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Living in South Africa you need to plan around electricity issues.

Our coal plants are old and break down frequently and the new ones they built has design flaws so we have rotational blackouts lasting about 2.5 hours daily.

Bought a 1000W inverter with 12V deepcycle gel 100AH battery for the home office - it has a solar charger but we are in winter so that has to wait.



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