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As the Expert Amateur name suggests, I’m not a professional electrician, which means no one pays me to do this stuff, but I’ve been working on electrical and electronics projects for a ridiculously long time, and I insist on studying and digging deep enough to know what I’m doing (hence, the Expert part of the […]
Solar Grounding and Bonding Demystified Read More »
The neverending Solar Glossary I’m starting a glossary of solar electrical terms that I will continuously add to as long as new terms that seem worth defining pop up. It may seem that the terms used are just to confuse you, but really, any technical endeavor acquires jargon so that professionals can understand exactly what
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Something for Everybody We are doing a solar project that will scale in stages to show how to do modern solar power projects from a simple cabin or small house off-grid, to a light industrial or commercial 3 phase system with all the stages in between. The intention is to demonstrate how versatile hybrid inverter
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20 June 2007As my friend Tony Garmey says: “Boys need not apply”. Lots of pucker factor at the Glen. It’s easy to wad your car up into a little ball, as numerous people did this weekend. It was a strange event – HSR is really weird. At least half the cars on the track were
12 June 2007 VIR looks like a horse farm, or a really big golf course. There’s a nice hotel on the grounds overlooking several corners, a clubhouse/tavern in a huge plantation house, and they’re building townhouse villas near the Oak Tree turn. Pretty cool place. and yeah, that picture above is actually at the Pittsburg
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19 June 2007I never finished the previous post, and now I’m a whole track behind. I’m sitting in the paddock at Mosport, we just came here from Watkins Glen. More about that later, but here’s what happened at VIR: So the Chapparal and the Scarab hit the straight and disappeared like the Roadrunner in the
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25 May 2007Headed out from Mosport giving brief thanks that Peyote and I are both in one piece and still ticking along. We stopped at a KOA in MalloryTown which should be renamed MosquitoVille. I’ve never been attacked so vigorously, and I’ve fished the tundra in Alaska. We retreated to Nero bringing along a large
Montreal and Quebec City Read More »
The big plan for Fritz is for it to be all electric and capable of extended dry camping, meaning no campground, no plugging in to handy electric outlets, self-contained–and still comfortable. That’s kind of a big requirement to pull off without propane, but I think I’m in the ballpark. Most RV solar installations put a
Fritz Getz Solared Read More »
4 Comments / Projects / By PonoBill I’ve had a few questions about how and why I’m doing a solar/battery system for Fritz, what I’m using and how I chose it. This is going to be a fairly long post with a bit of math, so if you’re interested, get a cup of coffee and
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Design the Solar Rack and the Electronics The idea of a solar container isn’t new–in fact there are commercial versions available with some very interesting features–if you have a few hundred thousand bucks to spare. The notion is simple: take a container, probably a 40 foot standard volume one, add racks that can hold a
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