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[71Cuda]

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[SunEagle]

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Hi my name is Neil from Hatillo Puerto Rico
We just got our small expandable system finished up on monday. We still don't have power in my area but it looks to be getting closer. Our system is 6 240watt panels with a 4k inverter and 8 1000cca 12 volt batteries wired to make a big 24v and a controller. We're still figuring out what we can run at night and what we can't.

[71Cuda]

The electricity just came back on about half an hour ago.We live near a bunch of dairies and they got together and bought poles and my neighbor is a heavy equipment operator so he dug all the holes and stood the poles.

[SunEagle]

Again welcome

I am glad you have been able to utilize solar hardware to supplement your power needs. I hope the electric utility power stays on for you.

Please keep us informed of your situation and hopefully you and your family are safe.

[71Cuda]

Thanks
Our neighborhood was really lucky. One neighbor lost the cistern from his roof and we lost a few trees, but all our houses, cars and pets survived. We didn't have city water for a couple of weeks but my wife and I had lots of water prebottled to wash and flush the toilet, a rigged up a washing machine to clean clothes, we had a small generator to run a computer monitor hooked up to the dvr and a lamp. And I had a couple of deep cycles hooked up to a solar battery tender and a 1000 watt inverter to recharge phones and tablets and backup batteries. 3 of our neighbors have pools so we had lots of toilet flushing water if we needed and we had boxes of canned food, batteries and propane for the stove. I've actually been preparing for something like this for the last couple of years while my wife thought I was nuts, now she's on board with prepping. I'm semi retired so I ended up being neighborhood security when everyone else went back to work.