you guys are gonna get a kick out of this
when i built my shop, i used a 40ft shipping container for the back wall, and put a 6foot pony wall on one side and shed roofed down and out 24ft to make a 24x40 open floor shop, with clerestory windows to in the upper portion of the pony wall to the south,,, works well for letting in the winter sun...
anyway getting to the point, the generator room is set to be the last 10-12 ft of the container at the double door end. i plan on dividing this section off with a double pane sliding patio door and then use the next section as my battery/inverter room...
i am looking for one of those cool consoles typical of control rooms back in the day.
failing that i am going full on steampunk!
why not? it just seems like the way to go to me!
complete with a jacobs ladder prominently displayed to finish the motif.
the pic posted by frank just happened to tip me over, thought i would share a bit of my insanity.
one only lives once, so why not have a bit of fun along the way?
there will be those that take a dim view of this as not being practical, however my response is this... my offgrid dream came to an abrupt end a couple years back as my health declined... so i can't do the full on offgrid thing, however where i live in this small town, without inspectors and code enforcement, i can at least have a bit of fun with what i have left that i can physically do.
besides i think it will freak out the local kids! that alone is worth the effort.
bob g