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At 1.92 meters, the tower is now slightly taller than I am. BYD info screen, 7 instead of previously 5 modules

Everything seems to be working as expected and I only had to switch mains power off for 10 minutes.

At 1.92 meters, the tower is now slightly taller than I am. [BYD info screen, 7 instead of previously 5 modules](https://poal.co/static/images/e8c5d9e5e5aee6e6.png) Everything seems to be working as expected and I only had to switch mains power off for 10 minutes.
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I've looked into going solar multiple times over the last 5 years, but I always conclude that the cost benefit isn't quite there yet. There is still battery tech emerging as well and thats the large part of the cost of a system.

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It's been a financial net negative for sure but that was never the objective. What I wanted to achieve was: - Have a week+ of emergency power in a blackout situation. - Give as little as possible to the "power jews", as I like to call the suppliers.

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I've weighed that in consideration as well, but for the time being I've settled for a generator. Next objective is to get and inlet port installed on my housr and buy a power station to avoid potentially having to run said generator overnight.

As of the time being power outages are very rare and only last 4-8 hours typically, although the last icestorm had me out for nearly 24 hours.

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Very cool. If your power goes out how long can you run your home off that?

Are those Wera wrenches I see there? How do you like those? I've been looking at them for a while.

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Depends. During winter I'd only run the oil heating and maybe one freezer. With that I reckon a week with no solar power to speak of.

In summer maybe 10 days, I guess.

Re. wrenches: Yes they are made by Wera. It was a buy once, cry once deal but I have no ragrets :)

There's still a few quality 'Made in Germany' products you can buy. Tools, clothing, some miscellaneous stuff. If they're available, I buy those and fuck the extra shekels.

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Now get some solar panels and you can go low-power mode off-grid.

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Oh there's some panels, just not enough, as far as I'm concerned. Roof solar is the last piece of the puzzle. Everything else is in place and then some.

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Knipex wrenches/pliers are made in Germany and are great.

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Yup. They make up 95 percent of what I have. Gedore is good too.

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Wow 10 days that's amazing. I assumed that those battery banks only lasted for a matter of hours.

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Only with strict conservation of power and a bit of sunshine but yes. On the other hand, it's been an investment of about $15k, not counting labor, which I all did myself.