Showing posts with label off the grid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label off the grid. Show all posts

Friday, March 20, 2009

Kill-A-Watt


Introducing the Kill-A-Watt. A handy dandy device that monitors your electricity usage and tells you how much power all the stuff in your house is using.

This thing is kinda cool. I bought one because I would like to know how many amps, volts, and watts all my electrical things are taking up, so I could tell if I could use them with my 'free solar electricity' grid.

You just plug this device into the wall, then plug whatever appliance you want to test into it, and it gives you a readout of amps, watts, volts, hertz, and kilowatts usage. I've been surprised at how little or how much things use up in the house. A load of clothes in the washer only costs about 5 cents to do. Our fridge costs about 33 cents a day to run, sound cheap .. but that's 10 bucks a month. Then again, making a piece of toast costs less than a penny.

I haven't had it long enough to test out a bunch of stuff yet, but I'll say more after I get some testing time in. I can't wait to see how much power it takes to run my new 'time machine' I'm working on!! If your interested in one, I don't think you'll find this device in your town as I looked with no luck. But for only 20 bucks or so, you can easily find one on the internet.

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Todays RBV: Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.


That's nice, the Lord creates evil. This whole religion thing is so F'-ed up it's no wonder nobody can agree on what the hell it means!!

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Operation Free Electricity






I've been busy lately working on a project to obtain free electricity. This is just one of many things I will be doing in the future to become self sufficient and eventually 'off the grid'.


This is my solar panel:




This is my solar control module:



This is my power inverter:







This is my 12 Volt deep cycle battery:





Put all this together and I can power a computer, or lights, or coffee maker, or vacuum, or whatever. And of course as the batteries run low, the solar panel is drawing current in from the sun to recharge them. GENIUS!!!!! And you guys all pay somebody to give you electricity ... SILLY!!!!!

Soon I shall have wind turbines and solar panels to power the entire house. I'll get my water from natural springs in the ground, I'll heat my house with wood, eat food from the garden, fruit from My trees and bushes, and then My personal empire shall be complete!!!!! And it should only take Me another few years to figure out how to make it all work. Of course by then, the world will end and it will all be for nothing, but hey, I had fun trying.

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Todays RBV: Acts 5:29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.


WHY do we have to worship and obey ANYONE ... man or God??? Why can't we all just be rational, intelligent, people who's basic rule is "Put yourself in the other persons shoes", in other words, how would You feel if you were Him?

It just seems a hell-of-a-lot easier to Me!