What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11

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pseudonym wrote: Wed Dec 04, 2024 4:02 pm
pseudonym wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2024 9:17 am Just ordered the final battery expansion pack for my Jackery. 12 kwatts in total. (pics when it arrives)

And here we are:

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12 Kilowatts of home backup and 1.2 Kw of portable power for travel and camping
Oh that's a beauty ...
The one on the bottom with the 3 plug sockets ..wow ..
Do you link them or is it just one for each room
I do like a jackery :D
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GeeGee wrote: Wed Dec 04, 2024 4:12 pm
Oh that's a beauty ...
The one on the bottom with the 3 plug sockets ..wow ..
Do you link them or is it just one for each room
I do like a jackery :D
That's the base unit. Jackery Explorer 2000 plus

All power out goes through this.

The 5 other units are just Batteries, they are all linked to the base unit, each giving 2000 watts for a total of 12000 watts.
Two is one and one is none, but three is even better.
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pseudonym wrote: Wed Dec 04, 2024 4:02 pm
pseudonym wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2024 9:17 am Just ordered the final battery expansion pack for my Jackery. 12 kwatts in total. (pics when it arrives)

And here we are:

Image

12 Kilowatts of home backup and 1.2 Kw of portable power for travel and camping
That'll keep you going for a little while :mrgreen:
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong ;)

Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
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Yorkshire Andy wrote: Wed Dec 04, 2024 7:59 pm
That'll keep you going for a little while :mrgreen:
Hope so, now to find a sparky who will run surface mounted conduit and plug sockets.... :ugeek:
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pseudonym wrote: Wed Dec 04, 2024 4:02 pm
pseudonym wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2024 9:17 am Just ordered the final battery expansion pack for my Jackery. 12 kwatts in total. (pics when it arrives)

And here we are:

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12 Kilowatts of home backup and 1.2 Kw of portable power for travel and camping
That’s a lot of Jackery. 😂 You prefer battery back ups over a generator and do you have solar charging as well as keeping them topped up with mains?
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pseudonym wrote: Wed Dec 04, 2024 8:13 pm
Yorkshire Andy wrote: Wed Dec 04, 2024 7:59 pm
That'll keep you going for a little while :mrgreen:
Hope so, now to find a sparky who will run surface mounted conduit and plug sockets.... :ugeek:

What you doing 4x sockets and 4x plugs to plug it into the jackery? Each socket off a plug ?
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong ;)

Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
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DustyDog wrote: Sat Dec 07, 2024 11:17 am That’s a lot of Jackery. 😂 You prefer battery back ups over a generator and do you have solar charging as well as keeping them topped up with mains?
Generator is noisy and I'd have neighbours asking to store stuff or borrow one or people willing to steal them.

I have solar but require more so mains top up at off peak.
Two is one and one is none, but three is even better.
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Yorkshire Andy wrote: Sat Dec 07, 2024 11:26 am
What you doing 4x sockets and 4x plugs to plug it into the jackery? Each socket off a plug ?
That's my thinking Andy. Off of 3 on the Jackery though

1. Fridge

2. Microwave /Induction hob

3. Laptop

USB sockets for phone charging and ceiling lighting (8w bulbs)

I could of course just run extension cords but slips trips and falls now hurt a lot more :mrgreen:
Two is one and one is none, but three is even better.
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pseudonym wrote: Sun Dec 08, 2024 1:27 am
Yorkshire Andy wrote: Sat Dec 07, 2024 11:26 am
What you doing 4x sockets and 4x plugs to plug it into the jackery? Each socket off a plug ?
That's my thinking Andy. Off of 3 on the Jackery though

1. Fridge

2. Microwave /Induction hob

3. Laptop

USB sockets for phone charging and ceiling lighting (8w bulbs)

I could of course just run extension cords but slips trips and falls now hurt a lot more :mrgreen:
Ok I’ve been following all this with great interest (we don’t have a generator and still debating the solar options etc) and I’ve, just about, managed to keep up with this but you lost me at ceiling lighting from USB sockets …?
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mcprepper wrote: Sun Dec 08, 2024 9:29 am
pseudonym wrote: Sun Dec 08, 2024 1:27 am
Yorkshire Andy wrote: Sat Dec 07, 2024 11:26 am
What you doing 4x sockets and 4x plugs to plug it into the jackery? Each socket off a plug ?
That's my thinking Andy. Off of 3 on the Jackery though

1. Fridge

2. Microwave /Induction hob

3. Laptop

USB sockets for phone charging and ceiling lighting (8w bulbs)

I could of course just run extension cords but slips trips and falls now hurt a lot more :mrgreen:



Ok I’ve been following all this with great interest (we don’t have a generator and still debating the solar options etc) and I’ve, just about, managed to keep up with this but you lost me at ceiling lighting from USB sockets …?


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There's a few options most simple is a very small "net curtain hook" screwed into the ceiling centre another near to the wall.. hook light on central hook use a usb A extension cable to turn light then hook cable close to the wall and down to the power station/ bank
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong ;)

Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine