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He was a prohibited person. It does help our cause... actually.

Yep. I goofed. I meant working days are a subset of all days.

Someone who himself is also half loaded!

You don't need a transfer switch to do what you are trying to do, you just need an inverter that has that feature built in. The Outback Radian was the most popular choice for this back in 2015 when I was taking courses on sustainable energy. It will isolate you from the grid if the grid goes down and it will continue to provide you power if available from your solar panels or battery bank. There are several things to consider with this setup. 1. You will need a battery bank, a charge controller and possibly a load shunt, so excess power will always have somewhere to go safely in the event the grid is not available. 2. Batteries can store a lot of power, but last I checked, they cannot discharge a lot of power continuously. The best way to run off of batteries (both in terms of economic use of the stored energy and financial investment in the system itself) is to have the batteries supply power to a sub-panel which will only power critical circuits in your home. You'll want heat for in the winter (preferably gas or propane; electric heat not recommended) minimal electric for lights and small appliance/freezer and depending on when your live, a well pump. Its best to sacrifice central air conditioner, electric stoves, an other large draws on electricity that are not critical to sustaining life. 3. Careful calculations have to be made when considering how long the battery bank can sustain your demand for its power and these calculations are best done when considering worse case scenario. If the power goes out at night, in the winter when the days are shorter and the next 2 days are cloudy and snowing, you will not be able to recharge the system if it was designed to only sustain you for 1 day. Typically in a system like this, 3 to 5 days of stored power is ideal. 4. The calculations have to be correct for how many panels are required to recharged said system when the batteries are near depleted and they have to do it in December when the days are the shortest. Overall, its very possible to have a system that can stand alone when the grid goes down, but its extremely expensive. When I priced it out several years ago for my house, it would have cost around $60k total, where the normal system with just the panels and inverter was about 1/4 of that. A whole house standby generator seemed like a better choice for the money. I'm not saying a generator is a better choice, just saying its a more affordable choice. I definitely recognize the genny's disadvantages.

Yes. Legal. I have one. Not very useful. Spork of firearms. But lots of fun.

My neighbors had a standby gen on propane, also for heat/hot water and stove. When we lost power in the March 2018 wind storm their gen ran continuously for 3 or 4 days. I think they had two one hundred gallon tanks at the time. So quite a while for a 4800 sq. ft. house.

Clearly what we need is stronger laws....quickly someone summon the gopher and his idiot gang to start writing new laws. "It shall be unlawful to even think of owning a gun in NJ...thinking about owning a gun is punishable by 100 years in jail, no probation or early release" that will help reduce gun crime.

I have seen quite a few firearms recovered from bad guys. I would say that at least 3/4 of them were either not fully loaded or had the wrong ammo in them. This is not surprising in the least. While we argue about what belt and holster combo is the best for carrying the new wonder micro blaster touted by our favorite IG hucksters and load it with uncle cheech’s garlic soaked heat rounds because they are the same as the ones used by Navy SEALS, they’re taking whatever ammo they can find and sticking it in any gun it will fit in, and sticking it in their armpit or down their pants.

Trump's fault.

So heres my timeline for Marlboro PD... 8/26- Submitted to my PD 9/13- Got PD approval email and sent to courts 9/30- Got emailed letter from Monmouth Prosecutors office to the judge that they don't have any objection At this point I'm guessing I'm just waiting for Judge to sign off

I'm carrying a G19 these days. When the weather warms up again and I'm wearing T-shirt and shorts I'll switch to my G26. When the mag limit case gets resolved, I'm thinking I'll get a Hellcat.

I'll be there, of course. Maks as well.

Last I checked, a 20kw standby generator fueled by propane running at half load could run continuously for 30 days off of a full 1,000 gallon propane tank. I have propane for my furnace and water heater. The tank is underground but my brother in law has an above ground tank. Never heard of it getting cold enough in NJ to cause issues with it. Liquid propane vaporizes at -44 degrees. The temp would have to get under that to cause the propane to remain in a liquid state and cause you to stop getting propane gas into your house.

If yours is in NJ, then state law requires that the system only produce as much power each year as what you used the year prior to purchasing the system. Since the days are longer in the summer, you typically make more power than you need in summer. Without batteries to store the charge, this excess power goes to the transformer that feeds your house, gets stepped up from 240 volts to line voltage (18k volts irc) and gets sent down the street to other houses. I live in Atlantic City Electric grid area so my excess generation shows up on page 2 of my bill as a credit. Every kilowatt extra I produce for them adds a kilowatt to my credit balance. Your bill is required to show you excess generation, but depending on your utility provider, the format of the bill may be different. Anyway, the utility companies fiscal year runs from March to February. So starting in March, the days slowly get longer and more importantly, the tropic of cancer is aligned directly with the sun for us in the northern hemisphere. This puts the sun at noon at the optimal 90 degree angle to your solar panels if they are installed with a tilt between 18 and 22 degrees (most are). So your system will began making a lot of power this time of year. As the earth continues to tilt through the summer, the angle to the sun becomes slightly less and less optimal, but the days get longer so it evens out and the excess power generation continues, especially if you have a well insulated house that doesn't need A/C running 24/7 through the hot months. Eventually, winter rolls around and the days are fairly short. You most likely use more grid power in December, January and February, but instead of them charging you for the kilowatts you are using, they deduct it from the credits you built up over the first part of their fiscal year. It should balance out to where you never pay. When the following March rolls around, what ever kilowatts of credits you still have gets wiped off your account and they send you a check to pay you for it at the rate they charge customers per kilowatt. So just because you don't pay a bill doesn't necessarily mean you produce enough in the dead of winter to be self sufficient and top off a depleted bank of batteries.

It took two weeks to get to me. But only because it went down to FIU in west Trenton first. Since you have a local PD it shouldn’t take that long. Tomorrow I’m calling about qualifying with my other guns.

For the money probably better off with a standby generator and a large tank of propane. Propane stores better than other fuels and could power appliances, heat the house, cook your food. What if the grid goes down in the winter during extended inclement weather? This is N.J. not southern California. The Amish are big on propane and are the original "off grid" people.

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Just like that, the people who call it ‘Taylor Ham’ rushed out to apply for handicapped tags….

You just need to read the statute. It says '60 days' 'days' are all days. 'calendar days' are a subset of days and would have to stated explicitly. It is the same as the 2A applies to 'the people'. That means all the people, not just the white, male, or any other subset of 'the people'.

We had a Shield 2.0 for a few months and it was probably the worst gun I've ever shot. Everything about it was so uncomfortable. We ended up consigning it and getting the P320 X Compact.

You're only going to carry a gun that is comfortable for you to carry on a regular basis. Go smaller than your choices. Try a Sig P365, SA Hellcat, S&W Shield, etc. Choose something that you'll shoot infrequently, but carry a lot.

My 403b has lost about 20% in the past year.