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L.A. is a dump, I hate going there.

I will try to get outside, if I can’t I will try to crawl under the dining room table. I live close enough to the San Andreas fault that my house will probably fall down.

They used to recommend to plan to be on your own for up to 3 weeks if the big one hits, water could be contaminated and pipes will get broken anyways so you need lots of water. A travel trailer with solar panels on it would be my preferred option, if an 8.0 hit, I imagine my house would be...

San Andreas Springs to life, an 8.0 earthquake levels my house, neighbors don’t see any lights, they eat some other neighbors instead.

You still need batteries, are there any plants for the server rack batteries besides China.

I have no doubts that having my own power generation will be worth the money, I just hope prices on Solar equipment don’t start rising as U.S. and China relations seem to be heading south.

He is up in the north east corner of Wyoming. I saw -45 degrees in Northern Minnesota, where I live now we can hit 0 but that is rare, It has been a few years since I have seen much below 20 degrees Fahrenheit.

I have a brother who moved to Wyoming, he loves it, he had -32 degree temps this winter, too cold for me. He built an off grid solar house in California and also built one in another country, his Wyoming house is just on the grid because his power is very cheap.

My Davis Vantage Pro 2 is 13 years old now, I previously used cheaper brands and never got more than a year or two out of them before they stopped working. I also like that you can repair a Davis station if something does go wrong. My cheaper stations were also not as accurate and the data...

The folks in charge may want a utopia, it seems we’re heading the opposite way to me.

It wasn’t that long ago that my first tier electric rate was 13 cents a kWh, it is now 31 cents a kWh. What do you think is going to happen with electric rates in Texas? If you believe power will always be cheap, well good luck with that, I believe the pain will only get worse.

I live near one of the most famous earthquake faults in the country, we are overdue for a big earthquake. Having electricity if everything is down for awhile is worth it, California electric rates will continue to creep higher and higher so the price of an off grid setup is not that bad compared...

I am on SCE, the rate went up here this year due to the increased natural gas price. I can get close to 700 kWh for a month in mild weather, in the summer and winter I use a lot more. SCE is always asking for a rate increase.

I am on a tiered system in California, first tier rate is 31 cents a kWh, second tier is 40 cents, never made into third tier myself but I am sure it is painful.

Probably lasts six times as long for one.

Windy.com is 10 degrees off from my station right now. I have had a Davis Vantage Pro 2 for thirteen years now, it is the cheapest station I trust for accurate data. Lots of home weather stations are not properly installed for accuracy. Wind data should be measured at 33’ and temperatures...

I am going to guess they mean Global Supply Meltdown. OK, I guessed worng.

Where and when were you getting propane for a $1 a gallon, I was paying over $3 a gallon delivered back in the 90’, I got tired of that after a few years a went to a wood stove and electric for everything else. The last few years the price of electricity has skyrocketed around here, it was what...

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The craziest waste I have ever seen was a guy in my town with a 12 Kilowatt solar array and a 10 Kilowatt windmill, his house was rather small and he was producing far more power than he could ever use. At the time I visited his house there was no net metering and he was bragging about only...

My brother nearly caught my shed on fire charging RC car batteries, he lost a lot of batteries and some power tools, also burned up the table the charger was on.

The adds in the back of the magazine were great for finding deals, I paid $400 for 80 watt panels for my motorhome when my used Arco panels were replaced. My Sharp 220 watt panels I have were $168 each when I bought them, I thought that was really cheap at the time but now they are really cheap.

Thanks, it has been the same here, lots of rain and cloudy, cold days with a few light snow flurries. It is supposed to hit 60 tomorrow here.

They were packs of cells assembled as 24 volt batteries, he gave me two of them.

Hello, my name is Wayne. I live in the Mojave Desert, and have just started to collect items for an off-grid setup. I first got interested in Solar power over thirty years ago, I was a subscriber to Home Power magazine from about issue #10. My first experience playing around with solar was when...