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@DaftFader 547253 wrote:

Nice idea man, a guy I work for has solar panels on his caravan for when he goes for camping trips. Are you going to do what Ritchy D (iirc it was him) did and have a back up genny for emergencies? I was well impressed with his christmas light array, especialy considering it was all self sufficient power!

I had considered this but a genset is a noisy thing to be starting up in the back garden of a house on a urban estate. The intention I had was rather than become dependent on the feed in tarrifs which can and do change at the whim of the Governments in power was to generate enough power locally that would be used inside my house for more critical equipment, and if required (such as in winter) trickle charging the batteries via the UK Power Networks mains supply.

I do not hoard a particularly great quantity of food in the freezer as the local shops are within walking distance and I work in a rural area and know a fair few farmers, so fresh food would not be that hard to get.

In any case if the estate was off supply long enough to need one I’d probably end up diverting some of the power to set up up a “UN style multi species feeding and watering station” in the street along with one of my neighbours (this Chinese dude who would be about my dads age, in his youth he worked for the Post Office in his country and then transferred to UK at Adastral Park, although he has now retired he still proudly wears his old style BT uniform jacket even at the shops. Where I live there is actually a fairly good sense of community and folk do help each other out when there are problems…….