Off Grid Solar Power & Off Grid Solar Oven
We use the sun to power our home, heat our water and cook our food. We are about 95% off the grid now on our new homestead.
I am sharing our videos and articles since our move to the new homestead to the present. This will give you the background story on our journey as we become self sufficient and off the grid on a budget. When I get you caught up, I will continue to share our daily videos and articles as we make them.
We now use the GoSun solar cooker to cook our meals on the homestead. We love this thing very much. You can have a hot meal in just half an hour in direct sunlight. It even cooks during cloudy days or rain but we prefer not to use it in the rain. If the sun is not shining directly, you just have to wait longer for your meal to cook.
It truly is free energy when cooking with this stove. Melanie loves it a lot because she says it takes way less work to make our meals. She simply puts the food in the tray and I set it up outside. The sun does the rest. No stirring or anything. This solar stove works like a dutch oven or crock pot.
I misquoted the other day when I wrote that we have 800 watts of solar power going into our off grid electronics lab and wood shop. I had 1,000 watts of solar power connected at that time. I later removed one of the panels because it was useless. The 800 watts is more than enough to top off the batteries no matter what I do out there.
Again, we have 600 watts of solar panels connected to the house at this time but we hope to expand that soon. I want to build a solar panel rack like the one by the wood shop but I need the materials for it yet.
I have a power inverter under the solar panels which gives us power in the house as needed. I cannot run the water pump off the grid yet though because it uses 240 volts.
Our electric bill is down to a mere 18 cents per day. That feels good.
I wrote an article as well with the full details here:
Using Solar Electric Energy & GoSun Solar Oven For Cooking
You can watch the video here:
NOTE: Please ignore the comments below. There are a bunch of trolls who followed me over from YouTube. They will shout, rant and rave against literally everything I do. They even say our electronics shop is NOT off the grid because they claim there are no wires runing from the solar panels even though you can see them. LOL.
This is great you never stop showing new and great ways to make off grid easy. Keep it coming.
philip20 was the gentleman that visited Troy and proceeded to assist in setting up the electrical station after Troy made a mess of it . One question if I may philip20 . Are you an licensed Electrician ? Or as I suspect , did you receive your certificate from the bottom of a Cracker Jack's box ?
Is this the same Philip that screwed two buzz bars on two peices off wood instesd of insulation blocks, that guy was a real dumbass even Troy called in all sorts sometime after.
Guys like him shouldn't be on YouTube promoting unsafe practices.
It was a CJB masters degree at the college of Reyort.
When your not off grid it makes it even easier.
Makes what easier?
Getting your power from an ongrid wall socket is easier. No solar to watch and maintain. No watering batteries, etc. Living is easier. Just LIE say you are offgrid, with nothing to take care of which is ideal for lazy people such as yourself.
I have lived fully off the grid for 5 years and I love the lifestyle.
Your friends denied I was off the grid in the middle of the woods, a mile from the last paved road.
So you will continue to deny it even more now that we are taking an on grid home off the grid.
Therefore there is no point in talking to you
Yes you were off grid in the shit shack on wheels but you always had a generator running and did not actually live there. So loving a lifestyle of living in an on grid apartment is a bit different.
He was scared of the dark and big foot
5 years of videos of me living fully off the grid and you still deny it?
There is not help for you. Really. No help for you.
Off grid in Pine Bush NY? Dude your carbon footprint in pine bush from the the generators constantly droning away, and I say Generators lightly because you did burn out quite a few. Fuel spent on gas and gennys and you could have been living comfartably dumb ass.
Your solar panels wer in the shade. Then one day this Genious wakes up and cuts down half of the forest for sunlight. You can't make this shit up. Go on nicktube and watch some of his older Vid's from dumpsted one. The one he left the owner of the land to clean up his superfund site.
I was as off the grid as you can get. I showed our solar power production literally every day out there and you never heard generators unless I was running BIG power equipment.
But you know that already since you have watched all my videos.
@thediyworld When did you ever show how many KWh your solar system in NY produced? All you showed was how many watts were coming in from your shaded panels and the state of your junker batteries.
Thank you. It is so exciting as we go more and more off the grid. I mean, we were as off the grid as you can get in New York but here on our new homestead to take a fully on the grid house off the grid is a real challenge.
So you are telling everyone that the apartment you rented from Mrs. Wright in Pine Bush NY
was off grid. Good to know
Uhh. Where did you see that? I dont remember ever saying such a thing. Odd, where would you get such information.
She tried to get solar panels but had too many trees. Never happened.
You made the statement you were living off grid .
Were you lying to the viewers Reid.?
I mostly say "we are striving to become off the grid and self sufficient on a budget" on all my articles.
Have a happy day :)
Are you lying to strive or striving to lie about being offgrid???
@hunnybadger, Very good point. Reid uses the word "striving" as an "open ended excuse" to never end the lie.
This way he is always striving and never achieving.
His videos prove that.
As far as his claim for striving to be "self-sufficient", Reid proves in every video he RELIES on others for EVERYTHING.
He is morally bankrupt.
If you dont believe me then just leave.
But harassing us is criminal
he will keep it up till his wife and daughter are deported
Yes, show the World what your group of "good people" are really all about. Trying to destroy a family and rip a newborn baby from her father.
Such "good people".
Troy, you are the one who was deceitful, how is it anyone's fault but your own? You really need to see what you did to cause this situation. You told the world that you needed money to get Melanie to the states yet you have enough income showing on your taxes to afford to support her. But you couldn't support yourself crying in video after video of how you had no power and no heat and no money.
Why did you have a fund raiser for the baby? If you are earning enough money to support your family WHY DO YOU NEED a fundraiser?
I am sure immigration would like to know the answer to that
I sold T-Shirts and raised the funds. Everyone knows it. Its on my videos. Open and public for the World to see.
I like to sell shirts. Its a good business. I will do it again. And again. One day I will be selling other products too.
I dont get all this spy type stuff you invent when its all on the videos.
Selling Tshirts online at a storefront is a lot different than doing a fund raiser. Your acting like a charity not a business. You sold stuff on your website... but that wasn't giving you much income was it? So you advertise on YouTube a sob story about not affording to bring Melanie to the states or how you need stuff for the baby... so please buy a shirt. CHARITY Troy!
Put your tshirts on a store front like a real business. Quit playing these sob story fundraisers like they are legit business advertising. Look up Truth in advertising Troy
So I sell shirts. Get over yourself. Check your meds.
troy read this article so you can plan your prison time in advance for defrauding the government.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1546
Yes forgery is a crime and I hope you have a good lawyer.
There is no forgery or fraud. And you would have no idea anyway.
Get a life!!!!!
Temper Temper...
Now don't hold your breath too.
I just sent files in to immigration, its up to them to see if you are lying or not, if your posted totals don't match up with your IRS totals you might have problems, but hey its not my wife and child's future on the line.
Have a nice day :)
Proud of yourself?
Boy, your group of "good people" sure are doing good things huh?
Trying to get my wife and newborn baby taken away.
And you are boldly bragging about it???????
I will vote until you recognize defeat crap troll!!!
Go for it and keep upvoting yourself while your at it.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do, I reported your comment Philip20 for spammng!
I know what your talking about this is a tough job but someone has to do it.
Well, nobody has to do it but it sure gives you comfort with winter coming and the snow falling (it is now). We lose power out here a lot. I know I will not have to suffer.
@thediyworld How many generators did you bring from Pine Bush? The only way you’re going to survive any prolonged power outage is with a generator and plenty of on grid gasoline. Better get those junk batteries installed in the garage soon!
The batteries are good. I have two generators stuck in the back corner of the garage. Not going to be needed due to having solar panels and battery backup.
Hey Troy. You do know that you could prove all these trolls wrong by simply showing your last electricity bill.
You won't even need to leave your nice warm shed / cabin. What could be easier than that? Unless, of course, your last electricity bill shows usage above five or six dollars...
Troy what a cop out "bow to your demands". All the public is looking for is the truth in your product (your videos) I don't pay to watch movies but they are legally mandated to portray their videos as advertised.
It would go a long way to his business authenticity if he showed his electric bill and showed how his system provided that result!!!
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Oh now you know, since you are the moderator of their forum, that they will never leave me alone.
I can bow to your demands till Jesus comes back and you will still be denying it all.
Jesus knows your lying
Jesus who?
Looking in the mirror now are you
“Again, we have 600 watts of solar panels connected to the house at this time” You’re really committed to this lie aren’t you? Those panels aren’t even at the right angle, they’re almost flat to the ground. Even if you had an extension chord, the small output wouldn’t run the fridge. It’s going to get worse for solar soon, with very short, cloudy winter days coming. Even if you did manage to finally connect your panels to batteries, a charge controller and an inverter, the amount of power is going to be extremely low.
Where’s the extension cord?
“I have a power inverter under the solar panels” Sure...... Why have you never shown it? Even in this video you couldn’t take 20 seconds to show it?
Stop pretending you’re 95% off grid and stop lying.
Oh now you are jumping ahead though. You see, this was peak sunlight hours in this video. You see, I am uploading videos from the time we moved to our new homestead to the present.
You are getting WAY ahead of people here.
Changes are on the way. Changes are on the way. Wait and see.
But you will have to wait here until I get caught up with the present time.
have a nice day now :)
What are you babbling about? You said in this very video that right now your fridge was being powered by the solar panels. What’s that got to do with changes?
taking in account that there are probably batteries in line then yes a fridge could be used
Yeah, in this video, which was a while ago. You were talking about the NOW with winter coming. You are misleading people and it is very confusing actually.
Lets just talk about the videos at hand from now on to prevent confusion
The solar panels were adjusted for peak sunlight at this time.
@thediyworld The solar panels were adjusted for peak sunlight at this time.
Are you saying you adjust the panels during the day to match the angle of the sun? How often do you adjust them? They don’t even look like they’re adjustable.
There were set up at the time I set them up for maximum power. But I sort of said that in other words.
ok, so you set them up for maximum solar production in the summer? Why is it that the other panels near the shed are always at a steeper angle to the ground then? Why didn’t you tilt them at the same as the panels near the trailer?
Because I was lazy with the other solar panels by the shed because they are generating more power then I can use.
I have not adjusted them and have no need at this time.
I have way too much power.
Look at the picture from this video, there are NO WIRES from them. So in this video you are saying you are 95% off grid and using solar to power everything but the water pump yet these solar panels in this video have no wires going to anything. Where is the wires? where are they connected... if at this time you are using these panels where are they connected to? Are your solar panels wireless?
No wires. Oh really? Been to my house recently? I see wires. I dont care what you say you rabid little dog. It wont change the facts that we have here.
Have a nice night now.
Look at the picture... look at the video... if you have wires.... where are they? bare ground no wires
A rabid little dog you nasty little boy!
No wonder you had to buy a wife!
Your really showing you true colours, Turkey Turd!
Bah!!! Bah!!! Bah!!!
@thedarkdestroyer, That will be enough with the name calling and stooping to the level of thediyworld. Please refer to him properly as Mommy's Little Man.
Bah!!!! Not everything is seen on every video. I showed it somewhere but I am NOT going to search for it now. You most likely saw the video anyway
Troy you better hurry up with getting it hooked up so you can prove me wrong weeks after you staged this video.
LOL. Staged a video. LOL
Go away then and get a life.
Facts ? LOL Alternative facts? The truth as you deem it huh?
Bark. Bark. Bark. Like those little yappy dogs that bite at your heals.
Bark. Bark. Bark.
careful Troy you are sounding like the Troll you claim me to be. Your horns are showing
bark bark bark bark.
I am on my own forum. You are here hounding me like one of those yappy dogs
@thediyworld. You have had problems with "little yappy dogs" biting your HEELS?
No surprise!
Yeah, they say with popularity come the nasties that bite at your heals.
I guess they were right.
http://thedoityourselfworld.sucks/forum/index.php
Mr. Reid admitted to me yesterday that only the shed housing the electronic lab is powered by solar.
It is obvious from the above photo panels laying on the ground are only props for the show, powering nothing.
Where is that? Please show us the link to the comment with full website link. I would not ever say such a thing.
@thediyworld, It has to be true, you said it.
The burden of proof is on you, not me.
You are not able to back up what you say with video, and you can not back up video with what you say here. Case closed.
Well, then we are done here.
Have a good life :)
seriously? i curate sustainable living stuff. the fact that all you lot get into troll wars over who is and who isnt off grid is a huge turn off. please, if you don't have anything nice to say, dont say anything. the readers can tell who is worth upvoting without all this nonsense. all you are doing is ruining your own rep
Don't worry about it.
A little research into Mr. doityourselfer would be prudent torico . Never latch your cart to the first horse you stumble upon . These folks were once dedicated followers of the man in question only to be blocked on YT for questioning aspects of his daily life . Example : Ask Troy the title of the church or religion he is associated with . Here on Steemit you will get silence , on YT you will get blocked .
dude i would never ask anyone their religion, because it is not relevant to the topic. that you bring it up gives you no leverage in any argument. we are not here to judge. if you don't like his posts, ignore them.
Just be wary of the information that Troy gives, he makes things look like they are working when in reality he has ruined batteries from his off grid air conditioner and may not be telling people the whole truth about his energy use.
please stop commenting to me. this subject is dead. every one who comments to me on this automatically loses my respect. warning me is an attempt to sway my opinion without giving me the assumption that I have the intelligence to make a rational evaluation without your input. at this point i'm putting all of you on my 'do not upvote' list.
Fair enough torico . I'm not trying to sway your opinion of the man , that's something I'm sure you're able to discover on your own . If you take a little time . " We are not here to judge " . That's exactly what your response to my post suggest . Can't have it both ways fella . Looking at your stats was interesting . How much money did you spend to get your number to 52 ?
no money spent to get that #. I'm extremely active.
I would love nothing more myself. Please do not engage them for your own safety.
i suggest u take the matter to steem abuse to see if they can so anything about the matter. personally i would disengage from any discussion with them. you only feed into it.
https://discord.gg/JtKECdD - not sure what they can do but it's worth asking.
The abuse center will handle duplicate posts, (sometimes) down vote abuse and spam. Not much else. I use it, believe me.
Lets just say these guys mean to hurt me in real life. They follow me and find me wherever I go.
I blocked a few people on YT 5 years ago and this is the result.
I will not get you involved any more than that.
I hope you enjoy my articles and videos but please, for your own safety, do not engage them.
Read their comments to see why.
He has been ripping off people continuously for 5 years and this is the result.
If you don't wish to be conned forget about this guy and move on .
Its videos man. FREE ENTERTAINMENT. Nobody can be ripped off from watching a FREE video.
Get a life and move on.
I have a life and a lot of time to watch your entertainment COUGH You control the camera and your lies
I'll do the reviews .
Well, I guess you do not have to believe us. We just make daily videos of our lives on the homestead for your FREE viewing entertainment.
Troy if someone threaten you please feel free to report it to the police, Internet can be policed by your local dept.
Lying with out proof about people following you, Troy you own video cameras yet you never can prove people following you.
Troy you blocked people cause they found out about your scams
You know very well that the authorities do not do anything.
That is why you guys so freely and openly destroy our lives.
We show videos of our daily lives on the homestead.
If you do not believe us then leave.
I mean - really - just leave.
There is no reason to harass us like this.
And yesterday you were openly bragging about trying to tear our family apart
Believe me, if I can find someone who will help, you are going to know about it.
You have yet to prove to anyone that anyone its trying to destroy your lives
Troy you damaged property in PineBush NY you said when you left you would clean it up and not leave it for a 80 yo woman to clean up, you still have not done that.
You you admitted in a video about recreating IRS forms to immigration when they should have been copied, and you gloated about it, As a American its my duty to report people that are scamming the IRS, its up to them if they want to split up your family.
Stay deluded and have a nice day :)
Your own comments prove harassment.
You twist words to fit yourself and attempt to destroy my life.
One day I will find legal help.
Thanks for the link. Checking now.
When Troy says " Your own safety " he is trying to discourage you from learn the truth about his wants, his frauds and his lies.
We are here cause Troy invited us over in a video.
We are very nice bunch of people some were scammed by Troy and " www.thedoityourselfworld.sucks " came about, and as a group of people that know the way Troy is not we try to get the truth out about him.
Come to the site meet the people see the horrors that Troy has done in the past 5 years that he is trying to hide.
Thanks for your time reading this.
Oh geez Troy are you lying again
If you dont believe what we are doing or saying then leave.
Just go away.
You still on here just popped on during my lunch. Your latest videos have not entertained me need to up your game still waiting for the solar video showing the inverters and your 3 sheds and trailer being powered by the sun
At the same time of this video Troy's wife made several cooking videos for her YouTube channel. He was saying they were doing all their cooking on this solar cooker but in her videos she was cooking on the gas stove in the mobile home. Troy tends to exaggerate the features and his use of products given to him. Please look at other videos for your product reviews
And how is it that you are heating your water with solar? And what about the well pump? The refrigerator?
Oh, now you are twisting the timelines. I am showing people all of our videos from the day we moved to our new homestead to the present time.
I am hoping to catch up to the present so people have a background to the story.
Then I will be sharing daily videos as we make them.
It is no secret that we used the propane stove.
I show it on my videos.
Boy, all your attempts at finding some espionage type secrets hidden deep in my videos are odd.
I have shown how we heat our water with solar. And everything else.
Oh. Just read the last two articles.
I am tired of repeating. You can write so I know you can read. Read the articles.
@thediyworld, "I have shown how we heat our water with solar." No Mr. Reid,
What you showed was a black bag or bladder laying on the lawn. THAT'S IT!
Not proof that water was in said bag,
Not proof water was heated,
Not proof water was heated to a specific temp,
Not proof you used or consumed the heated water.
Just a prop for your narrative.
LOL!!!!!!!!! I am literally laughing out loud. What do you want - to see me in the shower?
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@thediyworld, Just pointing out another lie in YOUR narrative.
A bag on the lawn is NOT proof, in video and in your words.
It's as simple as that Mr. Reid.
Again, case closed.
Oh really? So showing our solar hot water heating method is not proof? Neither is anything I do.
Just go away then.
Have a nice life :)
You are twisting it Troy. You said in this video that you were using the sun oven cooker for all your food. When all the while Melanie is cooking on the stove on her channel.
You lie in this video.
You are tired of repeating a narrative you want people to believe when it is right there that you are lying.
If you say or write it... it needs facts to back it up because you are a known liar and exaggerator
If anyone wants to validate what I say... look at the date of this video on Troy's channel and then look at the same dates on Melanie's channel. Unless he has deleted it so he can support his lying narrative
Time lines. Melanie does not put up her videos in sequence. She is WAY behind on uploading videos.
Boy just wait to see how you flip out of she uploads an old video from NY! Oh the fits you will have.
Better up your meds before that happens.
Bye now
Why is Mel working she has no green card. Did you lie to the INS about being able to support her.
Well now, what she does is none of your business now is it.
This is a video about off grid solar power and homesteading.
What we do offline is none of your business.
Your video is about solar power of which you do not show and homesteading of which you do not do. Melanie's channel is "off grid homesteading with Melanie" when she is not off grid.
Your pretend world just does not stand up to the facts
You put her on YouTube, her immigration status was paid for by people donating... makes it public information.
If a company trades stocks publicly then anything that has to do with "doing business" is necessary for investors. You made Melanie's immigration status part of your business so it is public business
If you were making enough money to support her then why does she monetize her channel?
NO. I sold shirts. People got shirts. You did not. So you have nothing to complain about.
We make FREE videos for your entertainment. Its NOT a corporation so NO you do not get to know anything behind the scenes.
Either enjoy the videos or go away.
As a citizen of this country it is my business if an immigrant is breaking the law and her husband is an accomplice.
See now you are attacking my wife again. I realize you hate me but why attack her all the time?
That is just evil
She has broken no laws but that wont stop you will it?
You are certainly going to try your hardest.
Well, I could give you that one but in the sequence of videos that she uploaded one had the solar oven in it. So they were all about the same time.
I am so glad that you admit that you mislead people with how you speak. They can now take what you say as kinda-sorta-but not really the truth.
It is so nice to see you resort to your own troll verbiage with your "up the meds" comment. Your horns are showing
Mis speak is not intentionally mis leading. Yes, troll verbiage for a troll.
Mislead is not misspeaking... tell that to over ten people who regretted donating on your "bring Melanie home" fundraising video who thought you needed money all the while you were buying a $600 mini bike.
Oh boy. Here we go again with that. I sold T-Shirts. Its a product.
You see, it works like this:
Person A has a need for a shirt.
Person B sells the shirt and makes sure Person A gets the shirt.
Person A receives the shirt and is happy.
Person B spends the money he earned selling shirts.
The bike was bought much later though (as you already know) with funds raised by doing small engine work (as you already know) which I showed and talked about on my videos for everyone to see.
Good night :)
And we dont/cant cool ALL our meals on solar power. The sun goes down sometimes.
If I said "all" then it was a slip. I am not perfect. There, I said it.
Not even sure what you heard in the video or if it was taken out of context. But it could be. Could be not.
Reid
I have been going through my extensive stash of building materials and i have a load of old barn wood I am sure you could use. just wondering if I could swing by and dump it this weekend.
it is a whole semi load.
I would not let you near my property for anything.
Have a nice day now :)
What why of wood is it?
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STOPIt's nice to see that nature provides yet another benefit, it also cooks your food. What a great product, but I wish it didn't cost so much.
We love this stove so much!! You can make a solar oven but I did not have as much sun on our old homestead so mine did not work out back there.