🔋 Can You Make It Through a Week Off-Grid? 🌿

[akroberts]

I had the opportunity and money a few years back to buy an actual wood burning cook stove with ovens. I couldn't get to the town in enough time to buy it . Tomorrow or Friday I have to go pick the 2 pumpkins because they won't last until October. They are already bright orange so some pumpkin bread is going to be awesome.

 

[mkirkpatrick6411]

Funny, this made me feel good --- or that I may be paranoid --- or just not too attached to "modern life" in some ways.
I have solar inverters (2) with 18K watt ( say 14k really collectable ) sending the watts to a 3rd "master hybrid inverter" in my cool basement with 60,000 watts / 1120AH of batteries and the entire house is on the inverter. What do I do when the power goes out ... Nothing ... I get a text on my phone but the house is like a computer on a UPS. Nothing stops or even blinks. The solar has been recharging the batteries to 100% every day with an occasional super cloudy day not quite getting back to 100%. That takes about 1/2 or more or the questions off the list.

Food - we live out a bit but have always made our food from "scratch" I have and keep circulating about 100lb flour 100lb beans 100lb rice and the freezer or canned beef/pork/chicken I buy in bulk and divide and vacuum seal... So with the garden we can generally go a very long time if needed, dairy is the only short shelf and I have dried milk paper products/medicine/batteries etc. stored for emergencies ....

Entertainment - Lots of books real and tablet, movies, and music available on the server in the basement ( still running of course ) and we love a good game of chess.

Heat - propane and a wood gasification boiler+1500gal water storage ( about 1 million BTU's ) either will heat the house just fine with the wood being the cost of labor

Oh and we are , of course, on a well ....

 

[flowerbug]

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Oh and we are , of course, on a well ....

all sounds good to me.

what type of battery storage do you have?

 

[mkirkpatrick6411]

all sounds good to me.

what type of battery storage do you have?

I have made 4 DIY lifepo4 battery packs of eve LF280K cells for about 1500 each all parts included 15K x 4 = 60K 2 original custom boxes ( before cases were available and cheap ) two after erector set style with very small additions

FWIW I have two more steel cases to retrofit everything to the same style - while I like my custom boxesbetter technically ( compression/air flow ) they were a crazy amount of woodshop work and the time simply cannot be repeated for the 450 $ that the steel one's cost me ....