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This is true but why would you use electricity for heating water anyway when a butane stove is $20

@@texasprepperprojects I guess cuz inverter is easy free and fast. 30 seconds of ac.

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I see no reason for a fuse between batteries. Check out the lilpus battery links below. They are smoking deals!

@@texasprepperprojects do u need a battery balancer for series connection?

@@Dave-xr9bc Nope. you just need to charge both batteries up independently 100% before you connect them together. and use them

I have played with aprs and I think it can have a lot of good use. It makes more sense than meshtastic

Might be!

I think it is super over rated

Yes

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The container had a concrete liner

I think the answer is no. This is an audio interface not a TNC. Js8call is an audio software not a data one.

A $20 Sony FM radio that runs on 2AA batteries. I got more info from this during the freeze than all my fancy ham radio stuff. Same with my hurricane experience

Absolutely totally garbage. It's a marketing scam. Rapid radios are a cell phone without the phone. I stand firmly behind my recommendation for a satellite messenger. Garmin In Reach or Spot

Its because I can't. What you need to do is get a Kila watt meter and plug it into your fridge and let it go for 24hours. Every system, every house is a little different. I know that my chest freezer in my garage needs 1kw for 24 hours because i tested it. So, this thing will run my chest freezer for 4 days. But if you have a newer model or a bigger one your number might be different. Watt hours is a great universal measurement but I can't and won't say 'this will last this long' because there are too many variables. Spend $30 on a watt meter and test some stuff!

You are correct. But since I was inside it didn't matter. But outside you are right

@@texasprepperprojects I kinda figured, but it’s one of those thing where I’m not 100% sure. Thank you. 😁👍

I did the same, but attached a small solar charge controller to the battery. I use it every night for fans and lights, charging it off of 200 watts of solar panels.

nice, thanks

the dokio panel comes with a charge controler!

and that relates to this how?

For survival yes, for greenhouse heating over a long period of time, no

Forgot to mention that I'm talking about the minimum input voltage of the eg4 all in one

I have used DC DC step ups in the past. I'd do it in a pinch but I don't think it's trust them for daily use

Yeah I get you. I've seen similar for golf carts that run high voltage. I'm sure it would work but you are going to lose efficiency. I have seen @WillProwse do it with his golf cart

I am familiar with them and have used them in the past to replace MC4. I just wanted this to be as simple and cheap as possible

Yup and a 1000w inverter wouldn't mount to the battery like that. Check out my 3840wh cart video

@@texasprepperprojects Sounds good, thanks!

A 100 amp battery isn’t powerful enough for an 1800 watt inverter.

might fire up the start on surge depending on how good the BMS is

That is it

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but very handy. Don't use it if you don't like it, but it saves a lot of money on a shunt

@@texasprepperprojectswhat are the advantages of a Bluetooth battery? Honestly don’t know.

Did you watch the whole video? Bluetooth let's you watch the status of the battery in real time. How much current coming in or going out so you know the state of charge. A stand alone bluetooth battery monitor runs about $80, so you are getting that ability for less. However what you also have to think about is that if you have a stand alone shunt or battery meter, it's more wires and terminals you have to connect. So things get even more expensive and complicated. When you have that built into the battery, the build is simple. Check out my other builds to see where and how the shunt is wired

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Hey there! Thanks!

Nope

But then everything has to be waterproof

@@texasprepperprojects That's true. But they also make 200-2000W immersion heaters that are designed to be dunked into water for $20 on amazon. Yes, most are 120V, but you can put two in parallel. That in a 50 gallon drum will give you a lot of thermal storage, and it's easy to drain / use the water.

but then you have to have an inverter. In this design, it's very simple. just dc to dc. You can't cheat heat

@@texasprepperprojects I'm not suggesting doing MPPT -> 120V. Do a similar thing to what you're doing, just run more in parallel. There's a 120V/2000W immersion heater on amazon that includes a temperature probe(!) for $21. Two of those in parallel would get you 1000W at 60V. (If you wanted 2000W you'd need 4). I'm also seeing 48V immersion heaters. 50 gal (400 lb) 'free' water vs $5 * 50lb *8 = $40. A steel 50gal drum would probably work for either. The nice thing about water is you can pump it through radiators if you want to speed up the heat dissipation. Another pro or con is that it's more thermally conductive; that's a pro if you want to get the energy out quickly, a con if you want to store it for a long time. And again, if you have to move it, it's much easier to drain 50gal of water through a hose pipe than it is to move 400lb of sand. I think both have their uses, for sure. The nice thing about sand is sometimes high temperature might be useful -- if you want to run a peltier / stirling generator for example.

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In this case wattage is not relevant. That 435 watt panel is PROBABLY 37 Volts at 15 amps or so. I have 12 volt 200 watt panels and I have 37 volt 250 watt panels. You have to read the specs of your panels and your charge controller very carefully. The best of both is high voltage and high current, typically residential panels are the best mix

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Very. Lots of people are doing this but none quite like my variant

@@texasprepperprojects I like your design. I made one similar to yours but with a solar panel attached to the Hand truck as well. I can angle and align the panel perfect to the sun.

Link it?

@@texasprepperprojects ruclips.net/video/Gqt38nnRtaY/видео.html

@@texasprepperprojects I replied with a link but RUclips appears to have blocked it. BTW, the reason my hand truck build is 12v is I used leftover parts from my main system that I upgraded to 24v.

Check out my other videos

Not sure what your talking about here. I don't mention licenses at all

@@texasprepperprojects Oh, you know how we take one word in your long video and riff on it... You mentioned that some prep'ers think they will use ham bands and never worry about a license because society will break down and there will be no one to care about their licensed use of the spectrum. I think that after society breaks down ham radio self-regulation could get more intense.

Same here

Watch all the way through. I'm not a fan of 48v

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Agreed on the DC fridge. It's just nice to use smaller wire and get more power out of your solar mppt

Glad it helped

24v just let's you get more power out of the solar

Great tip! I'm coming to Cork next week for vacation!

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Always go with a low frequency inverter, not those cheap Chinese high frequency ones like he is showing you, the battery is fine altho there are cheaper ones just as good. So do you need 200amp bms on your battery? 1500w ÷ 24v = 62.5 amps so you only need 100 amp BMS on the battery. Let's say later you want to run a 3000w inverter, add another battery with a 100amp bms, now you have 2 x 100amp bms batteries, drawing 3000w ÷24 v = 125 amps, being pulled from 2 100amp bms s sharing the 125 amp load, basically 62.5 amps each, if wired correctly, not wired correctly 1 battery will pull more than the other

@@dustydawson8977 Hi. I want a system that is equal or better then the EcoFlo mobile power kit but at a lesser price. I need someone that can put together a shopping list for me as I’m not sure how to achieve items needed Thnks

@tonyhernandez3433 I would like someone to do everything for me for nothing too, but life just isn't that way. Easy as I can make it, it's up to you how cheap. Amazon,low frequency inverter,lithium batteries,40 amp mppt,24v system. There's your recipe

Wrong. It is two, 200 amp hour batteries.

Tizactly 24v 200 ah the 12v is 300ah

I have never seen a 48v mppt that didn't have a 100v minimum input voltage which is my point

@@texasprepperprojects They exist. 48V works better for large whole home solar system.

@texasprepperprojects check out Brad Cagle channel, he built a small 48V system using a victron 100/20 charge controller , victron 1200W inverter and a Litime 48V 60Ah battery charging with 4 100w solar panels in series . My point here is u can build a 48V system which doesn't require 100-120 minimum. Yes it works better with 100V and above but it's not a requirement unless if you using those high voltage all in one systems.

Still 4 panels

​@texasprepperprojects i got 30 455 watt panels... what are you going to do with 2 panels?

Good luck!