Alternate Energy 4, solar, crisis peak oil off grid gas 2012

In this short video series we will explore the basics of setting up an alternate energy system. What each component does, how it functions and it's place in an off grid system. Designed specifically for the homesteader or survivalist, this video is designed to help get you started on your road to energy independence!

The system shown runs a house approximately 1,500 sq. feet plus intermittant lighting and tool use on a couple of outbuildings. The house uses LP gas for water heater and cook stove. Everything else except AC is ran off this system. Total cost of the system show was under $20K with the bulk of it purchased in 1998 and 1999. Batteries have been replaced one time at the cost of $3K for the changeout of 20 batteries.

No matter what your preparing for: nuclear war, terrorism, economic collapse, market crash, food shortages, famine, etc. Having a working Alternate energy system can help greatly around your homestead or survival retreat.

There is one section of one of the videos that has poor lighting, this could not be helped. If your looking for Spielberg cinematography, you came to the wrong place! We know the lighting is bad in that part, no need for immature comments regarding this. If you don't like, don't watch!

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Alternate Energy 4

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[MegaAlfie007]

Great System

Gotta Love those Zantrex Products

Is It a 12 volt system or 24 volt system ?

Al

[SurvivalReport]

@MegaAlfie007 This one is 24 volts. Later parts show a 12 volt system also. 

[M0LONLABE]

Thanks for sharing ... What brand of batteries are they? Brand names on the controller and inverter?

[SurvivalReport]

Trojan L16's on the batts. Controllers are C40's and Inverter is 4024, both Trace, now called Xantrex.

[M0LONLABE]

Are the L16's better than the T104's?

[SurvivalReport]

Not familiar with the 104's?? We use the 105's on the energy system at the hunt camp (see later videos), and they do very well. Pushing 4 years on one set of T105's, but they see intermittent use (hunt camp).

[edstar83]

Great Information! thanks for sharing.

[speedfreakian2]

It's nice to see somebody else had the same idea as I did! I just finished wiring my generator to my house, and I wired my house. the solar system will come slowly as the money comes.

[snakecharmer133]

For people who have the money you should look into a "Universal Power Supply" UPS. on some pages you can calulate how long the system will last when the batteries are fully charged. You could charge the system with sunpower for a week to use the power for some energy consuming activity.

[SurvivalReport]

12 volt suffers heavily from line losses so wiring runs usually need to be fairly short. The loss is greatly decreased with 24. Usually 12 volt is used for smaller system, 24 for medium, 48 for larger. Sorry for the simple answer, wanted to make it easy to understand. Robert