I hope you are back as you were my first channal to follow. I was heart broken when you walked away. I hope you and A have continued to grow your family and all is well.
Welcome back. I started watching your videos from the beginning. Starting living in your trailer cut-your-own wood your own timber for your house and watching your construction of your home. 👍
Glad to see you posting videos again. I've been following you guys since you started. I look forward to see what you guys have done and what you have planned for the future.
I work in Water Treatment. I'm thrilled to learn you are disinfecting with Cl2. I'm convinced chlorinated water has saved more lives than penicillin. We do use ultrasonic monitors to monitor the water levels in our filters and they work flawlessly. Nothing touches the water (there's nothing wrong with that though). They simply measure the distance between the sensor and the surface of the water. They ARE wired though and I think each unit costs between $2,000 and $3,000.
I have been meaning to tell you how long I have been following you two. I started watching you faithfully when you were digging a trench for water pipe with a air blasting trench wand. Just wanted to know.👍🙏👌✌️🌹
I took a shot every time you said "system", i'm the recovery room right now, after having a stomach pump and coffee IV. Thanks for the video, good to see you guys back by the way x
It is amazing how little water you really need to survive and even to live. As a kid (80 now), we relied on water from the house roof into a smallish tank (2000 gal) and later another 2000 up on a stand to give better pressure. Our family was 7 people and although we got close to running out mid summer a couple of times, the 15>20 inch annual rainfall kept us going. No showers, shared use of a bath once a week (1 refill of course for females), with occasional sponge bath for kids when dirty. Water was heated in a laudry copper and carried to the bath by hand in a bucket. As kids, once a week seemed like it was too often, but how many people flush hundreds of litres down the drain each day, that didn't even get to touch their bodies as their shower was running.
Great to see ur content again! Showing ur tanktop transmitter around 8:50 underscores that u used an omnidirertional antenna. May I suggest getting a very planar microwave antenna (a yagi or flat panel) to increase the strength of ur received signal at the house. It's not a huge cost (connectors r, however)...
I also have two water sources. I suggest connecting the toilets to the tank to use the water on a constant basis to keep it from ever being stagnant. You'll also know quickly if there is an issue.
Wells in my area are on the order of 400 feet, and not guarantee that you’ll get good water, so lots of homeowners opt for cistern. We have 5000 gallon tank and truck in municipal treated water. We generally reccomend a minimum tank volume so you can take a full 3600 gallon load of water and have a reserve left.
Awesome! I’m so glad u did this follow up. I’ve watch your cistern videos several time for info and guidance and I bought the book you recommended. This video is another great piece. Thank you.
You could potentially create a closed inclined manometer with left over transparent water tubing. This would be a handy visual back-up and could be installed inline on the water supply. Just need a tee near the supply, a capped inclined length of tube with a trapped air pocket in the inclined leg. Mark the tube with the location of the air-water interface at different fill levels of the cistern. Ancient tech for measuring small changes in pressure. Reading would only be accurate when the water is not flowing though...
I watched the original videos where you did the installation of the tanks, pipes, and the water monitor testing. It's good to see that your testing and selection of this solution paid off in the long run. I'm wondering if the slightly dirty solar cell on the upper transmitter could be the reason for the intermittent readings. You may recall seeing those call boxes along highways and in some department store parking lots, and I wonder if that might be a possible solution to getting alternate power to the transmitter by having a pole with an integrated solar panel 6-8 feet above the soil and a batter backup that powers the transmitter. That might be cheaper, and a lot less digging effort, than running external power to that small transmitter.
Our guess is snow covering the panel combined with very low sun angle are the culprits in winter. These are problems on any solar installation of course and typically panels are highly adjustable to compensate for sun angle. This one fixed at horizontal isn’t the best design. A remote mountable panel with angle adjustment would solve that!
Glad too see you coming back. I'm disgusted with what some shit bags have done to your family. Glad your fighting back. Look forward to continued videos. Take care of the kiddos and family first.
You where 21:40 21:40 21:40 my first RU-vid channel I started watching many years ago. I think the first one I watch was something to do with a girl selling her car. I remember you testing out the devises and how frustrating it was. Glad to see you back!!!! I have so many question but out of respected I will not ask.
last place had 20K gal in storage. open creek great in winter/spring. china pump 40 volt solar. 20 gal a minute 80 foot lift. 3/4 mile 1 inch pipe... ozone filters. drank it for years. SoCal
4 years is cool, eventually the battery will fail. A white reflector on the north side of the little solar panel may double its effective output. Show on top definitely a cause for losses. Also welcome back.
Hell yeah brother I'm glad to see you guys out here again Don't let these people fool you man they're a bunch of assholes but keep up to go work man Love you guys keep going and I'll keep watching I might be moving up to Oregon sometime soon so I don't know if that's where you're at or not but hopefully so I like to meet you guys and have a good relationship with you guys you guys are cool as hell take care
I'm curious I think if you measured the pressure accurately enough from the house end and only used measurements when water was not flowing you could probably calculate tank level from the house, you might need temperature compensation given density changes and the high head vs tank depth.
Firstly simply measuring the pressure of the water in the cistern without correcting for the shape of the cistern is going to give an erroneous indication of how much water you have. Secondly why didn't you run some twisted pair cable when you ran the pipe? If you had done that you'd have avoided the drama of relying on a wireless connection and having to rely on the Sun to keep the sensor and transmitter powered. I know, hindsight 😃
