"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Tue, 7 Nov 2017 10:18:53 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
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On Mon, 6 Nov 2017 13:18:06 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
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OTOH if I buy that battery for emergency backup I want it to last as
long as possible and so won't cycle it very often or very far,
except
to confirm that it's still able to run the fridge overnight.
_A_ battery? Banks are needed for power, and to finance the
batteries. :-/
That was an example, similar to what Batteries Plus recently quoted to
me.
The compromise I want to try is to have enough solar power to fix
lunch, watch the TV news and browse the net at noon without drawing
Just curious: do you continue to get TV and internet when the
regional
power is down for days/weeks?
So far the TV stations and the landline and cellular services have
stayed up on their batteries and generators. The Northeast has to
prepare for both tropical hurricanes (TS Sandy) in summer and arctic
ice storms in winter. I have both 3G and 4G wireless internet.
Week-long storm outages tend to occur in relatively narrow strips,
like between all snow and all rain, or wind and flood damage near the
coast. They aren't regional like power generation blackouts which we
haven't suffered yet, though our safety margin is shrinking due to
political opposition to coal, nuclear, pipelines and Canadian hydro.
much from the batteries. I've been experimenting with a 300W rice
cooker as a general-purpose heating appliance. The outside doesn't
warm up and waste heat. It does get hot enough to boil over so I may
loan it a thermocouple and temperature controller.
What do you mean by "general-purpose heating appliance"? Are you
using/going to be using it for heating air, water, and food, or
what?
Food-heating. I didn't write 'cooking' because it doesn't get hot
enough to fry.
Air alternative: Pick up a couple of the $10 12v car heaters from
HF.
About 150w each, and enough to warm up a tent in a hurry, combined
with our 100-120w human bodies. http://tinyurl.com/ybyq6nx4
Wood stove, remember?