Camp property found, now updates.

[ArlyA]

That's a great fire pit!!!!

Ya it is nice. Got it shovel out for the 1st time on Sunday. The previous owners had not did that in some time.

 

[ArlyA]

Splitter in use. Action was plenty fast.

 

[HawkinsHollow]

Yeah I was going to say the same thing about the fire pit, real nice!

 

[airbiscuit]

This one's dog tired. Where did the 2 extra dogs come from?

 

[ArlyA]

We own three and was sitting the neighbors dog for the weekend. Neighbors is in bottom pic.

 

[ning]

If we're spending your money, I'd suggest one of those LiFePO4 battery "generators" and hook up some standard 110v LEDs.

You can get a "generator" for well under $1/Wh (300Wh $230, 2000Wh $800 40# weight) and anything you power with it would seamlessly migrate to a more permanent AC power setup later.

A 300Wh (say ~270Wh usable) would run three 60W-equivalent bulbs, 8W each, for 11h straight). Personally I'd go for the 2kW ; should be a very useful amount of power while will being luggable. With a 2kW, you could literally use a microwave oven, 5 minutes on high takes about 120Wh - not very much. Wouldn't advise using a microwave to make your tea though, that's what the wood stove is for

 

[dodge man]

When I was suggesting and led setup for light I was talking something like a battery operated camp type hanging lantern. We have one for power outages that has 4 D batteries. It runs a long time on them.

It sure looks like the fun has begun! Your dogs always seem to enjoy themselves. Some dogs just love being outside.

 

[ArlyA]

Of course we plan and hope, to return to camp for the weekend. Forecast looks good at this point. We will be looking at various power options and use the system he left along with our 2000 Honda gen unit. What I like about the generators is we can bring 2 gallon of fuel and know how much time we can get out of that. Batteries never last as long as advertised, in fact I have given up on aftermarket tool battery's that don't produce the 8amp hours they claim and most fail in a year or 2 of tool use anyway. I've returned to only using Makita tool battery's 5amp hour ones.

 

[EddieWalker]

All my cordless tools are Makita and those 5ah batteries are very impressive!!! Do you have the Makita LED light? We use it for power outages in the garage. We're in and out of it all the time, but don't want to run a cord in there for light while using the generator, so we just leave the Makita light on. I think it will last 8 hours, I'm not sure, it's never died on us. During the day we use the charger off of the generator to charge up the batteries again, and do it again the next night.

We used to power the house with a Honda 2000 generator during power outages, but now we use a 10,000 watt generator, which handles the fridge and a couple of window AC units so we can sleep at night. Its loud and it uses a lot more gas than the Honda.

 

[HawkinsHollow]

If we're spending your money, I'd suggest one of those LiFePO4 battery "generators" and hook up some standard 110v LEDs.

You can get a "generator" for well under $1/Wh (300Wh $230, 2000Wh $800 40# weight) and anything you power with it would seamlessly migrate to a more permanent AC power setup later.

A 300Wh (say ~270Wh usable) would run three 60W-equivalent bulbs, 8W each, for 11h straight). Personally I'd go for the 2kW ; should be a very useful amount of power while will being luggable. With a 2kW, you could literally use a microwave oven, 5 minutes on high takes about 120Wh - not very much. Wouldn't advise using a microwave to make your tea though, that's what the wood stove is for

I think one of those battery "generators" is not a bad idea. But they are not cheap. If the place is going to stay off grid why not just prepare to do 12v everything? It was my understanding that bringing in AC power was not going to happen so why prepare for that future that will never come?