OT Off the grid

Anonymous-0 · Feb 4, 2009

How many here are off the grid ,or close to it . What systems do you have ,and what are the costs ?

Gun guru · Feb 4, 2009

A friend of mine has a brother that lives in Idaho. He built a home in the middle of the wilderness, 250 acres of trees and mountains.
I was told that he had to pay $10,000 to have a power line ran for a mile to get power and he actually priced out a large generator to run most of the time. He opted for the power company to supply him.

I could only see doing that with a diesel 20 HP or something and a spare portable as a backup.

tractormarkb · Feb 4, 2009

I live off the Grid in the middle of my woods. I have a Northern Tool 13 hp 13000 watt generator that I run for about 2 hours every day or so to charge my zantrex 2000 inverter/charger which charges 1500 amp hours of 12 volt batteries.We have TV, Fridge,Lights, PS2 ETC,Busy family of 5.I run the generator as little as possible because of the noise and when we run it we try to get laundry done, sewing, power tools or any other larger loads accomplished.We bought a wind generator from ebay and we are unhappy with it, we keep it up for looks. We are hoping to buy solar electric cells as the money comes.

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