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  1. 07-28-2011, 05:07 AM #1
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    PITA power outage and cool tricks I forgot about.

    Got home after a triple full day.
    Traffic lights are off, whole county is dead powerwise.
    spooky.

    Now what, more work to do blablabla.

    50* at night so started a lil' fire in the woodstove.
    Don't really need it but I have water tanks around the stove so I'll
    have 300 gallons of HOT water by morning.
    How? well pump's out too. A few air pressurized tanks (say 4x 80 gal) outside in the sun all
    day are feeding the house. so good pressure good volume.
    Little tv runs for a couple hrs and get air channel 9-1 digital 24hr news and weather. plus 11 others with a rusty rotten old style roof antenna from the 60's.

    Battery died a bit ago so I ran a wire to a 12 volt trike on the front porch and
    now have tv again. There's actually 3 trikes on the porch so they'll be happy to run
    my tv all night if necessary.

    Oh email, very important. no power no internet.
    hmm..plugged land line into laptop and reset it all for dial up.
    and here I is! once again, bothering all you kind folks in trike land.
    Might have to look into some sort of generic usb external battery for this thing, if they even exist.

    heat, water, hot water, net, tv, radio and food.
    I better eat some icecream since it's on it's way to milkshake land
    right about now.

    This kind of stupid stuff is only supposed to happen in the winter.
    I had no idea I was this prepared, but then again, I can almost hide my own easter eggs.

    Got a bunch of 8$ battery powered motion sensor lights all around inside too so
    I can walk all around the house and these little light come on everywhere I go.

    Hope everyone is doin' good.
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  2. 07-28-2011, 06:59 AM #2
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    Drjoe you are the man, lol , it is amazing what a little inginuity and common sense can do.
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    *50 degrees at night. Man what I would do for that right now.
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  4. 07-28-2011, 09:49 AM #4
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    It's things like this that have made me to start shopping for a couple solar panels and battery storage back up.
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  5. 07-29-2011, 05:05 AM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vealmonkey View Post
    It's things like this that have made me to start shopping for a couple solar panels and battery storage back up.
    Some say fork lift batteries and the like can be gotten at junkyards for scrap prices.

    They won't run heavy amperage stuff anymore but could work well with
    light drains from electronics.
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  6. 07-29-2011, 07:46 AM #6
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    forced to eat ice cream, good deal
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  7. 07-29-2011, 10:02 AM #7
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    I love it when I just (have to eat icecream) btw its good for you.....i think if there was way to put solar panels on ths riof, and have a way to store some of the charge for night time usage that would be the way to go, but there prolly is a way but idk lol
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  8. 07-29-2011, 10:00 PM #8
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    Heres a USB battery pack. good for charging a phone or other USB device.

    An extra car battery or three, and one of those 120V converters are good for powering small things for short times.

    a generator is never a bad thing to have handy either.

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