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by ukpreppergrrl
Thu Sep 01, 2022 2:37 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: Prepping for this winter's potential electricity crisis
Replies: 50
Views: 2464

Re: Prepping for this winter's potential electricity crisis

A tip for anyone walking around in the dark is to keep your weight on our back foot until you have moved your front foot forwards and found a safe space to put it. Then transfer your weight. It feels a bit odd at first and needs practice but works for moving in the dark ( & can help for too muc...
by ukpreppergrrl
Thu Sep 01, 2022 2:15 pm
Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
Topic: Air fryer/mini oven to save electricity
Replies: 10
Views: 620

Re: Air fryer/mini oven to save electricity

Hmm...I have an air fryer that I never use...time to dig it out and experiment!

Do you have a guide as to times etc. or how to convert the cooking times and temperatures on the back of packets to air fryer times/temps?
by ukpreppergrrl
Sun Aug 14, 2022 6:05 pm
Forum: Equipment
Topic: Knives - in trouble with the police!
Replies: 31
Views: 3549

Re: Knives - in trouble with the police!

There are other issues that can be clarified: whether to say "no comment", and the reasons why police are increasingly using this type of interview (boils down to, it's cheaper). Whilst it is cheaper to call someone for a voluntary interview as opposed to arresting them and detaining them...
by ukpreppergrrl
Sun Aug 14, 2022 4:52 pm
Forum: Equipment
Topic: Cheap solar battery charging
Replies: 49
Views: 9869

Re: Cheap solar battery charging

My little 25W solar panel can generate about 18V at about 500mA in good sun. Estimating that if I pushed that STRAIGHT into AA cells in series, (12x 1.5V ?) with no other components at all, it would charge them in about eight hours of good sun. Call it one or two days. That's best case scenario. Or...
by ukpreppergrrl
Wed Aug 03, 2022 8:06 pm
Forum: Equipment
Topic: Portable Power Stations
Replies: 80
Views: 5173

Re: Portable Power Stations

It's also shown me how much the fridge freezers need to run on, including the big burst of current used to start up the freezers E.g. Modern under counter freezer uses bugger all MOST of the time, but takes 650W for a few seconds to start up and then 130W to tick over. On the basis of measurements,...
by ukpreppergrrl
Wed Aug 03, 2022 12:14 pm
Forum: Equipment
Topic: Got a solar generator
Replies: 35
Views: 1721

Re: Got a solar generator

I have both a plug in and a standard kitchen induction hob cooker. I love my induction hob for every day and would never go willingly back to gas in the kitchen but it is like a kettle in it's power needs. The hob ring ratings are several kilowatts, much greater than the typical couple of hundred w...
by ukpreppergrrl
Tue Jul 19, 2022 4:27 pm
Forum: Logistics and Transport
Topic: Electric scooters to become legal on UK roads.
Replies: 11
Views: 979

Re: Electric scooters to become legal on UK roads.

People have already been killed on them. Some because they were riding like twits and ended up under a lorry, others because the scooter wasn't roadworthy and they too ended up under a lorry (e.g. tyre came off, scooter keeled over, inevitable happened given the road was busy) I presume at the very ...
by ukpreppergrrl
Tue Jul 19, 2022 3:43 pm
Forum: Equipment
Topic: pro / con generator v Jackery ( or similar)
Replies: 25
Views: 1223

Re: pro / con generator v Jackery ( or similar)

My RCD works just fine. I was altering wiring to my workshop and forgot to isolate the power. :oops: I got a good kick,and the house went dead :lol: :lol: :lol: . That was a good enough test! It's quite a kick isn't it. I felt like I'd been hit by a bus. Gotta love that RCD, undoubtedly saved my li...
by ukpreppergrrl
Sun Mar 06, 2022 6:18 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9
Replies: 2108
Views: 112121

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9

That sounds really interesting - do you have a link? This is the place that sells the lookey-likey spirit stove: https://www.compass24.com/comfort/pantry-grill-oven/stoves/203566/alcohol-pan-1500 I've got the numbers wrong. The single is the 1500, the double is the 3000 so the one with the oven mus...