Hi Mariah, sometimes getting what you ask and pay for is hard! I'm sure that between Adrien, the solar panel fellow and yourself you already have the wash machine running. I use a battery/inverter system that stores the energy from the solar panels and then converts it to AC power which most home appliances, lights, etc. require. It can support large loads like air conditioning (higher voltage) and is expandable. https://www.bluettipower.com/products/apex-300-home-battery-backup?variant=47914967859419&id=691194a64abc44066f33eb68
I am not sure but I can't see why it wouldn't be. Maybe contact them on their website to see if they could direct ship to you. (bluettipower.com) I have had my unit for several years and have not had any issues. It has its limits of course but for intermittent loads it does very well. Also it works very well with low wattage usage items like a refrigerator. It all depends on the unit/battery you purchase and the amount of $$$ you want to part with.
We've been doing solar for about 6 years with a bi-directional meter, sending temporary surplus to the electric company, which has been quite honest about keeping track both ways..... Our neighbor has some 90 ft Florida White pines, one of which was struck by lightning (we live on a hill). Although our system is at some 150 yards distance from that tree, inverter and battery got destroyed irreparably by the electro-magnetic pulse. Since then we disconnect our system, as soon as the perceived lightning is followed by thunder within two seconds, denoting a distance of two miles or kilometers.
The next lightning strike occurred out of the blue, without any warning from other nearby thunders. It was attracted by our tall Araucaria tree, which stands right next to our carport, and took not only a small edge of the cement roof of the carport with it, but also the new inverter and battery. We had now bought a different inverter, which was supposedly of the repairable kind, but no luck with several different repair shops.
So our second solar vendor surprised us with yet another (Chinese, are there any others?) inverter, at a considerably lower price (around US 3,000) and talked us into three separate 5 kW batteries and an array of 18 (improved) black panels (our first vendor had installed the old panels on the cheap, and a couple of them were blown off the roof by the only hurricane we've been touched by in nearly 33 years. The North Coast of our Island (Hispaniola) is not supposed to get hurricanes, allegedly being protected by a northern mountain range.....
We also installed a lightning rod contraption on the araucaria tree and repaired the carport roof. We may have had another hit on that same tree, but fortunately we had disconnected our system with ample previous thunderbolt warnings. If we travel, we keep our system disconnected as well. Thunder and lightning happen in our area, when northern "cold" air collides with our tropical air.
We see our "experience" so far as a learning curve. Our investments are supposed to be offset by a return of investment by zero electric bills within about three years, even with two or three individual "split" air conditioners selectively running in the 5 hot "summer" months (June to October).
P.S. We have been reading horror stories about solar "rip-offs" in the US, to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars, with vendors "away on leave" when something malfunctions. The comparable equipment prices are considerably higher, as well, because of tariffs and excessive profit margins....
Do you mean "anda"? Must be a Mexican expression, which I am not aware of. I assume that you mean "how is it going?" Glad you asked, because I have a typical "optimist" answer for you:
We had a multiple miracle day today, after a bad news evening yesterday:
1.) Last night we realized that our 20-plus year old white enamel fridge stopped working (we dislike the stainless steel ones that seem to have completely replaced them)
2.) Our aspiradora (hoover, too lazy to look up the American name) also stopped working
3.) Our "contractor" (brother of our housekeeper/cook) cheated us with overcharging us with two repairs we found last night to not have been fully completed and whom we had just paid royally for everything. (He is the irascible type that would abandon his clients, if the mess he made was too difficult to repair.)
We phoned the father of our admired electrical contractor, who had recently migrated to NY (we had known the father for a good 25 years, but the boy was even better). The father was willing to come and help immediately. He happened to have a tiny device in his collection of gizmos, which helped repair the fridge motor, which had overheated from the constant switching between street power and inverter power.
He also happened to have a tiny ball bearing, which is exactly what needed replacing in our aspiradora.
1.) and 2.) are working again, like a song from Mariah's song book...
As for the charming, fast-talking Jose, the contractor, whom we feared might leave us in the lurch with no cold water in my shower, he showed up later than usual after one of his usual alcoholic gambling nights (with our freshly received payment), but Herma finally got him to admit that the job had been considered by him to be "too complicated" and put him to work with cunning female charm. When at the end of the day he asked me to be paid for completing the "too complicated" job, I said that that was Herma's department. She them charmingly, in her broken Spanish, told him that he himself had caused the "complication" and was not going to be paid. I was prepared for this episode of "good cop/bad cop", because Herma had just preached to me that I was too easy and soft with supervising and paying everyone.
So, yes: last night I went to bed with the feeling that God was punishing me for something I was actually having a bad conscience about myself, and now I'm floating in Nirvana. Thanks again for asking.
This bluetti is 100 amp hour lifepo4 battery . To run my place I have a 330 ah lifepo4 battery and it is just enough to run my large fridge, pump, washing machine etc. During the day I can run a welder and compressor and other tools. It does not allow for many grey days without the sun. My cost was $4200 (Australian) delivered so the Bluetti is quite expensive.
I had the battery shipped to the local depot and picked it up with a trailer. It weighed 105kg! I am in remote South Australia and the battery came from Queensland. Not sure what deliveries are like in South America, maybe freighting a container would be safer? You could also bring any other stuff that you need. Solar panels etc.
The batteries come from China and many are available via Aliexpress at good prices.
I thought it odd that it took multiple requests for you to get the tea the way you wanted. I would have thought the only reason they would have resisted would be if they didn't have any containers to serve the milk.
Hi Mariah, take a spoon, turn it upside-down over the glass which you are pouring from with the spoon extended and held down with your finger . Tilt to pour where you want the liquid to go and you will not spill a drop. Google or view on TikTok for better clarification. Enjoy!
Can the culture be that different that tea with milk (on the side), becomes..."oh no one ever asks for that..."
Feels like a Jack Nicholson moment in "Five Easy Pieces!"
And your saga about the washing machine---is there a dryer expected or will everything go on a line or out in the sun (I used to dry stuff on the rangy bushes and low-hanging tree limbs when I was in Montana a zillion years ago)? I love the comments and the electrical/solar/voltaic jargon...wow!
That cow being overseen by the elder Dona is amazing.
Hi Mariah, sometimes getting what you ask and pay for is hard! I'm sure that between Adrien, the solar panel fellow and yourself you already have the wash machine running. I use a battery/inverter system that stores the energy from the solar panels and then converts it to AC power which most home appliances, lights, etc. require. It can support large loads like air conditioning (higher voltage) and is expandable. https://www.bluettipower.com/products/apex-300-home-battery-backup?variant=47914967859419&id=691194a64abc44066f33eb68
And is this available in South America?
I live in Colombia and I have one of these systems as well.
I am not sure but I can't see why it wouldn't be. Maybe contact them on their website to see if they could direct ship to you. (bluettipower.com) I have had my unit for several years and have not had any issues. It has its limits of course but for intermittent loads it does very well. Also it works very well with low wattage usage items like a refrigerator. It all depends on the unit/battery you purchase and the amount of $$$ you want to part with.
We've been doing solar for about 6 years with a bi-directional meter, sending temporary surplus to the electric company, which has been quite honest about keeping track both ways..... Our neighbor has some 90 ft Florida White pines, one of which was struck by lightning (we live on a hill). Although our system is at some 150 yards distance from that tree, inverter and battery got destroyed irreparably by the electro-magnetic pulse. Since then we disconnect our system, as soon as the perceived lightning is followed by thunder within two seconds, denoting a distance of two miles or kilometers.
The next lightning strike occurred out of the blue, without any warning from other nearby thunders. It was attracted by our tall Araucaria tree, which stands right next to our carport, and took not only a small edge of the cement roof of the carport with it, but also the new inverter and battery. We had now bought a different inverter, which was supposedly of the repairable kind, but no luck with several different repair shops.
So our second solar vendor surprised us with yet another (Chinese, are there any others?) inverter, at a considerably lower price (around US 3,000) and talked us into three separate 5 kW batteries and an array of 18 (improved) black panels (our first vendor had installed the old panels on the cheap, and a couple of them were blown off the roof by the only hurricane we've been touched by in nearly 33 years. The North Coast of our Island (Hispaniola) is not supposed to get hurricanes, allegedly being protected by a northern mountain range.....
We also installed a lightning rod contraption on the araucaria tree and repaired the carport roof. We may have had another hit on that same tree, but fortunately we had disconnected our system with ample previous thunderbolt warnings. If we travel, we keep our system disconnected as well. Thunder and lightning happen in our area, when northern "cold" air collides with our tropical air.
We see our "experience" so far as a learning curve. Our investments are supposed to be offset by a return of investment by zero electric bills within about three years, even with two or three individual "split" air conditioners selectively running in the 5 hot "summer" months (June to October).
P.S. We have been reading horror stories about solar "rip-offs" in the US, to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars, with vendors "away on leave" when something malfunctions. The comparable equipment prices are considerably higher, as well, because of tariffs and excessive profit margins....
Hola Lyss! Qué onda?
FL
Hello Ms. Williams,
Do you mean "anda"? Must be a Mexican expression, which I am not aware of. I assume that you mean "how is it going?" Glad you asked, because I have a typical "optimist" answer for you:
We had a multiple miracle day today, after a bad news evening yesterday:
1.) Last night we realized that our 20-plus year old white enamel fridge stopped working (we dislike the stainless steel ones that seem to have completely replaced them)
2.) Our aspiradora (hoover, too lazy to look up the American name) also stopped working
3.) Our "contractor" (brother of our housekeeper/cook) cheated us with overcharging us with two repairs we found last night to not have been fully completed and whom we had just paid royally for everything. (He is the irascible type that would abandon his clients, if the mess he made was too difficult to repair.)
We phoned the father of our admired electrical contractor, who had recently migrated to NY (we had known the father for a good 25 years, but the boy was even better). The father was willing to come and help immediately. He happened to have a tiny device in his collection of gizmos, which helped repair the fridge motor, which had overheated from the constant switching between street power and inverter power.
He also happened to have a tiny ball bearing, which is exactly what needed replacing in our aspiradora.
1.) and 2.) are working again, like a song from Mariah's song book...
As for the charming, fast-talking Jose, the contractor, whom we feared might leave us in the lurch with no cold water in my shower, he showed up later than usual after one of his usual alcoholic gambling nights (with our freshly received payment), but Herma finally got him to admit that the job had been considered by him to be "too complicated" and put him to work with cunning female charm. When at the end of the day he asked me to be paid for completing the "too complicated" job, I said that that was Herma's department. She them charmingly, in her broken Spanish, told him that he himself had caused the "complication" and was not going to be paid. I was prepared for this episode of "good cop/bad cop", because Herma had just preached to me that I was too easy and soft with supervising and paying everyone.
So, yes: last night I went to bed with the feeling that God was punishing me for something I was actually having a bad conscience about myself, and now I'm floating in Nirvana. Thanks again for asking.
This bluetti is 100 amp hour lifepo4 battery . To run my place I have a 330 ah lifepo4 battery and it is just enough to run my large fridge, pump, washing machine etc. During the day I can run a welder and compressor and other tools. It does not allow for many grey days without the sun. My cost was $4200 (Australian) delivered so the Bluetti is quite expensive.
Ah! We could have a container shipped down…
I had the battery shipped to the local depot and picked it up with a trailer. It weighed 105kg! I am in remote South Australia and the battery came from Queensland. Not sure what deliveries are like in South America, maybe freighting a container would be safer? You could also bring any other stuff that you need. Solar panels etc.
The batteries come from China and many are available via Aliexpress at good prices.
Love this recommendation!
I thought it odd that it took multiple requests for you to get the tea the way you wanted. I would have thought the only reason they would have resisted would be if they didn't have any containers to serve the milk.
Different culture!
Yes, I see.
Hi Mariah, take a spoon, turn it upside-down over the glass which you are pouring from with the spoon extended and held down with your finger . Tilt to pour where you want the liquid to go and you will not spill a drop. Google or view on TikTok for better clarification. Enjoy!
Aha! A great suggestion;)
Seems very funny that the pictures of the cow and Dona and labeled😂
I always label my photos!
Una vez más, me encantan tus historias. ¡Buenas noticias que la lavadora puede estar en tu casa! 💓👏🏼
Ah gracias, Lupita! Si, una buena noticia. ;)
Thanks Maria , for the photo's, looks like a typical south africa Karoo farm.
Keep on telling us what you uptoo
That drive from Payogasta on down to Cerillos was just amazing to me when I was there!
Can the culture be that different that tea with milk (on the side), becomes..."oh no one ever asks for that..."
Feels like a Jack Nicholson moment in "Five Easy Pieces!"
And your saga about the washing machine---is there a dryer expected or will everything go on a line or out in the sun (I used to dry stuff on the rangy bushes and low-hanging tree limbs when I was in Montana a zillion years ago)? I love the comments and the electrical/solar/voltaic jargon...wow!
That cow being overseen by the elder Dona is amazing.
Your life is amazing.
Hoping your show goes well.
Love to Adrien and Ramona.
I put milk in the cup before the tea, then you ca sea how strong or weak the tea is..