Northern Michigan Solar Powered CabinAlternative Energy Living at the 45th parallel
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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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1980 our military switched its entire food ration program over to the full
moisture MRE pouch system. These are the meals we tested on "This Old
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Quite possibly the best preparedness site in the world.
There were several reasons for the switch:
Sprinkle of rain = power failure.
Giving a little back by not using so much.
Independent living.
Diary from the cabin page 2April 06-2006; 5:30 am Time to rise and shine. Today I'm going to do a careful tracking of the sun to see where I can install my panels. I'm knocking the shore of the lake off of the list for two reasons: possible theft (well, there isn't any crime out here in the woods but there's a public boat launch) and because we have a lot of military fighters flitting about. Glare. Spending the time until sunup drinking coffee and working on the rest of the ceiling. Damn, I hate percolators. Got to get a 12 volt drip maker.
6:30 am Well, sun's coming up. My memory has served me well. Looks like I'll get some sun at sunrise to about 9 am (even in the summer with the leaves on the trees) and then from about 10 am to 2 pm. After that, indirect sun from reflections from the lake. Looks like I'm good to go ground mounting the panels along the house. 10:00 am Oooo, it's real sunny today. Bank hits 12.98 by 11 am. Once I put a load on it through the inverter, the thing goes down to 12.51 within a minute. Gotta get a new charge controller, this one sucks. 2:00 pm Started working on the battery bank box. Going to build it so the top is above the lowest level of the window that it sits in front of for easy venting. I'm so smart.
3:00 pm Crap, that won't work. Going to have to run a vent tube. I'm so stupid. Next page
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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 battery that is superior in every way to any other battery in existence.
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