Small Cabin

Unsure on the chemistry,

What usable 12v ah's do you figure can be converted out of those 48v bats?

Yea I'm still not entirely sure on what foundation to go with.

Have you talked to the local building inspector/town/county about what your planing?

E-bike batteries are usually the cylindrical lithium-ion type, as used by Tesla because they are the most energy-dense of all the lithium types. Probably 52 of the 18650 cells in a 13S4P configuration.

What usable 12v ah's do you figure can be converted out of those 48v bats?

How efficient is the converter?
How deep are you willing to discharge the batteries?

Stick with your initial thought of sonotubes. This will also get you off the ground a bit. In snow country, you want to be off the ground a little bit. I'm in deep snow country and I'm 3 feet off the ground, best decision I made.

Also, since your in snow country, and use it in the winter to dry things out...get a wood burning stove.

Fwiw, my infrared lp wall furnace dried out my wet gloves just like my wood stove.
Sitting in front of it feels just like my wood stove.
Takes up LOTS less space than my wood stove.
Fires up and starts kicking out heat right away.
Requires no hole in the roof or class A chimney.
Im getting very attached to it.

I actually do have a small wood stove that I COULD install too, but I'm really hoping to rely on the diesel heater as a primary heat source because it's so damn convenient compared to maintaining a small wood stove.

I would also look up any setback requirements for a building 90' with 500' of road frontage dosnt leave much room for error nor does it give you alot of space from the road to tuck it away.

Sorry not going to download anything from an unknown source.

Wood stoves work off radiant heat. Diesel and propane work off of convection heat.

You could run a place all day off the propane or diesel and it will never feel warm as none of the indoor furnishings will get warm. It will always feel cold on surfaces. A wood stove heats the objects in the room and for cold snow gear, you want them to dry thru, just not surface dry.

I also have a place in Steamboat since I snowboard a lot in the winter, it's all radiant heat. I actually ripped out the forced air furnace and had a geothermal well drilled and had hot water baseboard heaters installed. The comfort now is night and day different than when it was just convection heat.

Birdman, there are vented propane heaters that don't release any moisture to the interior space. RV Propane heaters are like this, but as you said, they can suck the power. Propane wall furnaces are usually vented outside, too. The wall mounted non-vented ones are the moisture nightmare.....You actually get 1.6 lbs of water in the air for every pound of propane burned!!!
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If I were you, I'd sell the diesel heater and get a direct vent propane wall heater, like a Martin 14000 BTU. Just my opinion.

How does that mean you can build what you want?

"they may only use the structures in conjunction with a primary agricultural or forestry
production use for storage of materials used onsite, and state that they intend to use the property
in such manner. Such intended use would resolve the code violations on the property so long as
the structural size is exempt from building permit requirements "

I read this as they can only use a small building with no residence on site for storage...?

I'll look around, but do you have a thread on here for your cabin that I could check out?

snobdds that thing looks amazing!! Wish I could build something bigger like you've got there. The geothermal well is so rad too, great use of the natural resources to make your place more comfortable.

If you're ever in the PNW and want someone to show you the goods, give me a shout. I've been riding at Stevens Pass since I was 4 years old so I've got the place pretty well mapped out.

I just built it. I didn't ask for permission or what codes needed to be followed. THe old, it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. I did have to have the place rezoned so I could pay more in taxes, but they don't do code stuff here.

Sounds good. The first time I heard of stevens pass was in a snowboard movie called easy rider. To this day I can rember temple cummings jumping the moving train. It looks like good terrain up there. I go to whistler every few years. The snow is so much different than what I am use to, very heavy wet snow. I am use to the champagne powder of Steamboat.