Off The Grid

One of our group members lives up north where they don't get enough solar in the winter. His utility company offers "super off peak" rates from midnight until 7am each day. Since he's got enough battery to go >24hours, he can charge his batteries until 7am and then coast on batteries the rest of the day. The only catch is that his inverters are the off grid variety and don't have a way to program them to charge from grid at a specific time. So if we install a pool pump timer that is capable of running 40amps @ 240v in front of his inverters, he can program the timer to turn on during super off peak. And the inverter will charge from the grid whenever the timer is on. If he gets some sunshine during the day, that just means he'll buy that much less power the next night. In the summer he can program the inverter to charge to 50% or 75% during this super off peak at night and finish topping off the batteries when the sun comes up. This can cut his power bill by 1/2 in winter.

Here's a prep I bet you never thought of.... how's your spice rack? Food monotony can be a bad thing, so in the future you might wish for some seasoning. look how happy the british were to get pepper in teh 1400's.

@PurposeDrivenHomestead That's what I meant when you had that situation with putting a temporary shelter for piggers and cows for the blizzard days

Impractical but interesting.

https://youtube.com/shorts/BCwfMAQiqbw

Handiest thing ever. A little 3kw inverter on the golf cart allows me to run my hammer drill down at the greenhouse.

https://youtu.be/cO9g4Cf0GA0?si=aP1hud66-mLlRsxT

Today I pulled up fence posts for the driveway entrance we created last year. Just the first few of them. I reset them in a 16' radius arc to blend with the new fence we're running to the back fence line. Remember the trees I cut down the other day? I'm running a 975' long livestock fence that will run beside the green house. The old fence is in very poor shape and we tore it down in order to grade the land on the high side of the greenhouse. So now we have a swale were the fenc used to be and we're rebuilding the fence 30' offset from teh greenhouse. I guess this will all make sense when it's down. Anway, I redid the end of the driveway fence to be an arc to make mowing easier and we're moving a long fence to a slightly different line. We set a few wooden posts at the ends and center of the run today. More h-bridges tomorrow.

lol... Kei truck for the zombie apocalypse.