*Great idea for a topic near and dear to
my heart Eric. I live in a rural area
at the end of a dead end road, at the
end of the powerline and said powerline
is serviced by a REMC. Needless to say,
the power service isn't always stellar.
Longest outage so far has been five and
a half weeks. Several power blips
almost weekly and shorter outages of one
to three days or three to five days are
more familiar than they should be.*
*I'm not as familiar with USB devices as
you are as I don't have a laptop or
tablet or cellphone as I live in a dead
zone for cellphones. I do have a ton
and a half of NiMH rechargeables, mostly
Tenergy brand. Triple A, double A, C, D
and nine volt. I have three electric
chargers and six or seven solar
chargers. Even C.Crane sells an
inexpensive solar charger in the twenty
to thirty dollar range. All the clocks
in the house but one are now battery
powered. Have several battery powered
fans in two sizes. O2Cool brand from
Amazon. Pencil sharpener is battery
powered. More radios than I can count
are battery powered. Several
flashlights and lanterns are battery
powered. Before the digital debacle I
even used a little battery powered TV
during outages. Tape players, CD
players are all battery powered.
Kerosene heater for power outages in
winter. Driveway alarm is battery
powered, weather unit is battery powered
and I'm sure after this message is sent
I'll remember other things that are
battery powered. I have so many things
battery powered I don't think of them as
unusual. Several different types of
headlamps. The remote for the VCR and
the remote for the decoder box for the
TV use rechargeable batteries also.*
* John*
On 3/11/2018 10:16 AM, Eric A. Cottrell
wrote:
Hello,
The last Fest caused me to focus more
on Emergency Power. The recent storms
continue to cause Power Outages. Maybe
portable power will be the subject of
a talk next year?
My past focus was more toward
operating radios disconnected from the
AC mains. I have a couple of
flashlights at home to handle power
outages. I also have an old
fluorescent light camp lantern for an
area light. There are a number of
camping items that can be used for
emergencies, like small pop-up LED
lanterns. I am thinking of getting a
couple of small pop-up LED lanterns
that I could put in the suitcase and
keep around for emergencies.
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