Link to two TSP podcasts on backup power

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Someone in comments pointed out this link to me and it was worth sharing:
http://www.battery1234.com/

Its a page with two episodes of The Survival Podcast on the subject of emergency backup battery systems. I listened to both episodes and was quite pleased. Lots of information and lots of very specific information…names are named. Yeah, everything the guy discusses is linked to on page and available off Amazon, but I thought the content of the two articles was so good that who was I to begrudge the man a chance to make a few bucks off his links?

I listen to TSP on and off…Far too much permaculture and gardening content for me. Not saying its not important, just saying that it gets boring after a while. Anyway, the two episodes at the link were, in my opinion, quite good and I recommend them to anyone who is still behind on getting some sort of backup/emergency power system in place.

4 thoughts on “Link to two TSP podcasts on backup power”

  1. I stopped listening to TSP a few years ago, and haven’t missed it. Jack Spearco (sp?) Tends to get very repetitive, and can come across like a real zealot over certain topic like gardening or his nutty anti-GMO stance. He did have some decent podcast episodes back in his early days, however.

    • Jack got way too full of himself. He calls anyone who disagrees with him an asshat. He thinks he is way smarter then he is and thinks he is an expert on any and every thing. He used to be someone I listened to everyday. I havent listened to him in months. He was selling silver coins and giving away free copper coins with a purchase. I commented that if you have to send money to get something it is not free. He went off and told me he what an idiot I was. He is a jerk, maybe a really smart jerk, but a jerk nonetheless.

  2. Just a quick FYI, I have no affiliation at all with Steven Harris. I had just heard his podcasts and a day or two before reading Commander Zero mention that he’d like to get to work on some battery backup(hopefully not too far down the road for me as well, I’m trying to learn the how toos anyway) and so I passed them along.

    Anyway, Steven is quick to point out that yes he has links to the stuff off of amazon and that he would make a little commission but also imperatively states that he cares not where you source the components so long as it helps people and infancy encourages buying local if you choose. Posting links to the exact items he references in building a system does make it easy to find the exact items he is explaining how to incorporate into a system.

    I only really bother to post as in having looked into this a bit now I would like to simply advise that a number of his product links are now dead. Specifically, the battery chargers/maintainers. These items are still available but you’d have to search amazon or wherever you choose to buy, as prices have risen a bit since he made the podcasts and his links to those items at least(probably others as well but this is all I really researched at this point) no longer work.

    I think his model for a vehicle mounted portable power system is the way I’m going to go when funds allow. Good luck!

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