Hi,
Yes I have bounced about a bit, call it exuberance. Reality is settling in though.
What I want is to be ready for an extended outage and to use batteries as part of our solution to this inconvience.
We've had a couple of short LOCAL interruptions already, the longest lasting 3 days. It was a good learning experience but to rely on a generator when all you need, at the time, is a few lights seemed wasteful. Generator did fine with the big things but to run a few lights after it got dark not so much.
So I guess what I'm looking for is where can DC be a more efficient tool and then how can I recharge the batteries if the grid is down for an extended time.
I'll get one of those usage meters (Kill a Watt ???) to see what our big ticket items draw if for no other reason than it'd be good to know anyway.
Thanks, mj52
Yes I have bounced about a bit, call it exuberance. Reality is settling in though.
What I want is to be ready for an extended outage and to use batteries as part of our solution to this inconvience.
We've had a couple of short LOCAL interruptions already, the longest lasting 3 days. It was a good learning experience but to rely on a generator when all you need, at the time, is a few lights seemed wasteful. Generator did fine with the big things but to run a few lights after it got dark not so much.
So I guess what I'm looking for is where can DC be a more efficient tool and then how can I recharge the batteries if the grid is down for an extended time.
I'll get one of those usage meters (Kill a Watt ???) to see what our big ticket items draw if for no other reason than it'd be good to know anyway.
Thanks, mj52
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