Posted on 11/02/2012 9:10:40 AM PDT by Kartographer
Weekly Preppers'Thread to post progress, good buys, DIY projects, advice and ideas ...
In my uncle’s garage was an old homemade plywood cabinet with drawers that pulled out and a bunch of greasy machine parts on top. It appeared to sit on the floor and was too heavy to move since it was full of parts.
By pulling a hidden latch cord you could unhook it from the wall. Then you could roll it out on the hidden casters he had installed underneath. The false back of the cabinet had about 20 firearms in it.
He didn’t even lock his garage.
Store sugar and brewers yeast.
You can eat the sugar, trade it, or make it into booze which is a great trade item.
Sugar will keep forever.
I use rechargeable low-drains almost exclusively, and have enough to keep three lights running for weeks & weeks of normal use before recharging any of 'em.
Also have a power inverter to run the LaCrosse 4 port charger off the truck's battery if/when the grid goes down, but should probably look for a decent inexpensive solar charger too .. recommendations gratefully considered.
Anyway, thanks for the Fenix info !
“Earlier today, I harvested some tobacco and the plants are still going strong, but I realized that they haven’t budded or flowered yet.”
Have to wait and see if winter will hold off long enough for the budding/flowering. Hope it happens for you as I’m on the waiting list.
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After using this highly dependable, guaranteed, flashlight, for 97 hours of continuous light, you can replace the 1 AA battery, and start all over, even in bad cloudy weather in a bad winter, after another 97 hours, replace the battery again. The AA is the most common, best selling battery in the world.
Using AAs and AAAs and a portable solar charger gives you an endless supply of the most common batteries, completely usable with your radios, voltage testers, walkie talkies, other lights and lanterns, headlamps, GPS, boom boxes, CD players, walkmans, portable TVs, etc, etc, etc.
I really don’t the idea of non-replaceable, non-interchangeable battery packs when you have the flexibility of interchanging and replacing the rechargeable batteries yourself if they get old or damaged and decrease in efficiency, and of using the same AA batteries that are in your $3.00 solar lamps out in the yard, and the AAs and AAAs from your many remotes in the house, with 99 cent adapters, the AAAs fit as AAs, and the AAs work as C and D batteries.
An important point is, why buy an inferior flashlight when you can own top quality, military level flashlights with multiple levels of brightness and signaling, with better quality output, suitable for all needs, and all tasks, including ultra bright searching purposes?
The light you mentioned is fine and it would be prudent to have a couple, it just isn’t the kind of thing that I invest in, everyone should have lots of lights, but everyone should have a couple of high quality, no-compromise lights, and get into the new rechargeable batteries that maintain their shelf life for years.
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After using this highly dependable, guaranteed, flashlight, for 97 hours of continuous light, you can replace the 1 AA battery, and start all over, even in bad cloudy weather in a bad winter, after another 97 hours, replace the battery again. The AA is the most common, best selling battery in the world.
Using AAs and AAAs and a portable solar charger gives you an endless supply of the most common batteries, completely usable with your radios, voltage testers, walkie talkies, other lights and lanterns, headlamps, GPS, boom boxes, CD players, walkmans, portable TVs, etc, etc, etc.
I really don’t the idea of non-replaceable, non-interchangeable battery packs when you have the flexibility of interchanging and replacing the rechargeable batteries yourself if they get old or damaged and decrease in efficiency, and of using the same AA batteries that are in your $3.00 solar lamps out in the yard, and the AAs and AAAs from your many remotes in the house, with 99 cent adapters, the AAAs fit as AAs, and the AAs work as C and D batteries.
An important point is, why buy an inferior flashlight when you can own top quality, military level flashlights with multiple levels of brightness and signaling, with better quality output, suitable for all needs, and all tasks, including ultra bright searching purposes?
The light you mentioned is fine and it would be prudent to have a couple, it just isn’t the kind of thing that I invest in, everyone should have lots of lights, but everyone should have a couple of high quality, no-compromise lights, and get into the new rechargeable batteries that maintain their shelf life for years.
They are pretty plants. I may put some in the front yard as ornamentals next year.
/johnny
“d.light S10 Solar LED Lantern”
No, they are not fake - I have three. They were developed for third world countries for populations that have no fuel or it is difficult for them to get kerosene. Our organizations that work with those countries, take these lights to use themselves and when they leave the country, they leave the lights with the people.
I have two regular ones and one is on a window sill right now. They come already charged. I also got the one that has concentrated light for close work. I turned all the lights off in my living room one night and hit the button on one d regular one, and it lit up the room enough to read.
I got mine on the regular d light website - I think it was cheaper from them than through Amazon and think shipping was free but I may not remember that right. They are not expensive, less than $20 but don’t remember the exact price.
Almost everything in here can and should be said of sterno, too. I've never seen the can stove and don't know what fuel it uses, so I don't know if the first sentence is true or just legal CYA.
I love Fenix, I carry an LD01 on my key chain.
I also sometimes carry a Photon Proton, single AA on my belt, I also want that LD12, the LD41, and the E-40, very badly.
The Proton made by LRI. has a white Led that is fully adjustable from low to high (115 lumen), with 1.5 hours battery life on high, and will burn on low for up to 250 hours, producing a very tiny amount of light nearing the end of that.
The Proton also has a red led, which on it’s lowest setting can still produce a tiny amount of light, after 450 hours of continuous use.
The Proton does things that are amazing.
http://www.photonlight.com/led-flashlights/photon-proton-pro-aa-flashlight/
My solar chargers are just cheapos right now, old clearance sales, but REI sells some newer, better ones.
I will say this. I do not use ANY kind of fire for heat at night when I'm asleep. I'm a fairly big fan of waking up in the morning.
Cold I can handle. Dead is more difficult to overcome.
/johnny
It’s great to see your prepping has helped your family. When the SHTF, we can accommodate all my kids and their families. Thank God, all my kids are into prepping. We can reasonably house 13 more people if needed. It’d be a tight squeeze, but we would manage.
bmfl
Please add me to your ping list.
What does bmfl mean?
Never seen ‘bookmark for later’ in your 12 years at this site???
Never seen ‘bookmark for later’ in your 12 years at this site???
This is a hand-held dynamo generator that can produce from 20-40 watts. It’s not cheap, but it is very well built. There’s a video showing it being used to charge a smart phone at the link:
Honestly, no. But thanks for helping me out. So many acronyms, so little time.
:)
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