Well woke up to a beeping sound in the living room this morning. I have a driveway alarm that the deer will set off from time to time but this beep was different. This all of course happens in a few seconds and I realize it's mighty dark in my room. I quickly put things together that the power is out. I keep a rechargeable flashlight on my nightstand grab that and head for the living room. Just an FYI backup battery power units beep . Anyway my indoor/outdoor thermometer also has a battery backup and is reading 15 degrees outside . Of course yall know what coming next.. it's nice and warm with a wood stove and some dry oak. Have a good day everyone and keep hoarding!
I still want to put a D.C. blower motor in my stove. A D.C moter with a converter that I can switch back and forth between 110 converted to 12v. d.c. and to straight 12 volt off a battery bank. Ideally, it would also have solar panels to keep the batteries charged. Problem is that I was absent that day when we covered such subjects in science and shop class. I feel so inadequate. I'm never really sure which end of the screw driver you use to beat the nails in with! Nuff said.
You're doing it wrong. A nice pair of Channel locks works much better than a screwdriver, although a Wonderbar is at times also useful in that scenario.
I planned for years prior to getting my stove. Best bet is to have a plan together not only just having wood. Tools, storage area and ideally a wood shed can all be done before the stove.
I can relate on with this lol. Anker makes a battery backup called the powerhouse I want to try for the stove fan.
Just one more big reason why I love the Fireview with its radiant heat; I need no fan!!! If power goes out, we don't notice any difference in the amount of heat. It was zero here this morning but it got back up to the freeze/thaw point this afternoon. Looks like we'll be staying up here for a while again. Good. I would not be disappointed if it never got below 30 again this winter....but am smart enough to know that is not going to happen. Tis okay I guess. We have plenty of firewood.
I am trying to use that approach and have about 1.5 cords seasoning but have yet to move into my place with a wood stove in it. I was just pondering where I would put my wood pile and not coming up with much. I want to start moving my wood ahead of time to my new home building lot but there is no place that suggests itself to me when I consider it, without being too far from that new house.
Yep I hear ya on the power outage. We lost power last year for about 20 hours and the house was warm and comfy. This year I bought a 5000 watt DC converter and have 4 batteries on it. I did a test run the other day with the big screen TV and Dish. I ran it about 2.5 hours and the batteries were still holding at 12.5 volts without any charging. My plan is to run the generator to keep the batteries charged up and to keep the freezer going. The reason for the inverter is sensitive electronics like TV's can be damaged if run on a non inverter generator. But inverter Generators are very expensive and since I already had a generator and the batteries I went the cheap route.
You're already ahead of most who get the stove and then worry about the wood lol. I have my stacks close enough I can hear them dry from the bed. I actually cleared a spot of trees to make room for them.
Heck yeah! I just risk running my old cheap generator when I need to. I did finally get a plug on the side of the house so I can run everything without cords.
The generators I have I got for free when I repaired another one for a person. They had two generators and I repaired one and they gave me the other one that was not working and I have it working now. So I am not into this for a lot of money. I like the idea of not running cords. A future project.
Back in 1982, my first year here. I cut my wood out back and had my very first stacks out by the woods 150' from the house. Seemed like a good place to put them. I soon realized that with 4' of snow that wood seemed like it was in Nebraska. The next year, and from then on, the stacks are close by the house.
I have one stack on my deck. That's my stove feeder stack. The main inventory is about 100 feet away. I just snow blow a path to my stacks, which is by my compost bins, and a screen house that's used year round for card playing with the guys. Sent from my XT1030 using Tapatalk
When my wood was way out back in "82", I didn't have a snowblower back then. I post holed out out there and back, over and over. Ugh.
Being able to do things yourself seems to be the only way I can get certain things done. I reckon it's a champagne taste on a beer budget kinda deal . I have an interlock kit installed in my panel box for the generator. It's a simple metal plate that forces you to shut the main power off before you can engage the breaker for the generator. What I like about it so much is it gives me the ability to run whatever I want or the generator can handle in the box. To my understanding if you get a transfer box you can only run set number of things you have hooked to it. The interlock is also cheaper and meets code in my area ymmv.
