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Originally Posted by Uphillputt330
Interested in hearing from anyone who has installed a house, or partial house, battery as a electricity backup.
I don’t think I’m interested in solar panels (pay off is too long even with incentives). Had a gas powered Generac generator up north that ran off natural gas and kicked in automatically when power went off — but don’t have access to natural gas in our village and don’t want to go the propane route.
I understand that power doesn’t go out very often here but I store some important medicine in our refrigerator and need to protect.
Was thinking that the batteries (Tesla, Panasonic, Enpulse, Generac) that store power from solar might be the answer. Would need to charge from our electric line instead of solar panels. Anyone have any experience with this sort of backup? If so, any input regarding cost, installation, etc would be welcomed. Thanks
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Buy two or three styrofoam coolers sized so one fits inside the other. Buy some of those gel packs you can keep in your refrigerator and use for camping. If the electricity goes out, put the gel packs in the smallest cooler and put the meds on a small towel on top and close up the coolers. If you keep them closed except for a few seconds at a time to take out the meds, your meds will stay cool for a week, probably. This might cost you $50 total. My next door neighbor gets a weekly shipment of food from some company. It comes in a styrofoam cooler with frozen gel packs inside and gets shipped to him from far away. The sizes vary. He just throws away these coolers every week. Find someone who does that and you can do this project for free. This is much easier and cheaper than buying an extra refrigerator and batteries and a generator.