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Solar Panel – Prevent Theft
Lock up your solar panels to prevent theft These panels cost a lot of money and they would make an easy target for a thief to steal for some quick cash. An article at insidebayarea.com documents how a...
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How to Find Latitude on Earth
Why would you want to know your latitude? If you have solar panels, you can use your latitude to know how much to tilt your solar panel to absorb the most direct sunlight. Using Wolfram Alpha, you can...
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Mounting Solar Panel to Pole
This post documents the steps to mount a 120W solar panel to a pole. I chose to use aluminum angle to construct my solar panel frame. VIDEO I cut through the aluminum angle using a hacksaw. I drilled...
View ArticleHannah, Age 3, Helps Charge Batteries with Solar Panels
This little girl says the funniest things. From the summer of 2008 when I started to get serious about solar panels.
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Revive Rechargeable Batteries – Surge, Freeze, and Exercise
This is a public record of my personal battery tests. I welcome your input and ideas. So far, I am having some luck with reviving batteries by surging and freezing. Updated Jan-02-2011 Surging...
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Charging Cell Phones in Emergency – Plus How to Add Connectors to Solar Panel...
How to charge a cell phone with a solar panel… I show how you could charge a cell phone in an emergency, if you get cut off from grid power. I am using a 10 AWG extension cord to carry the power from...
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Jet Contrails – Stealing Our Solar Power
When jets and airplanes make contrails, they are preventing solar power from reaching earth. Thief Video attached… VIDEO A single contrail probably does not reflect a noticeable amount of energy back...
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Solar Panel Installation ~ Conduit and Fish Tape
Video after the break… This post shows the progress in my solar panel installation. Electrical cable and conduit going into the ground. Put a hole in my garage wall. Now the electrical cable goes from...
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What is a good price for a solar panel?
How do you know if the sales price on a solar panel is a good deal? When shopping for a solar panel and you are comparing models from competing sources, there are probably two main considerations: 1....
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Metal Cleaning Experiment with Hydrolysis + Solar Panel
I did an experiment, trying to clean metal in a new way (for me). I burned some potatoes to the bottom of a pot and it needed to be cleaned. I made the mistake of not putting in enough water and the...
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Charging a Media Player with Solar
I use my media player, a Creative Zen Vision W, to listen to podcasts and occasionally I’ll watch a video on it or let my kids watch videos on it. The other day the battery was dead and I decided to...
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Solar Panel Charging a Lawnmower Battery
Charging a Cub Cadet lawnmower 12V battery with a solar panel and Sunsei charge controller. The lawnmower battery will die during the winter months and will not start the mower in the spring unless it...
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Wind turbines and solar panels outside Wal-Mart in McKinney, Texas
Was driving through Texas and came across an unexpected sight. Spotted wind turbines and solar panels outside Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club in McKinney, TX. I was really surprised to see them in such a...
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Combiner box for solar and wind to charge a single battery
The video below shows how to make a combiner box to allow solar panels and a wind turbine to charge the same battery. Also shown in the video: How to make an extension cord out of spare CRT cables and...
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Solar Light Maintenance; Powers Hydrolysis, too
The solar lights on my property have been dim or have been completely off at night. Maintenance can be done on these lamps to get them working again. Hampton Bay Solar Light Reviews The solar lanterns...
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