[TPR] Asa & Randy Report

Wed Aug 30 22:16:12 PDT 2023

What a hoot!!!!
MD will be living in a bomb shelter before the week is out!!!! (Tin foil hat too!!)

Solar is a good idea.  Additional small wind turbine for night & cloudy days.
Battery storage a plus....but tech is improving every couple months....so add it last for the latest.

If ya need a gas/diesel generator: you're gonna need fuel.  Bigger ones take more fuel.
If apocalypse happens: how ya gonna get fuel if stations have no electricity?  (Maybe that's not your reasoning)

I've got an invertor/generator for camping at shooting matches.....big enough for a/C.  (When no hook ups...like this week in NM ).
I have all the cables to use it at home for power outage.
(Never happened in rural CO in last 20 yrs)

But....I use that excuse to stop wife's arguments!!!!
(Stop laughing....it works for me...& I get what I want for camper!!!)
Lololol
CD

"When you're at the 'End of your Rope';
Tie a knot & hang on!!!"
Thomas Jefferson

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Subject: Re: [TPR] Asa & Randy Report

You guys have some great ideas. On lifestyle check out “Live to 100” (Secrets of the Blue Zones) on Netflix where the oldest residents around the world live the longest.

D

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On Wednesday, August 30, 2023, 9:10 PM, Owen Lee Green via TPR <tpr at teampanteraracing.com> wrote:

Especially because at my house we are on a well. And I want to be able to get water even if it comes up at 102*. the battery packs would be inline for a certain amount of time then switch to the next pack with enough packs to continuously switch on and off.

On Wed, Aug 30, 2023, 9:04 PM Asa Jay Laughton <asajay at asajay.com<mailto:asajay at asajay.com>> wrote:
I’ve been monitoring government auctions for surplus military generators but they are selling for about the same or in many cases more than what I can buy one of these new.

Still, if I could pick up one of those military rigs, I’d get three-phase power which I would like for the old military radio shelter I have.

Using solar to drive the generator via a FC motor may not be efficient.  Or it might not.  I’m not an engineer so I could tell you.  But the genset will have a load of its own just to turn it.

Sounds like an interesting project.  If you try it, take photos and let us know how it goes.

:)
Asa  Jay

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On Aug 30, 2023, at 20:56, Owen Lee Green <oneeyez4263 at gmail.com<mailto:oneeyez4263 at gmail.com>> wrote:

Well I have been toying with the idea because my neighbor down the street has an old signal corps generator that I was thinking about getting from him to do just what I suggested. Take the old jeep 4 cyl off and replace it with a 100 HP DC electric motor with a power bleed off that would keep all the batteries charging. Even while running 24/7.

On Wed, Aug 30, 2023, 8:50 PM Asa Jay Laughton <asajay at asajay.com<mailto:asajay at asajay.com>> wrote:
Actually Owen, I am working with a local solar contractor to plan pretty much exactly that.  Solar with backup battery power and net-metering with the local Power company.  The generator is for when the batteries become depleted during the inevitable nuclear winter that will darken our skies.

Oh, sorry, got carried away there.  ;)

But yes, we are looking at various power and backup methods.  You know a helluva lot.  Great comments.

Asa  Jay

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On Aug 30, 2023, at 20:03, Owen Lee Green <oneeyez4263 at gmail.com<mailto:oneeyez4263 at gmail.com>> wrote:

Maybe some of us need to come up with a battery powered generator that is rechargeable by solar panels. A reasonable size generator that can power your house 24/7 . Enough battery packs that switch on and off so your electric power never goes out. Maybe with enough surplus that the power company has to pay you for the surplus that you dump into their system. But what the hell do I know.

On Wed, Aug 30, 2023, 7:56 PM Asa Jay Laughton via TPR <tpr at teampanteraracing.com<mailto:tpr at teampanteraracing.com>> wrote:
I was looking on Costo and came across these:
https://www.costco.com/CatalogSearch?dept=All&keyword=home+standby+generator

These are exactly the same as Generac, except priced lower through Costco.  At the price point I'm comfortable with, my plan is for the 22kW.

Get 'er done.

Asa Jay

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On 8/21/2023 16:20, DENNIS ANTENUCCI via TPR wrote:
That is crazy….hey what is the minimum sized Gen set A home owner needs?

5000 + amps?

D

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On Aug 21, 2023, at 2:28 PM, Peter Menyhart via TPR <tpr at teampanteraracing.com><mailto:tpr at teampanteraracing.com> wrote:

Can't believe randy doesn't have a backup generator system.....takes me less than 5 min to have the whole whitehorseranch on generator gas/propane.we didn't have any power outage but roads around us and specially in palm springs are destroyed.i'm flying into palm springs wednesday night and might be tricky to get back to landers

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Since a few of you asked, here is latest from Randy just 5 miles away in Calif. who has no power or Asa who reported while he and family are now safe the surrounding area many friends lost buildings and homes. But for Asa it looks like cooling weather and rain may soon improve areas around Spokane.

In Randy's case he's had no power for 2 days and was over for showers and I told him to come by later for dinner and showers etc. Already suggested he just move here until the power gets back on.
Yesterday I passed 5 big semi's with big power generators which they were sending to all those with now power in Crescent City to boarder of Oregon where power was shut down. Actually Pacific Power just turned off power as a preemptive decison. Dropping power lines.

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