Questions for My Mentor

(1) Given my loose definitions of (currently) 24 applications, is 12vDC a reasonable (not optimal) route to take?

(2) What other voltages are readily available? Of these which would you recommend and why?

(3) I think of a reservoir of energy as a numer of “watts”. It should make no difference to me how I fill the reservoir (in terms of watts, volts, amps etc) as long as I can draw on it at 12vDC (or the chosen voltage)

(4) What is involved in drawing a different voltage from a reservoir? Suppose a 12vDC outlet but a requirement for 24vDC, 15vAC and 9vDC. Also phone/laptop chargers.

(5) What is involved in having a control panel on a laptop, perhaps by WiFi, power remaining, hourly log of charging/discharging, ability to isolate circuits such as “driveway cables” between April and October

(6) Outline a procedure that allows ME to splice in one or more extra (car?) batteries as they become available.

(7) What is involved in splicing in a variety of batteries (car, forklift, diesel tractor, …)

(8) Provide top-of-head estimates for each application.

(9) How do we build the 12vDC house circuit? A bus running around the exterioe wall of the house?

(10) I will want different outlets for the 12vDC. What do you recommend and why?

(11) What data would satisfy you as “a profile of my electrical life style using mains power”

(12) Itemised list of all parts and top of head figure for a complete but basic installation of vane. Generator, cabling, reservoir and jug and light fittings, switches, plugs, sockets etc. That is “How much to get this thing off the ground?”

(13) What minimal detail do you require for specifications of any one of the applications?

(14) Which applications need extensive specifications?

(15) Pros and Cons: Shed mounted versus House mounted for my specific property?

(16) Access to the reservoir: loft-mounted probably not a good idea?

(17) What spacing/area requirements for a single car battery? 5? 10? 20? 50?

(18) Assuming new car batteries, give a rough figure for their expected life for a given Kw/month usage rate. (We can get a first approximation for this KW/Month from the early specifications of each application)

(19) What is involved in adding extra vanes to increase energy supply to the reservoir. (Have I the skills to add vanes as time and monery permits?)

(20) Start thinking about a tri-fold flyer that outlines the system and appeals to prospective clients of yours.

(21) How would you classify my appliactions into “essential” and “opportune”?

(22) What data collection methods are available to us? Ideally I would log energy use for each application from some sort of inline circuit, but how would the system know that I had plugged in the jug instead of the blanket?

(23) How often do batteries need to be examined/replenished with electrolyte?

(24) Can I isoalte essentyial circuits, such as “distillation of elecrtrolyte” so that I always have a supply?

(25) Let us build an exhaustive list of 12vDC appliances. This will be different from a “list of applications” if only because a heater can function as a clothes-dryer, a dehydrator, a room warmer, …

(26) can I automate e.g. distillation whenevr the resevoir rises above a threshold level?

(27) Can I inhiobit applications (e.g. driveay cables) whenebver energy drops below a level?

(28) Can I assign a threshold for each application?

(29) can I charge my resevoir from the mains when I am warned of a scheduled outage or an approaching blizzard?

(30) I want timers for some applications. If it takes two hours to distaill a litre of water I want to set the distillation timer to two hours and then walk away.

(31) Define a formula that maps an application’s wattage to units of energy. That is, If I decide to up my beverages from four to eight a day, how many more car-batteries might I need.

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