https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg-3dOfTeb4 price seems to be down on shipping containers.....
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Turning two shipping containers into a home
Just starting this project and complete cost breakdown.
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https://youtu.be/LwdSwU3cmpU nice solar (except he's using lead acid batteries) and nice outside insulation.
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https://youtu.be/AkzXfNzUNlU
A serious solar system for a summer camp. They use SMA inverters like me and my neighbor do. I’m working my way to 100kwh battery and they have 200kwh.
A serious solar system for a summer camp. They use SMA inverters like me and my neighbor do. I’m working my way to 100kwh battery and they have 200kwh.
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Absolutely great chicken feeder nozzle for 5 gallon bucket.
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Here's a great fridge swap for an old RV. When the ammonia RV fridge fails after 10 years, don't replace it with an expensive RV fridge, use a small home fridge. Magic Chef HMDR1000BE fits great!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JW5DINfYCVc
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JW5DINfYCVc
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Also, a friend had a fridge that wouldn't work and it turned out the fridge wasn't mounted level in the camper... so when the camper was level the fridge wasn't and the fridge wouldn't run.
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Talking about energy conservation might seem like something some government program tells you to do. "Set you thermostat down during the day" they say. Ummm yeah... in the south if I let my house drift UP in temperature during the day and try to catch up at 4pm, it puts that much more load on the grid. In winter, sure... there may be heat gain during hte day but in summer, it makes no sense.
What else about energy conservation? How about when something in your house breaks, buy the most efficient thing you can. I have a pretty good sized house... 4800ft^2.... 5800ft^2 if you count the basement storage. The HVAC guys said I needed a 5ton but our walls are ICF, so it takes a lot less A/C to heat and cool. We "down graded" last year to a 3-1/2 ton mini split. My HVAC pulls less than half the power of a microwave oven.
Mid-year last year we found a heatpump water heater at the local lowes. It was new but the forktruck driver had a go at the box and we got it for 1/2 price. It pulls 360watts.
I bring these things up because if you plan to be off grid solar or even to run your house on a generator after the storm, its the difference between having a hot shower (4500w vs 360w) or the difference between running the AirCond (20kw start/3.5kw run vs 800watt run). If you are smart about these large energy users you won't need large inverters! You won't need more batteries. I went from planning a way to interlock certain high load devices to not having to think about it. For example, I had to make sure my total power draw was less than 3kw before I would allow the 5 ton HVAC to kick on. Now it's 800watts and I don't think about it.
Additionally, some power companies have penalties for high demand. If you draw more than, say, 10kw at any given moment they charge a $4 fee. Well if you have a 5 ton heat pump and a 4500watt water heater and are cooking dinner, you just got a $4 fee.
A neighbor reduced his power bill not with solar, but with inverters and a battery. He was getting nailed with demand fees so he programmed the inverters to never pull more than 3kw from the grid. Any excess needed comes from the batteries. Then the batteries slowly recharge. His power bill went from $350 to $100.
What else about energy conservation? How about when something in your house breaks, buy the most efficient thing you can. I have a pretty good sized house... 4800ft^2.... 5800ft^2 if you count the basement storage. The HVAC guys said I needed a 5ton but our walls are ICF, so it takes a lot less A/C to heat and cool. We "down graded" last year to a 3-1/2 ton mini split. My HVAC pulls less than half the power of a microwave oven.
Mid-year last year we found a heatpump water heater at the local lowes. It was new but the forktruck driver had a go at the box and we got it for 1/2 price. It pulls 360watts.
I bring these things up because if you plan to be off grid solar or even to run your house on a generator after the storm, its the difference between having a hot shower (4500w vs 360w) or the difference between running the AirCond (20kw start/3.5kw run vs 800watt run). If you are smart about these large energy users you won't need large inverters! You won't need more batteries. I went from planning a way to interlock certain high load devices to not having to think about it. For example, I had to make sure my total power draw was less than 3kw before I would allow the 5 ton HVAC to kick on. Now it's 800watts and I don't think about it.
Additionally, some power companies have penalties for high demand. If you draw more than, say, 10kw at any given moment they charge a $4 fee. Well if you have a 5 ton heat pump and a 4500watt water heater and are cooking dinner, you just got a $4 fee.
A neighbor reduced his power bill not with solar, but with inverters and a battery. He was getting nailed with demand fees so he programmed the inverters to never pull more than 3kw from the grid. Any excess needed comes from the batteries. Then the batteries slowly recharge. His power bill went from $350 to $100.
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