Yes I think it’s a great idea to read up on anything to do with cryptocurrencies before getting involved/converting fiat currency to cryptocurrency @SmilingGecko 🌺🙂
even reading up about storage and security around your currencies, as well the ethical nature (or not) of various exchange and trading platforms. If you know them well and are comfortable with them (storage and trade/exchanges) that goes a long way towards how you trade and store your crypto.
some are better than others, so good research from reputable sources is highly recommended 😊🌺
ah, that makes sense regarding the dehydrated veggies!
I haven’t ever done it before, but I was thinking to dehydrate bananas for a crunchy snack, without the preservatives that often come with store-bought items 🌺🙂
Ok, regarding power, I have a solar photovoltaic panel and backup battery system here, which is linked to the grid via a digital multimeter (power box) on the side of my house.
my PV/battery coordination is handled by a very good SunGrow Chinese inverter (robust, long lasting, and cheaper), and the direction of flow in terms of pricing (cost per unit from the grid/feed in tariff, according to peak and off peak timeframes) is managed by a Reposit smart box (so, when I have heaps of power, Reposit throws tons at the grid, then when I am short in production, Reposit takes it from the grid in the most economical way while using my storage from the battery..eg, during peak time, uses all my own power from the panels, and my battery, without drawing expensive power, and when the cost comes down, takes power from the grid, to charge my battery for the night on the days when my panels aren’t producing huge power - like on rainy days).
having said that, I don’t have a generator at the moment, however I have been looking at tri-fuel generators, which run on propane, natural gas, and gasoline…
I have gas here, so I could run a gennie tapped to the bbq outlet outside, if I ever had the inverter go down, when there is no power from the grid, to provide power (if inverter is out of service, I can’t draw power off the battery because the inverter is the big coordinator of what goes where, while Reposit moves power sources based on costs and can’t work without having the big central station coordinating movement, which is the inverter). The digital multimeter, by the way, just records movement for the electricity supplier so they know which direction power is moving (are they selling or buying from me at any given moment), and how much, in terms of billing. That also talks to the local node (transformer) which tells my multimeter to limit power to the grid on sunny days because it can’t handle how much raw power I am producing 😉).
ok, getting back to a gennie… I was thinking to get a smart generator that can integrate with my inverter (the central station of the entire system), so if I lose grid, lose panels, lose battery, it’ll start the gennie as long as it’s plugged in to the gas supply for fuel, and tada - power only flashes off for a few seconds before it starting up and flowing from the gennie to the inverter, through the house, powered by gas.
due to the second law of thermodynamics, a byproduct of fuel combustion is heat, so I was wondering where I should place the generator, to capture the heat generated from it, because if power is lost and the gennie is on, if it is inside the house with some sort of exhaust to outside, which would radiate heat prior to exhaust expulsion outside, then I could use it to also heat the room, considering my heating system is also electric - the thermal radiant heat would reduce electricity demand by the reverse cycle heating system 🙂
like having one of those fireplaces that have a long chimney where much of the hot waste gas going up the chimney is what emits radiant heat into the room…except I would have a lovely gas generator there in place of a fireplace. If it is well sound insulated, I wouldn’t mind the background noise 🙂
Anyway, a tri-fuel generator is what might be worth looking in to, and then the amount of automation you need (ie: do you need it to start as a UPS, or are you happy to go turn the key outside, once you lose power - keeping in mind that if you’re asleep, you may not notice a loss of power for some hours, or if you’re away and need to have uninterrupted power supply for food storage/fridge/freezer, or pets/fish tank, etc).
I hope that is helpful in some way? 💜🌺🙂
and thank you so much for the link - that was very interesting regarding the eclipse! 🙂🌺
I hope you have a lovely afternoon 🤗🌺🦩💜
forgot to say, that with a generator, having it bypass the entire system I have would be a safety I would have in place, so if my entire system goes down, and the grid loses power, I could go and start the generator on gas, and it would power the house regardless of the inverter - the inverter would only be linked to the generator to start it if it needed it and was still operational (ie: no sun, flat battery, and grid is down, but inverter is working). Hope that makes sense, and is also helpful 🌺🙂
