[Also, I don't like the quality of the images. How can I take their advice seriously if the images are barely viewable. It looks like someone actually made an effort to reduce the quality of the images. For artistic effect, probably. Don't do that.]
That’s the first thing I noticed too. You can buy a 277VAC/60VDC 7A DIN rail miniature circuit breaker that can handle 7,500 amps of fault current for $20 [0] there’s no excuse other than ignorance for the lack of overcurrent protection. I only know how to use a calculator to figure out AC fault current but that should be enough to handle a solar panel.
It does mention an optional thermal switch and optional thermal fuse, my sauna stove definitely has a thermal switch and I’d include one if I was building this thing too.
[0] https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/phoenix-contact/1...
The image part of your comment was nerd bait so everyone replied to that :P
> By dithering, we can make images ten times less resource-intensive, even though they are displayed much larger than on the old website.
This is needed because the website is solar-powered and self-hosted on low-tech hardware, read more here:
They did, and it’s part of the footprint-reduction techniques used to host the site off solar full-time. https://github.com/lowtechmag/solar/wiki/Solar-Web-Design#im...
Might as well use your server to generate some of that heat ...
I think it's acceptable for the drawings to be compressed this way but the photographs are very unclear.
> We further apply default typefaces, dithered images, off-line reading options, and other tricks to lower energy use far below that of the average website.
Battery status 63%, not charging Power used 2.69W Uptime 5 weeks, 11 hours, 36 minutes
Traffic from HN may be a problem today...
Seems to have had no issue whatsoever! Even through the whole night period. Shows the depth of inefficiency of our 'advanced' systems.
down from 63% yesterday but yeah, really good!