Tag: Off Grid Power
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Power Queen LiFePO4
By now, many of you have heard about the collaboration between Power Queen and Off-Grid Ham Radio OH8STN with ready-made LiFePO4 battery packs. Having readers and viewers worldwide made finding a battery supplier to support my channel & blog extremely difficult. There are not many Lithium battery companies (even fewer in the ham radio space)…
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Air Compressors need off-grid power too
Ham Radio LiFePO4 battery powers 4500psi air compressor off-grid!
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The Risks of Centralized Energy
Yesterday I was out grabbing clips for a video I’m about to publish. While looking at my gear, the thought of how far my off-grid portable power capabilities have come, brought on a feeling of accomplishment. Truly amazing! The satisfaction slowly turned to concern as I realized energy is one of those “centralized commodities” which…
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Lead Acid vs Lithium or Are bloggers lying?
Hello Operators. I don’t normally call out other bloggers but today is one of those days. Research is one aspect of my Youtube channel and blog setting it apart from others. It often takes months or sometimes years to collect enough information to substantiate a point or offer a well-tested opinion. I never publish something…
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Massive California Power Outage: Emergency Power
Hello Operators. I spend an enormous amount of time talking about off grid Communications, and Communications in a grid down scenario. Today many Californias find themselves, in an artificial grid down scenario. These Californians are without grid power, after PG&E shut down the grid for liability and safety concerns. These type of things can happen…
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Event Support | Portable Solar Power Strategy
Hello Operators My wife and I were “discussing” a portable power strategy for an upcoming event and associated road trip. We knew technically speaking how to achieve our goals, but wanted to do it all on the down low. The Subaru Outback will serve as our home away from home for ~5 days. The trip…
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Emergency Portable Power: Powerfilm Inergy Kodiak
Hello Operators. Being around the channel and blog for a while, one probably understands how much the Canadian Prepper is a trusted member of my YouTube community. His videos are well-thought-out, well-researched, and he shares the long game passion, doing the research and field testing necessary, before putting anything out there. He just published a…
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Build your own 18650 LiFePO4 battery pack for ham radio no soldering
A few weeks ago, my buddy Micah from ebikeschool.com on YouTube, turned me on to a battery building kit for 18650 batteries. He’s normally using Lithium-ion batteries in his projects, but I thought of building a new pack giving the builder a choice between Lithium ion & the lithium iron phosphate cells we normally use…
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Portable DIY LiFePO4 Power for Ham Radio Followup
As most of you know, I’ve done several LiFePO4 builds on the channel using lithium iron phosphate cells, for amateur radio portable Communications. Currently there are 3 LiFePO4 builds on the channel. DIY 5Ah A123 26650 build QRP+ DIY 10Ah Headway build QRP+ DIY 10Ah Headway build QRO+ Since all three of these packs are…
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Portable Power: Why simultaneous charging & discharging?
We do a lot of work with portable power on the channel and on the blog, yet there isn’t a day passing, where someone doesn’t ask why we simply don’t use HobbyKing lipo batteries for man-portable or field communications. The simple truth is we could certainly use these Hobbyking LiPO batteries to power a station…
