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[LUG] Wanted: Lister or Staromatic diesel/oil engine to allow off grid laptop use

 

Totally off topic, or possibly, just, a teensiest little bit relevant in
the most tenuous degree 'cos I'm planning to go off grid with a domestic
scale combined heat and power system using veggie oil (and flog any
excess lekky back to the grid).

So if anyone knows of anyone with an old Lister or Staromatic engine in
a barn or shed, please put me in touch. Ideally with a good old
fashioned heavy generator head too!

The advent of modern lower consumption electrical/tronic equipment and
low cost eastern converters to allow feeding back to the grid is making
this feasible, as does the lower cost of underfloor heating equipment.

 We're slowly junking our dozen or so desktops/towers and servers and so
forth into laptops (useable on own right or thin client X windows
recipient) and network drives at fractions of the wattage needed to
drive the stuff before! 

Still doesn't solve the problem of boiling the kettle 3 or 4 times a day
(3kw load for say 2 minutes for a big pot) but when we ditch the last of
the CRT TVs and monitors then we're well within the range for a good old
6/1 Lister...


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