Category: Prototypes and Inventions
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Solar PV DC Home Heating PART 3 – engineering and safety devices
PART 1 AND PART 2 | Solar PV DC Heating for Beginners This blog post is a continuation of my Solar Electric Space Heating series. Since 2022 I have been converting commodity AC space heaters to direct Solar PV DC operation. This follow-up blog post has links to all of my video presentations on this…
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Boiling an Egg with a 100 Watt Solar Panel – Simple Solar Electric Cooking
What can a 100 Watt solar panel actually do? Well, it can boil an egg pretty easily. There are a lot of complicated and expensive ways to cook off of solar. But this is not one of them. One of my favorite ways to use a small solar panel to cook is to simply plug…
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My Portable 18V job site oven project – working prototype
In this article I am presenting a very special and unique DIY prototype project. There is also a video presentation if you prefer, posted below. For years, I believed the need for flexible, multi-voltage mobile small-scale DC cooking appliances would dramatically increase over the next few years; and that there should be more choices on…
