@deborahjackson6889
Just glad you all are safe.
@TUKByV1
Good stuff, man! I'm making a solar cooker while watching your video.
@johnmal5975
You got to run things according to your personal needs and limitations. I have been running my fridge and chest freezes off of solar for the last year. I am in Florida so the sun figures a way to peak its head out thankfully. I have backup propane generator as well. I use it to charge the power stations. You look like you got all your bases covered really nice setup!! Nothing worse then losing your food been through that to many times down here with our storms.
@renaissancemarinetv3536
WHAT A GREAT TRAINING OPPORTUNITY!
@brucewayne-cave
Beautiful Setup...
@TheFloridaprepper
I keep my 700 watt or less power stations in large EMP bags I bought on Amazon. Larger than that, I keep them in the box and wrap in aluminum foil. I keep a bunch of regular and portable solar panels in storage also for longer power outages.
@donnahoffman1855
It’s nice to have a test run!
@thomaswick4260
Grid down depends on what the emergency is. If we are at war and attacked EMP you won’t have to worry about the generator. Marshall law or invasion that might be an issue depending on how far out rural you are. Either way it will suck. I have 500 pound propane tank for my heat and generator and another 165 pound tank for my propane stove. I have serval solar generator also. I’m on top of a hill in rural Maine so hopefully safe from the craziness if SHTF. Good luck 🍀
@Utah_Mike
Excellent.
@OnusBones
In related news, there is a KP8 solar storm underway right now; not scary, but the Sun can do a LOT more. We have some power stations and a couple of 200W solar panels right now, plus a little 1600W camping generator. I have a few more panels I plan to put out if there is a protracted outage, and I would use propane to can the meat we have in the freezer, until we got down to a couple of 12V compressor-coolers. We've tested piecemeal parts of the system (for example when our main refrigerator opted for early retirement, we used the compressor-coolers and didn't lose anything), but not had any long term outages yet.
@terrypierce8815
Don't forget your Homing Pigions...
@bobsblues9944
Do you have your generator and Solar Generator in a Faraday box ? , Also , make sure you make some sort of a Locked Quiet box for the generator . I made sure to get an ENERGY STAR freezer and small refrigerator so that it eats less AMPS when the compressor starts . My Large upright freezer is only 4 amps and the small refrigerators are only 1 1/2 amps
@murda2999
A way to test out your gear!
@nordwest23
Could you maybe do video about the more intricacies Of what size generator you have what fuel it runs on How much of a load your entire home drains And how do you go about charging said electric generators In what pattern or Do you just have like Different outlet on your generator or ??? I think we've got our plan down but I don't have any solar yet I have some panels But I don't have a decent inverter nor do I have a transfer switch for my breaker box which is nice cause then you don't have wiring madness going At any rate Would like to know some of the Would like to know some of the intricacies Thanks for all your uploads They are really great !! Blessings to you and your family😎✌🐧 Kim N. In N.W. Commiefornia
@davidjones1393
GOOD DRILL HAVE A PLAN
@ricksargent8754
Good chance to check your system setup. One question is you said you can probably go 2 weeks. What happens in a grid down situation where the power is out for a long time? What are your plans.
@bobsblues9944
When the whole grid went down in the east years azgo , not thinking about the consequences , I set up my generator out back so that I would have light and TV . All was good until I went out about 2.30 am to check on the gas in the generator . I went out the back door and left it unlocked behind me and there was 5 guys standing around my generator , two were neighbors and 3 were dudes I never saw before . The 3 had heard the sound of the generator from their car several blocks away and headed to see what the sound was . I have a 4 foot wooden fence around my back yard with a gate , which they just opened and walked right in . They were no doubt going to take it but found my 2 neighbors already there . This was just several hours into a grid down scenerio . DONT DO what I did ,this could have been a Fatel mistake , make a quiet box for your generator and keep it locked , also DONT walk out of your house UNARMED and leave the door unlocked . ALSO dont broadcast that youve got LIGHT when your neighbors dont . Keep all your gates locked !
@able880
I live in the rural deep south - were i live at the power stayed off as much as it stayed on till about 2000 -
Ice storm knocked power out for a month or more and huricanes for a yr for some -
I had my origanal farm light system till about 5 yrs ago -
It was a 100 kw system - it worked extreamly well over the 37 yrs i used it -
I changed it out about 5 yrs ago - some one else has it now - with lead acid batterys if a person has the knoledge there is no telling how long those battery's can last with the weak acid solution -
My grandfather was a early machanic electrician from the early 1900s when most power houses in small towns in the deep south were hybrid 110 volts DC -
From what he said they were set up to charged batterys 4 hrs a day and used 1.220 acid strength batterys in colder parts thats good to minuse 17° -
Down here 1.200 acid strength was common - when i was a kid befor REA brought in AC - there were still towns with 110 DC - there is a 10% voltage drop per mile with 110 volts DC -
If you look at old DC motors the operating voltage might be 130 volts to 85 volts ,-
When the power house would charge the batterys 2 to 4 hrs in the morning and evening the voltage increased for those near the power house quiet a bit on the 110 volt DC towns -
From what i remember seeing power house batterys the had 50 or so huge 2 volt cell about the size of 9 submarine batterys - the largest cells were about the size of possibly 18 sub batteries -
Small towns could not afford AC power - with AC the generator has to run 24/7 the maintnace is very high also a AC power plant burn 6 to 10 times the fuel of the hybrid DC power plants -
So till the REA strung grid power to small towns many were hybrid DC plants -
As for the average person the lithium tecnology is grate - in my case i have reduced my bank of batterys to 26 golf cart batterys with a reduced acid strength of 1.220 - its only has 9000 watts of capacity now -
Up in norther regions many were sized for 7000 watts from 1900 to about 1950 for homes -
I might add when the acid is weak as long as termanals are coated with Vaseline - there are no corrosin problems with the termanals at all -
Solar is of little value down here the humidity restricts the Sun's UV light -
Just as my grand father and some of my uncles carries were power generation - i was in it also for yrs -
With lead acid batterys they can be caddered to exact needs - in very cold minus 30° weather using 1.450 acid strength we could 85% charge battery at high rates of current in as little as 30 minutes a day genrator run time - that was a huge fuel savings and far less generator maintnace -
With other battery tecnologys that cant be done - those living on boats are findinng that its better to combined AGM tecnology with lithium tecnology -
Thats already done on the industrial scale for over 40 yrs i guess -
You commented you were using a propane generator -
My guess is your using a regular 3600 rpm air cooled generator -
Ill send you info on generators latter - with what ur using, your fuel effecency is only about 2:1 -
That means for every 1 gal of fuel you burn in your generating 2000 watts of power -
If thing get hard and they will - when fuel becomes ether very expencive or worst unavalable - it would be better to generate power at the higher effecency rates of 8:1 or better -
That would be 8 kws per gallon of fuel burned - the old town power houses with the older 1920s generators ran at around 15:1 effecency and the ones from about 1930 on ran at 20:1 to 28:1 fuel effecency -
My set the last time i monitored the fuel consumed vs kw out put was 20:1 -
the way i have it presently set up it might be around 25:1 effecency -
@keithculvahouse1191
have you considered using an eg4 6000xp with like 15kwh batteries with some solar to be less noticed. only use a gen to charge batteries for cloudy periods
@campgiant2392