Thinking about disaster preparedness. There are a million lists — I've rarely seen one include a simple car battery & inverter for power.
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Replying to @starsandrobots
my experience with an e-scooter that used them is that lead acids are really easy to ruin if you don’t keep them charged
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Replying to @avibryant
Right! Better if left on a trickle charger/battery tender?
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Replying to @starsandrobots
for sure - maybe this is being too picky, but my idealized disaster kit is shelf-stable, in a box somewhere, not plugged in.
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Replying to @starsandrobots @avibryant
I asked a fellow electrical engineer pal about this last night who's done work mostly in developing world solar -
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Replying to @starsandrobots @avibryant
He was saying that after Haiyan the satellite photos showed darkness in cities, lights in rural towns - wired exactly this way
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yeah, I’m 1000x more disaster prepared living out here than when I was in the city; yay for frequent minor disasters.
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