Affordable power back up

What do you get when you have a 12 volt  battery, an inverter, a regulator and a solar panel? You have an emergency back up power system..call me if you are interested at 913-244-6132.

Solar is growing strong!

Solar Sunrise: The Increase in Installs

Here’s the big – and bright – picture: In recent years, solar has enjoyed an exponential surge in popularity. While the solar market has seen slight dips or moments of stasis in some years, the broader trend is encouraging to those who wish the technology were applied more broadly. If the yearly count of installs can go from mere hundreds to nearly 80,000 in just two decades, just how much can the industry expand in coming years?
Another interesting note: The deepest years of the recession seem to have left solar relatively unscathed. That’s a striking fact, at a time when many homeowners and businesses chose to delay other structural improvements, citing cost concerns. The relative resistance of solar to economic upheaval may indicate an interesting dynamic. During the downturn, it’s possible that families and businesses chose to invest in a technology with a proven track record of sustainable return on investment. After all, how many other upgrades offered the same guarantee of financial benefits?

More to come...

My solar experiment continues to charge, it is now charged to 13.3 volts and I will take that. I am going to add more juice soon.

By the way if you are interested in 20 watt 1 amp solar panels let me know I can get them for you!

Joe

It takes amp power to charge that battery

I used my basement back up lights alot for several days and also my test of my outside battery with a long connection cord. As the time passed so did the charge. i did add some panels and the juice came rushing in. I believe that I need to get to 1000 watts to do what I want to do and that is to drive more lights and small appliances in my house. Any ideas?

More to come.

Joe

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Added more lights downstairs

I added a second light downstairs to my solar back up experiment and today or tomorrow i will add a third light. I will continue to looad it up to see how far it will go.

Joe

Lots of storms..

We have had about three hours of storms, I have my solar and battery fan working away and have my light ready downstairs. Bottom line is solar and battery work! Now it is on to 1000 watts.

More emergency power

Extended my back up energy to my enclosed basement. Right now just running one light, I will try to add a second light and maybe a tv. Wire length and size is a problem.

On to 1000 watts

I have a mishmash of solar panels right now but my ultimate goal is to get to at least 1000 watts. With that much punch I will try to power more in my house with the sun and expand on my goal of energy independence. It may not be possible to break the chord but I can try :)

Power LA with a battery?

This article is really amazing \and it is the future coming now!
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/world-s-largest-storage-battery-will-power-los-angeles/

Using a solar driven 12 volt fan

Yesterday as it approached 100 out I hooked up a 12 volt fan to my battery bank. The flow of air was awesome  How did this fan affect the battery you ask? It did not at all I could have run it 24/7! I was previously using a regular fan tied into an inverter and yes it worked but for only a few hours until I had to shut it off. Moral to the story is 12 volt works real well.

Joe Rossini

Using battery and solar back up

I have been using only  my solar/battery back up in my basement and I go down there two to three times a day. No lights or virtually no KCPL lights for over a week and it is working well. I am going to expand this to the other side of the basement.

Some interesting info

A very good article on a neat lookinmg but underpowered and overpriced generator but worth a look!

https://gearjunkie.com/goal-zero-review-sherpa-100-solar-kit

I slowly and I mean slowly build my soolar generators and my solar partial power back up systems. All have worked and have been tested. I need to make them look better on the inside and be more compacat and user friendly. More to come on this.

I have a 10 watter, a 20 watter and a50 watter in development. My goal is to have them mostly under $500.00.

I will keep you posted.

Joe

100 watts of power

I am about to connect two 50 watt 4 amp solar panels together to get 100 watts. I will send it in to a big sealed battery and have a controller and link it toi a 2400 watt inverter.

I have hooked up my freezer to this inverter and it ran the freezer for over 1 hour. This was with 50 watts now I will try 100 watts and see how it works.

More to come

Joe

Working on a passive solar back up system

I have not posted for a while but I am now working on testing a small affordable under $1000.00 back up solar emergency power back up system.  I am testing 50 watt panels and soon will upgrade to 100 watts at 5 amps. I am using a gel cell 100 amp hunker battery which should last forever almost. I have a small solar charger and I am feeding it with 12 gauge wire into my house. I will attach it to a 900 watt inverter which should easily drive lights or a fan or a radio or a small tv.  I will keep you posted.

Joe

Solar is coming

Solar is going big. Again.

The federal government on Monday green-lit a 485-megawatt solar plant that would generate enough carbon-free electricity to power 180,000 homes when it comes online in the Southern California desert.

During the Great Recession, that was nothing unusual about billions of dollars in federal stimulus money fueling big green dreams of carpeting the Mojave Desert with giant solar power plants on government-owned land, a cornerstone of the Obama administration’s efforts to fight climate change. That land, however, often turned out to be home to desert tortoises, blunt-nosed leopard lizards, and other endangered wildlife. Many of those projects went belly-up in part because of fierce opposition from environmental groups.

That prompted an effort by the federal government to be “smart from the start” about where it allowed big renewable energy plants to be built. So the Blythe Mesa Solar Project, which was approved Monday, will deploy tens of thousands of solar panels across 3,587 acres of already disturbed or fallow farmland where wheat, alfalfa, and citrus had been grown. No desert tortoises will be harmed.

That won Blythe the support of Defenders of Wildlife, the Sierra Club, the Wilderness Society, and other big environmental groups that previously opposed other solar power plant projects.

“Due to the previously disturbed condition of nearly all the land proposed for the project, numerous environmental organizations supported the project because it conformed with our recommended criteria for siting large-scale projects in the California desert,” Jeff Aardahl, California representative for Defenders of Wildlife, said in an email.

The project’s developer, Renewable Resources Group, is a Los Angeles company that invests in green energy and agriculture. “We specialize in developing utility-scale solar…projects on previously disturbed private land,” Tom Eisenhauer, a spokesperson for the firm, said in an email.

Communities that find such gargantuan renewable energy projects in their midst also are getting smarter. Riverside County last year imposed a $150-per-acre annual fee on solar power plants and will collect nearly $500,000 a year from the Blythe project.

RELATED: The Innovation That Lets Low-Income People Profit From the Solar Energy Boom

That the Blythe project is moving forward is also a sign that solar energy is becoming increasingly competitive with fossil fuels. Earlier huge solar power plants had only been commercially viable thanks to a 30 percent federal tax credit. That incentive is set to fall to 10 percent at the end of 2016, meaning the Renewable Resources Group likely thinks it can make money without the government largesse.

Hurdles remain. The company must still sign a long-term power purchase agreement with a utility that wants to buy the electricity generated by the project. If the California legislature passes a pending bill requiring the state to obtain half its electricity from renewable sources by 2030, there will likely be no shortage of buyers of solar energy.

“We don’t discuss PPA status, but we’re planning for commercial operation in the next few years—and we feel good about that,” said Eisenhauer.
Aardahl said the battle to generate clean, green energy while protecting desert wildlife continues despite the approval of projects like Blythe.

“I don’t think that one project sited in an environmentally appropriate location signals that ‘smart from the start’ planning is now the norm,” he said. “Although there are many such projects, most of which are on disturbed private lands, some continue to be proposed on public land we consider inappropriate.”

I am working on a solar back up system(fallback)

I have been reconnecting my solar panels again and redirecting them to a new purpose and that to be a solar fallback system. What does this mean? Well right now I have a 12 volt fan on me and it is really keeping me comfortable and it is not even touching the battery system.  I also have an inverter tied to three 120 volt lights if I want to turn them on. My goal will be to have mostly 12 volt appliances driven by my batteries and solar panels outside. Why do I want to do this? Well in case yu have not looked at your utility bill lately it is going up and up with absolutely no stopping in site. A little bit here, a little there and soon it is a much bigger bill than you remembered. Also have you lost your power lately? Many just wait, light a candle and trust the power will be on shortly. Some fire up their generator if they can get it started many have not even tried for months and it just wont work. Or the gas is flat or you can not get gas because the station has lost its power too. In my case, I flip a switch in every room and on comes a light so I can see and easily move around. If you have frightened little ones, the light coming on provides some feeling of being ok.  No fumes, no hard pulling on a chord just light on demand.  You can run a radio, a fan, a light, a small tv and more if things are set up properly.  I guess people often say what is yur passion and I will say that this is one of them and if you want to learn more just e mail me at jrossini@rossini.com and I will try to guide you. Safe, fast to work and once installed it will workk for a long long time.

Until next time.

Joe R

Solar is it worth it?

A SOLAR power plant for your home could knock you back several thousand dollars. It will reduce your carbon footprint, but will it really save you money?

With a typical Sunshine Coast household consuming an average of 24kWh of electricity a day - which can cost you $2500 to $3000 a year - home owners need to look carefully at the cost-benefit balance of investing in solar power.

The Clean Energy Council says rising electricity prices and the falling cost of solar PV systems mean the business case for solar remains compelling.

But the council advises that the amount of money your household will save by going solar is affected by factors including:

• How much power you use
• The size of your solar system - if you use more power than it can produce, your savings will be reduced.
• Your feed-in tariff - that is, how much your electricity retailer pays you for any excess power your solar panels generate.
• Your usage patterns - solar panels only work while the sun is shining. Households that use a lot of power during the day may save more than those that consume more at night. However, you will still receive a feed-in tariff for any excess electricity you generate during the day.

Bradford Solar general manager Andrew Rowe says every person's circumstance is different and needs to be assessed as such.

"If you consume 60% of the energy produced by (an average Australian) solar system and export 40% of it you could save up to $1200 a year," Mr Rowe said.

"If you don't consume the power produced during the day it will be fed back to the grid and at best you may get 6c/kWh when you are more than likely paying between 25-35c/kWh.

"You want to be offsetting this cost. So you need to consider when you are using your appliances, for example you could put the timers on for dishwashers/washing machines during the day.

"Solar is ideal for those people with pumps such as pools and farming as they are expensive to run."

Mr Rowe said Sunshine Coast families needed to look at the return on investment and decide "Is it worth it?"

"Use our calculator if you want to do a more in-depth analysis. Choose Brisbane from the map as this will provide a very similar result to the Sunshine Coast.

"The consumer must consider 'is this a good use of my funds?'

"The reality is: What other appliance will return on your investment, produce energy and save the environment?"

More info on www.bradfordsolar.com.au

Solar and LED tests

Over a three week period i connected a 7 watt LED light to a gel cell battery and a controller and the light ran continuously for21 days until I turned it off!  Could you light a whole house on 12 volts and LED's, the answer is yes you could given a strong enough battery! More tests to come.

Power went out and solar to the partial rescue

We had a two hour power outage the other day and my battery back up and lighting system worked great for over two hours.

7 inches plus of snow on the ground but barn solar still working

Today we have drifting and blowing but my solar panel on the barn is not covered with snow so I was able to go into the barn today let out my big 2000 pound horse and listen to the sports on my solar/inverter system. 
I also checked my small wind generator which has been whirling in the wind and my two batteries AA were totally charged. I will put two more on it later today. One thing in Kansas we have a lot of wind.

Until next time

Joe