Building a portable power cart for emergency use during an extended power outage.
Automatically Start Chia On-Boot as a Service
Learn how to configure the Chia farmer to start automatically on-boot through systemd.
Server Build with Supermicro X10SRi-F and Intel E5-2630
Rebuilding the 10-year old server that’s been serving various purposes in my home with a new Supermicro motherboard and 10-core Xeon CPU.
Vatrer 12V 7Ah LiFePO4 Battery Review & Teardown
The Vatrer 12V 7Ah LiFePO4 battery is perhaps one of the smallest batteries we have reviewed thus far. This review was a request from one of the commenters on our Youtube channel. I primarily deal with solar-related applications and thus don't work...
Building a 3000W Portable Emergency Power System
Today, we're going to take a look at a way to generate your own power during an outage caused by a storm, flood, or other natural disaster. This 5.1kWh portable power cart with an inverting capacity of 2.4kW can provide enough power to run your...
LiTime 12V 100Ah LiFePO4 Smart Battery Review
Today's battery review comes with some exciting news. Ampere Time, the company which has earned an outstanding reputation by providing reliable batteries at an affordable price, has announced that they will be rebranding their company as Li Time....
Ampere Time 12V 200Ah Heated LiFePO4 Battery Review
Today's battery up for review is the 12V 200Ah self-heated model from Ampere Time. LiFePO4 batteries cannot typically be charged below freezing without risk of irreversibly damaging the cells. We are starting to see more and more models come to...
Automatically Start Chia On-Boot as a Service
One of the most tedious aspects of rebooting a server that's hosting many VMs is having to log in to each guest after and ensure the proper services have started back up. Most common services ship with some sort of boot script these days, such as...
Server Build with Supermicro X10SRi-F and Intel E5-2630
I have a server running with a primary purpose of serving a few different virtual machines. These include things like a MySQL database, Grafana, over-the-air DVR software, security cameras, things I'm testing out, etc. This server has come a long...
Installing KVM Virtualization on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8
Today's task will be reinstalling the KVM/libvirt ecosystem on the new home server I've built out. The new server is running Oracle Linux 8.6. These instructions should also work for RHEL 8 and CentOS 8. The operating system has just been installed...
White Label SAS Hard Drives, Seagate Exos?
I'm always looking for deals on new drives to expand the Chia farm. Typically this involves constantly browsing eBay for new/cheap listings, ending auctions without many bids, or other outlets such as reddit's /r/homelabsales. In doing so, I...
SOK 48V 100Ah LiFePO4 Battery Review & Teardown
SOK has built quite a reputation for themselves for their 12V 100Ah LiFePO4 battery. Many other companies are building batteries in the same old plastic cases over and over again whereas SOK decided they wanted to be different and built using steel...