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200Dachshunds t1_j1psqxi wrote

We have a heat pump for everyday use but a wall mounted propane heater for outages and when it gets below 10 and the heat pump struggles. It’s enough to keep our little house cozy in an outage. I also keep a gallon of water in the freezer which just acts as a huge ice cube. We don’t have a generator so I shuffle fridge food inside and outside to keep it in the cold sweet spot. One of the best things we have is a solar powered phone charger. Enough to charge us four times over, more if we let it sit in the sun. We usually take trips out for food during an outage. In general I’d say we’re very well prepared but I still absolutely hate being out in the winter. I stress.

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panadoodle t1_j1q66gs wrote

If I may ask, what type of solar power phone charger do you have?

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imhostfu t1_j1q862d wrote

This is the solar charger that I have. I do a lot of backpacking and car camping (this charger is in my car camping bin), and someone on one of those subreddits had purchased a lot and done an exhaustive study on them.

You’re better off letting it charge a battery bank for the day, then using the battery bank to charge your devices.

Ryno-Tuff Portable Solar Charger... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0787GQZTQ

It’s a couple of years old so it has regular USB plugs and not USB-C (fyi)

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