Resistance To Ohms
Inverters and other solar electric system components need safe disconnects and over-current protection that do not degrade the performance of your system. Inverters in particular can be difficult and expensive to safely protect since they often have high current requirements that need large fused disconnects. As a result many inverters and their cables go unprotected without a disconnect or even a fuse. HEINEMANN CIRCUIT BREAKERS act as both a disconnect and over-current device. They are...
Info Krq
Left Tom Carter in red and Peter Coward in blue dangle from the 3000 foot height of El Capitan while holding a copy of Home Power. Tom Hendrichs shot the photo. community and from many others. You may have heard Joe on CBC Radio. If not, you may in the future, as CBC has requested Joe to keep in contact, even to call collect from Africa How nice to hear of Joe and the Eritrean Project's success, so far Howard Boldt, Box 152 RR4, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, S7K 3J7 306-239-4742 It is good...
Batch Solar Water Heaters
The simplest type of solar water heater is a batch heater, so called because the collector is the storage tank water is heated and stored a batch at a time. Batch heaters are used as preheaters for conventional or instantaneous water heaters. When hot water is used in the household, solar-preheated water is drawn into the conventional water heater. Since the water has already been heated by the sun, this reduces energy consumption. A batch solar water heater is a low cost alternative to an...
Seer
The Solar Energy Expo and Rally SEER has grown in the last three years. SEER started out as an experiment relegated by the city fathers to a sun baked parking lot. Now it's a full blown community activity supported by the local chamber of commerce. Here are the Home Power Crew's impressions of this nonstop energy extravaganza. George Hagerman from SeaSun Power Systems gets my vote for the best exhibit at SEER '92. Check out the cover of this issue. George has connected a bicycle to a small...
Alternative Transportation News
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0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 Power Output in watts rms Powerscope. This 25 kiloBuck instrument has only one mission in life measuring electric power. Consider it a computerized connoisseur of commercial power see sidebar . George hooked the BMI Powerscope to Dynamote's Brutus and started taking data. We at Home Power Central work very hard to collect accurate data with affordable instruments. Never in our wildest dreams have we ever been able to sic an instrument like the Powerscope on an...