Need advice on "reasonably priced" 24V inverter

[J.P.M.]

There where there all along.

Back in business

Shoulda' looked sooner.

[SunEagle]

Gregory, new here?

He is one of our super IT guru's.

[RenewablesRock]

From your location in southern Florida maybe a boat would be a better escape plan. It would be a long drive just to get to the mountains in Georgia.

It would be nice to live on a house boat. When SHTF comes, I could just depart. I had a friend who lived on a houseboat before but he never had any of this solar panel stuff. It would have been nice if he did. But back then solar panels were way too expensive.

[littleharbor]

Gregory, new here?

[Gregory]

There where there all along.

[J.P.M.]

What.......dont tell me we have lost our smiley faces..............GREGORY!!

I lost that privilege a couple of years ago and stopped asking about it after I realized that was an exercise in futility. Not the worst thing that could happen I suppose.

[SunEagle]

Yeah, a friend of mine has been hounding me for over 10 years to load up on guns and ammo. But all of that will be useless if 20 people attack you and they all have guns. You cannot win. You can only give them what you have and hope they don't kill you. I'm worried if this country ever has a real revolution, what are we to do? I just mailed off the paperwork to update my passport. I should probably get a trailer hitch installed on my SUV so I can get a trailer to bring all of my solar panels with me in the event I need to bail from here.

From your location in southern Florida maybe a boat would be a better escape plan. It would be a long drive just to get to the mountains in Georgia.

[RenewablesRock]

Yeah, a friend of mine has been hounding me for over 10 years to load up on guns and ammo. But all of that will be useless if 20 people attack you and they all have guns. You cannot win. You can only give them what you have and hope they don't kill you. I'm worried if this country ever has a real revolution, what are we to do? I just mailed off the paperwork to update my passport. I should probably get a trailer hitch installed on my SUV so I can get a trailer to bring all of my solar panels with me in the event I need to bail from here.

[solar pete]

Hmmm. Deep Do-Do can be converted to barnyard gas. "blue smiley face"

What.......dont tell me we have lost our smiley faces..............GREGORY!!

[J.P.M.]

Hmmm. Deep Do-Do can be converted to barnyard gas. "blue smiley face"

I've got plans for a DIY methane digester, but the problem is with permitting. I think it'd be easier to permit a poop lagoon these days.

[J.P.M.]

I see the days before the grid as being mostly just dedicated to staying alive. You didn't last much longer
after getting too sick or old to play that game. Only a few had the luxury of thinking mostly of other things.
The idea of hauling my own water instead of that pump, or growing my own food instead of that monster
tractor across the street, cutting firewood and moving it along with taking care of the horses, is scary.
Bruce Roe

Yea, probably something like that. My 1st wife's uncle didn't care much for hauling H2O either. So, he sunk his own well and then built a house on top of it. Powered a pump and the rest of the house with new fangled grid power. That was in/around the late '20's/early '30's. He wound up dying in the saddle with his boots on as an M.E. with U.S. Gypsum.

[SunEagle]

If I needed to harvest, buck, haul, cut, split and stack 2.5 cords of wood, just myself (62) and wife (67) we might last 1 summer. Instead we were wage slaves for 35 years, saved $ and can now hire firewood cut to the right length and delivered. We still stack it though. Oil lamps and candles at night eventually soot up the house. cooking over wood, that's all behind me. When propane can't be delivered, wood stops, and seeds are not available, then I'm in deep do-do.

Hmmm. Deep Do-Do can be converted to barnyard gas. "blue smiley face"

[Mike90250]

If I needed to harvest, buck, haul, cut, split and stack 2.5 cords of wood, just myself (62) and wife (67) we might last 1 summer. Instead we were wage slaves for 35 years, saved $ and can now hire firewood cut to the right length and delivered. We still stack it though. Oil lamps and candles at night eventually soot up the house. cooking over wood, that's all behind me. When propane can't be delivered, wood stops, and seeds are not available, then I'm in deep do-do.

[bcroe]

I see the days before the grid as being mostly just dedicated to staying alive. You didn't last much longer
after getting too sick or old to play that game. Only a few had the luxury of thinking mostly of other things.
The idea of hauling my own water instead of that pump, or growing my own food instead of that monster
tractor across the street, cutting firewood and moving it along with taking care of the horses, is scary.
Bruce Roe

[J.P.M.]

If the grid goes down for more than a few days, it's going to Mayhem, no one is going to be your friend - not even your friends. A few weeks ago, Stores in N. Central FL had a momentary black out and shoppers went wild and started looting. It will not take much.

So no one will thank you for being a whack job now - and trust me, I'm right there with you for the same reasons. But, no, if you have food and power, they will come after you. So You had better be loading up on guns and ammo too and be prepared to shoot and keep shooting. A world without the grid is a world most of us would probably not want to live in. (or at least would not be prepared to live in very long)

How did people survive before the grid or distributed power ? Seems to me that preppers and others of that ilk are a bit shortsighted, or maybe have a different idea of necessity vs, want.

When I was a kid, some folks in my area, and I mean more than a few families, spent their summers in cottages around the Finger Lakes in upstate NY with no power at all, pretty much by choice and preference. They mostly had primary larger homes with utilities usually less than ~ 20 miles away, but pretty much locked them up for the summer. I remember the old folks at the time mostly decrying how soft society has become what with all these new fangled gadgets like TV, etc.