The One Part Of My Off Grid System That Might Trigger Some! The Big Secret Comes Out!
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In this video Curtis talks about his diesel generator. How it works, turns on and off automatically and how much power it puts out.
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I have a yanmar 20 kw and it's been the best generator I have every had. It's been flawless for at least the last 10 years. I think it has 18000 hrs on it and the only thing I've done to it was change the turbo once for a couple hundred bucks.
Curtis your channel inspires us constantly! Not only to make our own dreams happen but also to make content.
We are in the far north east corner of BC and there’s definitely a few things that we need to consider living above the 56th parallel in a forest!
Your system is the best of the best, and those armchair warriors are only annoyed that they’re not able to do it themselves, either because they’re lazy or haven’t made the decisions that would financially allow them to be so free.
Please keep doing what you’re doing, if you can get through to just one family, it’s all worth it!
Thanks for saying that.
A very well thought out system with multiple redundancies. Site appropriate applications with site appropriate technology. Inspiring Curtis!
Curtis, live your life the way you want and don't let others tell you how. Living Off grid is adapting to what electricity you have and not what you wish you had. Keep up the good work!!!!
The same windbags spouting what everyone else "should do" are the same windbags who "vote" to personal rights altogether...or so it seems these days.
Another great video Curtis. Thanks for spending the time to film, edit and post all your vids. We have adapted some our gardening practices from the info you present. Keep the great job your doing. Nice generator!!! Enjoying our Gravenhurst winter
Kudos to you Curtis. Though you're not even finished yet, your site is significantly more sustainable than 99% of the homes that your viewers have. It's great seeing the state of the art in living off grid today, and hearing the issues/insights that present when doing that in real life. Thank you. Excellent job.
And viewer's unconsidered + ignorant comments are sad. But such is the case with most humans. I wish you continued resilience in dealing with this reality of life. All the Best to You and Yours.
I'm seeing heat reclamation on the diesel pipes. Food for thought. Love the set up and how you explain the levels of off grid. No system is perfect except the one that works for you. I get the idea the True off grid is a cabin in Alaska but, again as you said you would never see or learn anything from that persons hermit lifestyle as it could never be shared out. We use a generator to keep the battery going on bad days as well. Why would anyone let their system crash? Ok watching.
Aside from all other arguments about a generator or more solar, I think diversifying your power source is very important and has big advantages. It gives you options and reduces the number of single-point failures. I really like your setup ad what you plan to do.
Completely agree with you mate
Why not diversify further by tying to grid to make use of it instead of burning diesel in winter? Can still have the generator to be completely autonomous if power were shut off. Genuine question, not an argument
I appreciate you Mr. Stone. I look forward to your future wood to electricity videos. My wife & I expect to emulate your families system, in Northern ID. Thank you sir.
I am definitely interested to see how Curtis does wood to elec.
This is high-end but realist off-grid. I am envious. Nice work.
There is so many different led
Lights out there. They truly do cover the spectrum. I have an off grid ranch in Montana
You are right on and it is refreshing to hear someone honest, strong and brave enough to share your point of view. Best of success in realizing your project!
I love the hydronic heated concrete floors. I experience them first when I was in Korea back in the 70s. They had a small burning device outside the room that you put a round block of charcoal that had holes through it. In Korea it was called yeontan. Like remember having to go out sometimes in the middle of the night putting in a new block of charcoal as the other ones burned down slowly. But they worked great, they were efficient and safe. I also experienced the other type of floor heating in Korea which had basically a chimney system going underneath the concrete floor where the hot gases went through the chimney system and heated the concrete floor. That was called on doll Heating. The bad thing about that type of system was when the floors got a few years old they started to build cracks and you get carbon monoxide leaking into the room. If that happened and you woke up with just a headache consider yourself lucky, there were many deaths because of that type of heating system.P.S
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Great video Curtis. I love the honest off-grid lifestyle perspective. Your Generator is AC coupled into this system.
Boom. Thanks Daniel.
LED is getting better, worth looking into again. You can pick the light spectrum you want now days. 2.6-3 umol/joul is getting good.
Blue light is a legit issue but you don't need so much blue in it now
There are any color LEDs. Can buy RGB led and turn off the blue light completely :D so you get a funky light.
There are warm white LEDs with low blue light output. Incandescent is still more yellow.
Calculating the diminishing returns is an important part of making those kind of decisions like whether or not to add more solar panels etc etc.
he did spend $14000 on the gen plus install, if he could get the solar to cover his needs for around that price I think it would have been worth it. But now that he has already got the generator the diminishing returns compared to the running cost of the generator no longer make since.
@@anthonygaffey9667 Yes, but relying strictly on a system that can develop problems and in an environment that is not reliably sunny in the winter, makes having a separate generator backup more sense.
I appreciate your approach to off grid. If I wanted to see how I did things it wouldn't be learning. Keep crushing, stay free.
Much love
And you're on point. Diy means it's part of your "career". The system depending on me makes me the manager, mechanic, electrician.....
THANKS for sharing!
Never seen you before.
You are just straight and open… I like that!!! Subscribed!
Super interesting projects! You do a great job explaining everything and thanks for sharing!
I like your system: it's reliable, available, and maintainable. Demonstrated technology wins every day in my mind.
Awesome info & progress! Brilliant set up! Blessings to all 🤗💜🇨🇦
this was down to earth a very awesome video!
Your videos come across like a snapshot of where you're at right now.
I'm guessing you're not trying to say that you've arrived at the end of your homestead journey.
You do a great job of explaining yourself and your situation. Keep up the good work along the way.
Well done! Excellent review with detailed real useful information 👍
Thank you
Happy to see you chose a diesel genset. Although I would recommend a low speed diesel over the 3600rpm one little guys. They don't really last and are not worth rebuilding. Keep an eye out for general construction /mining light plants. They usually run 3/4 cylinder Isuzu or Kubota engines and will run upwards of 20,000 hours. They sell for cheap at Ritchie Bros and Kijiji. They are usually 12-20kw and often offer 120/240v.
I have a diesel smart car that is close to hitting 100,000 miles and no engine issues. I wonder if it would be possible to convert such a small engine to run a generator.
This Yanmar genset is an 1800rpm set, so NOT the buzzy (3600 rpm) little gasoline/propane burner.
I love my Isuzu Power plant, can be rebuilt in position is the big wining one for me, I can do a major over haul with not moving a thing.
We have had bad luck with energy efficient appliances. Our repairmen that kept coming to our house for our energy efficient dryer and washing machine gave us a hint. He said to go buy rebuilt used older models of machines. Best advice ever!
I have to say I am very impressed with the way you can live up in the mountains off grid I wish me and my family could do that but being in our mid to late 50s is not going to happen. That generator is bad ass dude. Great video.
Network many in ur situation ...maybe a group of u all can share land ...is coming those times ...hope this empower the many... these parasites ones are buying and chopping the lands ...let's get together and minimize the damages if we keep teaching and learning passing it forward is the key ...🧐😳🤔🫂👍🌎🗣❣️
Curtis, your doing awesome!!!
Love the rant, yes at some point, even if you might do a better job with DIY, its best to hire out. Family time is priceless and hard to catch up on. People without kids wont comprehend this.
incredible location. Very beautiful and certainly far from all. Logistics for you probably does not cost cheap ( And also I am impressed!
We used to follow your channel but fell off awhile.... Your new place is very impressive... Congrats and may you and your family enjoy many years there..
Love it, you tell those sily trolls.
I burn up about 20-25Kwh a day too, thinking about turning off the water heater. I probably won't use a generator just so that I can say I'm off grid. I love Yanmar, have one of their tractors. Nice place you're building. Thanks for sharing!
That's a nice generator setup and I like the way it's automated to start up ! 👍 Those Yanmar engine's are pretty bulletproof . We have one in a JD skid loader and all we have done to it is change oil & filters after 5,500 hours .
We use a truck mounted gas driven welder /generator if the power fails for temporary electricity to the home .
At 24:22 is the reason we stay with rural electric power company as if I do the math our annual power bill is around $ 2,000.00
So $130,000.00 will buy a lot of energy for many years to come .
Curtis, look into making biogas from waste, and compost heating. Compress the biogas and run the generator.
Dude, spot on!!! I use some l.e.d. but, like you... not in the house.
Awesome stuff, man. You’re lucky to have snow. I really miss snow. I know that’d eventually get old having constant snow, but man, I miss it.
I live in Kansas, which twenty years ago had tons of great snow.😢
I cant find any info to support that it snowed more in Kansas 20 years ago. I'd really like to learn more but Im having trouble finding it, I love this sort of stuff.
@@MadnessOfOurTime I have never looked into statistically, but I have discussed it with fellow Kansans an innumerable amount of times over the past decade. It has always been unanimous agreements amongst all of us born & raised Kansans.
Darn near every Christmas was marked by very heavy snow; that beautiful kind that “crunches” and makes perfect snowmen. But now? It’s usually not too bad of weather on Christmas. It’s literally been t-shirt and shorts weather.
I really like your system. You have a good balance between ideal vs practical. I noticed that high tower with the wind power on it. I would love to have a property like that and would put a GMRS repeater on the tower to provide communications for miles around. Of course, you may not want or need such.
One thing I haven’t seen from you (I’ve only watched the last 2 videos), is there utility power available to you if you wanted it, or were you forced to go off grid? (I realize you want to be off grid, but just curious).
Keep up the good videos. I really liked this one.
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Awesome videos, I have a small solar system that works for my needs & big deal if you have to run a generator while you do laundry, I do to but everything else runs great , Good job :)
Sorry not interested in down loading any new apps, thanks
Just wondering what the go is for scheduled maintenance of your generator? Does your management system alert you when it's clocked enough hours or is it up to you to check the hour meter?
You can save time and spend more money or save money and spend more time. It comes down to do, can you make more money in the time it would take to do the DIY project (CORRECTLY) or if you do yourself (CORRECTLY) would cost your lost in hour be lower. And there is a learning curve in doing project that can change the cost.
Yanmar diesels are awesome, truckers love those things. I also have transitioned from single with no money and lots of time to family life with some money and much less time. So I 100% am with you on “is it turn key?” Lol
This video is not up on Rumble so I will reluctantly comment here. Diesel at $150.00 per year for the one month in question amounts to 66 years to reach the $10,000 amortization expense amount. The genset expense of $13,000 is a necessary redundancy in the off-grid system so this expense cannot be included in this discussion. Price vs Worth = Value, smart. Love your videos, you are an inspiration Mr. Stone. ( Off-grid with Schneider and Honda Gensets for 6 years, FREEDOM!).
Well, I’m glad I don’t have to read through all your comments! Too many people who’ve never experienced going off grid and finding out it’s a long process and it’s a learning process too!
I myself didn’t know anything about electricity, and it took years to get comfortable and finally build the system I wanted. But even after that, it takes time to figure out whether you did it right or you need to add here or there to it.
If people could do anything in life, it should be less judgment on everybody else, and we’d all be a lot better off ! 🖖
I purchased a blue light free, zero flicker LED bulb for next to my bed. I would have gone with an incandescent bulb but i'm only working with a mere 6.5kw of lead acid storage and my old incandescent bulbs literally used 10 times the power as this new one. I haven't noticed any real sleep disturbances as yet.
Thank you for all you've taught me Curtis!
❣️🤗❣️💯💯Nice setup! 🕊️🦅🦁
Good for you!! LED is BAD!! Also energy saving off grid refrigerators start at 2K!!! Takes time. Off grid in the UP Mi.
Life is always trade-offs and choices, sacrifice for something better. Someone with power might not be able to do wash in a power outage either, which are happening a lot more often now. Being prepared for whatever happens is the idea. No one is fully prepared for everything all the time.
You can filter the LED lights with colour gel for photography, amber or along that spectrum of light. Very easy to retro fit
An Old Amish trick i learned. In the Wintertime, i wash my clothes and let them dry by hanging them up in my house. It's FREE, no power to run the dryer and it puts moisture back in the air.
You need to be weary of mould doing that though, too much moisture in the air is not good.
Love your videos I’m working towards the same
I love my water/water woodstove, hot water. Love your system. I thought mine was the best...... well, I'm #2 now. Lol
if you need efficient and natural light for extended time (e. g. >30 minutes) you should go for ceramic metal halide lamps, the top model from philips is actually more efficient than LED's and produces a full spectrum light. model name is MASTERColour CDM-T 70W/830 G12 1CT/12
i have 2 of these bulbs along with the corresponding driver and there's nothing out there beating them in terms of light quality and electrical efficiency combined
yeh I have a honda eu10i and I use it a lot everyday as well as solar
Those are nice little units. Nice and quiet.
It took me a long time to find LED lights I can use to read by. I hate the blue/white ones that used to be all there was.
My energy bill was such that I had to find ones that work for me. Now, at least here in Ireland, they’re commonly available. I need warm white and they have to be dimmable. Those are a little less efficient than the cold white ones, but they have a much more natural colour and, unlike the cool ones, they can even power a solar only calculator.
For what it’s worth, changing all my incandescent bulbs to LEDs, did make a small, but noticeable difference to my bill.
The biggest change we need to make, if we stay on grid, is to stop using electricity to heat water. But that requires a level of inconvenience I don’t want in my life, so off grid is my next idea.
Can Power Diesel engine off of hemp seed oil as well. Only need to press seeds for oil and pretty much golden, very little refinement needed.
Another reason to have Diesel engine for bad scenario, can generate new fuel w/ little homemade input
My friend I love your videos, you've taught me many many things. Is there any chance in future videos you can turn up your volume just a bit, sometimes its recorded so low hard to hear, please. Have a great day!
nice setup i would try out the oil heaters the would make more sense you have fore ever burners to fore them you can maby even run your wood burner on oil heaters what can safe you huge amount of time and maby somthing to deal with the snow around and on the solarpanels
Thanks for sharing your gorgeous setup with the world, man. I enjoy learning about your means of electricity procurement.
When and if I ever get off-grid I want to have something very similar to you. Solar with batteries + diesel genny + propane genny. Redundancies, redundancies, redundancies!
We are looking at a wood gasifier to run the generator and charge the battery system.
Like Polaris 6×6, I've had one for many years....✌️
I was with you about LEDs a few years ago but they are indistinguishable now vs incandescent. Check your color temps on the newer stuff, 3000-4000k. even the Edison led bulbs are nice now.
Constant invisible blinking and emiting crazy amounts of frequencies is much bigger problem than color temps. Even new LEDs still use PWM modulation, nothing has improved.
I agree those who are not trying to get off grid have no clue. I only have to cover 75 days of not enough solar to cover my loads. In my research I found Heli 2.0 48V kit with 5 blades to be the best. I am seeing an average day with winds 5-15mph produce 14kw. Since you already have your poles you could add 2 of them or even make it just 1. For $2100 it could make a huge difference on cloudy days and save you diesel. I will be buying one this summer and installing it. I will leave the brake on till i need it since I see no reason to wear out bearings etc and have to use a dump load heater. besides my testing of it. I have 58kw of lifepo4 batteries with 9400 watts of solar. When I get mine up and running I will get you my data if you want.
As Curtis mentioned in an earlier video, he simply does not have the wind resources at his location. I have several neighbours who spent tens of thousands on wind turbines, and yes they do spin nicely up there. But they rarely ever generate useful power, because we do not have significant wind. These folks did not do their homework, ie site appraisal. Spend your money on photovoltaic panels and don't waste your time and money on wind, unless a qualified energy consultant verifies you have the wind resources.
@@paulmaxwell8851 In winter wind is higher. His are not spinning or doing anything because they are end of life. 4 months a year in late fall to early spring the wind doubles in all northern states. To catch the wind you need to be at least 30' up and his are higher. Not all Wind turbines are created equal. That is why I have been researching which ones actually perform. This is also why I said I will let him know how mine do in 5-15mph winds. Turbines at 12 mph produce about 25% of rated output. 20mph 50-65%. 28 mph is the sweet spot where you get about 100%. So with wind at gusts 5-15 mph it should average 400-600 watts per hour. 9,600 watts - 14,400 watts in a day. I bet he can attest to he gets wind over 10 mph a lot in winter. I see so many turbines not produce. That is why I researched which ones do at an affordable price. He already has the tower which is the most expensive part. So again I will test it and let him know. Then he can decide if he wants to do it. I ahve soalr/batteries inverters and I am off grid all but 75 days in the shortest days Nov to end of January.
I want to connect the generator engine cooling system to the wood stove to keep it hot using less wood. However I would plan to run the generator much more often but using waste oil for fuel.
Been doing laundry in a mop bucket for three yrs no prob, led lights have many options now like yellow Amber white specs, life is not about being comfortable it's about teaching our children the will of heavenly Father, thanks for your uploads they help those whom diligently observe
Our "off-grid" art studio, with Mini split A/C and heat pump, in Texas, has a cheap transfer switch, as the shed is there to be used. It still provides about 9/10ths of it's power from the sun, and that is what I'm hearing here, do what works. We're looking to move to the tropics, which is why I'm training on off-grid, and watching your videos, has probably convinced me to put in a Diesel generator. Where we're going uses a lot of Diesel, so will be easy to get. I am testing panel movement. I do wonder if you get sun tracking at all that goes over the panels, if a simple, single axis tracker with linear actuators might provide an increase that is usable since you said you can tilt them yourself. The cheap $40 actuators can move 300lbs, per, and can be controlled by a $65 ebay tracker, which might be worthwhile looking into. I built one with an arduino, just because I do like to geek out and have the time. I had two of the 12" actuators running off three 18650 3.6v batteries. The actuators and controller, use very little power. But, it sounds like it's just easier to use the generator. I only suggest it, because it looks like it would be pretty simple to cobble onto your current system, and could be done for probably close to a $100 per rack. And hey, moving panels are cool...
Another great video, wondering if you find it worth your time to do one that educates us on how you deal with household waste that cannot be thrown into the Johnson su bioreactor such as plastics and glass, thanks in advance.
Nothing special there. Drive it to the dump or take it to the recycling depot.
@@offgridcurtisstone Ahh okay, thank you.
I once came across a diesel genset in Nelson, New Zealand that was inside a ground sheltered enclosure, and the noise was almost non existent.
That's cool but wouldn't be cheap to do that properly, unless you bermed it or something.
an extension pole and light broom or squeegie on them panels will yield more output.
Hey Curtis, what about one of those cheap diesel heaters attached to some sort of spinning drum to dry clothes? that 37kwh gallon of diesel will be almost fully utilized that way. Might even pay for itself in that year alone
Sounds like schlepping brother. We have something that works, why fix it?
Curtis, Thank you for taking the time to share this. This is the first video of yours that I've seen, so far. Know that I'm not judging. I'm merely asking questions to better understand your system(s). Do you have Bi-Facial panels? We would like to have solar and an off-grid generator setup large enough to run our entire property. We are working towards some of those goals. Maybe some day soon. Take care, Tony
No. They weren't available when we built the system.
@@offgridcurtisstone Thank you for responding. Your setup is the kind we want / plan to do for our farm and outbuildings. (Outdoor furnace, solar and back up gen.) Tony (Ontario Canada)
Gen will all ways be AC normally, I really aut to put in a master bypass but then again 21Kw plant is thirsty at partial load (3Kw cont) it uses 10L every 4H apx
Led lights can accuracy reproduce the light spectrum better than incandescent bulbs. Look at the specifications of the bulbs your buying. But where you are at below zero temperatures could be an issue at startup. But led bulbs are phenommely more efficient.
It’s the First time I seen your dog in the video…I wondered what you had..😆
viessmenn used to make awsome hydronic solar panels for hot water heating , I want to try and heat a greenhouse with them connected to a 1000 gallon water tank
I'm with you on the LED lights. The light from them is very unpleasant and I can't stand them. I have stocked up on incandescent bulbs when they were phasing them out.
Were offgrid in central BC and need to run our generator every few days for a few hours to keep up with the house. This the first year ever needing to run it past the 5th of February, it's an older system but over the last summer I noticed a big difference in the suns energy output. Have you noticed this same problem? Or maybe our panels are just getting old.
Big time geo-engineering happening in recent years. It definitely dampens solar, but not debilitating. Part of the reason I did the size of system I did.
Love your honesty and down to earth context. However I DO like LED lights. Just my choice...
Something I find interesting is a home enclosed in a greenhouse. A home in Norway 🇳🇴 at or above your latitude was successfully using a greenhouse for food and heating. The video is on CZcams.
Those server rack batteries have battery management systems already built into them except they do not communicate with your inverter.
I think what you need as a Schneider Connext battery monitor. It’s a $900 item and it has a prescaler box which then connects to the major positive and major negative of the DC bus. All of the current that goes in and out of your battery pack goes through a 500 or 1000 amp shunt and it acts as a precision resistor to determine the current exactly. This is measured overtime and when programmed properly to the size of your actual capacity it will give you a read out in percent of full. That will provide a very accurate means to determine your actual state of charge. I have one. I live off grid too. Lithium iron phosphate batteries have a very flat discharge curve. It’s very hard to determine the actual state of charge through voltage. I like your system thanks for posting the video.
Thanks for that. Can you tell me the exact model you're referring to? thank you.
Check out Samsungs 3200K LEDs, they are very warm, comfortable light.
if solar panels all broke(or if you opted out of solar).. how many hours per day would you need to run the generator to charge the batteries and live like you do now?
WOW, Curtis geny shed looks great. 80 20 best gain, excellent rant. Could you imagine if it would cost your viewer to rant $5/ rant. Can you imagine. Hahaha
Curious on your boiler set up your doing. You mentioned you are doing propane backup boiler. With all the diesel you have stored on site already have you thought about doing a fuel oil boiler instead of propane since fuel oil is diesel. Just curious about that because you mentioned for you diesel is easier to get/store on your property.
You should run the generator under load for at least 15 minutes a week just to keep your oil circulated and to verify usability. Would hate for the shit to hit the fan and you haven't run it for 11 months
Not sure if its an issue for you in the effin cold climate but us in semi tropical need to add fuel 'conditioners ' or stabilizers to stop fuel going off when stored. Less of a problem for diesel, but you can still get microbial growth that can totally destroy your fuel and clog up the fuel lines and filters. Just something to be aware of.
They make high amp alternators hook a few even one up to a decent junkyard engine n their ya go, yah a 300amp alternator can run a fridge n washer or whatever else we do or do not need
Hi Curtis. What building are the batteries kept in? It would be cool if they had their own separate structure away from the shop/house/garage, etc. That way, in case of lithium battery fire, it would only affect its own system and not take a whole bunch of other things and systems along with it. Cheers. Chuck in Florida.
Watch the other video I linked to in this one.
They have low fire risk they are lithium iron phosphate
Light bulbs produce heat, and heat the space they are in. LED are more important in a warm climate b/c not only are they a "less efficient" form of light, they also work against your Cooling unit. In a cold climate, they are slightly reducing your need for Heating so it doesn't really matter that they use more energy than an LED.
However, if you say you don't like LED light that's probably your choice of bulbs. I once claimed to be bothered by LED lights until I found 3w "warm" bulbs (claiming 25w equivalent). We even use five 1w bulbs above our dining table. Early LED generally came in "cool" color and way too bright so I thought it was bad EMF or blue light but it's just not the case. Main source of blue light is sunlight.
Keeping lighting dim and pleasant is of value More lights of a lower intensity so that your iris doesn't close, then a dimmer room seems brighter. Under counter lighting also helps in this way, even though it's less efficient as much of the light lands on surfaces you don't see. Overall, I agree that lighting is not a place to be trying to gain efficiency, just make it pleasant and save elsewhere.
On the viability of using the radiator heat from the Generator: 1 liter of diesel = 10kWh of heat. So 450 L of diesel (450 x 10 kWh) = 4500 kWh of heat blowing out the window. (Note: The electricity produced is in addition to the heat energy). So what's 4500 kWh of heat energy worth in the winter. Is the capital cost worth it? What is a comparable capital cost per kWh for solar?
You are one person, but when the pebbles grow to be rocks, they will be extra hands to work and put effort into the homesite, then grow into valuable people worthy of the name Stone.
I like the warmer LED lights, but the flicker is a problem. One of my personal off-grid goals is a network of low-voltage LED lamps running on 12/24vdc, that don't flicker.
You can get zero flicker led bulbs now.
first time hearing of LED issues. considering everything else that I recently discovered is bad that everyone else consider normal I will just take you word for it. but please send me a few links on the topic.
I have. Not worth the effort. But in a SHTF scenario, all hands on deck!
Have you seen high CRI LED lights that also have good R4 (red) values and are flicker free? These are photo/video grade and are more expensive, but much much better.
They generally don’t have all of the fluffy features such as dimming (which just slows flicker rates) or color adjustments, but they are incredibly good.
Where do you buy them? Any brand names you recommend?
I have to use 4000K to 4500K leds ,i cant stand the 5000K+ ones that are on the edge of blue.
@@firecloud77 Waveform lighting is the gold standard. American Green Lighting has some high bay shop lighting that looks interesting.
@@a4000t I like 4000k for the most part. It looks the most "natural" for day to day although I have some 5600k photo/video lights that are really good.
Flicker free just means higher flicker frequency (more than 100Hz). They are still blinking and emitting frequencies, only a bit faster.
How cold can it get in the winter where you are at? Do you have any worries about cold starting the generator, without any block heater, in cold temperatures?
It warms up really nice. Hasn't been cold enough at -32c.
Nice setup. Me, I want to know when the generator is running. I don't want it loud but if I can't hear it at all then I want some strategically located indicator light calling it to my attention.
"Not real light" eh 😂
That made me laugh.
I am curious. And unless you have answered this in another video, that I have not seen. May I ask why you didn't get a generator that runs off propane? Natural gas? Etc... What made you decide on the diesel?
He has a lot of equip that runs on diesel. So has storage around of diesel for the Generator and the equipment.