---- Home ----

---- Home - water ----

- Reverse Osmosis water filter with pre UV filtration, 50 GPD membrane, and permeate pump (TDS <2 ppm)

- Whole house carbon block water filter - removes some concerns about junk in the city water, cold tap water is <50 ppm

- Water softener - makes showering tolerable

- Tankless gas water heater - lasts longer than a tank water heater

---- Home - air/HVAC ----

- 3M 2500 smart air filters (reduces indoor PM1.0, PM2.5 and PM10 <5 mcg/m^3)

- Indoor air quality monitor (DIY using Arduino and Plantower PMS5003)

- Outdoor air quality monitor (DIY using Arduino and Plantower PMS5003)

- Sensi Smart Thermostat (Nest is not as reliable) - has automatic fan cycling to keep air moving, schedules, and automatic mode. Works with Alexa.

- Ceiling fan remote control kit: Eogifee Universal Ceiling Fan Remote Control and Receiver Kit

---- Home - safety ----

- Earthquake detector (detects P waves)

- Tornado / severe lightning / lightning detector (detects characteristic patterns in EMF)

- AED (if you have the $$$)

- First-aid kit

- Fire extinguishers

---- Home - kitchen ----

- Professional gas cook-top with 5 burners

- FoodSaver vacuum sealer for food

---- Home - storage ----

- Spacesaver vacuum bags for clothing storage

- Hanging Vacuum Space Saver Bags for jackets and coats

---- Home - cleaning ----

- iRobot Braava Jet m6 mop robot works flawlessly (Roomba S9+ useless lemon for carpet, gave it 10 months. Replaced it and all of its parts 3x. Battery runs out suddenly, it won't RTB, gets stuck, and forgets where it's at.) Works with Alexa.

- Kirby Gen 3 vacuum cleaner - lasts forever

---- Home - bathroom ----

- Arboleaf Digital Scale w/ app & Apple HealthKit support

---- Home - outdoors ----

- 30m/100' expandable garden hose with a reel (replaces vinyl hoses)

- 8 NetVue Vigil cameras w/ 256 GiB high endurance SD cards - local recording, WiFi/ethernet and zone-based motion detection

---- Home - electrical ----

- Leviton T5635 USB Dual Type-C with Power Delivery (PD)

- Leviton USB4P 4.2-Amp High Speed 4-Port USB-A Charger

- Leviton GFNL1 Self-Test SmartlockPro Slim GFCI Tamper-Resistant Receptacle with Guidelight and LED Indicator

- Leviton T5632 USB Charger/Tamper-Resistant Duplex Receptacle

- Fluke contactless live wire detector pen

- 3-prong wiring tester

- Circuit panel learning circuit finder - didn't work

---- House - garage ----

- Compressor with water/oil separator/drier

- 2-4 overhead retractable air reel

- Long power strips at waist level

- 4-6 overhead retractable 100' power cords

- Breadracks and bins for storage

- Sealed cement floor

- Anti-fatigue mats

---- Consumer electronics ----

- GPS tracker embedded in a USB cable

- WASD keyboard

- Wireless (non-BT), laser, rechargeable mouse: Logitech MX Revolution - no pairing issues, lasts for weeks, best designed mouse

- Hi-cap portable power bank: Anker PowerCore+ 26800mAh PD 45W with 60W PD Charger

- Waterproof BT speaker: Anker SoundCore Sport XL - loud enough and tunes anywhere

- Solar generator: Goal Zero Yeti 400 - old lead-acid solar/usb/12v/wall

- Spare/guest computer: MacMini Late 2012 upg. w/ 16 GiB & 512 GiB SSD -

- Surge protector: Tripp Lite AV2FP Isobar 5100J rating

- Qi charger: Samsung 15W Fast Charge 2.0 Wireless Charger Stand

---- Server electronics ----

- UPS: SMX1500RM2UNC 1500VA - 2U, floor/rack, options installed - 1 temp sensor & 1 temp/humidity sensor, optional SMX48RMBP2U for daisy-chaining

- Servers: used servers from unixsurplus, eBay, craigslist, etc.

- GbE switch: Netgear 48 ports w/ 4 1Gb 10km LX uplinks

---- Automotive ----

- Breaker bar: Vintage Mac Tools 1/2" drive breaker bar - when you need to use a jack handle cheater to get 600 ft-lbs to loosen lug-nuts

- Snow chains/cables: "S"-rated Z Cables - chains are a PITA and damage vehicles)

- Main battery replacement: XS Power D6500 XS Series 12V 3.9kA AGM High Output deep-cycle battery -

- Car seat-back MOLLE cover: Car Seat Back Organizer with Gun Rack Feature Tactical Seat Cover

- Radio: Kenwood eXcelon KMM-X704 Digital Media Receiver with Alexa, Bluetooth and HD Radio Compatibility + no-longer available (NLA) remote

- Gauge: Innovate Motorsports 3903 Ecf-1 Advanced 4-in-1 (serial chainable)

- Gauge: Innovate Motorsports 3853 MTX Dual Water Temp / Battery Voltage (serial chainable)

- Gauge: Innovate Motorsports 3913 MTX Dual Oil Pressure / Temp (serial chainable)

- Oil quick drain fitting: Eaton Aeroquip pair + hose

---- Automotive - chemicals / consumables ----

- Headlight restoration kit: Sylvania HRK.BX

- Washer fluid: vinegar, isopropyl alcohol, distilled/RO water, and clear dish soap (ratios: I don't remember)

---- Tools ----

- Index drill bit set: never look for another drill bit again

- Hydraulic Battery Lug Crimper Tool: 8 AWG - 0000 AWG(4/0) - installing battery terminals any other way is futile

- DMM: Fluke 289 w/ most of the options

- Power meter: Poniie PN2000 Plug-in Kill-a-watt clone

- Stackable PSU: Agilent single-source

- Oscilloscope: SDS1104X-E cracked to 200 MHz and all options (wifi, sig gen & logic analyzer)

- Soldering station: Sugon T26 - JBC tip-compatible instant-on, standby (epoxy a JBC tip stand to the top)

- Fume extractor: FES150

- 3.5X-90X Double Boom Stand trinocular microscope w/ ring polarizer light and 38MP HDMI camera

- Prusa MK3S w/ multi-material 3D-printer

- Wide, imperial&metric measuring tape

- Thread gauage

- Chip pin-pitch ruler

---- Generic parts ----

- Marine heat-shrink terminals - much better than the uninsulated, cheap ones

- Stainless steel fasteners - galvanic & seizing issues mitigated with washers & antiseize, but they're light-years better than zinc-plated

---- Chemicals ----

- Temporary light oil/antirust/weak antiseize: WD40 1 gal/3.8 L

- Penetrant fluid: Acetone + ATF 50/50

- 99.5% isopropyl alcohol

- Reusable chemical cans: Stainless steel, Schrader-valve compreseed air

- Non-copper anti-seize

- For most permanent lubrication applications: Valvoline full-synthetic moly grease - very thick

- For light oil lubrication: sewing machine oil

- For dishwasher string/pulleys: petroleum jelly

- Green low threadlocker

- Blue medium threadlocker gel

- Red high threadlocker gel

- Orange high removable threadlocker

- Cyanoacrolayte

- cyanoacrylate accelerator (n-Hexane)

- Cyanoacrolayte remover (acetone)

- Plastic polish kit: novus 1,2,3