I'm using the 36V version 18' bar... and it works just fine as a petrol replacement for an off-grid homestead. Get the plastic box because the chain oil goes everywhere otherwise...
Thanks for the video. Great little saw for what it is designed for more videos like this. Please, have a look at martijn doolard off grid videos they light their fires from the top.
Looks like a great little saw. Seemed to go through the battery quite quickly although you did say it wasn't fully charged. How long will the saw last though?
With the reviews I have seen the saw is a great little saw that cuts a lot of wood. As for the run time of the battery I haven't used it enough to determine how long it will last. I have only cut two wheel barrow loads of the pine pallets which is easy to cut. I guess it will depend on the battery Ah capacity, hardness of the wood and how sharp the chain is. I will do another review on it once I have used it for a while and have a better idea how it preforms.
That bottom row of solar panels looked end of life mate. Should have taken me up on my free offer of the 5-year-old 3 kw panels I had sitting here. O well they have gone to another good home 130ks south of me now. Bloody cold today, for sure.
Na that's fine, it's good to see them being used by someone that needs some panels. I am not to worried about the bottom row of panels for now as they are running the 24 volt system which is testing those two Kings batteries. I think I bought those panels new back around 2009 - 2010 if I remember, so yeah they are getting tired. My 48 volt system is the main system that needs to be working well as it runs the main power in my little cabin..... lights, smoke alarm, fridge and freezer, hot water and so on. The 24 volt system is a play system as is my 12 volt system, feeding my solar addiction 🤣 Yes cold day today and waiting on some more rain. I wanna get all my tanks full by the end of the rainy season, well that's the plan 🌧
It was interesting to learn how head pressure works. I'd still like to see more though. What ya gonna build the stand out of that will hold up your dunny drum? Wood? I hope it works out.
Probably make it out of treated pine (termite proof) The blue drum holds 200 liters of water plus the drum weight it's self which is not heavy at all. So in total the weight on the stand will be a little over 200 kg when the drum is full. Currently my toilet does refill up with water, just very slow (about 10 - 15 minutes) so once I increase the height of the barrel that will increase water pressure in the water line and give me more pressure at the filler valve in the toilet.
Question... @3:31, wouldn't it be harder on the 'house tank pump' to fill up the garden tank from the bottom? Wouldn't the more water the garden tank have, the more back pressure fighting against the pump? Why not fill the garden tank from the top like you do with the little house water tank? It obviously looks like the pump isn't having ant trouble, but I wonder if you'll save more power over time, or extend the life of your pump if you filled the garden tank from the top down. Or am I wrong?
well no in fact it is easier. If you fill it from the top, the pump will have to lift the water all the way to the top before it goes into the tank Vs only pushing it to the level the tank is currently at, for example half full. It is call head pressure which is the amount of pressure needed for water to be lifted up one meter in height. One meter of head is equal to 1.42 psi of pressure. If the tank is two meters high and only half full then it only needs 1 meter of head pressure (1.42 psi) if filled from the bottom Vs needing two meters of head pressure (2.84 psi) to pump the water all the way to the top before it enters the tank. The weight of the water in the tank is different and is the force on the tank floor and is transferred into the ground it sits on, and not down the pipe the water is pushed up. A little confusing but hope it explains it.
I think I get what you're saying, but I can't quite picture it. I'm sure you're right. I would have guessed the "head pressure" of gravity in a pipe or hose leading to the top of the tank would be less than the head pressure of the huge amount of water pushing back into that same pipe or hose that's in the tank. And continuing to build more pressure with more water filling the tank. It would be a cool science experiment and video to see.
Great video, Bunnings sell visual Guages for poly water tanks so you can the volume of water in the tank.Have you considered putting fly wire over your fish to stop the birds from getting them
I don't worry to much about getting the tank volume accurate, the knock on the side of the tanks is good enough for this off gridder 😄 I have thought about fly mesh over the pond but then it is pretty well covering the entire top and you can't see the fish as well and the bees won't be able to land and get a drink. I might look at putting in some more water plants for more hiding spots for the fish. Maybe smaller square weld mesh as well and more water plants will do the trick.
I know one can buy the remote switch which plugs into the RJ45 connector but does anyone know the terminals on the RJ that the switch works on (circuit diagram)? PS great review
It's not looking good for rain. Overcast with sunshine right now. Was poring last night, 22 / 23mm rain overnight. Hope you get enough to fill your tanks, my friend. Will be doing another update video later on.
That rain that was coming through when shooting this video ended up petering out and I didn't get anything from it, except heavy cloud. I think there is more shower coming later this arvo, so hope to get something out of that🤞
@@TheSimpleLivingAussie Glen, the 12 solar panels I am taking off my roof. I think they are 250 or 260 Watt Panels. Free to a good home if you want them. I am reusing the wracking and bolts. But the Panels are yours if you want them. They are about 5 years old. Still working great. I am just upgrading to 440Watt as I can get more power out of the same roof space.
I got a Woolies special 28cm induction frypan for $16 which was almost flat on the bottom😉. Worked ok but a couple of Tefal Enhance titanium induction pans 28cm/20cm on sale for $60 delivered made a big difference with the bigger one a perfect size for portable cooktops. The quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten. Non stick ones make a chef out of anyone 😂
Yes, I remember those days back in the early 70's we had all that, back when I was a little tacker. The night soil guy would empty the outhouse and the milkman brought our bottles of milk on the horse and cart. I could never peal the tin foil lid off the milk bottle, had to get my mum to open the milk bottles for me.... ahhh the memories.
It's my cousins truck who owns a truck and earth moving business. We have around 15 trucks on the road and heaps of float trailers that moves our earthmoving gear around. I just put it on the float if it breaks down. But this truck is unlicensed and stays on site, so it's not really a big problem if it doesn't wanna go 👍
Our property is 100% off-grid. We have a 60 foot deep well which we use to fill a 275 gallon (1,000 L) IBC Tote (tank). Using an air pump with an Ozone generator we treat our water for 2 hours. The Ozone oxidizes the iron & Manganese and sanitizes the water (no need for chlorine). With a SeaFlo model 55 RV/Marine pump, the water is sent through a 20, 05 and 01 micron cleanable/reusable filters. Like your shurflo pump ours runs on 12 VDC. It produces 5.5 gallons (20.8 L) per minute at 60 psi. We can double the flow rate to 11 gmp by putting two pumps in parallel. We also have a septic system but have chosen to use a dry toilet with urine diversion. We even use stainless steel sink screens to prevent solids going into the septic. We will never need to pump it out.
Nice 👍 I am going to get a second 12 volt pump to put aside incase the Shurflo pump ever fails. I have hear about the Seaflo brand of pumps being a better and more quieter pump than Shurflo. I might give the Seaflo pumps a try. I had septic on my other property which I lived there for 16 year before selling up and moving to my current property. Living on my own I never worked the septic hard enough to need it pumped out. Hopefully I will only need my current septic pumping out every 20 years or so 👍
yeah the fish was defrosted, I did put text up on the screen explaining that. But I think with the high moisture content of the fish it was too much for that cooker. I was cooking Coles frozen fish or should I say, fake fish as it was tasteless and went watery once defrosted. A mate of mine that lives full time on the road in his motorhome cooks fish in the same oven. What he told me was he raps the fish in tin foil with some lemon and it cooks well in that little Kings cooker. In fact my mate will be coming back over to WA later this year and he uses my place as a base. So you will see him camped up on my property in the future.
Your videos are excellent and educational as well. What do you do if your car needs washing, keep up the good work told my son who is off grid to watch and follow your lead thanks
I don't usually wash my cars or motorbikes much. But every now and then I take the car to the car wash in town, use the pressure wash bays and give it a once over. I believe they recycle their water in those car washes, part of their requirements now.
Everybody needs to be Frugal With Water. Here I have seen them water the laws during winter and when it's reining. Don't get me started about wasteful city people. I never water our lawns. Yes, it goes brown in summer. We don't mind. When you use over a set limit, then you pay 10cpl. Australia would have plenty of water then.
It amazes me when we go camping how little water we use and still be comfortable. As soon as we get home our water usage goes through the roof. If we put in a water tank at home and apply the principles as we do when camping, we would have plenty of water with no need to build expensive desalination plants. I watched a program by Dateline here in Australia about the city of Cape Town in South Africa running out of water and the strategies people had to use to avoid "Day Zero" where the town ran out. Very inspirational story and worth a watch. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jQQT9ZjmeTA.htmlsi=Bs4OYFGg3qq6nIhb
Yep, I finished them off in the air fryer. My mate says he cooks fish in his little 12 volt Kings oven but raps the fish in tin foil with lemon, turns out realy well he tells me.
The indication will heat the while pan, just the energy goes into the pan within the circle. The heat will spread out, especially in a cast iron pan. Just takes a few minutes for the whole pan to heat evenly. I use induction from litium iron phosphate, works an absolute treat.
Yes for sure, higher voltage is usually always the way to go for off grid power hence why my main off grid system that runs my cabin is 48 volts. If one was wanting to run a lot of DC appliances like lights, fridges and DC water pumps etc, then 12 volts is better and cheaper for appliances. However 24 volt is more efficient than 12 volts and doesn't require as heavy electrical cables. The only thing with 24 volts is that DC appliances are harder to find and more expensive. Then for 48 volts there are hardly anything in the way of DC appliance. But 48 volt systems are in a league of their own when running everything through an inverter. So I guess it depends on what one want's to run that will overall determine the voltage required, plus the cost of course.
Interesting test. I wonder how much more efficient a 12/24v induction cooker would be compared to your AC induction cooker? No need for the DC-AC inverter, just plug into 24v.
Well kinda yes and kinda no.... I have found most of the time the higher the voltage the more efficient the device. I would guess a AC induction cooker at 230 AC volts would be way more efficient even through an inverter than a 12/24 volt cooker and way cheaper to purchase as well. A good example is my little 12 volt oven that takes over an hour to cook a pie Vs my AC air fryer oven that cooks a pie in under 10 minutes. The other problem with running DC appliances is the cable size needed to reduce volt drop. For small current draw devices like lights and camping fridges they work really well but for high draw appliance, it becomes a problem. Sometimes it works out easier and cheaper to just run AC appliances through an inverter 👍
lol, if this was a cooking show it would fall under the Comedy genre 😂 The only pans I have are the two cast iron pans hence why I don't normally use them on the induction cooker. I should invest in a small steel pan for that cooker.
Not quite but it has put a far bit in the tanks. Currently all my tanks are around half full, which is around 16,000 liters. That's a big difference from a few months ago when they were all empty.
Yeah you need to get induction suitable cookware. Aluminum cookware won't work but anything with an iron base will, like steal based post and my cast iron pans. Basically if a magnet sticks to the bottom of the cookware it will work on induction cookers.
I had one of those Powertech Power meters err... cook itself.. Those dastardly leaking caps.. Something to look out for.. Havent got an induction hob, sounds like a good choice for quick cooking off a battery system.
If am finding anything from Jaycar now is total rubbish, although I have had this power meter for a few years now without any issues. I only use it for testing so it only gets used for short time periods then put away till need again to test something else.
@@TheSimpleLivingAussie Yes, we have had over 200mm of rain since winter. I have not looked in the book for the last 2 weeks though. Sigi has a weather book she keeps track of all the weather in.
It can be fixed but the cost of doing it would be more than what it is worth. I was tempted to however it can't tow my caravan so I decided to pull the plates off it and get a bigger car.
Timing belt jumped a tooth and valves kissed the pistons. I stripped it down and got head tested and all is good however you can see the marks on the pistons where the valves touched. I am not gonna risk putting a new $1,500 gasket set on it plus new timing and balance belts. It may run forever or the pistons may have microscopic fractures and fail. It also needs new injectors at around $600 each and the rear springs need replacing. Kind of an expensive risk to take if a piston is damaged. Got a quote for a exchange motor fitted from a mechanical workshop I used in the past and they said be prepared to spend around $15,000.
Great video the territory is a great car I had one was very happy with it Did you take the battery charger back to Jaycar give us a update please on your fruit trees now all you need is a tractor and a 30 ton log splitter keep those videos coming Ps got my son a victron 24v lithium battery charger they were $289 on ebay they offered $50 discount so I paid $239
Yes I took the charger back for a full refund. I took out the fruit trees (gave them to a friend) as they just would not grow in the poor soil (which is just rock and gravel) as well as the heat of summer is just to much for them. I was pouring thousands of liter of water on them every summer and they still wouldn't grow properly. That area is gonna be planted with local native trees that can handle the poor soil and hot summers. I may have a go at a few fruit trees in pots out the back of the cabin once I have the earth works finished.
I am sure not going to complain about the rain. However it would be nice to have our rains spread out throughout the year instead of 4 months of rainy season and 8 months on drought. But I guess this is sunny WA we are living in which is good for solar power.
