The Savage Awakening (A preppers Perspective) (7 page)
Yes he thought it was pretty cool that “the
Crank-A-Watt™ could run a electric can opener but if you were supposed to be trying to be “sipping juice” as Dennis tried to profess why would you? I mean get the manual one out and expend less energy for the same result?” Charles questioned himself.
“I have a master coup in mind we will talk about here shortly, but let us just look at what keeps my old mom happy. She is fixated on that blood pressure cuff of hers, it runs off a battery and she has a heart condition we all are aware of. She rode her exercise bike or walked to improve her heart before this crap hit right? So now she could do the same but it’s to power that battery. Ok, today for example, I might get her to ride the bike to help store food if we use a vacuum sealer, ride the bike for her cell phone as a charger which I haven’t tried yet, its one of those large text old folks non technical emergency phones. The Crank-A-Watt will run a mixer, your old lady don’t know how to make cake icing from scratch and mine does for all that weird flour you recently got. Ok. How about this? I need to talk about all that stale bread you got lucky with. I was going to suggest to you we have a bread tearing and mushing party by hand, nut you know what? We haven’t thought it through far enough. You got what? Maybe a few hundred loaves, I havent seen your stores yet.
One 80 plus year old lady with a electric knife and a Crank-A-Watt™ to power it can out work the shit out of three of us to cut up that bread in cubes to make whiskey or stuffing. Every Christmas and Thanksgiving we get two pounds of bread to make the world’s best dressing to go with our turkey dinner, it’s a family tradition. I come in the kitchen and see a big stock pot of trimmed and cubed bread I know its time to volunteer to cut the onions and celery. She leaves the bread in that big pot for a couple days and just circulates with a big spoon so it gets uniformly stale before the cook magic and tasting happens.” Dennis stated just getting geared up on all the use he had for his device.
“You have the directions handy for hooking the crank-a-watt to a bike?” Charles asked
“Yes have them right here, very simple.” Denis said and handed him the directions.
Bicycle Pedaling
1- Remove the drive belt from the pulleys.
Caution:
Don't pinch your fingers!
2- Align the 3" generator pulley to the bicycle tire. Using an Allen wrench, loosen the Allen fitting on the pulley.
IMPORTANT
This is the Allen fitting nearest to you, not the one nearest to the generator! Turn the adjustable pulley in or out, until the desired width is achieved for the bicycle tire.
3- Restrain the generator case so it doesn't move. A rubber bungee strap can be useful!
4- Pedal at will!
“Well that’s certainly simple enough, now what is this master use you thought of for it?” Charles asked.
“We leave it hand crank and put it next to the toilet?” Dennis said grinning.
“Do what? What for?” Charles asked confused before it dawned on him Dennis was going to use it to power a 12v pump to fill the toilet tank from a rain barrel he had outside the window.
“You get done with your business, you flush and hit the fill switch and give it a few cranks. Shazzam Instant indoor plumbing.” Dennis said smiling.
“Ha! Poo Power!” Charles said chuckling.
“Damn I wish, I bet Engineer775 from YouTube could figure out how to hook it to a methane digester but that’s application is beyond me. I got that Crank-A-Watt™ from his practicalprepper.com website by the way. He is the alternative energy guru for all the preppers and I wish I had him around to ask some questions from right now.” Dennis said thinking back on all the knowledge he had gained from watching the mans videos or looking over his website.
“What kind of questions would you ask him?” Charles asked.
“Well the one that really intrigues me is running a big 12v battery charger off of the Crank-A-Watt’s inverter. Probably be a trickle charger but run that to a battery bank with another trickle charger running back to the Crank-A-Watt in sort of a loop. I know you can’t get more power out than you put in but if you’re stepping up the juice it seems like a lot less cranking to get more out. By the way I can put a solar panel on that Crank-A-Watt also. As much sun as we get around here normally I probably wouldn’t have to hardly ever crank it. I can also hook it to more or bigger batteries as a standalone system. There are all kinds of things I guess we could experiment with given a bit more insight.” Dennis concluded.
“Hell we could probably make some money that generator just setting up to recharge peoples phones and things.” Charles speculated.
“I thought about that but its also ideal for first responders to keep police and fire fighters radios charged and ready. I would be scared they might commander it or something.” Dennis stated.
“I see your point; hey we could build a fire under that 55 gallon drum and pump water in for a bath.” Charles said.
“I already thought of that, I got it set up high enough on cinder blocks that I can shove a Stovetec under it. Using it keeps me from worrying about burning down the house because it’s a contained fire. “Dennis replied
“I am going to go get the radio so we can listen for some news while we are out here” Charles said
THE END OF BOOK TWO, A PREPPERS PERSPECTIVE
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