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Comment by aquaman on March 3, 2015 at 3:28pm

Hi Jim I know its been a while sense we chatted. I was just wondering how you deal with winter and if you had any good tips for me? Remember I live rurally on solar so heating could be tuff. I was not able to keep my system running properly this winter. partly because I just wasn't truly ready for it. But just wondering if you had any good advice for next yr?

Comment by Jim Fisk on March 3, 2015 at 11:36am

I hear you Jeff. I have wanted to do solar for years but the more I look into it the less I am impressed. We have good Solar coverage here in Winter (we made sure of that when we purchased) but we have had such heavy cloud cover I would have to at least double up on everything if I wished to depend on it.

I recently happened upon a YT vid on using a washing machine "Smart Drive" for a wind or water gen. Some simple rewiring and it is ready to go. Here is just one good example of folks converting this amazing drive. Turned out we had one with a bad computer in the shed so I am on it as we have a good year round stream on our property with a 35' drop in 300'. Should be enough for most of the house as well as the AP. This guy in the vid is blessed with a 90' drop if I am hearing him right but 35' will do a great deal with 4 nozzles rather than one. These are permanent magnet 3 phase motors. A prepper's dream.

Comment by Jeff S on March 2, 2015 at 8:11pm

Jim, Just trying to show the best and worst of solar. I dropped the idea because I get so little sunlight, especially in the winter.

Comment by Jim Fisk on March 2, 2015 at 10:35am

Wow Jeff, I hope we don't need to call in "Big Dog" (video) just to take our AP system off grid. A whole house system runs $25 to $35K but a small AP system of say 2500gal can be done by the average home owner with basic skills and even recycled solar collectors from say the DOT and golf car batteries. Biggest problem I see is that we are only averaging about 1 day a week of clear Sun here in NE TN these days so based upon one mega million dollar installer who makes Big Dog look small you need to boost your calculations by a good 20% more panel and storage than say just 10 yrs ago and he attributes that to the chemtrail program that we see in our skies almost daily now. Even if there are no chems in those trails as some would like us to believe they still reflect about 20% of our Sunlight so they must be figured in. Depending on your location wind or water power (my personal 24/7 favorite and under way as we speak) might be a better bet. There is an off grid group on here that should have your answers.

Comment by Jeff S on March 2, 2015 at 10:10am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVEielT-1w8 Watch the first video before you get too excited about solar. If you're still interested watch the second https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAe2J90XSX0 . This guy relocated and when he did he did it right. He has lots of interesting videos on the subject.

Comment by Bayy Quest on March 2, 2015 at 8:35am

I want to take the system off the grid as well. Any advice or builds anyone is using for solar power?

Comment by Bayy Quest on March 2, 2015 at 8:33am

Thats the plan today I have a 55 gal tank with 20 tilapia that have way out grown their tank. So the goal is to get them in to this tank. This will be my sump tank later this week. Just waiting on the pet store to open to get some feeder to cycle it

Comment by Jeff S on March 2, 2015 at 8:17am

Looks like my first system. It's almost fool proof. You might want to start cycling before you add important fish or just use something disposable like goldfish.

Comment by Bayy Quest on March 2, 2015 at 7:41am

Finished my IBC unit adding two more units this week on to it.  https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10205170490998312&set=vb.1...

Comment by Converse on February 13, 2015 at 2:49pm

That was supposed to say "their exoskeleton are made of chitin "......

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