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The Ready2Go is a stand-alone, plug and play, mobile, electric backup power system.
The Ready2Go is a power storage and redisbursement system. It is not a power generator. It can be charged with any 120-volt standard outlet, generator, and/or 12-volt generating devices, such as solar panels, wind power or hydro systems. What makes it unique is the amount of power that it can store, combined with the ease of mobility and its relatively small storage footprint, (approximately 24" x 24"). The combination of all three of these features is what makes this system unique. Because of the way this system is engineered, one person can move it from place to place easily and it can provide a substantial amount of power in emergency, utility or recreational situations. The Ready2Go has three major components: a battery charger/inverter, two deep cycle gel cell batteries, and a custom designed wheeled cart. The cart is designed to optimize the use of these two components while utilizing as small of a footprint as possible and that is also mobile. The reason that WE stray from calling the Ready2Go a "solar generator" is because the initial set up for the Ready2Go is to charge the batteries through the inverter/charger using standard 120-volt alternating current (AC.) However, both the Ready2Go and the upgraded version, the Ready4Go, can be adapted to be charged with direct current (DC) alternative energy systems such as wind generators, micro hydro and of course solar.
Why:
Because I am a builder who has promoted green building for as long as I have been in business (roughly 26 years) and because I have built homes off the grid in Hawaii for the last 18 years I found it necessary to create the Ready2Go. First of all, for philosophical reasons, I felt that if I was going to be building homes that are powered by the sun or other alternative energy systems then I would be hypocritical to do so using a gas powered generator or grid power to construct them. The reason is that Hawaii gets almost 98% of their grid power from fossil fuels. The local electric utility company, Hawaii Electric Company, will say that those numbers are actually lower but they are taking 'artistic license' to do so. So by using grid power or a gas powered generator I am essentially using the same fuels to build a home, for my clients who are trying to get away from those fuels, mostly for philosophical reasons. Additionally, as a builder I didn't like the sound pollution that a gas powered generator makes, the drain on my bottom line that the cost of fueling the generators require, and, equally important, the amount of time it takes to go by the gas station and fill the gas cans to fuel the generators almost on a daily basis. Proper charging and use of the Ready2Go can eliminate all those ills.
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