It's definitely 10 gauge, so maybe the sheathing is *really* heavy - it's almost as thick as one of my fat fingers. We get a lot of wind storms in Seattle and losing power for days isn't uncommon (none of our lines are buried), so I wanted to be able to run a line from my backyard to an oil filled radiator and maybe 1-2 other things in a common sleeping area. The generator is 3300 continuous (4000 surge) and the heater is 1500 watts. We actually put a 30 amp circuit in our house because this thing kept flipping 15 amp breakers. Of course, our house hasn't lost power since I bought the generator 3-4 years ago. Guess it's doing its job.
Maybe I missed it, but how are you charging the battery beyond solar? Do you have a plug/play input? As in, do you just run a cord from your house and plug it into something to charge the battery? Or is more complicated than that? What if you're at a campsite with power? Do you power the strip directly or run it through the battery first? I'm interested from a HOLY SHIT EARTHQUAKE 12.7 IN SEATTLE perspective. Emergency officials in the area are recommending people be prepared to live on their own for at least a week. I'm curious what I could rig up in a pinch.
I bet you could stash away a really small generator if you were going on longer trip away from power. It's not ideal, but medical stuff is medical stuff and Honda makes some wicked quiet small generators these days.
It would be cool if there was a regenerative braking kit you could slap on the thing. Then your battery would always be charged when you got to wherever you were going.
Maybe I missed it, but how are you charging the battery beyond solar? Do you have a plug/play input? As in, do you just run a cord from your house and plug it into something to charge the battery? Or is more complicated than that? What if you're at a campsite with power? Do you power the strip directly or run it through the battery first? I'm interested from a HOLY SHIT EARTHQUAKE 12.7 IN SEATTLE perspective. Emergency officials in the area are recommending people be prepared to live on their own for at least a week. I'm curious what I could rig up in a pinch.
I bet you could stash away a really small generator if you were going on longer trip away from power. It's not ideal, but medical stuff is medical stuff and Honda makes some wicked quiet small generators these days.
It would be cool if there was a regenerative braking kit you could slap on the thing. Then your battery would always be charged when you got to wherever you were going.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth