Emergency Solar Power Setup SHTF

DIY Solar ^ | 5/14/12

[Kartographer]

This is my 45 watt solar panel setup. I purchased this kit from Harbor freight for about 0. I use it for lighting in my home, as well different power tools around the house. This is a great source of power in the event of power failures (which happens often).

[backwoods-engineer]

Lob one up from Hugo's Paradise, peaking at 250 miles over Manhattan, Kansas, with a peak yield in the 50 to 100kT range, with a nice uranium tamper for a boost in gamma output.

... and do it in the middle of the night, local time, when the solar flux is at minimum. That will give maximum unimpeded path for Compton electrons.

[Kartographer]

The lighting is 12V. Power tools would be charged using the 12V inverter.

[Political Junkie Too]

I have something similar.

I have three 12-volt 5 watt solar panels from Sunforce

that I link together in parallel into a 12-volt 15 watt panel. I hook this to two 12 volt 12 amp-hour batteries in parallel that I store in a small Coleman cooler.

It's portable, and with a DC cigarette lighter adapter from Radio Shack, can charge many small devices. The battery should be able to run some small electronics overnight until the next charging cycle the next day.

I also have a single 12 volt 15 watt panel

that can be linked in parallel to create a 12-volt 30 watt pane.

A charge controller would be required if you go to 15 watts or beyond.

-PJ

[Kartographer]

So how do you think doing notthing will work out?

You either prepare and stand on your own beholden to no one or you become dependent on others to provide your basic needs and become thier‘serf’. Me I don’t want to be beholden to anyone for providing what is needed for me and mine. I certainly don’t want to have to kiss some ‘gubberment’ third class bureaucratic to try and coax some help from them, I don’t want some ‘jack booted’ thug herding me in line and telling me where to stand, sit, eat or sleep. And last but not least I don’t want to be herded in with a bunch of ‘zombies’ and have to worry about not only trying to get basic necessities but having to fight to keep what I manage to get.

Now anyone thinking that prepping is foolish ask you what’s easier telling your children and loved ones why you prepared or explaining to them why you didn’t?

But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever. 1 Timothy 5:8

But then someone has to stand on the bridge waiting for FEMA to bring them a bottle of water, an MRE and a warm blank so as to provide the Network Anchors their background ‘Money Shot’. I wonder how that will workout for you?

[chrisser]

I have thought along similar lines.

Actually what I’d like to build are a bunch of small, possibly portable (more likely “trans-portable”), independent systems.

Like one panel, a small charge controller (in the <50amp range) and one or two RV-type batteries. Make the panels collapsible and put it on a tripod with the batteries low for ballast and the ability to stake or wire cable the thing down. You could probalby build one for a few $hundred.

Once you have a working model, you keep duplicating it as funds allow.

Could be used as emergency power at home, or to power an RV or cabin. Set up separate ones for outbuildings rather than having a centralized system with a single point of failure.

I envision someting where tha panels fold onto themselves so if a storm is coming, you can make them weather resistant or take them down completely - the sun won’t be shining if it’s hailing anyhow.

Separate your load cicruits so each one of these units runs just a few items, with the ability to cross-connect as required.

Wouldn’t be the most convenient, but what it lacks in convenience, it makes up for in transportability and redundancy, and if you build it yourself, you can probably fix it yourself.

[Kartographer]

NOTE TO ALL:

If you watch the Video the Voltage regulator has easy-to-read LED display, 12V cigarette lighter socket, 5V USB, 3-6-9V DC outlets and two 12V sockets for the included Light Kit. You can also see it here:

http://www.harborfreight.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/i/m/image_19915.jpg

[ShadowAce]

From the article:

I purchased this kit from Harbor freight for about 0.

Seriously, though--about how much do these run?

[EyeGuy]

“I have plans that turn magma and ash into clean reliably energy.”

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Child's play.

With a workable length of stout rope and a sturdy horse named Bill, I plan on simply lassoing the actual, initial blow energy.

[Kartographer]

But Ron Paul says there is nothing wrong or to worry about with Islamic Jihadist getting nukes.

[Kartographer]

Harbor Freight list them for $189.00. If you search around you can easily find a coupon code that gets you 20% off. Making the whole thing just a about $152.00.

[OB1kNOb]

HF 45 watt solar panel kit

Sometimes they go on sale for less.

[wastedyears]

All I was saying was that the effects of basically a nuclear winter (volcanic ash) will nullify solar panels, that’s all.

[ShadowAce]

Thanks!

[NELSON111]

BFL

[Kartographer]

There’s always some scenero that some things won’t work in. This systems would be good after a huricane, earthquake, EMP attacke(provided you protected your equipment), power outage caused by storms, etc.... Again I’d say its better than doing/having nothing.

[KC Burke]

You seem to have a good degree of knowledge but just to be certain:
You do understand that the wire shielding is very short of what is used for critical equipment. That is generally done with six sided solid steel plate that has been continously welded pin-hole free with wave-guide and baffles at every single penetration.

[scottteng]

there are coupons floating around for $149.99 I got one in the junk mail last week. Some entrepreneur is selling the coupons on E-bay for $10.

[maine yankee]

I have plans that turn magma and ash into clean reliably energy

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And wll be receiving the huge government grant as soon as tom hanks signs off on the enviro thing.

[dfwgator]

I have plans that turn magma and ash into clean reliably energy

"Liquid hot mag-ma."

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

45 watt? what good is this. 1 light bulb....big deal.