Some of our wisps use these airx-400s: http://preview.tinyurl.com/lmgs39
if you have sufficient wind they work quite well. Tom S. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Robinson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 1:02 PM Subject: [PLUG] Do it yourself solar... > Since I'm looking at building a do it yourself UPS, I figured I ought to > look into a do it yourself solar power system as well. > > Well, I can't find any Portland businesses to buy panels from at a > reasonable hobbyist price. > > Even at $6/watt, panels are awfully expensive. > > The best I can get a grid tie inverter for is $299 and that's > only a 250 watt inverter off of Ebay. > > Batteries only get you so far. Can anyone build a solar system > that can provide 250 watts for say a single server for significantly > less than $1k? How about a wind mill? Any other options? To get > 250 watts worth of panels I'm looking at $1.2k alone and getting > only a fraction of the power most of the time. > > Anyways, I'm curious. Are there any incentives in Oregon for people > who buy solar panels to address the cost issue? > > So I'm back to getting a non grid tie inverter and somehow managing > to program a PIC microcontroller to monitor the battery and report > to the Linux server. I guess I'll have to design a circuit to charge > the battery and monitor the AC line for outages, spikes, and brownout > conditions. > > With sliver solar panels and other emerging technologies, one would > expect that solar panels would be a lot cheaper by now than they > were even a year ago. I guess that just isn't the case. > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: 270.13.61/2313 - Release Date: 08/19/09 06:03:00 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
