Thank You for the date chart..
I helped neighbor (what little i could) on greenhouse today.
should have it completed by mid morning tomorrow..
scored a squirrel cage for battery generator
http://www.otherpower.com/otherpower_experiments_waterwheel.html
and 2 h/water tanks for wood heaters..
and 2 treadmills. (for motors)
http://www.velacreations.com/chispito.html
these for a third+ backup source ..
Everybody have a backup radio ?? stay tuned
Wow...
Great on the greenhouse... They are really enjoyable and productive.
Those links are great... I have bookmarked them and started reading. Lots of good info.
>>>Everybody have a backup radio ?? stay tuned<<<
Oh yes... Have 2 that can be powered by battery, sun, crank dynamo or power line... One has short wave, AM, FM and Weather - Other is AM,FM and Weather plus it will also charge cell phones and has 5 LED light.
This past Sunday, while dinner was in the oven (deer roast), our power went out... Probably a car hit a pole in the rainstorm. Plugged the stove (needs elect. for oven) into the inverter that I have set up to run the fan on the pellet or wood stove... Turned on music on emergency radio, wife lit candles, we had dinner by candlelight - then we had a just baked apple pie for dessert.
Not much disruption - daughter even said ‘Hey Dad, can we do this again?’
3 1/2 hours and we all just had fun (though I didn’t have to fire up the generator - we had plenty of water from the bladder tank even to do dishes with water we heated on the stove. Battery backup worked great - heater never missed a lick even with the stove on too. After power came back on, the charger had the batteries back up in just over an hour.
Guess we can call it a mini-drill...