Off Grid Update: No Power and Off Grid Internet Shenanigans
Today's been a bit frustrating to say the least with unreliable power at best. We had electricity for a few hours this morning with a brief few minute return, but it's been dark for us for the rest of the day. Turns out it's literally just us, but not something we can control as the issue seems to be with the grid, and not our problem as we've done all we can to remedy it.
The first three posts I shared today were done on battery power, somewhat of a dipping our toes into off the grid life as we're doing all we can to make it so we don't have to depend on this crappy power anymore.
We're waiting on much of the equipment and are in the process of ordering solar panels, so soon this won't be an issue, but for now John's got a lot of battery charging and testing to do which keeps getting interrupted by the intermittent power.
He's been recycling laptop batteries as well as finding ways to buy and smuggle the batteries and equipment here, but it's starting to come together. We've got about a month left to get this together before it's time to pay another bill.
These are just some shots of his recycling process and the simple battery pack I used to post.
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can't wait to see when you get the solar panels up! sweet!
Cool. Nice to hear you were able to send out some posts with your off the grid development:):)
You've got a good thing started there, recycled batteries is cool thing. If you don't mind me asking, where are you going to get your panels?
We're looking into that. Either locally or in the states, depending on prices.
Ok cool, it looks like you can still pick up individual cells on E-bay if you guys are going the DYI route. Looks like it might be an economical option.
There are lots of ways to get them, just all in what's cheapest to get to us here
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That's amazing and ingenuity at it's best.
There looks to be quite a few batteries, hopefully most of the cells are still good!
Its generally just a cell or two in each pack that's dead, we've found!
So many 18650s!!
I was thinking UPS-system. (UPS) Uninterupted Power Supply, but if and when you have power cuts that long it wouldn't help anyway or at least be to expencive. Its probably much better to be of the grid :-)
Yup, looking foreward to it.
thanks for sharing keep it up
Nice photography!!
its cool!!
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