on small vehicles.

The brakes are actually tucked inside the back of the motor. You can just barely see caliper in the pic I linked up there, but here's a shot of another model from Elaphe showing how the brakes work:

Looks like a real PITA to work on.