Sump pumps are one of the most boring parts of home ownership. Until that one storm comes and suddenly they’re interesting.

After losing power one time this summer, I got paranoid and decided to build a battery backup. Home Depot had the basement watchdog systems, but they seemed high maintenance and I wanted something that would let me be lazier. I went with a LifePo4 battery system, that will (hopefully) get me 10 to 15 years. The battery charger has a float/storage mode so it can stay on 24/7. Doing some test runs, I think I can get about 400 cycles out of the battery before it hits 0%. I added some additional safety features (DC circuit breaker, GFCI with auto-on, Lithium fire extinguiser, etc), and added some battery powered lights and a basket of hand tools, so in the event the power goes out in the dead of night, something goes wrong, and I have to get my feet wet, everything is there ready to go.

      • ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Everyone around me knows that if they have a problem with an iPhone, don’t even talk to me, I won’t touch the hateful thing.

        I’ve never seen a more disorganized UX mess than an iPhone’s Settings menu. It’s like every dev team in the company decided they needed their own top level menu item for their pointless little part of the walled garden, even if it had no relationship to a phone OS.