Build It Myself

For many of us looking forward to homesteading or building our off grid home the ultimate is surely living off the grid Alaska.

Finding just the right grid tie inverter can be a challenge. Many families are now looking at the option of having solar and wind power, or renewable energy to lower their electricity bills, grid tie inverters integrate your system with grid power.

Most people know the obvious use of golf cart batteries, but did you also know they could be used anywhere else that a deep cycle battery is used, in your boat, or even in a renewable energy system and you can learn how to recondition batteries too.

We wanted to learn how to recondition batteries because that is the single biggest expense in an off grid power supply system. We had heard that batteries could be brought back to life, we just had to learn how to recondition batteries.

Learning how to build a homemade wind turbine was very important to us after moving off the grid and having very little money to work with. Building a homemade wind turbine seemed to be the answer.

Learning how to build solar panels was quick and easy and didn’t require any special tools. A simple guide, ‘How to Build Solar Panels’ was all that it took for us to get started.

When we decided to build our own homemade wind generator we really wanted it to look good. Our family had chosen to make a homemade wind generator because of the high cost of solar panels and the fact that we had no real water power source.

Learning how to build a homemade wind generator is not really that difficult. All you really need is the right location and the right set of plans.