Everybody these days is trying to create passive income by doing nothing and being a leach. Here is how I created $125/mo of WIN-WIN recurring passive income for about 2hrs and $200 in parts.
What I did to EARN this passive income is to offset regular spend by increasing efficiency. We have a pump that runs 24hrs a day filling 42,000 Gallon Fire Suppression Tanks. That is similar to having a heater running on LOW or Medium all day, every day.
We have 1/2hp pumps, 3/4hp, 2hp, 10hp… this one IIRC is rated at 1/2hp. It draws 5.45A while running into the intended load. We can calculate the regular and steady consumption using Ohms Law
V = I * R
V = Volts
I = Amps
R = Ohms
V in this case is 120V AC RMS
I is displayed as 5.45A
To use that, we need one more set of formulas for deriving Power in Watts
W = V * I
W = Watts
V = 120V
I = 5.45A
You just have to watch your units. If I*V=W then plug in the numbers.
Ok, about 650W
You can confirm that in about 18 ways
Now we are going to introduce 1 more metric
Watt Hours
It is exactly what it sounds like. The wattage you draw steady multiplied by the number of hours
648W Continuous
24hrs a day
Now we represent those numbers with their Units… Watts and hours
650W
15,600Wh = 15.6kwh
Ok, so we are burning 15.6kwh a day. Not bad until you work out a month of service
I dont know if you know how to count or not… But that above is HALF A MILLION.
0.5MWH a month
Half a Megawatt Hour a month
YES … IT ADDS UP FAST
If you are being charged $0.25/kwh (about half what I pay) that works out to
468kwh x $0.25/kwh = $117/mo
Yes, I omitted some units above (like month) but if you do your algebra you will find that my calculations come out correct. You just have to MIND YOUR UNITS. I have done 100,000 hours of “math” so I feel pretty confident about manipulating units in an equasion.
So what does all that mean to you?
PASSIVE INCOME
INCREASED BY $117 a month
MONEY IN YOUR POCKET THAT YOU CAN USE TO BUY BEEF JERKY AND YERBA
🙂
Of course you need Solar Panels to make all this happen. Remember how we bought pallets of shattered panels and people were scoffing? Well, years later, they are producing output. They have been thru Snow, Horrific rain storms, wind storms, dust….
The panels just keep POUNDING out the work. Work is related to Power. Look above to see that we are doing 2,345W of work (2.45KW where 1hp is about 1kw). We have accumulated 3.2kWh so far.
That was with panels pointed in every which direction. Three pairs were laying on their side. Here is what I get after running a few screws into some 2×4 legs
Another 200W of continuous work. That is A TON of power, just pouring out of the sky. That alone would offset our Pumping bill by 20%
Do them maths
There are no tricks here man. I am not selling anything. I am just a Quality Engineer, Test Engineer, Principal Engineer, Director of Hardware and Manufacturing, …. telling you that FREE FUCKING ENERGY falls from the sky and you can capture it and store it for up to 10 years using Lithium Batteries.
I do REGULARLY
…. and that Spider Above?
On our property they get to the size of a “Softball”. Not the body, but including the legs. Just picture a “daddy long legs” as big as your knee
Changing subjects… the boat was covered in all sorts of weird, thick, spiders. Below I enter my middle finger for scale
SCHINDLER ENTERS HIS MIDDLE FINGER FOR SCALE
OK, ONWARD
Below I have that ~645W moved over to the OFF GRID SOLAR. The way you read that panel tells you the following
- I have no power coming in on mains
- I have 686W coming in from the sun
- I have 645W going out to my pump
Yea thats right
Who’s your daddy?
To make that work I have about 9.6kwh of batteries. The math on that goes like this
9.6KWH / 0.645KW = hours
About 14hrs
Well… Guessing that we have 6hrs or so of pounding sun a day (we have more…) I can add 14hrs to 6hrs to get 20hrs. We can see right off that I will come up 4hrs short for 24/hr a day service.
IF
Your solar pumps more juice than you are using… which MINE DOES (LOT MORE)
Shitty photography, but above I am driving the pump while pushing 9.5A into the 52V battery. Upper right shows 13.9%, upper left shows 0%
0.0A off of mains power
13.9% of 5KW = 695W
695W = 50W for Inverter + Autotransformer = our 645W of PUMP
4.6A coming in off the solar at something like 380V
That is something like 1,748W
9.5A heading out into a 52V nominal battery (FULL) so around 58V
58V * 9.5A = 551W of battery charge
551W battery charge + 645W Pump Work = 1,196W
Which… to ROUGH NUMBERS…. works out to out Solar Power coming in
(Slightly off due to a few assumptions like current solar working voltage, efficiency, etc)
Yea, so… to create this PASSIVE INCOME all I did was throw in a 20A double, run 3pcs 10AWG and a Ground… and done
- 240V L1 and L2 in 10AWG come off the breaker and out to the Auto Transformer
- Neutral comes back in 10AWG and gets tied to the Neutral main bar
- After that… you can run split phase loads (120V)
Pretty BOSS
Simple stuff dude
This is a Test Box. Previously I had only 240V running to that NEMA 14-20. Now I have it wired properly for full 240/120 operation.
REMEMBER – OFF GRID FIRE SUPRESSION SYSTEM
Dont do this at home*
This article did not come out anything like planned. Oh well… maybe it will flip your switch, maybe it will baffle you. I dont care either way. We are all dying faster than we would like to admit… and… the best way to teach a man a lesson is thru setting an example.
THIS… is what I do with my time. I draw energy from the sun, run well pumps, and store the extra energy in batteries… to run the pump thru the night.
TIME WARP
ABOVE WAS YESTERDAY
BELOW WAS YESTER YEAR
I have been doing this since the very first packs were landing, unlabeled… Fighter for the Revolution
-methods