Re: Uninterruotable farmhouse lighting
Thanks for your reply - glad you are agreeing to my line of thinking! I cannot see that the upfront costs should be excessively high?? Its considerably cheaper than a generator (although much more limited). I think I did give an indication of minimum amount of lamps etc. in my OP:
I would lean towards the 12V to inverter side of things if lighting is a critical element in your farm. However, the upfront costs associated with it is very high.
Can you give some extra information on your farm size, the amount of lamps that *MUST* stay lit during an outage, etc, and whether those lamps are incandescent or florescent. This way we have some idea of your intended load.
If rolling outages are very often, I would invest in something more than just a genny with a yanker and wheels, more along the lines of a standby genny permanently installed on your farm with a power transfer switch. They are usually liquid or air cooled and runs on either propane or gas. Generac, Centurion, and Briggs & Stratton comes to mind
Thanks for your reply - glad you are agreeing to my line of thinking! I cannot see that the upfront costs should be excessively high?? Its considerably cheaper than a generator (although much more limited). I think I did give an indication of minimum amount of lamps etc. in my OP:
Lights are all fluorescent (CFL) as mentioned....I worked on a maximum simultaneous use of only 6 lights for about 5 hours a day x 18W = 540 Watt Hr./day. I plan to replace the kitchen light with 2 x 18W fluorescent LED tubes and budget for another 4 hour per day usage of those - bringing my total Watt Hr./day up to 684.