Weather
It's gray and windy out, but lighter. The leaves are mostly gone from the trees, and a bunch are in my yard. It's actually the last pile I'm planning to get rid of. Still nice fall weather I would say.
Today, apart from the leaves, I'll be switching the Halloween lights out for more Christmasy ones. So that should be neat.
Solar
My current hobbyist off-grid system in normal use consists of two 100-watt panels in series, fed into my basement with a 10 AWG extension cord, and charging a 100 Ah AGM battery via an MPPT charge controller. Not much sun these days, due to the clouds and shorter days, but it continues to plug along.
In the spring and summer, and early fall, I use the system to power stuff like my work laptop, coffee grinder, and basically anything I can reasonably run an extension cord to from the system. It's just a matter of the power not going anywhere otherwise, and so it's nice to actually use it.
Now, I still use it for things like charging batteries and my home laptop, but not as much. The goal is to make sure the battery stays charged at the end of the day, in case we get a power outage. So it's nice to have the battery charged just in case.
Find me at @toroidalcore@masto.hackers.town