Friday, December 6, 2013

Solar Update

The reason I haven't mentioned solar for some time is that all the systems I built are simply humming -- or is that shining. I did fall short of one goal, however. I wanted to light up our lounge and kitchen plus power my office off a system I designed. I failed with the office, because my six-year-old computer chewed up much more power than anticipated. I could only power my office for, say, an afternoon before my system went "flat". But my wife's far more efficient one-year-old computer would do fine. OBSERVATION: With solar, one can figure out various things only through experimentation, not calculation. For instance, solar is dependent on the weather, and who can calculate the weather.

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