Power flow: -Sun to solar panel. -Solar panel to charge controller -Charge controller to battery. You need this because panel voltage varies with...
1st - You have good quality batteries. Interstate Batteries' GC-2 golf cart battery line has the longest drive time between charges in the...
Okay. Deep breath. Thanks to all of you for your replies. As far as doing any of this myself, that is a problem. To me it IS rocket science....
Instead of a tarp consider a ground cloth you would use under a back packing tent. They are lighter, more compact, typically stronger, quieter and...
I guess I need to readdress what my BoB is intended for. Originally, I scouted a BOL and put together the necessities that would be required to...
You rock! I envy you!
I lived in the mountains, power was lost regularly, lightening in the summer rain storms, and snow in the winter. Warnings were called common...
Thank you for your input. I have looked into small turbines; however, where I am planning on parking the vehicle, there will be too many...
When i lived on the dessert we had solar ,but during the winter months the sun was low on the horizon so we use a small engine alternator to...
I am a little confused about something and I hope one of you pros can help. So my charge controller is supposed to keep my battery from over...
I am using 12 volt Ever Start Marine Batteries. I have 2 now. The way I currently do it, is I use one battery while the other is on the solar....
Ok, so I am on a tight budget but I live 10 miles from the nearest utilities. Currently, my power is provided by a generator and a 60watt solar...
Ok, I think I have enough info to go on. Ya'lls help combined with the books I downloaded today, I think I have a pretty good idea of what I need...
I actually have some 10g wire already, but I will need to get some 8. Thank you guys. Output for my wall wart is 19.5V / 2.31A and yes, I actually...
OK. Upgrade your wire as BT suggests. Then, get out your laptop wall wart and see what it's rating is, that should also be in the O&M manual for...
ok so i thought of what i consider better than my last failed idea... doing a little more research and a few hours of lost sleep i think i have...
Hi all. My lovely son gave me a solar panel for Xmas. I still need a battery but he said he will get me one later. But it is a start for a solar...
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That is exactly how I would do off grid running water. Use a well pump, tanker truck, trailer tanker and/or rain collection to fill a cistern or...
I see that is going to be too expensive going the way I proposed. Thinking now a 300-500 gallon storage tank and filling it as needed using the...
The government always does this. They buy too much stuff or stuff they don't need and sell it off cheap. Yeah if the N-G link isn't remove when...
The nice thing about solar power, or any DC power for that matter for charging batteries is that the only value one need concern them self is the...
I have a cheap and dirty Harbor Freight 45 watt system that I bought for $139 on sale and a Tractor Supply deep draw battery. Comes with panels,...
CommGrats. Thanks for helping the kiddos involved. There is a friend on FB James Lee who has young girls like 8 that 2 have their Extra and the...
Just look at your device and find out the capacity of its battery. A power bank will charge your device until it is empty. Just remember, the...
Power is essential to a large percentage of the activities in modern life. In large and small emergencies alike, access to good power is...
[ATTACH] I believe we have the same solar charger. As for direct power, perhaps something like this would help. What is the charging voltage of...
Emergency power is essential to a large percentage of the activities in modern life. In large and small emergencies alike, access to good power is...
I put in a 100,000 micro Farad capacitor in to smooth out the pulsed DC coming off the rectifier and checked the DC voltage for pulsation with my...
I started my system when we got our first computer, and bought a gel cell battery and inverter. My battery charger (on the grid power) kept the...
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