[Hidden-tech] Office class generator

[Matt Lampiasi]

Hi

I use solar. It's not cheap and it's not financially practical to build a large system of say 10,000 watts as you stated. That seems like way overkill for an office unless you have electric heat. you didn't say what you need to power though (did you?).  I have about 1000 watts of panels, a large battery bank and a 2000 watt pure sine wave inverter. can run pretty much anything in the house, just not everything at once. 

One huge benefit of off grid (or hybrid battery backup grid connected) solar as a "generator" is that you CAN and would want to run things off of it even when you have grid power ;) - saves you electric costs and reduces the amount of fossil fuel burning electricity you need from the grid.
 
My home office runs on this system all year long. desktop computer, laptop and phone charging, network storage, a linux file server also running florenceit.net, lights, etc...

when we lost power i plugged my cable modem into my solar thinking i'd be all set,  but the internet service wasn't working, so i still had to leave town to find internet :( (had servers to maintain). super bummer. 


Best,

Matt Lampiasi
florenceit.net 

On Nov 8, 2011, at 12:00 PM, hidden-discuss-request at lists.hidden-tech.net wrote:

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> Hi David,
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> As I understand it, backup generators for computers/servers have special
> needs because the power output of a regular house generator tends to be
> "dirty" when compared to over the wires power in that the sin wave (I
> think...sounds good at least) oscillates more, or is more variable.
> 
> It would probably be worthwhile talking to a commercial generator
> installer.

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