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You'll like how easy it is to use. When it arrives, set it up and run some water through it so you know how it all works. Get a handful of buckets. You need one to haul the dirty water, one with the filter system hooked to it and at least one for the clean filtered water. A couple extra don't hurt. And label the buckets so you don't mix up the potable water buckets with dirty water buckets.
I also bought a couple of the Sawyer Mini filters. Nice to have drinkable water when you're traveling in a shtf world.
I knew a guy once that lived in this neck of the woods who had a totally off-grid solar powered home. Even on cloudy days it would at least trickle charge the batteries. But without outside power you have to be really careful about what you're running. Completely off-grid is a completely different lifestyle.
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Thanks Coop.
It really fills a need that I have overlooked for an egregiously long time. I have a Bison hand pump with threaded drop pipes ready to go to draw water out of my well in the worst of SHTF conditions, but nothing to treat a hand-dug well that I have begun that started as a seasonal spring I found on my property. Water really is life.
I will buy a bunch more food-safe buckets to keep on hand.
My buddy in Arizona has been telling me interesting things about a 48v solar system with lithium batteries. The lithium batteries are !!expensive!! but he was telling me about the deep discharge capabilities of lithium batteries that would make conventional lead/acid batteries into expensive bricks.