"When the Lights Go Out"...

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  • SteveK
    SteveK Solar Expert Posts: 387 ✭✭
    #152
    Re: "When the Lights Go Out"...

    Westbranch, to the detox center you go! :p
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  • Cariboocoot
    Cariboocoot Banned Posts: 17,615 ✭✭✭
    #153
    Re: "When the Lights Go Out"...
    SteveK wrote: »
    Westbranch, to the detox center you go! :p

    Where they will ask: "What is your system Voltage of choice?" :p
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  • westbranch
    westbranch Solar Expert Posts: 5,183 ✭✭✭✭
    #154
    Re: "When the Lights Go Out"...

    8) 24 and I don't care what brand... :roll::roll:
     
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  • SteveK
    SteveK Solar Expert Posts: 387 ✭✭
    #155
    Re: "When the Lights Go Out"...

    LOL!

    Don't let them prescribe Lithium...it's as bad as the real thing!
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  • westbranch
    westbranch Solar Expert Posts: 5,183 ✭✭✭✭
    #156
    Re: "When the Lights Go Out"...

    'when the lights go out' I just want 1 more mili-volt! Please?
     
    KID #51B  4s 140W to 24V 900Ah C&D AGM
    CL#29032 FW 2126/ 2073/ 2133 175A E-Panel WBjr, 3 x 4s 140W to 24V 900Ah C&D AGM 
    Cotek ST1500W 24V Inverter,OmniCharge 3024,
    2 x Cisco WRT54GL i/c DD-WRT Rtr & Bridge,
    Eu3/2/1000i Gens, 1680W & E-Panel/WBjr to come, CL #647 asleep
    West Chilcotin, BC, Canada
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  • waynefromnscanada
    waynefromnscanada Solar Expert Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭✭
    #157
    Re: "When the Lights Go Out"...

    Here's one low tech way to do it:
    http://www.aljazeera.com/video/americas/2012/04/2012421153511971266.html
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  • waynefromnscanada
    waynefromnscanada Solar Expert Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭✭
    #158
    Re: "When the Lights Go Out"...

    Just at this moment watching PBS- East. Program is on the American grid power system. The more I see of it, the more I'm glad I can live off grid. Not joking!
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  • techntrek
    techntrek Solar Expert Posts: 1,372 ✭✭✭
    #159
    Re: "When the Lights Go Out"...

    One good solar flare and we're back in the Middle Ages.
    4.5 kw APC UPS powered by a Prius, 12 kw Generac, Honda EU3000is
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  • Cariboocoot
    Cariboocoot Banned Posts: 17,615 ✭✭✭
    #160
    Re: "When the Lights Go Out"...

    Not sure we need the solar flare. According to someone I know who knows about these things for decades they've been "plugging extension cords into cube taps and cube taps into the extension cords". The grid stays functioning mainly because people don't "max it out" except occasionally. That's when you get those wide-spread cascade failures that put millions in the dark.

    When the economics of it hits (if it hasn't truly already) they'll realize the virtue of localized power production. You know; the way it was 100+ years ago.

    And we go 'round the circle again. :roll:
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  • nsaspook
    nsaspook Solar Expert Posts: 396 ✭✭✭
    #161
    Re: "When the Lights Go Out"...

    We have the problem of oversupply in the PNW. Plenty of power but no place to send it.
    http://www.cbbulletin.com/417715.aspx

    http://transmission.bpa.gov/Business/Operations/default.aspx
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  • waynefromnscanada
    waynefromnscanada Solar Expert Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭✭
    #162
    Re: "When the Lights Go Out"...
    Cariboocoot wrote: »
    Not sure we need the solar flare. According to someone I know who knows about these things for decades they've been "plugging extension cords into cube taps and cube taps into the extension cords". The grid stays functioning mainly because people don't "max it out" except occasionally. That's when you get those wide-spread cascade failures that put millions in the dark.
    From everything I've heard, read and seen in person, and according to the PBS program I watched the other night, this is an excellent parody of what our power companies have been doing. It's all about the quick, cheap and easy fix for today, making a profit in the next quarter above all other concerns, and let tomorrow take care of itself.
    Unfortunately our political systems now works on this same self-destructive principal. :cry:
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  • westbranch
    westbranch Solar Expert Posts: 5,183 ✭✭✭✭
    #163
    Re: "When the Lights Go Out"...

    not being political but that 'today' attitude speaks loudly to why there were PUBLIC Utilities created, ie in BC, in the '50 / 60's, with one purpose in mind, a good quality, stable, long term (now called sustainable) source of reliable power... 8)
     
    KID #51B  4s 140W to 24V 900Ah C&D AGM
    CL#29032 FW 2126/ 2073/ 2133 175A E-Panel WBjr, 3 x 4s 140W to 24V 900Ah C&D AGM 
    Cotek ST1500W 24V Inverter,OmniCharge 3024,
    2 x Cisco WRT54GL i/c DD-WRT Rtr & Bridge,
    Eu3/2/1000i Gens, 1680W & E-Panel/WBjr to come, CL #647 asleep
    West Chilcotin, BC, Canada
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