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Re: Power is out. (SoCal Fires)
Reply #75 –
As much as electric cars are a powerful and silent luxury now, I wonder how California will fare when there are many more of them on the road, replacing internal combustion driven automobiles.  After all, in addition to outages caused by wildfires, southern California has brownouts and rolling blackouts on hot days simply caused by people running their air conditioners.  What will happen when millions more electric vehicles are charged every evening, drawing off the grid?

Rooftop solar and power wall battery systems will be even more important in the foreseeable future.

Harold
2014 27 MB
Towd: Either the Jeep Wrangler or trailer containing the BMW R1200GS and 2 E-bicycles
Happy wife=Happy life
Re: Power is out. (SoCal Fires)
Reply #76 –
IMO,  the move toward ZEV is 'urbocenteric' and not completely thought thru.  Rural Counties routinely get short shrift in California anyway, and El Dorado County is no exception.  Outside of a corridor along US 50,  population is sparse with utilities that go out for days or weeks in rain, snow, wind, or heat events.  Long distances and questionable utilities make ZEV trucks for your ranch a fairy tale - more Grimm Bros than Disney
Joel & Terry Wiley
dog Zeke
2013  31 IB   Orwan   / 2011 CRV Tow'd LWEROVE
 
Re: Power is out. (SoCal Fires)
Reply #77 –
Sorry Greg - I sleepily missed your post was 3 yrs old! Looks like you are set. Hopefully we'll be getting up to our cabin more soon, but it hasn't happened yet! Maybe later this fall.

Steve
2004 FL
2013 Honda Fit
Re: Power is out. (SoCal Fires)
Reply #78 –
Quote from: Steve  - 
Sorry Greg - I sleepily missed your post was 3 yrs old! Looks like you are set.

That's ok, we might do a solar/battery system anyway since I believe in redundancy!   ;)
Disclaimer: photo is not me, just another good looking guy  :D

Greg & Victoria
2017 Mid-Bath  “Nocona” towing a manual 2015 Forester
Previously a 1985 TK
SKP #61264
Re: Power is out. (SoCal Fires)
Reply #79 –
Actually, the battery-backup method has two advantages - silent and instantaneous. Many may switchover before your clocks notice. In general, systems can be usually set up also to switch from battery backup to generator as the batteries get low.

BTW, our transfer switch individually switches any or all of 10 circuits. Our cabin has 11 - the garbage disposal. when we use the generator, we switch all ten circuits and turn on the garbage disposal. When we hear it start up, we know power is back. Crude, but it works!

Steve
2004 FL
2013 Honda Fit