Is that true even when just charging up batteries? I'm thinking of things like a 4AA battery charger, or a cordless shaver, or a smartphone. Is...
I've been looking at the idea of using solar power in case of long-term power outages caused by a cyberattack on the electrical grid, or maybe an...
The Breeze Power is a powerful generator with a Lithium-ion battery. Breeze Power works soundless and fuel free, it has an capacity of 400 Wh, a...
I'm going to have to read your post a couple more times because I'm sure there are a lot more good ideas in there, but right now I'm stoked about...
Every single component of my system is independently wired through individual switches (on-off-on) so that at any time I can test individual...
Wind turbines need a braking system so when power is not needed , the turbine will NOT over speed and destruct . A KID CC from midnite can...
The idea of watts is also sort of confusing (it was to me at the start) I like to convert to Amp to calculate my charging. I have a 40 amp/hour...
------------ New and my first post here. My CPAP machine is through the VA and works well, annually checked out by them. My first VA advisor...
Well I sold all those panels for $2,500. So they payed for them selves and then some in under a year. I figured I would sell a few. One of the...
I subscribe to a battery bank system. Can be charged with several means. Grid, wind , solar, turbine, AC or DC Alternator/generator Already...
Our old house had a 48vdc 400ah battery bank to a 2000 watt UPS to run lights etc. Power failure barely blinked the lights. 6.5kw of solar...
Ready for a long - winded discussion? 158 W Monocrystalline panels X6. Two banks of three connected in series for a N.L. output of around 60...
Decided on 24 vdc system plus a smaller 12vdc system for ham station and small lighting. 1800 watts of PV to charge both battery banks... Using...
I took a chance and bought an AIMS 3 kW low frequency inverter / charger last year for powering my Travel Trailer at the BOL. Yep, I'm a tinkerer...
I am not your high tech numbers guy. I built my battery bank system and inverter to circumvent the inevitable power outages that happened to us...
I didn't have a lot off money when I got started building my system, With a tax return we bought our first compact computer and with that bought...
When we bought our first Compac computer, we lived in the mountains, where the power was unreliable . The first task was to make a battery back up...
It was brought to my attention recently that, at a social gathering at our farm, an acquaintance had the audacity to gossip to other guests,...
[IMG] Breeze Power The Breeze Power is a powerful generator with a Lithium-ion battery. Breeze Power works soundless and fuel-free, it has a...
About the only reason I fire up a bigger generator is to run stuff that can't run on any thing smaller . The smallest generating system have is a...
I have to say this. Frankly I'm in battle with my Power Company and a couple politicans. I had planned on adding 6 to 8 buildings on my property....
I'm investigating the possibility of deriving power from solid fuels. Just burning something. There's boilers and steam engines, but steam engines...
Good evening! First post to the forums, so go lenient on me. A TL;DR is at the bottom So, im in the guard as a medic, practically living in the...
When I first started with our new computer living in the mountains with untrustworthy grid power, we used gel cell battery inverter and a...
I stared off making a UPS to run my computer off grid ,mostly because the grid was unreliable and irresponsible . Later I began applying solar...
Why do people assume just because you buy an electric that's now all you own? I still have my diesel 1985 suburban. It lacks any kind of ignition...
Yep.....everything he said....plus, if there are any 'carbon credits' ( If that's the credit you were talking about), they likely belong to the...
Typical solar isolation numbers are 1KW per Meter sq. Typical numbers for South Carolina for an entire day vary from 2.6 KW/sqM to 6.3 KW/sqM....
So you have over a kilowatt potential draw with some (as yet undefined) diversity. You have the ability to charge at 100 watts if the sun comes...
Welcome Looking at the system 6 panels, at 330 watts each in 2S2P setup on combiner to the MPPT of say input Voltage around 120VDC . Rated PV...
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