Solar Powered Generators

[Sal Collaziano]

Just noting before somebody yells at me that is being posted in the community LOUNGE - where off-topic, non-Buick related messages go...

I was kept awake last night thinking about this... Gone are the days where most people have family photo albums... What if there were an EMP event (electromagnetic pulse) and all our connected electronics were rendered useless? Maybe some of you still have all your most precious photos in print - but I don't. And I have a feeling many others don't either.

Now that we pretty much all carry a camera in our pocket, we take more pictures than ever. Maybe not YOU, per se, but many people... My photos reside on my desktop computer (which is connected to electric all the time) and a notebook computer (they used to be called laptops before somebody burned their legs and sued). So my photos should be safe on the notebook computer.

Now comes the tin foil hat stuff... What if there was never power again? The "SHTF" scenario... This got me thinking that I'd like to get a solar powered generator for this and maybe a few other things. Not only photos, but I have so much information on my computer(s) and not many hard copies of it. What if I need to access this information without electric?...

So I did some searching and found a few solar powered generators - and I'm thinking of buying one of them. Does anyone ever think of stuff like this or am I just an oddball? Here's my list: $219 300 watts | $1599 2400 watts | $799 1000 watts | $399 500 watts

 

[ulycyc]

Those are really Ion battery packs like you use to jump your car. They are great but limited. They need to be recharged with a standard house electric outlet or your running car cigarette plug. The solar panel they advertise is really a sun powered trinkle charger and takes a week to recharge a 1000 watts. .If you had a bank of solar panels on your roof or a wind turbine generator that would do it in few hours. I have a few small ones (500watt) I use as a backup for my computers and router/wifi. For a real backup I have a 4500watt inverter gas generator for the house. I live 1000feet from the ocean and hurricane sandy knocked out my power and the rest of my utilities for 2 months. My setup helped me through it.