Make your own 220 volt backup power supply Make your own 220 Volt backup power supply Dr Garth Cambray South Africans, as elsewhere in Africa are experiencing almost daily - "load-shedding". The country cannot meet the demand for electricity resulting in daily scheduled power-outages nationwide. In this article we suggest some pro-active solutions. With Eskom in South Africa constantly shedding its load all over our economy, it is important for anybody who requires a reliable power supply to understand how to build their own 220V backup power supply, so as not to be ripped off by an ever increasing number of pseudoscientific power salespeople. In this article we look at how you can cobble together a 220 Volt power supply using components you can buy at your local automotive store. A twelve Volt battery is a storage device that, when charged, stores electricity in chemical structures that can reverse and release electricity if required. To calculate how many batteries you need, and how big an inverter is quite simple. Eg: Total: 500W
Tasty Backpacking Recipes Backpacking Recipes for Supper Dining out tonight? Follow Chef Glenn's backpacking recipes to create healthy, hearty, homemade meals for the trail. These dehydrated meals pack up light and tight and are easy to cook at your campsite using minimal fuel. How to Make Backpacking Meals: Cook a big pot of chili or stew, dehydrate and divide into individual servings.Dehydrate vegetables, meat and beans separately and assemble into meals.Enhance store-bought boxed meals with additional dried meat and vegetables.Create saucy backpacking meals by blending and dehydrating starchy foods like potatoes and beans into bark.Dehydrate tomato sauce for Italian style meals. All of the backpacking recipes linked below are for a single serving. Increase the ingredients proportionally by 1.5 or 2 times if you have a large appetite or you are cooking for two in the same pot. Chili & Stews Beef & Bean Chili Cook a big batch, dehydrate, and divide into meal size portions. Root Bark Stew Ratatouille Tuna Fish Casserole
Best Survival Communication Equipment Communication during an emergency situation is of the utmost importance, so I wanted to share the best survival communication equipment available today. Because I'm a husband and father, I am passionate about emergency preparedness and survival. Being prepared for an emergency should be a top priority for anyone, and with this page I'd like to help you with one aspect of survival, communication. During an emergency, communication is a top priority. You're probably thinking about your cell phones, right? What if you are out camping somewhere on vacation and some sort of threat arises? These are just some of the questions I have when thinking about communication during an emergency situation, and it's something we should all think about. Below you'll find different options for emergency communication equipment, and I'll tell you a little about each type so that you can make a more educated decision. Images courtesy of Amazon
How to Make Moonshine in 21 Easy Steps using a Pressure Cooker Still How to make moonshine at home using a pressure cooker still with our moonshine instructions, and we'll give you a peach moonshine recipe and a video for whiskey moonshine. However, please check with your local authorities to see if it is legal to make shine in your area. Some countries do not allow it at all, while some do, but only for personal consumption. Today's bootlegger moonshiners make $40 a gallon for traditional corn moonshine or $100 a gallon for fruit moonshine. When it's summer and corn is cheap and plentiful this is the more favored ingredient for making shine. Despite the blanket ban in some countries in making shine, many people still make moonshine and many more are looking for instructions on how to make shine at home. For those of you who are in the know Popcorn Sutton was a well known moonshiner who was arrested in 1998 for making moonshine and sentenced to 18 months in jail in 2009. Old Moonshine Still courtesy Hfrentz | Dreamstime.com 1) Corn meal 2) Sugar 3) Water
How to charge your phone with fruit! - HD (1080p) Survival Radio: What Will Work In any type of disaster (Hurricane, Earthquake, Economic Collapse, Nuclear War, EMP Blast/Solar Event, etc) your typical means of communications (Mobile Phones, Land Lines, Internet) will most likely be severed or severely impaired. Now is the time to start your Survival Communications Plan. I know from reading about past disasters and being in the middle of 9/11 myself that when disaster strikes, using your mobile phone (which we are all so heavily dependent on) can be a frustrating experience to say the least. The question that a lot of us have not answered is how are we going to communicate with our loved ones and friends when all traditional communications will be at best unreliable or at worst nonexistent. Options A small group trying to survive in hard times (which, depending from your viewpoint seems to be inevitable), will need to have a plan to communicate with each other as well as some form of back up plan. Things to Consider communicate was by Text Messaging.
Prepper Skill of the Month: Make a Faraday cage When it comes to worst case scenarios, it’s hard to beat the Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP). From my book, Survival Mom: Im not ashamed to say that reading One Second After by William Forstchen scared the living daylights out of me. For weeks, I didnt want to travel more than 15 or 20 miles from home. One of the latest hit TV shows, Revolution on NBC, portrays life 15 years following some type of EMP/CME event, and it isn’t a pretty picture. Some might describe a post-EMP world as going back to the nineteenth century, but I think in some ways it would be far worse. There are so many unknowns when it comes to EMP/CME, but one way to prepare is to build one or more containers to shield important items from the effects of 50,000 volts of power. My friend Rob Hanus of The Preparedness Podcast has spent a good deal of time researching the facts and myths of EMP/CME, and here are his simple instructions for making your own Faraday cage: Heavy duty aluminum foil. The procedure is very simple.
How to Drill Your Own Water Well Emergency Communication & Ham Radio Emergency Communication is probably one of the least talked about aspects of preparedness, but in my opinion, it’s something that you can’t afford to overlook. Read the full story » In a survival situation, knowledge is going to be a critical factor in determining the outcome of your situation. Read the full story » You need to develop an Emergency Communications Plan, and everyone in your family needs know how to use it. Read the full story » Ham Radio plays a very important role in emergency communications and preparedness. Read the full story » Our Ham Radio Cheat Sheet with HF, UHF & VHF Frequencies, Q Codes, the Phonetic Alphabet and Morse Code Read the full story »