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CHUCKY'S TREE HOUSE !

chucky

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Well "OL STORMIN NORMIN" CAME THRU IN FLYING COLORS THE LAST 24 HRS !!! Tornado path came thru yesterday afternoon about 430 about 4 houses down from me and the old girl kept the house and freezer/fridge running the last 22 hrs and he didnt burp once im so proud how good it did ! And no one in my town got killed so thankful for that but lots and lot of rebuildingIMG_3479.jpg
 

chucky

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Ah, I actually thought you might have gotten smart and put some solar panels up added a few batteries and use the genset to just equalize the batteries. Plenty of real estate on the roof for at least 4kw.
ive got 3 315 watt panels up there and 500ah agms for the house batteries need more just waitin for some to fall in my lap !
 

chucky

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12V, 24V or 48V?
12 v So the truck has 8k gen / solar / 2800 w inverter/charger /shore power / truck So with truck running can charge house batteries to run/makr elct while going down the road or idleing ! solar 12v charging house and truck batteries ! generator to do all those things and shore power will do all those things so my thought if any 1 thing go down u have 3 more to cover you so redundancy is the name of the game !
 

chucky

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Look for the gnome, you need one of those.View attachment 912492
Oh yea thats cool ! Me and my buddy was just talking about a bus/straight truck flatbed ! We bought some skillit faced school busses years back and he stil has 1 ! Theres a black and white one for sale on marketplace that would do whatever you needed408481592_7293764010633615_400330581122133608_n.jpg374571345_2496155277211405_8667445121693911843_n.jpg369181918_10161533680087755_4214807716404350775_n.jpg
 

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Oh yea thats cool ! Me and my buddy was just talking about a bus/straight truck flatbed ! We bought some skillit faced school busses years back and he stil has 1 ! Theres a black and white one for sale on marketplace that would do whatever you neededView attachment 912497View attachment 912498View attachment 912499
If I did one I would lift the roof. Mine was a beverage truck I cut half of it down and welded a pedestal on the back to hold the camper fabricated the doors and all. Had 4k worth of panels, 6kW inverter, 12kW dual fuel genset, 880Ah worth of batteries (8 GC’s) @24VDC, 300 gallons of diesel onboard, 200 gallons of water and 15 gallons of bourbon on tap ;) Yeah I towed my car too.
Going to make my 5 ton outfitted to do this in the future.IMG_0464.jpegIMG_0695.jpeg
 

hike

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If I did one I would lift the roof. Mine was a beverage truck I cut half of it down and welded a pedestal on the back to hold the camper fabricated the doors and all. Had 4k worth of panels, 6kW inverter, 12kW dual fuel genset, 880Ah worth of batteries (8 GC’s) @24VDC, 300 gallons of diesel onboard, 200 gallons of water and 15 gallons of bourbon on tap ;) Yeah I towed my car too.
Going to make my 5 ton outfitted to do this in the future.View attachment 912506View attachment 912507
That answers my question—
 
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