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We now sell the Xantrex Powerhub 1600 with two solar panels, deep cycle batteries, generator automatic transfer switch, wind turbine ready. This is a house ready alternative energy product. Click here for more. You are viewing the old site. Visit the new site. Become a member there and contribute your input, thoughts and hangover information. - Bill Xam Email or Contact us here
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Disaster planning should be part of every single household across America, strike that, the world. When disaster strikes, people die or lives are c80%hanged. In times of plenty, forego the Playstations and buy extra food. You can explain a lack of toys better than a lack of food to your children.
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There were several reasons for the switch:
Sprinkle of rain = power failure.
Giving a little back by not using so much.
Independent living.
07/31/2010This page has been updated. The update is at the new site here.Low voltage appliances have come a long way since we started this deal in 2005. Many of the new appliances are designed for 12 volt power sources from the ground up.Many low voltage appliances are the exact same model as their 110 AC brothers - most appliances have a step down transformer to take your 110 AC and convert it into the lower DC voltage that it actually uses.The newer versions, however, are designed strictly for 12, 24 or 36 volt power. Over the next few months, we'll take a look at some of them and report back about what we find.Visit the updated version of this page at the new site to see more about low voltage appliances and to purchase them.
Inverter powered appliances makes that pesky energy star rating system suddenly real important.When you're shopping for appliances that are normally grid based for your off grid home, some of your choices become more important than ever.Here's why: You have a limited supply of energy. With the grid, you just plug and go and pay the bill at the end of the month. Off grid, plug and go means sitting in the dark if you over extend your battery bank. Worse yet it means unnecessary hours on your secondary charging system (usually a generator).One of the most important bits of reading that you're going to want to learn about are product labels. These are the labels on appliances that tell you how much energy they will use. As an example, we have a little cube fridge that is going to the shack. Upon looking at the label, we see it uses 1 amp of juice (110 AC). That's pretty good. Our current inverter is capable of 400 watts. Great! we can power the fridge. But now we have to consider the startup power. That's when a motor starts up and requires an extra amount of amperage to get going. Having an inverter with enough capacity is a priority.
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How I testThere are several people on various
newsgroups and discussion areas that waylay in uninformed or those just
starting out in the off grid world of self power generation. This involves
an almost religious belief in a phantom 6v golf cart true deep cycle
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