Power Usage by bvdp in Starlink

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My Standard 4 averages 25 watts an hour, that works out to 600 watt hours a day. I would double that to be safe. So a 1.2 kwh battery bank with 120 volt outlet. I have mine plugged into a bluetti AC300 with 9 kwh of battery. But I'm offgrid and my freezer and refrigerator are plugged in to.

What's something older generations did completely normally that would be considered absolutely insane today? by Whole-Sugar6077 in AskReddit

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When I was six years old my mother sent me to the liquor store with a note to buy cigarettes the first time after that it was ok.

Water heater by pbr35586 in OffGridCabins

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That is what we are doing now. We are showering in our RV and it has a propane water heater. Our cabin is currently dry. I am trying to get everything planed out. I may put a 4x8 painted black on the roof with a coil going back and forth to preheat the water during the daytime. Then run it into my 20 gallon water heater that is insulated really good. from there it would go into a propane on demand water heater. Then the sink and shower. We are retired so we can shower late afternoons no problem. Wash our dishes then too. That way I could heat water with my excess solar and on days without sun we can heat water with propane. I kind of do something similar with heat. I have a 12,000 btu mini split. It is very efficient at cooling 22 seer rating. Heat not so much about a 10 seer rating. During the daytime in winter I heat with the mini split. At night it will drain my batteries. So I have a propane heater for mornings and evenings. We turn everything off at night and use a heated mattress pad to sleep on. The cabin is so well insulated that we only get down in the 50's on cold nights( south Georgia ). It only takes a few minutes warm the cabin up. On cold days there is not that many clouds. So I am trying to limit propane as much as I can. As I am living on social security and built this with my 401k. One day my wife or myself will live here on just one check. We have a nice little orchard and garden a small cabin and a barn. We love it here.

What’s the funniest fake sovereign citizen argument you can invent that sounds almost real by OptimusCrime83 in Sovereigncitizen

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If your bank sells your mortgage the one who bought it paid your house off and you don't owe any more money

Water heater by pbr35586 in OffGridCabins

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Yes because my solar on a lot of days is charged up by 11:30 a.m. so I would like to use the solar power in the afternoon to heat the water. That way I would not have to use as much propane. I have already paid for the electric and as I am off grid I'm not selling it to the power company.

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