I am going to be off the grid for a year staying in an insulated building, while a cabin is being built for one year, and will be fine without power, im no stranger to being in the wilderness for months on end, but usually just have a phone with me that i charge via a car, but id like to be able to use a tv and charge my phones, and wont have a vehicle on the site. I have think ive formulated a plan, and got alot of help from watching videos and reading posts from this community, but i want to verify a few things that unfortunantly im ignorant of.
so i think i settled on ordering this, and the lowest wattage little LED tv i can find from walmart.
Did some calculations on a 19 inch LED and it came out to 20wH
Found out i can do solar lighting not needing
To run off this, very easily
If i were to plug in my phone to charge while i sleep, roughly 5 to 8 hours the 5 watt charger would take roughly 25 to 40 watts, ill say 50 to be safe.
So my estimated usage would be per day:
20W tv 5 hours a day (over estimating)=100W
5w usb charger to keep my phone on = 20 watts
Total 120W/day
So i figure that the 300 from that battery bank, SHOULD last me roughly 2 days and 2 nights without having to charge it until the third day.
If i got REALLY bored and watched tv 10 hours tv=200W
and charged my phone 2x =roughly 30w
(hey it could happen lol been there before)
id pull 230 watts, and id have to charge the battery up the next morning.
I assume with that in mind, this product should work amazingly for me.
With that being said, i DO have a question that i couldnt find an answer to online.
1. Can i buy a little generator like this one to charge it? Or would that end catostrphicly?
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2. This generator says it would burn roughly 1 gallon of fuel to provide 900 continuous watts for 5 hours, and that its fine to run until the fuel runs out, and has a life span of roughly 2000 to 3000 hours, or 400 days running one tank a day. so can theoretically provide 18,000kwH give or take with gasoline, and can power my tv and phone charger while i charge the battery if i REALLY wanted to. I also would like to know of the tv and the phone will charge via the generator without blowing up lol.
4. I was told that a generator like this, will actually even burn alot less fuel if you arent pulling the max load from it, and last longer as well, and on the video from the kind fella who provides us with this amazing forum, he said that the max input for this solar generator was 83 watts. Is this true? How much of a difference is it?
I know even if i had to burn a gallon of gas and run it the entire 5 hours per 2 days to recharge it, my fuel bill per month would only be $30 or so a month which really isnt bad at all. Total cost after both generators, and all the fuel and oil would still cost me under $800 to have power for the entire year.
With that being said,
I do like the idea of using solar panels, but the cost in panels to be able to run this every day for the year ill be off grid without worry (no sun days, having to not use it while im charging it) would i think be more of a hassle during that one year stay, then it would be worth. I dont mind the idea of just running that little gas generator once every day or two to charge it back up.
Not sure how long this solar generator takes to charge up plugged into a regular generator, but if its faster via the 120 adapter, that id like to know...
Thanks for the help guys!!!
so i think i settled on ordering this, and the lowest wattage little LED tv i can find from walmart.
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Did some calculations on a 19 inch LED and it came out to 20wH
Found out i can do solar lighting not needing
To run off this, very easily
If i were to plug in my phone to charge while i sleep, roughly 5 to 8 hours the 5 watt charger would take roughly 25 to 40 watts, ill say 50 to be safe.
So my estimated usage would be per day:
20W tv 5 hours a day (over estimating)=100W
5w usb charger to keep my phone on = 20 watts
Total 120W/day
So i figure that the 300 from that battery bank, SHOULD last me roughly 2 days and 2 nights without having to charge it until the third day.
If i got REALLY bored and watched tv 10 hours tv=200W
and charged my phone 2x =roughly 30w
(hey it could happen lol been there before)
id pull 230 watts, and id have to charge the battery up the next morning.
I assume with that in mind, this product should work amazingly for me.
With that being said, i DO have a question that i couldnt find an answer to online.
1. Can i buy a little generator like this one to charge it? Or would that end catostrphicly?
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2. This generator says it would burn roughly 1 gallon of fuel to provide 900 continuous watts for 5 hours, and that its fine to run until the fuel runs out, and has a life span of roughly 2000 to 3000 hours, or 400 days running one tank a day. so can theoretically provide 18,000kwH give or take with gasoline, and can power my tv and phone charger while i charge the battery if i REALLY wanted to. I also would like to know of the tv and the phone will charge via the generator without blowing up lol.
4. I was told that a generator like this, will actually even burn alot less fuel if you arent pulling the max load from it, and last longer as well, and on the video from the kind fella who provides us with this amazing forum, he said that the max input for this solar generator was 83 watts. Is this true? How much of a difference is it?
I know even if i had to burn a gallon of gas and run it the entire 5 hours per 2 days to recharge it, my fuel bill per month would only be $30 or so a month which really isnt bad at all. Total cost after both generators, and all the fuel and oil would still cost me under $800 to have power for the entire year.
With that being said,
I do like the idea of using solar panels, but the cost in panels to be able to run this every day for the year ill be off grid without worry (no sun days, having to not use it while im charging it) would i think be more of a hassle during that one year stay, then it would be worth. I dont mind the idea of just running that little gas generator once every day or two to charge it back up.
Not sure how long this solar generator takes to charge up plugged into a regular generator, but if its faster via the 120 adapter, that id like to know...
Thanks for the help guys!!!
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