Just had solar panels installed at home… and one of the cool little surprises is a built-in carbon-savings calculator (derived from kW-hrs generated I presume).
There is also a web interface so I can track how it is doing and the solar flux trends.
All very geek chic, but I am not sure what the German hand gesture is all about… or the “Earth Fault” tilt light for Earth in the Balance
Ah those Germans. As the owner of an EV whose only manual is in German and I don’t speak a word of it, you have my sympathy!
‘Earth’ means ‘ground’ here, so its a wiring test.
‘Sunny boy’ is a german phrase, said in english like that, meaning an affable easygoing personality type, so using it here is a play on that.
Hand gesture is questionable… probably an inside joke or something. Post it as a puzzle for ideas.
And….how many pounds of CO2 will you save at XPRS this weekend? 😉 …. at least at home…
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Have you seen the solar panel film that can be laid flat on just about any surface & is being mass produced at a relatively low cost? I forgot the name of the company. I’ll try to find it.
Congrats on the panels! We plan to use solar, wind & passive solar in our retirement place in Arizona. I’m hoping we can find an earthship for sale, but people tend to stay put in them!
Oh Sunny Boy…
Das good S…I was just checking into solar tiles myself wish they would offer more of a incentive to get everyone to go green and move towards getting off the grid.
As you are probably aware Earth Fault is another name for ground fault (GFI measures current.)
The hand gesture means that you should tap on the glass to get an acurate reading – much like a barometer (jk). Either that, or it’s to wake up the chipmunks on the treadmill behind the panel (to engage the backup system).
That gesture — rubbing the thumb and index finger together — is of course colloquial and means dough, moolah, lettuce, dinero, or, in the German Urtext, Kohle, Moos… 😉
It’s ambiguous as to whether the manufacturer wanted to suggest the savings on the electricity bills this solar setup is supposed to bring to their thrifty customers, or the not insignificant sunk costs of such an installation (^^;
That is a really really bad pictogram. I couldn’t even guess what it’s supposed to mean. nhr seems to have decrypted it correctly…
It’s a pity many German companies doing international business don’t seem to recognise the need to have their products translated/localized by a professional (native speaker). I witness these kinds of things far too often.
As a German, I’m a bit embarassed 🙂
Just found out that company is headquartered about one and a half hour’s drive from where I live.
I go for Mark´s answer. To me it was indicating just "Tap GENTLY on me" for some reason of how it works. Mark says it´s like a barometer… I don´t know, I thought of a "refresh" command.
From the Sunny Boy (one of the products looking like this one) PDF manual…
download.sma-america.com/smaprosa/dateien/4752/SB5000US-7…
"Activation of the Backlight:
The Backlight is activated by knocking twice on the lid. Aditional knocks will scroll through the display messages"
ROTFLMAO – OMG that is hillarious! Isn’t that something one would normally do when something isn’t working … start banging on it! I call that the sledgehammer approach to maintenance … When all else fails – start hitting it. Or the "fonzie" effect.
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Well, from a "Sunny Boy" device you might expect hilarious features (apart from the already funny name, I mean). At least they don´t ask you to greet the thing:
(Knock, knock) -Anybody home?
schoschie: most probable. The new knock. 😛
nhr: oops… (I could apologise but no, I confess I knew beforehand about what you say, I do the same myself. I tried to find some page in the net that was not a manual to quote the function!! A blogpost for example, title: "WTF! This thing it has a "hit me" function" … But was not possible (at least for the keywords I was using to search) 😉
so jetzt hab ich endlich zeit, dir nochmal zu schreiben. die geschichte hat mich wirklich interessiert und die kommentare und antworten erklären schon alles, was ich fragen wollte – respektive der link unterm bild
feine sache! wie das blöde bedienteil aussieht ist doch wohl schnuppe, hauptsache man macht was!
This should ease the guilt about putting so much carbon into the air from the rocket motors, eh? 😉
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