Still looking at gutters and now looking at Menard’s. They have two thicknesses of aluminum available, 0.019” and 0.027”. Lowes is 0.0185” which is thinner than Menard’s thin stuff and Lowes has no heavy duty version.
The HD at Menard’s is 16’ long while light duty at both places is 10’ long.
40% thicker would require less hangers and just be better in general. I need 72’ plus some to hang off the end of each side to reach the inlet of the tanks.
5 lengths x 16’ is 80’. The price for the 16 footers is $32 or $160 for the five. Less hangers, less splices and those gutter accessories are cheaper than Lowes.
Those leaf guards aren’t stocked at the local Menard’s but they do free ship-to-store and looks like they’ll work with the gutter I’m looking at and, a 25 pack of 3’ is 75’. I can cover the ends that hang off with something solid since there’s no roof to run off into them.
And of course as I’m researching gutter, we had 1.45”or rain here today that probably would have been enough to fill a tank or two.
Heh, the wet weather has been hanging west of us. We really could use some, but, dry does let me get more done outdoors.
For breaks yesterday, I paid bills and took apart a Lithium battery pack to snag the 18650’s inside. It’s a 3x3 array, so, I for now left it as 2x 3 batts in parallel, 1x 2 batts in parallel, and 1x a single battery for my headlamp. All took a charge successfully despite being over 5 years old, and down to about 1.9 volts each. I have a few more of these packs, so, I should get them apart soon and get them recharged. (They were new old stock when I bought them on eBay. The batts are NCR, so, they should be good quality. They charge faster than the 18650’s I pulled out of a failing laptop battery pack - my theory is that for the laptop application, the charge rate is being self limited inside each battery to minimize heat issues. THESE packs have a fancy board complete with thermocouple sensors for each group of 3 parallel batts, so, the regulation is external to the batteries. My smart charger has it’s own heat sensing and a fan that draws cool air over the batts being charged, while the laptop batteries had little if any air cooling. I charged the 3-packs at 1000 mAh (total), the 2x pack at 700 mAh, and the single battery at 500 mAh. None got over 100 deg. F according to my infrared thermometer.
That all said, I need to find a charger for the complete 3x3 packs, as I think these would work in most moderate duty 12 volt applications (such as a small Bluetooth amplifier capable of running 2 ohm speakers). The board that was on the packs originally has a 9 pin connector, and it looks to me as if the board “converses” with the medical computer it was made for, and won’t work without that communication.
Yay! He’s on the Gutter Bandwagon! Beau will be home tomorrow for a spell, so I’m working on his Honey Do List, today. I texted him to bring home the weed whacker, for sure. He responded: ‘ ok. *sad face*’ He knows what lies ahead of him!
Rain? We’ve gotten 4” in the past two days with more on the way on and off all week. Ugh! There has been flooding in Madison and Milwaukee. Milwaukee got 7” of rain during that time frame.
Really sick of damp, humid, warm air! Absolutely no breeze today, either. I feel like I’m breathing underwater half the time. Gotta douse myself with OFF! and put on my scuba gear to pick green beans today. To finish the look I will don my pink mosquito netting sunhat, LOL! ;)