LittleLebowski
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Australia sounds pretty bad, too.That is not what the official statistics say.
Australia sounds pretty bad, too.That is not what the official statistics say.
You guys still don't get it.
Different culture here, we think totally differently in Oz.
Wow. Yeah, I'm gonna take a pass on the concentration camp thing.Howard Springs: Australia police arrest quarantine escapees
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1 December 2021
I was considering selling my ecoflow delta pro system with smart home panel for my critical loads. With your very informative post, I will keep it since it will be a backup to my now main system, Solark 15k/EG4/Gas generator combination.I've seen at least two people posting in past week who are completely off-grid and losing all power because their non-tier 1 equipment has failed. Even with tier-1 equipment it is good to have a backup plan in place if you are 100% off grid and doubly so when you are using non-tier 1. You are your own utility company now and can't rely on somebody else to get your power back on.
Some suggestions:
1) Make sure you have plan if your main system dies
2) Have documentation on how to diagnose issues and everything well labeled if the technical person who knows the system may not be available. This is generally a good idea no matter what to do even for yourself. Will someone have to measure voltage? Will they know how to use a multimeter? Do they know where it is? What steps do they need to follow to diagnose why there is no power.
3) Have a backup inverter/charge controller/AIO. This may be a smaller version of what you have to at least run critical loads while the main system is down.
4) Verify you have spare fuses for critical components if applicable
5) Backup generator (either solar based or fossil fuel based).
6) Backup PV panels. Some people have extra PV panels stored away in case a storm takes out their currently installed/mounted panels. Minimum number to at least allow critical functionality of your system.
any others suggestions?
USA is something like number three per capita in ranking. But when you remove like five major cities from the statistics, the USA ranking is one of the lowest in the world.Wow. Yeah, I'm gonna take a pass on the concentration camp thing.
40 or 50 years ago you never heard of mass shootings here and certainly not school shootings. Guns haven't changed. Society changed. Strict gun laws don't help, especially when you don't follow through with enforcement and punishment. All you have to do is look at Chicago. Banning guns isn't going to be accepted.
There is a clear and present danger to the Republic and it's not from the gun toting citizens. As a meme I saw recently stated, there are 100 million gun owners in the USA, 350 million firearms, trillions of rounds of ammo. If we were the problem, you'd know it.
Ahhhh, this discussion can go off the rails in a heartbeat and rarely if ever changes either side's opinion. But without discussion we don't have many options forward. The danger from active shooters to the average person is greatly exaggerated by the media, and they never cover the situations where an armed citizen foils the bad guy and saves lives. At least not on MSM. So no matter what you believe, I'd advise to take anything you read in the news with a grain of salt.
Project M0ckingbird was circa 70 years ago. And now they have modern tools like "social media", ChatGPT et al.American media has become the guardian and propaganda tool of an Orwellian, overbearing federal government.
Your country's pandemic response resembled China's. I'm saying this from a place of love and respect, but... you can keep your culture and way of thinking to/for yourselves. I'd offer the same words to any Canadians who want to preach at us about our "gun culture".Different culture here, we think totally differently in Oz.
Couldn't have said it better myself.As do I.
Yea. Those cheap green lasers are a pita to get in your eyes... You can even get rechargeable ones now a days to run of solar..There are two alternatives I've considered..
1) A laser.. Blinding someone attacking your home would put them down fast, and it is practical at up to about a 1/2 mile.
Yea I was looking at those PCP rifles a while back, took a lot to not order one.2) An air gun... Yup.. they make some crazy 22 and 30 caliber air guns these days, you just need to have a compressor to be able to refill the high pressure tank.
I'll take accuracy and a pallet load ?At the end of the day, the best solution is just to buy a boat load of ammo.
I think I would be more inclined to use a laser with a wavelength that is outside of human vision range so it doesn't mark your own position to be targeted.Yea. Those cheap green lasers are a pita to get in your eyes... You can even get rechargeable ones now a days to run of solar..
They're not cheap.. By the time you purchase one of those $1500 to $2000 air guns, you could purchase a $500 AR15 and several thousand rounds of ammo.Yea I was looking at those PCP rifles a while back, took a lot to not order one.
I think that would depend on how fast you want to recharge the tank.Wonder if you'd need a LF inverter for the compressor?
Yeah.. We keep about 20,000 rounds of 22lr. I have a tricked out 10/22 with a Pulsar Thermion XP38 thermal scope and a suppressor, and its a silent stealth killing machine.I'll take accuracy and a pallet load ?
So now that I'm finishing up my initial install, have my batteries all setup, and the inverters/pv dialed in like I want, this list is looking to be my next step.Some suggestions:
1) Make sure you have plan if your main system dies
2) Have documentation on how to diagnose issues and everything well labeled if the technical person who knows the system may not be available. This is generally a good idea no matter what to do even for yourself. Will someone have to measure voltage? Will they know how to use a multimeter? Do they know where it is? What steps do they need to follow to diagnose why there is no power.
3) Have a backup inverter/charge controller/AIO. This may be a smaller version of what you have to at least run critical loads while the main system is down.
4) Verify you have spare fuses for critical components if applicable
5) Backup generator (either solar based or fossil fuel based).
6) Backup PV panels. Some people have extra PV panels stored away in case a storm takes out their currently installed/mounted panels. Minimum number to at least allow critical functionality of your system.
The military version of this: https://anvsinc.com/product/eotech-atpial-an-peq-15-aiming-laser/I think I would be more inclined to use a laser with a wavelength that is outside of human vision range so it doesn't mark your own position to be targeted.
I would have to look into that.. I suspect that being able to collimate lasers at different wavelengths is not a one size fits all proposition. Some wavelengths might be a lot easier than others. Come to think of it, the lower the freq, the easier it is to probably do.
One thing is for sure, I would not want to be swinging around a perfectly visible straight line leading to my position while someone is pointing a weapon at me.
The options would be either a lower power beam outside human visual range, or a pulsed beam that turns on and off so fast it can't be seen anyhow.
I'm pretty sure you can buy those quite easily at regular gun websites. Or something very similar.The military version of this: https://anvsinc.com/product/eotech-atpial-an-peq-15-aiming-laser/
I doubt they will ever turn up at a DRMO sale, but stranger things have happened.
I am familiar as to their intended use. I had one mounted on my M4 in 2003.I'm pretty sure you can buy those quite easily at regular gun websites. Or something very similar.
They're made for use with night vision goggles.. They are an aiming device, not designed to blind someone from a 1/2 mile away.
A solar flare is not a threat to anything NOT connected to the wider power distribution grid. In fact, unless your off-grid home's electrical wiring, solar system, or a sub panel feed to the barn, have runs of wire several hundreds or thousands of feet long, they also are not susceptible to the effects of a solar flare / CME.
Solar storms (coronal mass ejections), induce electrical currents into our grid through an indirect mechanism.. When the solar particles slam into our planet's magnetic field, it causes the field surrounding our planet to compress on the day side and extend on the night side.. When the particles pass, the magnetic field springs back into place.
The reason it causes problems for the grid is because the grid is basically a bunch of really REALLY long wires extended across the surface. And you know what a magnetic field does when it moves across a conductor right?
This is why small solar storms, or storms that only hit us with a glancing blow, tend to do little damage.. Its because they only affect the magnetic field in a localized area and they don't move it around much. When a larger storm hits and moves the entire field, then everyone gets hit.
Nuclear EMP is a very different animal and has about as much in common with a solar storm EMP as sharks have with dogs. With a nuclear EMP, it doesn't matter if your electronics are connected or not, if they are not shielded, they can be damaged. Unfortunately, going underground 10 or 20 feet does little to nothing to attenuate that affect unless your soil is basically composed of metal ore. The good news is that it is easy to build a Faraday cage and a highly effective one can be made out of common grocery store aluminum foil.
Nuclear weapons themselves do not produce any significant EMP. What happens is that when the weapon is detonated, the gamma rays being emitted will slam into our atmosphere's gasses.. These gamma rays, through a process called "Compton Scattering" have enough energy to knock electrons loose from their atomic nucleus.. and electrons don't like to just hang around freely.. The first thing these free electrons do is latch on to one of our planets magnetic field lines and spiral down to the ground, where they cause all kinds of currents to be induced into every conductive surface they find. Doesn't matter if its a thousand mile long electrical transmission line, or a tiny circuit board.. The can induce up to and exceeding 50,000 volts per meter of conductive surface. 200,000 if the weapon was designed for the purpose.
It is not practical in most locations, to bury a shipping container. By the time you get done with the money and effort to reinforce it, it would be cheaper to just start from scratch and do it right.
And notice Australia is so low, its not even listed.USA is something like number three per capita in ranking. But when you remove like five major cities from the statistics, the USA ranking is one of the lowest in the world.
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Now how often have you seen this crowd stay on topic?I respect that off-grid and preparedness go hand-in-hand.
I don't respect that we can't avoid political bullshit.
Any chance we can stay on topic?
A solar flare / CME is not just "a more likely scenario", it is a near 100% probability.. the only question is whether it will happen in your lifetime or not..Interesting I figured a high level solar flare was much harder to protect against and that a simple faraday cage was not enough. And yeah I lumped EMP all together, as it's a sorta similar type of threat in the sense that it's sending tons of energy out that can damage electronics. A solar flare is probably a more likely scenario though so if it's that easy to protect against probably worth focusing on. An EMP is bad news no matter what because if there was a nearby nuclear strike it means you have more than just damaged electronics to worry about. I suppose it's possible to generate an EMP without using nuclear weapons though but I imagine if we got to a point where there is some kind of war where people are doing this it's a much worse situation all around.
i am prepared for a lot of things but that is one I am not prepared for and not going to worry about. I grew up with drills in grammar school about nuclear bombs and 70 years later i am still here. Some of my grammar school friends have since died so I am counting my blessings..A giant solar storm absolutely will happen eventually..