Vince, > Have you looked into www.homepower.com? They have a whole > slew of info, complete with how to avoid the situation > (one battery dragging down the others) you mentioned. > If you're really getting into this, PLEASE keep us > informed. I'm "almost getting ready to be fixin to start" > and would love to hear how someone else starting out > fares. Successes, failures, caveats, etc. > Thanks, and good luck!
Yes, I've gotten www.homepower.com. There's some good stuff in there. We're not trying to go off-grid or anything, but we will have some buildings located too far from the house to work well on a wire. I did find out that trying to do everything the inexpensive way is time-consuming. But certainly it can be done more cheaply. Some places even sell the components to build your own solar panels. My senior design project in college was to build a solar convection heater from parts you could buy in a hardware store. As for the solar power thing, I want to have enough power generated on the roof to cover basic needs in the beginning and to run the meter backwards in the future. If enough of us generated at least some power ourselves, we would not need to build more generators or expand our transmission lines as much. It would trade off more private infrastructure for less public infrastructure, and I think that would be a good trade. You would think Republicans would be all for that. They were back in the days when I was still a Republican. -- Kris www.shamrocktrails.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
