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**Seerseraxlils** · 02-06-2012, 08:33 PM

I find this topic interesting so will start another thread to see what others think about it

IGNT, for your battery operated gizmos you could very well use solar most times as the cost per panel and small battery bank would not be to much, then a small inverter so you could have 120AC power to plug into with your charging devices.
That would work if you were without grid power, but you need grid for reefers, air cons, heaters for hot water and cooking and comfort heating, so not worth the expense of setting up just for your gadgets.
If it were possible for you to live without the energy hogs that make things cold or hot you can do it fairly reasonable, I have done it, but we also used close to 200 gallons a year of propane and a few cords of wood.
Wood for comfort heat and also used a coil for hot water and propane for some hot water, reefer and cooking along with cooking stew and beans on the wood heater. used a battery bank [2000 AH] for TV, lighting and small appliances.
But with a running stream or a water source with a few hundred feet of head would be very cheap to set up and would furnish 12 or 24 volt DC power 24 hours a day to charge your batterys is the best way to go.

02-06-2012, 08:33 PM	#6
Seerseraxlils Join Date Jan 2006 Posts 562 Senior Member	I find this topic interesting so will start another thread to see what others think about it IGNT, for your battery operated gizmos you could very well use solar most times as the cost per panel and small battery bank would not be to much, then a small inverter so you could have 120AC power to plug into with your charging devices. That would work if you were without grid power, but you need grid for reefers, air cons, heaters for hot water and cooking and comfort heating, so not worth the expense of setting up just for your gadgets. If it were possible for you to live without the energy hogs that make things cold or hot you can do it fairly reasonable, I have done it, but we also used close to 200 gallons a year of propane and a few cords of wood. Wood for comfort heat and also used a coil for hot water and propane for some hot water, reefer and cooking along with cooking stew and beans on the wood heater. used a battery bank [2000 AH] for TV, lighting and small appliances. But with a running stream or a water source with a few hundred feet of head would be very cheap to set up and would furnish 12 or 24 volt DC power 24 hours a day to charge your batterys is the best way to go.
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