Tag: sustainability
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Explore The Future of Solar: Pure DC! Off Grid Residential Power With No Charge Controller or Inverter
After a lot of experimentation and costs, my 100% PV-DC residential power system (aka self-hosted PV2L DC Micro Grid) has passed its first tests and is in active use. The system is unique, supplying 24×7 Off-Grid residential DC (direct current) utility power right to the wall outlet and appliances, with the battery being offline –…
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Heating A Well House With Simple Clean Solar Electric Power! Thermal Energy Storage / TES
I made a video about this project – blog article continues below: Stopping A Well House From Freezing When I moved to a homestead farm in the country, one of the things I dreaded was the well house freezing. A well house is a tiny wooden “house” built over the top of the well head,…
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PV2L-MG: My Low Voltage DC Residential Micro Grid Goes Live! Direct Solar Photovoltaic
It’s live! After several years of testing and research, then a long and grueling move to the countryside, I installed the first Low Voltage DC wall outlets in my house. A full length multi-episode video documentary is in production to document the system. Within hours these outlets were powering up one of my DC cooktops,…
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Boiling Water with 14w of Solar Powered Induction (plus video) EXPERIMENTAL
It’s that time again… another solar powered experiment at the outer edges of “feasibility”. Part of my work and research in solar power the past few years has been about finding ways to do “more with less“. Often I try to accomplish a task using only the solar panel itself, using minimal to no electronics…
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Pecron E600 LFP – solar generator endurance test and review
A solar generator is a great way for people who are new to solar power to get started without much effort. Just plug in the solar panels and go. Over past years I have collected, purchased and repaired over 40 solar generators and portable power stations of various kinds – definitely enough to experience their…
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20 Watt Solar Panel Boils an Egg! My ultra efficient solar electric cooker prototype (Video Added)
Cooking food with only 10 watts of solar power sounds unattainable – but it’s not. This was recently proved in my solar workshop. I used a combination of an insulated food container with a diode chain solid state heating element to efficiently extract heat from a solar panel. The result is an ultra efficient mini…
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